Last week’s radio show went great. The hosts asked good questions, and it was clear they were fascinated by the topic of Reiki and energy medicine techniques for senior citizens. The hour just flew by.
Today I met with the director of one of our local senior centers, and she is very enthusiastic about bringing holistic health care of any kind, and energy medicine in particular, to the seniors in our area. I live in rural northwest Pennsylvania, which is to say it’s a pretty conservative area. It doesn’t mean people are closed-minded, it just means that it takes a little longer for information on new things to filter into the public consciousness.
The senior center director was very interested in education programs in particular, and wants to plan presentations and seminars at as many venues as possible, so that we can reach as many people as possible with this information.
And why is that so important?
Because once people get the information about the benefits of holistic health care, especially energy medicine such as Reiki and Meridian Tapping Techniques such as EFT, they can begin to prevent illness, restore health, and save big on medical expenses. All of which are huge issues for seniors. In fact, they’re pretty important to everyone.
People can’t avail themselves of the benefits of holistic health care if they don’t know or understand or are comfortable with holistic care. The more people know, the more they understand, and the more they understand the more comfortable they are with it, and the more likely they are to actually include it in their lives.
And that in turn will result in lower medical costs, insurance costs, and less spending on government programs to fix what would have been wa-a-a-ay cheaper to prevent in the first place. Just from a bottom-line perspective, remember that the vast bulk of health care dollars go to elder care. If we want real health care reform, educating the public on the benefits of energy medicine wouldn’t be a bad place to start.
Which will benefit all of us, not just those who use it.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Love on the Radio
Tomorrow morning I’ll be a guest on a local radio show, where I’m supposed to discuss Reiki and senior citizens. It’s a natural combination.
In Native American and many other cultural traditions, deep respect for our elders is simply a fact of life. In America, sadly, it’s generally not. Unless you’re in the U.S. Congress, or the Supreme Court, either of which will allow you to share the accumulated and growing wisdom of your lifetime for the good of many. Without getting into politics, at least that’s the theory.
But for regular folks, when you’re old, you’re “over the hill” or “washed up” or “doddering” or you’re just out of it, and frankly, we think you might not have too good a grip on what’s going on around you. Part of that’s because we rip the roots of productivity and self esteem out from under our elders, assuming they have no more to contribute to society, and generally put them out to rot. I mean, to pasture.
Kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy, don’t you think?
So elders tend to start feeling almost like they have to apologize for their existence. The sense of respect isn’t there in the same way that it was when they were younger. People defer to them, but in a sort of condescending way that implies that they’re somehow “less-than” in the same way that people tend to think of children.
So what does all this have to do with Reiki? Well Reiki is one of the most respectful and loving therapies being practiced anywhere today. In Reiki, someone is fully present focusing completely on you for an hour or so. Their sole intention is for your highest and best good, and it’s not up to the therapist to decide for you what that may be.
The treatment itself is profoundly respectful of the person -- there is no physically or emotionally uncomfortable or awkward touching. The focus is on the comfort and well-being of the client. If there is illness, pain or injury, the therapist does not even have to physically place their hands on the person. And best of all, no-one has to take their clothes off.
If the prerequisite for authentic love is respect, Reiki is one of the most loving therapies around. The fact is that it is based on the belief that what is flowing through the therapist to the client is pure loving life energy, guided by love. Reiki is a profound act of love. It says you don’t have to do anything to be worthy to receive love, you are worth my sharing an hour of my life silently being present with you.
Reiki is respectful, affirming, relaxing, healing and loving. Which is why it is my honor and privilege to offer Reiki to our elders.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
In Native American and many other cultural traditions, deep respect for our elders is simply a fact of life. In America, sadly, it’s generally not. Unless you’re in the U.S. Congress, or the Supreme Court, either of which will allow you to share the accumulated and growing wisdom of your lifetime for the good of many. Without getting into politics, at least that’s the theory.
But for regular folks, when you’re old, you’re “over the hill” or “washed up” or “doddering” or you’re just out of it, and frankly, we think you might not have too good a grip on what’s going on around you. Part of that’s because we rip the roots of productivity and self esteem out from under our elders, assuming they have no more to contribute to society, and generally put them out to rot. I mean, to pasture.
Kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy, don’t you think?
So elders tend to start feeling almost like they have to apologize for their existence. The sense of respect isn’t there in the same way that it was when they were younger. People defer to them, but in a sort of condescending way that implies that they’re somehow “less-than” in the same way that people tend to think of children.
So what does all this have to do with Reiki? Well Reiki is one of the most respectful and loving therapies being practiced anywhere today. In Reiki, someone is fully present focusing completely on you for an hour or so. Their sole intention is for your highest and best good, and it’s not up to the therapist to decide for you what that may be.
The treatment itself is profoundly respectful of the person -- there is no physically or emotionally uncomfortable or awkward touching. The focus is on the comfort and well-being of the client. If there is illness, pain or injury, the therapist does not even have to physically place their hands on the person. And best of all, no-one has to take their clothes off.
If the prerequisite for authentic love is respect, Reiki is one of the most loving therapies around. The fact is that it is based on the belief that what is flowing through the therapist to the client is pure loving life energy, guided by love. Reiki is a profound act of love. It says you don’t have to do anything to be worthy to receive love, you are worth my sharing an hour of my life silently being present with you.
Reiki is respectful, affirming, relaxing, healing and loving. Which is why it is my honor and privilege to offer Reiki to our elders.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Health Care Reform, Energy Medicine Style
Here’s what I want to know:
Where is our holistic health movement?
Are we all so busy chasing our own inner peace that we forgot there’s a world out there that desperately needs what we have found?
What happened to all my fellow change-the-wolrders who fought for civil rights for people of color and other minorities in the fifties, sixties and seventies?
Have we gotten so old and afraid of being rejected that we won’t stand up and confront the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance establishment?
Have we been so beaten down by years of relentless and ever more sophisticated mass media propaganda? Have we bought the lie? Or are we just self-righteously congratulating ourselves on our own enlightened personal health care choices and point out that things are gradually changing “out there?”
Doesn’t anyone remember? Things were gradually changing in the 1950’s for African Americans, but one day Rosa Parks stood up and said “the buck stops here.”
We have a predatory system that makes a lot of people a lot of money by bleeding sick people as long as they can keep them sick but alive. Maybe vampires are so popular in contemporary culture because we know in our heart of hearts they’re real. Think about it.
Everybody knows the trite old saying, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” But isn’t that what we have with holistic, natural methods, especially energy medicine?
How much pain, suffering, and yes – money – could be saved if both public and private insurance covered energy medicine?
How many more people would be physically and emotionally healthy enjoying a superior quality of life?
How many people who couldn’t afford health care would be able to be served by a system that healed people before they ever required ridiculously expensive drugs, surgery, and the whole rest of the dinosaur of a what is not a health care system but a disease maintenance system? Methadone, anyone?
Are we talking about health care reform in this country that is real health care reform, or are we just talking about rearranging how we pay for the same bloodsucking medieval system?
Here’s an idea: what if we just stopped getting sick?
What if we just started massively applying energy medicine and energy psychology?
What do you think would happen to our health care costs? If you know how effective, quick and cheap energy medicine is, you know the answer.
We’d be healthier, wealthier, and happier.
Except maybe for big pharma and the AMA.
Come on, fellow energy healers – where are you? Where’s our movement? Where is our Rosa Parks? (Hint – maybe in the mirror…?)
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Where is our holistic health movement?
Are we all so busy chasing our own inner peace that we forgot there’s a world out there that desperately needs what we have found?
What happened to all my fellow change-the-wolrders who fought for civil rights for people of color and other minorities in the fifties, sixties and seventies?
Have we gotten so old and afraid of being rejected that we won’t stand up and confront the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance establishment?
Have we been so beaten down by years of relentless and ever more sophisticated mass media propaganda? Have we bought the lie? Or are we just self-righteously congratulating ourselves on our own enlightened personal health care choices and point out that things are gradually changing “out there?”
Doesn’t anyone remember? Things were gradually changing in the 1950’s for African Americans, but one day Rosa Parks stood up and said “the buck stops here.”
We have a predatory system that makes a lot of people a lot of money by bleeding sick people as long as they can keep them sick but alive. Maybe vampires are so popular in contemporary culture because we know in our heart of hearts they’re real. Think about it.
Everybody knows the trite old saying, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” But isn’t that what we have with holistic, natural methods, especially energy medicine?
How much pain, suffering, and yes – money – could be saved if both public and private insurance covered energy medicine?
How many more people would be physically and emotionally healthy enjoying a superior quality of life?
How many people who couldn’t afford health care would be able to be served by a system that healed people before they ever required ridiculously expensive drugs, surgery, and the whole rest of the dinosaur of a what is not a health care system but a disease maintenance system? Methadone, anyone?
Are we talking about health care reform in this country that is real health care reform, or are we just talking about rearranging how we pay for the same bloodsucking medieval system?
Here’s an idea: what if we just stopped getting sick?
What if we just started massively applying energy medicine and energy psychology?
What do you think would happen to our health care costs? If you know how effective, quick and cheap energy medicine is, you know the answer.
We’d be healthier, wealthier, and happier.
Except maybe for big pharma and the AMA.
Come on, fellow energy healers – where are you? Where’s our movement? Where is our Rosa Parks? (Hint – maybe in the mirror…?)
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Anger in Her Wrist
Last time, I promised that we’d talk specifics about the connections between emotions and physical issues.
So let’s talk about carpal tunnel syndrome today. It’s becoming one of the most common debilitating physical issues around, and while there are clearly physical causes, like most things, there are also contributing emotional causes that we may seldom even be conscious of.
A woman whose doctor had suggested that she would need surgery to correct the painful condition was seen by an EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) practitioner.* She rated her pain at a 7 out of 10 with her arm relaxed, and a solid 10 out of 10 if she held her hand in a typing position.
First, they addressed a rather general anger, fear, guilt or other unspecified emotion, and her pain dropped about in half immediately, much to her astonishment.
After asking if any of those emotions were something she could identify with right now, she came up with anger. Specifically, anger at her husband. The carpal tunnel was then addressed with more EFT as “(husband’s name) in my wrist.”
After that, the pain was completely gone when her arm was relaxed at her side, and only a 2 out of 10 compared to the 10 out of 10 when she held her hand and wrist in a typing position.
And this was after only one relatively short session.
Naturally, the woman was advised to continue seeing her physician, but she had clearly had major improvement just through dealing with her emotional issues. In my experience, these improvements are usually permanent, and when they are not, it is usually because all the issues were not thoroughly dealt with, and there is more work to do.
And she may well have avoided surgery.
Now that’s not a bad way to tackle the health care crisis.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
*Based on an actual case from Gary Craig, founder of EFT.
So let’s talk about carpal tunnel syndrome today. It’s becoming one of the most common debilitating physical issues around, and while there are clearly physical causes, like most things, there are also contributing emotional causes that we may seldom even be conscious of.
A woman whose doctor had suggested that she would need surgery to correct the painful condition was seen by an EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) practitioner.* She rated her pain at a 7 out of 10 with her arm relaxed, and a solid 10 out of 10 if she held her hand in a typing position.
First, they addressed a rather general anger, fear, guilt or other unspecified emotion, and her pain dropped about in half immediately, much to her astonishment.
After asking if any of those emotions were something she could identify with right now, she came up with anger. Specifically, anger at her husband. The carpal tunnel was then addressed with more EFT as “(husband’s name) in my wrist.”
After that, the pain was completely gone when her arm was relaxed at her side, and only a 2 out of 10 compared to the 10 out of 10 when she held her hand and wrist in a typing position.
And this was after only one relatively short session.
Naturally, the woman was advised to continue seeing her physician, but she had clearly had major improvement just through dealing with her emotional issues. In my experience, these improvements are usually permanent, and when they are not, it is usually because all the issues were not thoroughly dealt with, and there is more work to do.
And she may well have avoided surgery.
Now that’s not a bad way to tackle the health care crisis.
And that’s today’s holistic health tip.
*Based on an actual case from Gary Craig, founder of EFT.
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