A busy Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on Blue Ridge Parkway, NC
Despite one flat and another about-to-go-flat tire episodes, I managed to squeeze a few hours along the much-anticipated Blue Ridge Parkway on returning from an integrative medicine conference in North Carolina. The green vistas from the scenic pull-offs were gorgeous, but this butterfly won the prize for getting the most shots. It posed for me for nearly 20 minutes as I struggled with my telephoto lens.
Life is beautiful in so many astonishing ways. Today, I want to talk about the energy that creates Life's many beautiful things. I call it Life Energy, and I use it to help patients heal. It is a multifaceted tool in my healing toolbox and I use it every day I work.
What is “Life Energy” and how does it work?
"Life Energy," as used in my practice, is first an idea--the idea of perfect life-affirming energy that comes from an infinite source.
In my holistic psychiatry practice, I define Life Energy as being "unconditional love, peace, joy, truth, creativity, strength, harmony, goodness, mercy, forgiveness, health, wholeness, purity, abundance, balance, courage, freedom, order, beauty, space and time. It is all the energies that one needs at each moment to reach an optimal state of health and wellbeing effectively and efficiently." Life energy is both the fabric of all matter as well as the process that governs it.
When I recorded "Energy Breaths" for my patients to use twice daily, it was a simple way to increase their living gas tank with the Life Energy they need to go from A to B along their healing journey. They do this simple guided visualization because, during our initial psychiatric evaluation, I demonstrated to them through energy testing that when they do Energy Breaths, they are immediately able to benefit from being physically stronger and more resilient.
I also showed them that the point at which they switch from their baseline level of strength to being very strong is when they choose to "be one with an infinite source of Life Energy at all levels of being: spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically, and socially," i.e. when they are connected to the source of energy.
It's important to be clear what the source of energy really is. One day, a devout patient asked me if it would be okay to call Life Energy "God's Energy" to align with her religious beliefs. I said, "Of course." So, she replaced the idea of perfect, life-affirming energy with her concept of God. We retested her while she thought of being one with God, and she went weak when she did so.
Puzzled, I asked her what her idea of God was, and she described God as being judgmental, critical, and controlling of her. When she thought of God, she felt afraid and inadequate. I asked her to focus on the concept of an unconditionally loving God, an idea that she had also been taught as the essence of God. When she switched her idea of God to a perfectly loving God, her energy testing showed an incredible increase in her physical strength and resilience. It doesn't matter what you call this energy. What is important is that your mind is dialed to the right channel.
Life Energy does not belong to any religious sect. Patients do well when they are open to being aligned and one with Life Energy regardless of whether they believe in God or belong to a religion.
When I use Life Energy to help magnify the unblocking of energy flow in EET or EET + Logosynthesis, I get more powerful results. One experienced therapist, who had spent his life using energy medicine techniques to heal his clients and himself, told me that if he were to measure all his personal healing in the past, they would "fill a thimble."
However, after one session where he used these techniques, he felt a "profound shift" towards a more positive state of mind and heart. (It may also have been because we started his healing by using Life Energy and setting a positive intention to clear his "massive reversal" in feeling deserving of good things for his life.)
Sometimes patients are too sick to take supplements or come to my office, so I have phone appointments with them and use Life Energy to help them heal. Because Life Energy is an idea, it can be rejected or blocked by disbelief or resistance from the patient. It's not possible to prove through energy testing the physical effects of Life Energy when they are not physically present, but if they are not resistant to the idea of perfect Life Energy, they can heal very powerfully.
The patient I recently wrote about in "The Slot Canyons of Life" is healing and feeling stronger, despite the powerful detoxification reactions he gets whenever we use Life Energy to help him. Because he is hypersensitive to energy, his strong reactions to our energy work teach me a great deal about the reality of Life Energy in the healing process.
Unlike Adam who wrote, "The Path of the Dream Healer," or Barbara Brennan who wrote, "Hands of Light," I was not born with the ability to see people's auras or energy fields. It took me two years just to be able to feel the magneticky feeling of energy in my hands when I send it to my patients. One Reiki teacher told me that when I felt a patient's energy field, it was because it was "stagnant and stuck." Meaning, I can't even feel a healthy person's energy field.
I think it may be good not to be able to see Life Energy. Because I am not gifted in this way, I have found other ways to teach myself and my patients about its effects. Energy testing is my primary way of demonstrating it.
Sometimes, because Life Energy is invisible, my patients--who are careful about taking their supplements--will neglect to do their Energy Breaths. A few times, when patients don't do their Energy Breaths, I took the technique out of their supplement regimen and retested the supplements they would need without it. Their supplements would increase by 2x, 3x, or 4x their original amounts. Of course, given that choice, they chose to add the simple, two-minute technique back into their routine. I learned from these experiences that a little bit of Life Energy goes a long way.
Because I am so ingrained to think that healing must come from a pill, it has taken me many years to acknowledge the power of being connected, aligned, and one with Life Energy. Not as much anymore. Over the years, I have had many empirical experiences that taught me about its clinical effects, and I can attest to its amazing usefulness in healing.
I hope that you will also benefit from using Life Energy to heal!