Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterfly
Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD
I've been exploring spiritual aspects of mental health. Although it is the most enigmatic and ignored of the five areas of health—spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and social—I believe that it plays an important part in mental health and can powerfully support the healing process.
Keep reading for interesting stories at the intersection between spirituality and psychiatry. Hopefully, these experiences will help increase insight into this poorly understood area.
Healing the Spiritual Self
Examining spiritual aspects of mental health
One Sunday, when I was around 15 or 16 years old, I had a fight with my parents and refused to go to church. Eventually, the family left for church, leaving me sitting in bed, fuming and thinking wild, hateful thoughts. Suddenly, a quiet thought interjected and suggested that I "command the evil spirit to leave me." It didn't feel like I was thinking that thought, but rather that it came from a source apart from me. Though I'd never done anything like it before, I commanded the evil spirit to leave me.
Immediately, like a light switch, my mood changed. All the anger disappeared, leaving me feeling empty and calm. Without any further ado, I got up, dressed for church, and soon joined my family for worship services. I share this story to illustrate what I call the "bread-and-butter spiritual influences" of daily living as opposed to the Hollywood version of spiritual possession. I believe people may often experience "bread-and-butter spiritual influences" from both positive and negative sources without realizing it.
Recently, I've been working with a patient who experienced unrelenting emotional and physical abuse during his adolescence. He used EET + Logosynthesis to "clear any negative spiritual entities that cause me to suffer and experience self-punishment." Afterward, when I asked him how he felt, he said that it was hard to describe, but he felt as if he "had stabbed a dragon and was standing in front of it bloody and laughing." He was able to stop abusing alcohol soon after that, though he had been drunk every day for three months before then.
Another patient was given many diagnoses in the past: depression, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and schizophrenia. Before coming to see me, she had been prescribed Risperdal, Sertraline, Metformin, and Propranolol for her symptoms and for claiming that she was being harassed by spirits. These medications made her feel like she couldn't wake up during the day and interfered with her ability to focus. However, they did not make the spirits stop bothering her.
The patient shared that she has been able to see and talk to spirits since she was a child and that she had a near-death experience during a tonsillectomy at age nine. She also had frequent strep infections and exposure to antibiotics during her childhood.
I thought of her condition as a complex combination of spiritual, mental, emotional, physical and social causes. My treatment approach included supporting her nutritionally with supplements, tapering her off her medications, providing homeopathic treatment for EBV, H. Pylori, and Strep, and helping her heal spiritually. Her mental health improved remarkably, and her relationship with spirits shifted from abusive relationships to more harmonious, though co-dependent, interactions. Ironically, she is working on being less attached to these spirits, because she thinks of them as her friends.
How is spiritual healing different from healing with "Life Energy?" In my opinion, the core difference is that spiritual healing involves a relationship between oneself and another divine spiritual being, both of whom have free will and a life of their own.
How do we heal ourselves spiritually? The easiest way to heal spiritually, I think, is to ask for appropriate spiritual help. In Anthony William's book, Medical Medium, he explores how angels can help us with our recovery. Given the many different religions and names for those considered to be "appropriate spiritual help," I use the names that my patients feel comfortable using and go from there.
Once, a shaman told a patient of mine that he had a demon inside of him. I wanted to experiment with trying to get it out, so I put my hand on top of his head, connected to Life Energy, and tried to tell it to leave. Unfortunately, I found it impossible to think or verbalize the command. I could feel a spiritual force wrestling for control over my thoughts. The next time the patient came for his session, I had a new strategy. I began the process by asking for God and angels for help and protection, and then told the spirit to "go to the light." The whole process went much more smoothly the second time.
When using EET + Logosynthesis on healing spiritual problems, one can simply say: I now choose to align myself with God, my angels, and Life Energy and be empowered to run the Logosyntheis process on __.
How does using Life Energy differ from using spiritual healing? To illustrate the difference, I use an allegory about a farmer's field:
Imagine you own a large field that you want to plow, seed, and farm. Using Life Energy is like having a tractor to help with digging up the field that you personally operate. Asking for God and God's helpers to support your healing is like asking the manager of a farming company with its employees and multiple tractors to do the work for you. It's easier to heal with additional help.
Monarch butterfly
Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD
Because healing at the spiritual level can be so powerful, I try to spend extra time teaching struggling patients about its benefits. This is especially important for those who cannot benefit from supplements or medications. I find that patients intuitively know a great deal about their spiritual suffering and its origins. Most are quite open to using energy medicine techniques to heal it. My energy testing shows that when they are, healing at all levels of being happens more completely and powerfully.