What I don't like about energy medicine

Here's what I don't like about energy medicine:

I don't like how late in my life I came to learn how  to work with my own vital energy. I wish I'd known about triple warmer when my daughter had asthma attacks when she was 2. I wish I'd known about grief, and metal, and the lungs when I had pneumonia. I wish I'd been able to interpret my body's language when it was telling me "support wood; support wood; support wood!" Maybe I wouldn't have had a senseless operation on the tendon in my wrist, let alone letting them remove my gall bladder.

I don't like knowing that I probably understand stuff about the human body that none of my "real" doctors know. But even more I am continuously frustrated that my doctors don't want to learn from me even though I'd be so happy to teach them!

I don't like knowing how much emotions are involved in health, and how much trauma underlies major health issues, when this knowledge isn't shared so any visit to a physician could be an occasion for new diagnosis shock. If I ran the zoo then no one could practice medicine who didn't first understand the sensory modes: tonal, visual, kinesthetic, and digital. I'd want all physicians to know the impact their words have, particularly on patients who are tonal. I'd help them see that visual patients need positive images of healing to focus upon. I'd be sure they were aware of the level of sensitivity that a person who is kinesthetic might have to medications, to environmental influences, and even to their ubiquitous hand sanitizers. And I'd want them to recognize that despite the apparent rationality of those with a digital preference, there could be underlying emotions that may lie deeper under the surface.

While I like knowing that my infinite well-being, enhanced with energy medicine, cannot be measured with standard blood tests that my physicians order, I wish it were easier to share that perspective and they would pay more heed to how I look and act than to what test results have to say.

I don't like overhearing a conversation about symptoms in a locker room, or at a restaurant, let alone a family gathering, knowing that I have something useful to offer, and that it is most often inappropriate to do so.

I don't like the fact that my daughter doesn't want to learn what I could suggest she do for a student of hers with a traumatic brain injury, let alone for her own stress-related symptoms.

I don't like knowing that no matter how much I do, there is always more that is possible, or that I have forgotten as much as I remember. Yet if I remembered everything I've forgotten I would never be able to fit it all in anyway.

I really don't like the fact that every world leader isn't required to learn basic energy practices, and that every session of Congress doesn't begin with an energy balancing routine. It bothers me that all the discussion of health care policy changes doesn't even touch on the possibilities of self-care inherent in grasping the principles of energy medicine.

And here's what I do like about energy medicine:

I like knowing that there is probably no symptom for which I couldn't suggest something that might be helpful even if I don't know everything that would help. And even though I can find plenty of people who are not interested in learning, I like the fact that there are those special few who do want to learn.

I like that even though my daughter doesn't want to do what I do, she has actually referred people to me, so at least I know it's OK with her, unlike my mother, who found my focus on learning about subtle energy frightening.

I like that I've met a plethora of wonderful people that I would never have known if I hadn't found my way to energy medicine.

And even though I say I don't like how late in the game I came to energy medicine, I like how much my body drinks it in and responds, so that I grow younger every day.

Judith Poole, MA, EEMCP

Comments

[Rosemattax]

Nice, Judith!

[Penny Fedje]

Judith, thank you for so wonderfully expressing how it feels to discover EEM and all it can do for ourselves and others--it may have been you were just writing about you and your feelings, but mine are exactly the same. Good job!