Alice W. Lee-Bloem, MD, ABIHM – Holistic Psychiatrist in Maryland

One way of improving the force, impact, and effectiveness of using intention in energy medicine is to prolong the period of time that one focuses the mind on setting a particular intention. For example, focusing my mind on directing energy for a specific intention over 30 seconds will not be as powerful as focusing on the same healing intention over a period of 2 hours. Knowing this, I recently experimented with focusing on a specific, helpful intention for a patient over a period of 20 minutes. Each minute went by at an agonizingly slow pace, and I found the exercise extremely difficult, not having the training that others may have had in meditating for long periods of time. However, I soon abandoned this laborious process and found a solution to this hurdle, by setting another intention that the focus of my healing intention would continue to flow to the patient over a specified time as if I were focusing on the specific intention over that duration of time. [...]