In Julie Motz' book, Hands of Life, she says we are mirrors for each other. When working on another person, people occasionally say it feels like they have taken on another's energy. It sounds like we are a victim of our client's energies.

According to Julie, what has happened energetically is that we have been offered a gift/mirror/opportunity to transform and be healed in an area of our energy body/physical body--an area which we were previously unaware of. It gets "stuck" because we have a block of that same energy or we are out of balance in that element/organ, etc. So if it feels like we have become depressed, sad, angry or whatever, it is because this is a person issue that is being brought up for our awareness and healing. The client then is merely a mirror for us to see what we need to work on in ourselves.

Julie also says we will just let the client's energies run through us when we have worked through our issues, stuck energies, etc. They will not get stuck in our body because we are not blocking the energy flow. A much more empowering and certainly important way to look at our work!

I have recently learned the Chi-Kung practice called, "The Healing Smile" or "Inner Smile." This practice appears to stimulate the Penetrating Radiant Flow Circuit, because it uses the two points Donna referred to in teaching this Strange Flow.

A friend of mine lost her voice two years ago. She tried every treatment western medicine has to offer and still sounded like a duck when she talked. When I returned home I told her I needed to use her as a test subject. We did Sara's visualization and only a partial (due to time constraints) clearing of the chakra's. Her voice (which goes in and out on occasion) was back and normal for a whole day. I am continuing Energy treatments and we are both excited about the results.

The second "Aha" was noticing the parallels Donna's approach has to the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) that I've been studying. EFT was developed by Gary Craig (a Stanford engineering grad) who studied with Roger Callahan, the developer of the "Callahan Technique" in Thought Field Therapy (TFT). TFT identifies the energy field (meridian) a "problem" (emotion, habit, fear) is stored in and clears it. Gary's approach comes from an engineer's prospective, i.e. why spend hours pinpointing the location and clearing--why not simply clear them all. He has the person focus on their "problem" and clears ALL of the meridians by tapping on an end-point of each meridian. He also incorporates different eye movements and humming.

I've found that the different aspects of the issue seem to come up when tapping on a problem. For example, I started out tapping on the anger I was feeling toward my sister and as I was tapping I realized I was angry at my daughter and my mother, and then most of the women in my life and then anger at the role of women in this society and then "why do I have to be a woman anyway!!!". Good issues to clear out of my system--don't you think?

It's interesting that when you really stop and look at the different approaches and techniques, there's a common element: the basic truth that we store our "traumas" in our energy fields and that is where they need to be treated.

One of the methods of information gathering that TCM practitioners rely on is the interview. I know we all do this instinctually. It is my feeling that we can gain an insight into valuable interview questions by sharing experiences.

Let me relate an example. I was talking to a potential client prior to an initial assessment. She felt diffuse pain in the upper left portion of her back. A doctor had diagnosed her with fibromyalgia. She related to me she had severe cravings for sweets. I thought that this makes sense. A craving for sweets would indicate an earth imbalance, which could affect Stomach or Spleen meridian. A possible scenario is that Triple Warmer could be hypervigilant drawing energy from Spleen resulting in an immune deficiency disorder such as fibromyalgia.

I had heard of an emotional connection to fibromyalgia so I inquired about any emotional traumas that she felt may have a connection to the pain. She told me about two incidents of severe emotional pain involving loved ones, traumas involving the Heart Chakra. The Heart Chakra feeds energy to the thymus which is the master immune system gland. Coincidence? Maybe.

I think it is useful to use interviewing to gain information that may be helpful in developing a treatment plan. However, it is critical not to let that information prevent you from getting objective information from the energy tests during the initial assessment. The mental affirmation, "I'm looking for the truth" seems to really help.

The electronic broadsides feature conversations with dreamers, healers and creators; articles; resource recommendations and reviews; art, music and literature and action plans to help you deepen your relationship to the powerful energies of dreaming, healing and creating!

The March 24th issue of Bubbling Spring has a review of Donna's Energy Medicine and some suggestions for incorporating energy medicine into the pauses between other activities in a busy life. There's also a transcript of a conversation with Kellie Jo Dunlap about energy medicine, the BodyTalk System and healing with the power of the bassoon.

There's also information about how I've been sharing Energy Medicine in the workshops I organize and with clients, etc. It's been very exciting.

First, I loved Donna and David's premise, that we are born with a natural propensity for joy which has been repeatedly trampled on by our over-taxed triple warmers. Happily, this sense of joy can be regained by rebuilding the body's radiant energy system that we all studied during this workshop. Based on what we'd been taught about energy anatomy in earlier workshops, it made perfect sense. Huh! What a great gift! It felt as though I'd been let in on another marvelous secret, except that it's no longer a secret, but rather a healing system with a fairly easy access code. It's a way to transcend the "woundology" mindset that Carolyn Myss observes many people in our society use for developing emotional intimacy and friendship. How can you not love that?

Second, I felt glad to see so many of my new friends from past workshops. What a lovely network of people there are from all around the country who are learning, teaching, and practicing energy medicine "a la Donna Eden." Each of these souls, I realized, are spreading the news of this new paradigm, and planting seeds in the social consciousness regarding the power of working with the body's energetic blueprint. Our collective work, added to that of others working towards a similar goal, will help to bring about a kinder, gentler mode of healing that so many, including myself, seek today. We are all contributing to the birthing of this new movement, and that thought simply makes my radiant energies dance. How neat to be a part of it, right gang?

This is what needs to be done early on in energy treatments. Organize the body's energies. When someone is sick there is such disorganization in the system. Usually the body has been trying to communicate that there is a problem, however, we have a hard time understanding, due in part to how discombobulated we become when we are sick. The body speaks to us all the time; listening and interpreting its message is the problem. When we organize the energies, the problem meridian or chakra becomes very clear. Then we ask the communication center (the throat) to tell us what is causing the imbalance. Very simple. We get it. We know where to concentrate.

In Sedona, I mentioned another analogy I use. This one is about 7 dwarfs, all vying for the microphone at the same time. We need to send them to their rooms and tell them they can come out one at a time and tell their stories. Then each story has our full attention and can be heard.

The conference brochure is very explanatory and available at Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology's web site - www.energypsych.org. The web site will have more detail on the presentations by April.

There is one issue that I'd like to comment on and open to discussion. It's an issue in the ethics area. I have been writing about ethics in Energy Medicine for over five years now and try not to miss opportunities to bring up ethical areas for discussion. Diane wrote: "...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."

Unfortunately, I have been the recipient of harm in this work and have had to deal with the "fallout" of less experienced practitioners, so I don't agree that it's not possible to do harm. It is a basic law of this "land of polarity" in which we live that anything that has the power to create benefit (and I think we would all agree that EM has that power) has an equal power to do harm.

I encourage everyone to develop their intuitive abilities! And to do so with pleasure and playfulness! AND DISCERNMENT. This means you engage in the work while being accountable for all that the work is capable of. To believe whatever your intuition tells you without reflection, or without a process of ongoing self reflection can be dangerous. And it can diminish the accuracy of your testing, because as soon as you get attached to "an intuitive hit," you're no longer testing the energy system for its innate truth, you're asking it to verify your intuition. Who does that serve?

"For those of us who operate much of the time in this realm, it is real liberation to have Donna so strongly validate intuition." Yes, yes, yes! I couldn't agree more...AND ...because our intuition HAS been invalidated for many of us at different times of our lives, it constitutes a wound that can have a tremendous amount of power over us if we don't pay close attention to our motivations.

Response To: Lila Henry

Response To: Lila Henry