Medicine and Energy

Modern medicine has blessed us with many life-saving and health promoting miracles and I am fortunate to have the education and access to high quality health care in my life. Yet, it acknowledges it may have little to offer those with chronic conditions other than symptomatic relief because the root cause of the illness can be illusive. 

There is more to health than just healing a system; energetically, everything is intertwined. 

Unresolved emotions have been found to be the #1 reason people don't heal. Some emotionally traumatic memories are too much for our nervous system to process; then they get stuck in the Amygdala. Avoidance is not the solution. 

Beyond Modern Medicine

As a teen I was taken to the family doctor for chronic back pain. He didn’t examine me and totally dismissed me by saying “Sit up straight” … even though I couldn’t. It wasn’t until I was in nursing school that I learned about scoliosis (a curved spine). I finally understood why my body hurt so much all the time! I have spent my entire adult life (40+ years) seeking relief from that physical pain. 

I depended on chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, etc. to provide me with some relief from all that pain. Due to the twisted structure of my spine, and a sedentary job, I eventually progressed into ongoing bouts of sciatica, and my neck seemed to always be out of alignment. I also had TMJ symptoms from chronically clenching my jaw. 

When I studied B.E.S.T. I learned that pain along the spine is related to “defense physiology” (living in fight, flight or freeze).

Working With Energy

Years ago, I had a brief encounter with a local medical physician who was a local pioneer of incorporating complementary and alternative therapies into his practice. I recall asking him when I should come back for my next appointment and he said, “let’s ask your body”. That was my first exposure to “muscle testing” and “asking” the body’s innate wisdom and intelligence for answers.

My interest and application of energy modalities continued to grow. I experienced improvements in physical pain, and surprisingly emotional pain as well. I encountered a few charlatans along the way – but most were loving practitioners who each had a piece of the puzzle leading me towards wellness.

Fascinated by energy modalities, I began to experiment working with energy. I recall the first time I was taught how to feel energy between my hands. The energy had always been there, but now I could actually feel the density of it! It's been wonderful to experience and work with energy.

I began to work with pendulums (dowsing) to read and more quantitatively measure energy. I also work with the energetic potential of crystals to restore balance to the Chakras. How we vibrate energetically on the inside influences the experiences we magnetize into our lives on the outside. 

I came to understand the significance of synchronicities, because there are NO coincidences. I was learning to pay attention to what was showing up in my life and looking at it with new eyes. A whole new world of possibility was opening up for me.

Stumbling thru Manifestation

I am still in the early stages of understanding of the Quantum Sciences but what I do know is the energetic world operates on very different laws and principles than those of the physical world we live in. For example, in the Law of Attraction - what we focus on grows. Although I thought I had moved towards love-based, rather than fear-based, decision making, I did not realize that my worry and hypervigilance (that my primitive mind thinks it needs to keep me safe) was keeping me trapped in a cycle of subconsciously drawing in more problems for me to solve. My conscious mind is busily planning -- “thinking” if it works hard enough, it can protect me from threatening and unsafe situations. In fact, it is doing exactly the opposite – what you put your attention on grows!

It's pretty mainstream now to set intensions and repeat affirmations to help achieve our goals. But what most people don’t get is our subconscious beliefs are really what’s running the show of our lives. As humans, we all have 3 common challenges that we are all working out on some level: being able to trust, being of value (being lovable, good enough, and abundance), and being alone (abandoned, rejected, or not supported). Our limiting and negative beliefs sometimes won’t let our conscious mind get on board, no matter how many times we repeat an affirmation. That explains why some people have success in many areas of their lives, but in some areas, they are simply stuck.

According to Dr Eva Detko, PhD, "the psycho-energetic seeds of illness are planted all throughout our lives, from emotionally traumatic events, conflicts, chronic anxiety, limiting beliefs, poor self-worth, or simply everyday stress. Most of us have no awareness of this, or strategies to deal with it – we just power through, ignoring our minds and bodies as they scream louder, each day tolerating a little more pain, fatigue, illness and lack of joy. Then we merely focus on the symptoms, unaware of the root causes." That was me!

Many holistic practitioners now recognize the influence of big "T" trauma (violence, war, natural disasters, abuse, etc.) and small "t" trauma (grief, sudden loss, accidents, serious illness, childhood neglect, etc.) as having significant long-term impacts on our health and well-being. BioEnergetics offers a way to heal -- without having to relive it. 

Then there is the protective part of our personality (aka Ego) that wants us to think it's got it all figured out – it wants us to believe it can predict the future - but it can’t! It’s busy writing stories in our mind in an attempt to keep us safe. At best it is using old, outdated software stored in the mind, and it’s resistant to a reboot and upgrade even though it keeps on crashing! It keeps us reacting from fear rather than being guided by our intuition and dreaming a better life for ourselves. The good news is we are not broken; we simply are working with an outdated solution -- one that no longer serves us. 

Quantum science has proven ENERGY SHAPES MATTER, and it is our PERSPECTIVE that determines the quality of energy that is transmitted into our bodies and the world around us. Our perception of our circumstances is what makes us sick. 

Epigenetics has proven that our environment can change our DNA. We carry the genetics, the emotions, and the beliefs of our ancestors within us. They influence our life far more than we know. 

Our minds want us to think we can protect ourselves from emotional pain by simply avoiding some relationships. Not realizing their spirit wants to grow, it will find another way to do so through illness and disease, financial hardships, etc. We are not meant to be alone, and relationships offer the single greatest opportunity for growth.

And self-love – what does that even look like? Critical thoughts we have about ourselves run deep and it’s not as simple as talking our way out of it. I am still learning about all of the ways I betrayed and abandoned myself over the years, where I was not speaking up for myself and giving away my personal power. Finally, I was learning self-love was me living in a way where I could count on myself “to have my back”.