Week Twelve Assignment

1. Acupuncture as effective energy medicine

I absolutely believe that it is effective, and that it is on an energetic level that it helps people. It doesn't matter if the affects are placebo or not, because regardless of that possibility, it still helps people. That's the important part of this that people don't seem to realize. It doesn't matter if it's our medicine that's doing the work, or if it's the idea that our medicine works so well that motivates people's subconscious to start their body's defenses back up.

2. What conclusions can you draw from Kirlian photography?

I think the most obvious conclusion to be drawn is that our auras really do exist. I know people who have trained and been successful at viewing others' auras even without the use of Kirlian photography. I learned how to do it probably about 8 years ago and saw my own ever-changing aura, but I couldn't see it all the time and certainly not as large as Kirlian photos depict. What I saw when I could do it was a faint outline of a solid color near the top of someone's head.

3. Human intent as it affects health

It absolutely affects health. Even when I was doing my training for massage therapy, I learned quickly that if your mind wasn't focused on your patient's needs, than they're not going to feel the full benefit of your work, thereby cheating them out of their money, and not giving you the sense of satisfaction that you should have from this kind of healing work. One of the best experiences I had with intent affecting health was when I was working on an older lady toward the end of my training. She told me that her low back had been giving her issues for many years, and that she hadn't even been able to pull her leg up to tie her shoes. I told her that I would do what I could, but given that it's been so long, I'm not sure how much a single session will help her out.

I used every technique I knew to open up her low back, to loosen her quadriceps and biceps femoris muscles. I made sure that while I was working on her, my intent was pinpointed on helping her low back, and helping her tie her shoes.

After the session was over, I went outside of the massage room to give her an evaluation form where she was talking with my professor. She had walked out of the class without her shoes on so that she could sit on one of the benches outside and chat with the other people there for massages.

At this point, she pulled her leg up onto her knee and began tying her shoe. The look on her face was astonishing. She told me after she had crossed her leg up, she hadn't even thought about that she was doing it, it simply worked on it's own. My professor shot a look to me that expressed her sincere pride in my work, which pretty much solidified my goal to keep my intent on the patient.