Through the Looking Glass: Viewing Stressors' Effects Using Energy Testing

A stress reducer: ocean waves at the beach

A stress reducer: ocean waves at the beach

Two women from my practice recently encountered a brief period of stress in their lives. Thankfully, both handled their stressors well, and their stress levels have returned back to normal. However, having weathered their stressors, what harmful footprints were left behind?

I know from clinical experience that stress can undermine health and medication withdrawal. Like an invisible wind, stress can blow into the lives of my patients and sweep away a successful withdrawal process. But stressors—and the relationship between stress and biological function—are hard to quantify for each patient's unique circumstances.

Over the past 16 years, however, I created and refined an approach using energy testing that measures a patient's functioning. My approach relies on information gathered from our innate link to energy fields, accessible through intention. This approach has enabled me to navigate the dynamic and unique needs of my patients throughout their withdrawal process. 

For these two women, I was curious about what functional changes had occurred specific to their unique biology and temporal circumstances. Read on to find out how I applied my testing method, what I discovered, and the changes to their regimen that resulted from their additional findings.

Note: Names and information on the two women were changed to maintain anonymity.

Through the Looking Glass: Viewing Stressors' Effects Using Energy Testing
What functional changes occur when stressors increase?

Christine: a woman in her early 40's, who began working with me four months ago to lower her Geodon (antipsychotic), Wellbutrin (antidepressant), and Lamictal (mood stabilizer), is a highly successful manager at a busy store. However, over the past month, three employees resigned and her store underwent remodeling. Her hours and responsibilities increased dramatically as a result of these changes. When she came in, she said that she had been "pretty resilient during this time period."

Amanda: a woman in her thirties who has worked with me since 3/2018 and off her medications [Trileptal (mood stabilizer) and Risperdal (antipsychotic)] since 1/2019, found herself traveling extensively for three weeks due to work obligations and found it difficult to follow a good diet and habit of self-care. She stated that she was able to handle the stress, but felt close to that "knife-edge" where she had to remind herself to take greater care of her health.

Both women had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but were at different stages in their recovery. Both had functional testing done about a month ago, sometime before their stressors began. 

To understand how stress affected their overall health, I did several pages of energy testing for both patients. I looked at underlying problems, total nutritional intake, enzyme function, stress levels, and infection status.

For Christine, I checked her functional status over a one-week period, as well as checking all her medications functions/levels. For Amanda, I checked her functions over a three-week period and specifically her organ system functions.

In general, on a scale from 0 to 200, where 0 = absence of function, 100 = optimal function, and 200 = excessive, harmful, and debilitating function, here is what I found:

Changes in Christine's function: her medications were no longer "too high." Like Amanda, she had increased oxidative stress, toxicity problems, inflammation, and nutritional deficiency. Nutrition's functional status, which included her supplements, was at 50/200 (except for essential sugars which stayed at 100/200), enough to meet daily needs but not enough to help her reduce her medications. Mental stress levels increased from 110/200 to 150/200, while other stress levels remained at 150/200. She had been taking a homeopathic remedy since 6/27/19 to treat EBV, and her levels for EBV went from 200++++/200++++ to 200/200++++. All other infection functional levels went down also, except for parasites, which remained at 200++++.

What was most interesting to me was that her enzymes' functional levels went from 95/200 to 50/200, interpreting these numbers told me that a month ago, she was close to having optimal enzyme function to meet her needs to taper her medications, but her stressors had severely undermined her enzymes' ability to help her taper her medications, at least for a while.  

Changes in Amanda's function: over a three-week period, her number of underlying dysfunctions went from 6/39 (detected a month ago) to 18/42 (I had added three more common dysfunctions to the table since her June testing date). Amanda had been taking antibiotics for her UTI and was getting more eczema on her skin, so infection levels went up. Her adrenals showed an aberrant 110/200 compared to the rest of her organ systems that remained at 100/200. Enzyme levels were at 90/200. Nutritional intake stayed within the 90/200 range.

Perhaps because Amanda was no longer on any medications, stressors did not lower her nutritional status as much as they did for Christine. Stressors were at 150/200 except for mental stress, which was at 160/200. Infections were mostly fungal and parasitic in nature.

Treatment for Christine:


Treatment for Amanda:


Both women were encouraged to do their energy work and Energy Breaths to mitigate inflammation and oxidative stress when stressors increase. Since they could see how their analyses had shifted due to stress, they were more willing to be more diligent with their energy work.

Lava cactus, Galapagos Islands

Lava cactus, Galapagos Islands

Stressors affect patients differently depending on their level of health and type of stressors. Having a tool that can assess function at the informational level has been instructive for me and has underscored the importance of protecting patients from stress. When lowering medications, it is important for patients to understand that stress (spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, or social) can undermine biological functioning even if it's difficult to quantify. Working together to manage and control stress levels and their negative effects can prevent future relapse and make the difference between a successful or failed medication taper.

I hope that this information has stimulated some insights on your end about how stress affects your health and mental well being.