This month's issue consists primarily of reflections on Radiant Circuits (formerly known as Strange Flows and now renamed to reflect what Donna really sees). The

Radiant Energies conference attendees have been stellar in submitting their insights and ahas! In fact, we're overflowing (every editor's dream!!!) and will print additional Radiant Energy reflections next month.

A couple of magical things have happened in the process of putting together this issue:

First, as the insights from the Radiant Energies weekend poured in, it became clear that those of you who weren't able to attend would be quite taken with the enthusiasm generated by this conference and eager to find out what intellectual content has everyone so excited. I wrote to David and he wrote back with a generous offer to make the video and class handouts available to all ECR members. (See Item #2 for details.)

Thanks, Donna and David! As those of us who attended the Radiant Energies weekend already know, the positive message of that conference is absolutely essential for anyone working in energy medicine.

Secondly, I arrived at a new level of understanding of the value of this newsletter. At Sedona, I viewed first-hand what went on, but after reading individual submissions from other attendees, I perceived the Sedona event through new eyes. As Lila Henry, a new ECR member, observed 'Everyone sees and hears through their own life experience, season, life color and sensory representational system (digital, visual, kinesthetic, or tonal) and interprets events in their own way.' You're so right, Lila. Our written insights not only bring the events of Sedona to members who weren't there, but they keep renewing the event for further reflection for those who were! I grew at the workshop, to be sure, but then I grew again as I was privy to each member's reflections.

I'm on the plane on my way home from Sedona and am reflecting on the weekend's experience. My first aha is the importance of the radiant circuits. I've only worked with three people since I began thinking of the way these circuits influence our lives and the potential for wholeness that they carry.

In each of the three treatments I did in Sedona, when I reached the place where I'd normally do a zip up or crown pull to lock in the treatment, I energy tested to see what else might need to be done (using the standard deltoid test of holding the arm out straight and pressing down to find whether the energy is flowing or not.)

I energy test for 'there is more to do to make this treatment hold.' Strong=go searching. Then, I test for 'we need to do a crown pull' Weak=keep hunting. I just go through the list of stuff in my head that usually strengthens a treatment: zip up, 9 gamut treatment (a Thought Field Therapy procedure), chakras and now I add radiant circuits. If 'we need to strengthen radiant circuits' tests strong, then I do the tests we learned in the training for each of the 10 circuits until I find one that is weakened. I correct that and then return to the question 'there is more we need to do to make this treatment hold.' When we get a weak, we are done.

In doing the Crown Pull, I have made a simple adjustment that stimulates an amazing radiant-type flow of energy through my whole body. When I pull across my forehead and my fingertips reach my thumbs, I slowly draw them down the sides of my face to my shoulders then off my shoulders. Then after pushing in at my forehead and crown, I slowly draw my fingertips down the side of my face and over my ears, or down the sides or back of my head and neck, across my shoulders and extend my fingers slightly into my aura. Shivers of wonderful energy flow through my whole body, down to my legs.

I am really excited by the idea of altering habits by using the radiant energies. Some things are just so recalcitrant that working with them this way seems creative, feels wonderful and gives hope for each of us.

Donna's statement that radiant energies of joy and enthusiasm are not present if triple warmer has been overworking all of one's life is very important. These energies have to be available in order to be accessed. The good news is that one can cultivate them. This hopeful message can uplift all of us caught in habits we no longer find useful.

Unfortunately, I had a sad incident that tested this theory shortly after the weekend. On my way home from Sedona, I picked up my dog at the kennel. About 10 minutes after we got home, my dog was hit by a car and killed. I ran down the driveway to him, screaming and crying, and I sat with him for a long time, talking and crying. I'm still grieving.

I felt the Sedona workshop was really superb and this work resonates so deeply for me, personally and professionally, that it is truly a gift.

One of Donna's main messages as she taught the Radiant Energies was to trust our intuition. I love the melding of the logical, linear and intuitive. The 'Energy Tracker' conference provided us with a left-brained format to guide us into clearing the energies and correcting for psychological reversals, then we enter the radiant channels and are set free to move into our intuitive nature and believe whatever it tells us. And Donna reassures us that we can't go wrong here. For those of us who operate much of the time in this realm, it is real liberation to have Donna so strongly validate intuition.

In his book Shaman, Healer, Sage, Alberto Villoldo talks about this blending of the gifts of the earth chakras -- the focus of Earth-goddess culture, and the sky chakras -- the religions of the sky-god, logical and technological. We need strong voices to validate the wisdom of the intuitive and Donna and David's work brings us that validation.

In my own practice, I see a lot of clients who have frozen central meridians. They generally refer to themselves as feeling cut off from people and their emotions. Upon checking their central meridian with the N and S side of a magnet (as described below), I find their meridian to be frozen. Donna refers to the central meridian as our area of vulnerability and I have seen dramatic results from bringing back polarity to this meridian. I also now have a new appreciation for central meridian, knowing its role as one of the radiant circuits. I will now work with anchor and wander on the meridian when I encounter a frozen one, in addition to holding the magnet on its end points and using a Tai Chin rod.

To check for a frozen meridian, place the N side of the magnet on the end of the meridian and muscle check. If it tests strong, turn the magnet over and test with the S side on the meridian end. If that also tests strong, use the same test on the other end of the meridian and it will show strong on N and S as well. You have a frozen meridian. To unlock it, hold the magnet on the ends of the meridian for several minutes, both N and S sides. If you have a metal Tai Chin rod (available from Chinese Medical Supply catalogs) twirl it in the magnet center as well. Donna said you can also use wood but it takes longer and I have found the Tai Chin rod works every time. After you do both ends of the meridian this way, spin a magnet over the ends of the meridian several times in both directions to restore polarity. Tell the client to do baking soda baths or showers for a week. I have found that it does not seem to hold without the baking soda.

After working with the central meridian this way people become stronger in who they are. Their voice gets stronger and so does their will. One of my clients has always been a doormat for her husband and daughter. She was really feeling her oats after the treatment and her husband actually went to a pharmacy to get her some vitamins for her menopausal symptoms--which she is not in yet! She declined to take them.

I am just now starting to practice energy medicine on friends, family and co-workers. Recently, I worked with a man who is recovering from cancer. He has had radiation and is on strict regimen diet (juicing & vegetarian). He has also started working with Nikken magnets as a distributor and user.

Sunday morning caught my attention at the Sedona workshop when Donna and David reacted to whether or not to complete the third person exchange in the hands-on exercise of the evening before. Time was running short and Donna and David decided to change the Sunday morning agenda by eliminating the completion of the Saturday night hands-on small groups. One woman stood up and said that she felt trampled on and really bad about not completing the exercise.

The 'radiant energies' are very aptly named - I believe that we really do become radiant when they are properly in balance and flowing well. What a great design!!! Our Creator sure was clever and creative to build this system into our beings; a system that enables us to tap into our own creativity.

I think that all of our 'Radiant Circuits' were activated during the workshop. Since then, I have been feeling so much more in tune with my bodily sensations. I seem to feel the energy running through my body more clearly than ever. The morning after the workshop, as we stood within the medicine wheel out amongst those spectacular mountains, I could literally feel my heart chakra spinning and expanding and it felt so blissful. I think that the radiant energies allow us to tap into our bliss and become more joyful.

Perhaps the key to activating them, besides actually tracing their flow or holding their points, is to feel gratitude and to feel our connection to all of creation. I believe that 'we are such stuff as dreams are made of', and this 'stuff' flows through the universe and us, and has specific pathways along which to flow. How blessed we are to have been given the 'join the dots' map, so we can trace these out and get a tangible idea of what we were designed to 'look' and feel like. This design is the design of bliss, and when we open to the power that exists here, we can experience such strength and peace, even amidst the turmoil that is so often present in our busy lives.