I recently worked with a client who was experiencing symptoms of a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of several highly stressful events in her life. On top of that, she had suffered a miscarriage, and after several months, her period had not yet returned. Memories of the traumatic events were intruding into her daily life. When she came to me, she hoped that she might achieve a measure of peace with the events and, at a minimum, restore hope that one day she might have a child.
We began the session using an energy medicine technique that I have found to be exceptionally helpful when dealing with traumatic memories. It involves bilateral stimulation of the brain and is similar, in some aspects, to the well-understood psychotherapeutic methodology known as EMDR. Specifically, it involves tracing a figure eight ("infinity sign") in front of the client and asking her to follow the figure with her eyes while bringing a specific painful memory to her mind.
After 15 minutes or so, the client reported, with surprise, that the painful memory we chose to work on didn't seem so painful anymore. We then decided to proceed with the energy balancing session, in which she was able to relax on the treatment table while I balanced and cleared her energy field.
At the end of the session she reported feeling relaxed and said that an image came to her during the session - an image of herself walking through the door of her home, pregnant. The image arose in her mind spontaneously, without conscious effort on her part. It was very positive, and it gave her hope.
The next day I received the following email from her:
"I wanted to thank you for our session. I went home feeling at peace. I also wanted to tell you that I got my period the next day!!! How weird?! That was a major concern for me since the miscarriage. It was like the peace I felt allowed for me to get it."
I was happy to read this. And I wasn't surprised. Over the years, I've had patients who reported a shift to the better in their menstrual cycle as a result of our working together on the energetic level. One client reported that, even though we were addressing other issues, one of the unintended benefits of our work was that her cycle became regular - for the first time in years. Another mentioned, after our very first session together, that her next period was less painful than usual.
There are multiple studies that demonstrate that energy medicine creates specific physiological responses. Energy work creates the well-understood and well-documented physiological response in the body known as the relaxation response. The beauty of this response is that it allows the body to bring itself back into balance - something that the body is programmed to do naturally anyway and alwasy tries to do when this balance is off. In other words, energy work taps into the body's own wisdom, allowing its own natural self-healing mechanisms to kick in.
In addition, with all three of these clients I had used a specific Healing Touch technique that specifically targets the parts of the brain that are directly involved with regulating our endocrine system - the hypothalamus, pituitary, and pineal glands. This means that, even as we worked on something else altgoether, we supported the systems that were involved with these women's hormonal balance, and these systems fixed themselves.
All of these cases demonstrate something really important about energy medicine. It addresses the body in a holistic, integrated way that includes your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. The healing of one part of your system may provide it with just enough extra resources to heal others as well.
That is why, in energy medicine, we believe that our clients are active participants in their healing. We also believe that the real healing comes from the cooperation between the client and the practitioner, rather than exclusively through some superior powers and expertise of the practitioner.
What all of these clients had in common was that they fully embraced the energy medicine approach and allowed themselves to become fully engaged in it. And that allowed us, together, to create the best possible outcome for them.
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