Acupressure, Acupuncture, Alchemy, Amara-Omni,
Aromatherapy, Angel Therapy, Aura Cleansing, Bio-touch, Biodynamic
Psychology, Bioenergetics, Bioenergy Therapy, Biofeedback, Body
Psychology, Body Psychotherapy, Body Talk, Bodynamic Analysis,
Brennan Healing Science, Chinese Medicine, Chi Energy Medicine,
Clairvoyance, Core Energetics, Craniosacral Therapy - and that’s
just SOME of the As, Bs, and Cs of energy healing!
There are numerous names for individuations of the greater whole
of healing, but The Joe Smith School of Feeling Better doesn’t
sound as good as Transformational Energy Release, so we’ve
labeled and cleverly advertised pieces of the whole, oftentimes
mistaking them for the whole itself. My questions are: What
is this whole itself? Do these individuations (modalities) ultimately
do the same thing? And if yes, what is that thing they do and
how is it done? Who was the first to discover it? And how did
they do so? Are there any new ideas, or just a rehashing and
renaming of bits and pieces of what’s already known? How
can we ever know that what’s known is all there is to
know? And, most importantly: How does asking and answering these
questions relate to bettering our lives? These questions and
many more will be answered in our new column, The Anatomy of
Healing. Welcome!
I grew up in a typical American household. My dad was a pharmacist
and pharmacy owner and for every cold, headache, or stomach
upset there was something we could ingest. We’d take the
pill and feel better. Oftentimes within a few minutes - case
closed. Or was it? Well, we had no reason to question it. If
something works it makes perfect sense to keep on doing it,
right? (Some of us even continue to do things that make no sense...
oh, the human is a silly one indeed!) However, what we failed
to realize or give thought to, as many of us still do, was asking
ourselves what caused the headache to begin with and working
with that answer directly. Pain killers are so effective in
numbing us from our problem(s) that they have indirectly numbed
us to probing deeper into one of life’s longest-known
mysteries as well as the nature of health and healing. Medications
will reduce the symptoms but do not address the cause. Logically
speaking, we cannot eradicate symptoms on a long-term basis
without knowing the underlying cause and working with that directly.
Our reaction to everyday stress for example, initiates shallow
breathing (among other things). We use and overuse our neck
muscles as opposed to using the diaphragm. Holding tension in
our neck muscles can impinge arteries and even meridians and
will reduce blood, oxygen, and energy supply to the head; this
often results in what we’ve been taught to call a headache.
Most of us out of habit will reach for an aspirin because it’s
effective, easier, and seemingly less costly; however, because
the causative energy is still in the body and only worsens,
it’s far from less costly in the long run. The best analogy
I’ve heard for taking pain killers is from Dr. Michael
Ryce (he does not use capital letters) who compared it to cutting
off the electricity to your home’s fire alarm, the fire
is still burning, you just don’t know it.
Now if we begin to ask the question of what caused the headache,
it’s easy to say that the cause is tight neck muscles.
In this case, it makes sense to take a muscle relaxant. Well,
that may help somewhat. It would be one step closer to getting
to the root. Another reaction would be to visit a doctor who
may recommend injecting the muscle directly. Well, that may
help a bit, too, but again misses the true cause. And more holistic-minded
people may choose massage. Quite logical: Direct manipulation
of a muscle will increase blood flow to these and adjacent areas.
Now, we’re even closer! All of these are great, and they
work, but not to the degree that will change anything long term.
Now, ask the question again. Go deeper and you’ll see
that it is actually our reaction to stress that causes the tight
muscles. This is what conventional and even some alternative
medicine fail to address.
Pain and illness have been around since the dawn of time and
every era and culture has had its share of medicine that to
most now seem archaic. And in the future, who knows, maybe even
our invasive surgeries will also seem that way. Upon looking
at the above list of energy modalities, and then stemming through
a list of traditional modalities, and then expanding that list
to those done worldwide both now and in the past, there seems
to be as many modalities as there are people: Can you imagine
6 billion healing modalities? Yikes!
It’s easy to look at each and see how they differ. That’s
what we tend to do with everything. Humans are really good at
separating things and even ourselves from other things and other
people with analysis, categorizations, observations, and even
judgments. I’ve seen how this creates lack of harmony
along social, political, and even spiritual lines that needn’t
ever be drawn. What I’ve done is look at many healing
modalities and examined how they’re similar and have harnessed
the underlying truth to them all. Future articles will discuss
this and explain how we can use it to heal ourselves at the
causative levels as well as assist in the healing of others
both in one-on-one situations and in groups like I currently
do in my in-person and teleconferenced Healing Circles. I’ll
share with you the art of healing at it’s very basic core
and how we can harness the unified field of unconditional love
that permeates all things to assist us in maximizing our lives,
potential, and overall health. See you in March!
Dave Markowitz is an author and intuitive, and the founder
of Source Point Healing. As a new year’s gift
to you, Mystic Pop and Dave are offering his E-Book for free
at www.DaveMarkowitz.com/EbookOffer! Dave’s shared the
bill with Deepak Chopra and Gary Null and has been written about
on ABCNews.com. He sees clients individually and in groups both
by phone and in person. See www.DaveMarkowitz.com
