This blog entry, which I am cross posting to the SCS Beyond Mastery Newsletter, could have been called “Adventures in Kinesiology,” as in some ways, it is a follow-up to my blog from 22 April, Adventures in Mesotherapy. Debra and I have just returned from the 37th Annual TFH Conference, where I experienced two powerful healing sessions from people attending the conference. But first, a bit of background information:
The training complex, “Hamburger University,” was connected to the Hyatt Lodge by a walking bridge over Lake Fred, which I suspect was named for Fred Turner, who followed Ray Kroc as Chairman of McDonald’s Corporation. The name is deceptive. The facility was first-rate, as befits a major corporation with a wide-variety of training needs and the need to accommodate individuals from around the world.
The setting was ideal for a conference and especially well-suited to one with the theme, “Wellness for All.” Sponsored by the Touch for Health Kinesiology Association, the conference attracted practitioners with a variety of backgrounds in Energy Medicine, including a number who are well-known among practitioners of Energy Medicine. Readers already familiar with Energy Medicine will appreciate the fact that the keynote speaker for the weekend was Donna Eden, author of Energy Medicine and a number of other books on the subject.
Debra and I had been invited to submit proposals by Mary Jo Bulbrook, whom we had met in San Antonio last year at the Healing Touch Program Worldwide Conference. Mary Jo is one of the best-known and most innovative healers in the world and the author of Transform Your Life Through Energy Medicine: A Resource Guide for Practitioners. We submitted proposals and were very glad to have them accepted.
Debra conducted an all-day preconference workshop on the Imagine Healing
process, and I conducted a two-hour break-out session on the therapeutic application of anchoring (“Anchoring: Stimulus-Response Conditioning”). This blog entry, however, is not about our presentations. It is about the healing work others did on and for me. Both of the interventions I received were an outgrowth of the workshop I conducted on anchoring. To help explain that the presenting problem is often not the problem, I had mentioned my having received the Mesotherapy intervention in response to my comments about my hearing loss. After the workshop, three attendees approached me to say that they could help with my hearing.
And help they did. After my breakout session, Pam James and Jane Frey (both from the Edmonton area in Alberta, Canada), put me on a massage table for what they called, “Crystal Consciousness Connection.” Both Pam and Jane had been trained by Mary Jo Bulbrook. The “Crystal Consciousness Connection” is a sophisticated technique designed to bring body, mind, and spirit back into alignment. Their work put me in such a deep trance state that, when they were finished, I needed help walking back to the hotel from the conference center to ensure that I didn’t fall into Lake Fred.
A number of studies have shown that hypnotic trance is inherently healing. A “rule of thumb” used to be that “15 minutes in trance was the equivalent of 2 hours sleep.” My sense is that a healing trance does more than that. The conscious intent of the therapist and the client influences the depth, quality, and the effect of the trance. For this reason, it is always difficult to assess the degree to which the results of an intervention are the result of the particular intervention and how much are the result of the trance. I’m not sure that it makes a difference. The most important aspect of an intervention may be the depth and intent of the trance. Not all trances, of course, are intended to promote health and well-being, and not all those who would be healers are able to create an environment that promotes a deep, healing trance. Jane and Pam had “the right stuff” to help me improve my health and sense of well-being in profound ways.
The next day, the other person who had volunteered to work on me, Dr. Danny McLane, is trained and licensed in a variety of modalities, including chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, kinesiology (which you may know as “muscle testing”), behavioral repatterning, hypnosis, and NLP (he is a Master Practitioner). During the course of his work on me, I’m pretty sure that he used all of those modalities, although—as had been the case with Crystal Consciousness—it didn’t take me long with Danny to go into a deep trance. I know for sure that he used kinesiology, chiropractic, acupuncture, NLP, and hypnosis (skillfully using embedded commands). He didn’t need to help me walk afterwards, but I wasn’t moving very quickly, either.
As was true with the Mesotherapy, it’s hard to tell to what degree my presenting problem of hearing loss has been affected. I am aware that I am continuing to have increased auditory sensitivity, but I won’t know how much of an increase until after I have another audiogram. That will have to wait until after Debra and I have been to the 2012 Healing Touch Program Worldwide Conference next month (August). I am definitely feeling better physically than I have for a while, and I attribute that primarily to my experiences with the interventions I have received during the ICIM meeting in Lexington and the Touch for Health Annual Conference in Chicago.
The conference as a whole also contributed to my sense of increasing health and well-being. Although I did not experience the work demonstrated in the following presentations, I was definitely influenced by them.
- Darren Weissman, DC. Although I found his presentation a bit too focused on sales, The LifeLine Technique® is a powerful modality. One of the things I really liked about his presentation was his skillful use of anchoring for his mantra, “Infinite love and gratitude.” He used (visual), auditory (repetition of “Infinite Love and Gratitude”), and kinesthetic (touch) anchors to ensure that all present would remember his main points long after the presentation was over.
- Robert R. Maldonado, Ph.D. Robert’s presentation influenced me primarily by pointing out the relationship between common movements in the martial arts to their health functions. See Energy Medicine Movement for more about Robert and his work.
- Sheldon C. Deal, DC. My “take-aways” from Sheldon’s presentation were the way in which common substances influence bodily health and his comment (to an audience composed primarily of chiropractors) that “the average patient on your table is a mass of compensations.” One of the things about the human body is that it will do what it can to compensate for injuries and other problems. Compensations hide the problem rather than correct it. It is, of course, best to correct it so that the compensation becomes unnecessary.
- Steve Baherman. Steve’s presentation, Spontaneous Evolution, was based on the book written with Bruce H. Lipton. My main “take-away” from this presentation was that, although we are in a period of chaos, a world of opportunity exists. Steve’s metaphor was that we are currently in the “goo” that represents the chrysalis stage on the journey from caterpillar to butterfly.
- Lee Lawrence. Although it was fairly far out in the land of woo woo, Lee’s presentation on The Science of the Soul included three demonstrations of a powerful healing technique I can’t begin to describe. My sense is that Richard Bandler needs to model Lee and make what he does accessible to the rest of us.
And who knows … someone else may volunteer to work on me while I am in San Antonio for the Healing Touch Program™ conference. The bottom line is that, whatever you are currently doing to enhance your health at the moment, a wide variety of holistic options are available. Just as is true with plumbers and allopathic physicians, not all practitioners of Energy Medicine are equally skilled, so you may need to try a number of them before you find one who demonstrates superior skill. There is truth to the saying, “Seek and ye shall find.” It’s also true that if you don’t seek, you probably won’t find. Set your conscious intent for what you want, and your chances of finding it will increase exponentially.
