Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Energetic Healing

June 8th, 2009 -- Posted in Uncategorized | 0

Welcome back!

Energetic healings are known by a number of names such as Spiritual Healing, Clairvoyant Healing and Vibrational Healing. Basically, the Healing, by any of these names means it is therapeutic in some way to the emotional, mental and physical self.

Clients come to the practitioner for a number of reasons. These may be for physical issues, such as headaches or a particular ache or pain. Or for emotional issues such as grief. Mental issues such as anxiety or depression. Each practitioner will have their own way of working with the energy to help the client feel better and produce the desired result.

Science and mainstream medicine are now recognising that disease (dis/ease - meaning not at ease) is the body manifesting physical conditions that have their root in some type of emotional trauma. This why meditation is now becoming popularly accepted as it relaxes the mind and emotions and the body.

Like meditation, healing treatments are subtle and very relaxing. The practitioner may touch the client’s body during the healing process or hold their hands a few inches away from the client’s body. At all times the client will be made to feel comfortable and safe. Practitioners should always describe to their client what process they will be following before the healing starts and they should always ask the client if they dislike being touched so that the client feels comfortable throughout the healing process.

In our busy world today with so much pressure to work and succeed and be and do, it is so easy to become disconnected from our spiritual source. Apart from any other outcome, people who undergo energetic, or spiritual healings begin to reconnect with that spiritual source through the opening up of their energy centres. All of my clients have indicated they felt lighter, more loving, and happier after healings. For some this happens after the very first healing, for others it takes a series of 2 or 3 healings before this occurs.

These healings invoke something that is intangible (i.e energy or light) and which is both subtle and powerful. It is like old energy leaves opening the way for new energy to enter. Kind of like discarding the tattered clothes we have been wearing year after year and donning a new outfit.

And when we feel new, we think new. And when we think new we act new. And we are new.

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What Do You Crave?

June 8th, 2009 -- Posted in Uncategorized | 0

Not long ago, a young woman, Elaine, came to my clinic to be treated for depression.  During her first appointment, I asked her a number of questions about her health and lifestyle.  When I asked her what foods she craved, her answer surprised me.  She said that she craved frozen vegetables.  Not cooked frozen vegetables, but frozen veggies right out of the freezer—crunchy and cold.

While her unusual answer surprised me, it also gave me some clues into her condition within the framework of Chinese medicine.  Her craving for extremely cold foods told me that she had some kind of a heat condition, most likely involving the Heart organ system.

In Chinese medicine, each organ system (Heart, Spleen, Lungs, Kidneys, Liver) has a taste, or flavor, associated with it.  The flavor related to each organ is beneficial and healing that specific organ, but in small amounts. Through the foods you crave, you can get a better idea of which Organ systems might be depleted.

For example, the taste associated with the Spleen is sweet.  The majority of people that I see in my clinic will tell me that they crave sweets.  This is frequently because their Spleen, the organ of digestion, is working overtime to digest fat-laden, nutrient-dense, over processed foods.  In addition, people who are overweight almost always have damage to their Spleen system.  As a result, they crave sweets.  Unfortunately, in Chinese history, sweets were eaten in small amounts in the form of natural foods, like dates, yams, and fruits.  Today, when we crave sweets, we turn to something like the two pound bag of M&M’s, which only further damages the Spleen.

If you crave salty foods, you might look to the health of your Kidney system.  The Kidney in Chinese medicine is most damaged by stress, overwork, and keeping long hours without adequate rest.  It is also related to how well and healthfully you will age.

A friend of mine is notorious for craving dill pickles and other sour foods.  The sour taste is associated with the Liver.  Interestingly, my friend struggles with pain around her Liver and has been diagnosed with a fatty Liver.

The Lung system is associated with foods that are acrid, or strongly flavored.  Acrid foods have the ability to make you sweat and cause your nose to run—both activities associated with the Lung system.

Elaine, the woman who was craving frozen vegetables, had issues with her Heart system, as well as internal heat.  She was suffering from emotional concerns, which almost always involve the Heart system in some way.  The Heart is associated with the element of fire, and bitter taste.  Her craving for frozen foods, while not bitter in taste, was an attempt to cool the Heart fire.  Frequently, people who crave dark chocolate, coffee, and dark bitter ales, also find in the clinic that their Heart system is depleted in some way.