Spirit Rules in Energy Medicine

We are body, mind and spirit.  Science proved that the spirit exists by weighing the person right before death and immediately after death.  Our spirit weighs about an ounce and is made up of primarily energy.  We know through Einstein's E=mc2 that energy and mass are interchangeable. Energy is the spirit of things. Anyone who witnesses life or death knows from their observation that things alive have a spirit.

My energy medicine work is primarily with the one ounce.  It makes me think of Ben Franklin's statement 'Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.'   Of course his common sense was not talking about the ounce of spirit, but many illnesses (estimated 80% by some) show up in the spirit long before it appear in the body, sometimes even up to two years.  The spirit leads the body and when we look for cause of illness many time we energy healers look for trauma event assulting the body or mind two years before the physical ailment occurred.

Those of us skilled at seeing subtle energy differences can pick up a disturbance in the spirit and smooth it out before it has a chance to disrupt the physical body.  And for those disturbances manifesting as illness, they can still be smoothed out so that body can return to its normal state.

That is the simple description of energy medicine.   Just like a chef's simple description is to combine foods to make something nutritious and good tasting.   Energy medicine is complex yet ancient medicine people have practiced for thousands of years.  

The ancients recognized the significance of spirit running the show.  They still did not understand chemistry as we do today and their version of pharmacology did not divorce the spirit aspect of any of their medicinal remedies.  

As an example, when learning from the Hawaiian Kahuna, one seventh generational Kahuna shared the special spiritual properties of noni, a product which is in many healthy cures today.   Noni is considered a potent remedy but it depends on the prayerful sacrificial harvesting and prayer laden six week care to create the proper fermented consistency and the prayerful administration for only a limited time under certain circumstances.  By the time the chemicals hit the bloodstream it was infused with weeks of prayer.  The Kahuna was greatly disturbed that society was raping the land of its noni and distributing it without care.  His warning was we do not know what we are doing which to me seemed like he was saying we were ultimately hurting people who included noni in their daily diet.

Science has proved the power of prayer.  How much of this Kahuna's remedy was chemical and how much was the spirit of prayer?  Looking at things from a scientific approach we witness with our eyes that those given noni from the Kahuna greatly benefit.  It must be the chemistry of the fruit.  We quickly dismiss the process, perhaps because the spirit aspect of the process can not be documented and is often dismissed.

Prayer is one way to access the spirit.  Some of my other mentors, the Navajo medicine people often healed with water that was infused with prayers. On the reservation they work besides the doctors in the hospital and water is the only chemical remedy they are allowed to give.  I've personally seen prayer heal cancer with doctor's confirmation that the cancer was gone from the physical body.  Miracles?  Perhaps since there is no other scientific rational explanation besides placebo effect.

Energy medicine takes many forms, I use over 20 different techniques and I could still learn many more if I chose.  In these modern times a new system seems to pop up every few years which is just a different combination of the ancient systems which have been used and perfected for thousands of years.

Our modern culture tends to lead with body and mind.  We often leave out or ignore the spirit.  The spirit is a fragile structure which can be injured when the body goes through physical or emotional trauma.  It stores body memories at a cellular/DNA level.  These are memories the brain may or may not store and can include memories before the age of three when we get our brain chemistry to store memories.  It can also include memories passed down through the DNA from previous generations, what some will call past lives as they try to make sense of the historical stories which come through in such spiritual memories.  Science has called this the epicode and last I checked about a year ago, they haven't identified the physical mechanism which stored the epicode.

The spirit may also be damaged by others intentionally from things such as ill feelings such as after a break-up or even vodoo or witchcraft.  Unfortunately harm can come unintentionally.  These could be anything from well meaning parents who are over controlling a child to a stranger making a rude comment.  We end up weaved into each other's spirits as we work and play together.  Some of the connections are good and some are literally an energy zap.  Many times an ill spirit is being suffocated by other entities and just needs to be cleared in order for the body and mind to do its own healing.

Energy medicine is complex and truly is one of the healing art forms which some in modern science are starting to recognize as beyond myth and mysticism.

Linda Bender is a metaphysical doctor trained as a medical intuitive. She uses over 20 life coaching and touch therapy techniques from Reiki to personal training to help you reduce stress and pain so your body invokes its natural healing ability. She is at on Church Street in Phoenixville. See www.BenderHealing.com or call 800-706-1354 for more information.