has had 17 treatments with a technology combining biofeedback and focused field stimulation as of March 26, 2010. She was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis after initial testing for multiple sclerosis in her 40's. Her symptoms included:
•Muscle weakness over whole body increasing with use;
•Drooping eyelid on right side;
•Sagging face on right side;
•Lack of facial expression on right side;
•Weakness of the hand muscle;
•Urgency incontinence;
•Extreme tiredness in daytime;
•Sleep disturbance at night;
•Equilibrium/Balance problems;
•Arrhythmia.
Treatment was started on January 18, 2010. By her fifth session, she started resting better. By March, she reported sleeping 6-hours at night undisturbed. The muscle tone of her face greatly improved (Fig. 2). Within a total of 17 treatments over 4-months, the patient no longer experienced any of the symptoms as part of her diagnosis. JP reported her cardiologist adjusted the arrhythmia medication since her cardiac diagnosis of arrhythmia showed significant improvement. The patient is followed up with maintenance treatment once per quarter.
Figure 2. JP before (left) and after (right) undergoing 17 treatments over 4-months
Lymphedema
Suzanne Somers, a well-known health pioneer and best-selling author, has published several books over the past years revealing groundbreaking medical approaches that are used in daily practice by progressive physicians around the U.S. She has written of her use of biofeedback combined with focused field stimulation in Breakthrough, Knockout, and Bombshell and revealed how this modality helped her with lymphedema by alleviating the swelling and pain from her left axilla and left breast using this therapeutic approach. Interesting was the fact, that her main reaction area was not in the area of the swelling, but in the right lower quadrant where the focused field stimulation primarily took place. She confirmed the location of a scar. This is a perfect example to showcase the correlation between stagnation of fluid or energy in a remote area being the root cause to the accumulation of fluid or energy in a different part of the body; In this case the correlation was between the scar on the right lower abdomen and the left axilla/breast. Suzanne has been using this modality on a daily basis, especially after her recent stem cell breast surgery.20
CONCLUDING REMARKS
The question must not be: Does energy medicine work? Of course it works. It has worked since the existence of humanity. Magnetism is a physical phenomenon that exercises its influence on the entire universe, including living beings. As James Oschman, Ph.D. stated so well at the A4M Conference in Orlando several years ago:
“When we ignore energy we miss 99% of reality. In fact, what can you comprehend about anything without energetics?”21
The biological manifestations of electromagnetism range from the potential of action produced by cellular depolarization in response to ionic flow through its membrane to organic representations that are in fact used for diagnostic purposes such as cardiac, cerebral, or muscular electrical activity. There is ever more scientific evidence that questions the physiological model currently accepted, which exclusively considers biochemical process and nervous conduction as responsible for cell and organic interactions. It is necessary to consider electromagnetic phenomena as cell behavior elements that precede the other processes.22
While energy medicine plays a potent role in patient care, when looking at the bigger picture, there are many other perspectives and solutions from different cultures and ancient wisdom to bring into a personalized medicine approach to help our patients recreate their belief system and change their life patterns. Our own use and teaching of the most important puzzle pieces that come into play of an integrative or complementary approach to helping chronically ill patients in a personalized setting are shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. An integrated personalized approach to patient care should include the use of many treatment modalities
Besides relief of symptoms, have you have ever given thought to what it really is that our patients are searching when seeking our help and involvement to improve their health? Deep down there is a desire, an unfulfilled part in their lives that drives their body into a state of chaos and dysfunction. When zooming out (not only zooming into their physiological distress), one could find their inner yearning to:
•Find hope;
•Feel safe;
•Be free;
•Live life without fear;
•Be respected;
•Be and feel beautiful;
•Love and be loved;
•Connect with the seed of their powerful self they have come to live.
When we are born as naked innocent beings, we live in the moment and allow a special life force to work through us so we may live our purposeful life. But something happens somewhere along our lives (from my perspective before a child turns 5), when a shocking or traumatizing situation as little as it may be, disconnects us from the trust and belief in ourselves and gets us on a different path; a path that is not ours. Many years later our bodies follow the emotional and spiritual disconnect by expressing symptoms and disease.
Not only our patients, but all of us are searching for these aspects within us. It is a journey we all should respect and embrace allowing ourselves to live our powerful selves impacting the world around us.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. Recognition of the mystery of the universe is the source of all true science. He to whom emotions are a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
-- Albert Einstein
REFERENCES
1.Oschman J. Energy Medicine The Scientific Basis. 2000.
2.Ayurvedic Medicine an Introduction NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Website. Available at: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/ayurveda/introduction.htm
3.Hunt V. Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness. 1996.
4.Traditional Chinese Medicine an Introduction. NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Website. Available at:http://nccam.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/chinesemed.htm
5.Maciocia G. The Foundations of Chinese Medicine A comprehensive Text for Acupuncturists and Herbalists. 1989.
