Q & A
Welcome to my big Q&A section, where I have compiled some of the most commonly asked questions about Energy Medicine. Please feel free to email me and add to the information bank!Q: What is Energy Medicine?
A: In the most general sense, the term “energy medicine” simply means “healing through the movement of energy in the body.”
Many healing modalities would qualify as “energy medicine” based on this description.
Acupuncture (also known as Traditional Chinese Medicine), Reiki, Qi Gong, Eden Energy Medicine etc, are all types of energy medicine, as they facilitate healing by working with subtle energies.
Q: What is Eden Energy Medicine?
A: Eden Energy Medicine is a natural healing modality that works directly with the body’s energy systems to support physical, emotional, spiritual and mental wellbeing.
The Eden Energy Medicine approach is effective, systematic, and non-invasive.
Just as our body has a vascular system for the transportation of blood, our body also has an energetic system composed of energy channels, energy centers and the like, which are charged with conducting electrical, electromagnetic and subtle energies all over the body. When energy flows freely in the channels, we feel healthy and happy. However, when energies become blocked, congested, scrambled or imbalanced, our bodies can manifest health problems.
physical, emotional, and mental results.
Q: I’m not familiar with Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. What is that?
A: Over 5,000 years old, Acupuncture is facet of Traditional Chinese Medicine that deals with the insertion of needles into energy pathways called “meridians” on the body. By stimulating certain points on the body, energy blockages are released and healing occurs.
It is a one type of energy medicine, though perhaps the most well known today thanks to a Chinese Emperor who insisted nearly 4,500 years ago that the already old practice of Acupuncture be codified and preserved in written format. Originating well over 5,000 years ago, Acupuncture continues to flourish as a healing practice today, due in large part to the careful preservation of knowledge over time, as well as the fact that it just plain works!
Eden Energy Medicine, (which I use predominantly, but not exclusively in my healing practice), draws heavily on the techniques of the Chinese, although it incorporates many elements from other healing traditions, as well as modern innovations by its gifted founder, Donna Eden.
Q: Who is Donna Eden?
A: Donna Eden is an American woman born with an innate talent for understanding and working with the body’s energies to promote deep healing. Donna herself suffered from massive health problems as a young woman, including Multiple Sclerosis, Tuberculosis, Hypoglycemia, Severe Allergies etc, and found Energy Medicine to be the most effective form of healing when traditional treatments didn’t offer any hope. She is now in her late 60’s and is a truly vibrant (and MS free!) example of health and joy.
Read about her on her website, or watch a clip on youtube. You will love her!
Q: How is EDEN Energy Medicine different from Acupuncture?
A:
1) The most obvious answer is the Eden Energy Medicine NEVER uses needles.
2) While Acupuncture looks at one energy system, (the meridian system), to provide healing, Eden Energy Medicine assesses about 8-9 different energy systems for optimal health.
3) YOU can use it on yourself. Eden Energy Medicine is extremely USER-FRIENDLY, meaning that you can learn simple techniques to take care of yourself when I’m not there. You feel more in command of your healing, even when you still want (and deserve) professional assistance.
4) All sessions are conducted with the practitioner present at all times in the room.
Q: What led you to study Eden Energy Medicine and not Acupuncture?
A: While I am a full supporter of Acupuncture, I personally gravitated to Eden Energy Medicine because of Donna Eden's emphasis on empowerment and self-healing. In our society we are often taught to turn to outside sources for all the answers, so when we turn to ourselves, even for the simplest forms self-care, a profound and meaningful shift begins.
I teach techniques that are safe, fun, easy, and potent! Taking care of yourself can take minutes (sometimes seconds) and it makes you feel wonderful to know that help is always at your fingers tips- at any time of the day or night when you need it!
Q: Do I need to go to a practitioner, or can I do EEM myself?
A: There is SO MUCH self-healing you can accomplish with Eden EM, though a good practitioner is truly invaluable. They have training you can’t get from Donna’s books, they can assess your energies more objectively, and they can give you a “jump start” and much more when you are too tired to work on yourself.
That said, sessions with me always include instruction on self-healing: a nice fusion!
Instruction can include movement, creative assignments, or simple, potent techniques to start shifting your energetic habits. Repetition at home speeds up the process.
Q: I think I have a certain illness…can you diagnose me?
A: No, Eden Energy Medicine practitioners do not "diagnose" or "cure" illness (only doctors can legally do that), they assess and correct your energies. The difference is important to note, even though energy work does have a tremendous effect on our physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Although symptoms provide valuable information about where your energy systems need attention, my work with you will always be focussed on harmonizing and correcting the energy.
You are always free to consult with a doctor or other healthcare provider of your choice (and are encouraged to do so), as Energy Medicine is compatible with any other traditional health regime you may have.
Q: Is there any scientific proof for subtle energy work?
A: Yes there is, and there needs to be more research. Read “The Six Pillars of Energy Medicine” by David Feinstein Ph.D for a basic introduction.
Q: What can I expect from a session? Do I need to take off my clothes like for a massage?
A: No, never. All Holistic Healing Sessions are conducted fully clothed. Also, Holistic Healing Sessions are unlike other bodywork practices in the sense that we work with energy, and not primarily with the muscular body. Sessions can be conducted completely off the body if necessary, although light, subtle touch is often helpful just to make space for the energy to move. A truly non-invasive practice.
"In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy"--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel laureate in Medicine.
"Energy Medicine heals the body by activating its natural healing energies...
To accomplish this goal, energy medicine utilizes techniques from healing traditions such as acupuncture, yoga, kinesiology, and qi gong...combines
them with contemporary scientific understanding, and applies them in
thoroughly modern ways."--Donna Eden
" Energy Medicine for Women [by Donna Eden] is extremely well-documented. We now have the ability to measure the energy fields it discusses with scientific instruments. For the first time in human history, in fact, it is possible to scientifically establish that the Chinese physicians who intuitively mapped the acupuncture meridians thousands of years ago were right!"-- Christiane Northrup M.D.
"When we don't feel good in our bodies, we don't make choices from the radiant joy that is our birthright. As a result, we suffer and our planet suffers from the choices people make out of unnecessary suffering. Energy Medicine is a modest enterprise with far-reaching implications." --Donna Eden and David Feinstein.
