Q. Dear Donna: A friend with
breast cancer just completed a round of chemotherapy and is about to start a six week
course of radiation treatment. Is there anything she can do for burn prevention and other
side effects? A. If she can simply
keep her energies flowing, this will help tremendously in her ability to tolerate the
radiation. The 5-minute "Daily Energy Routine" (Chapter 3 of Energy Medicine)
can be a good start. See the directions under the "cross crawl" in that chapter
for checking whether her energies have gone homolateral, and correct for this (Energy
Medicine p. 233) if they have. Radiation often throws a person’s energy into a
homolateral pattern. Other techniques that often help people go through radiation therapy
with fewer side effects include sedating and then strengthening the circulation-sex
acupuncture points (Energy Medicine p. 122), doing the "hook-up" (Energy
Medicine p. 119), and sedating triple warmer using the "smoothing behind the
ears" technique (Energy Medicine pp. 235 – 236). Sometimes
neurovascular work, where the person holds the "frontal eminence" points with
the pads of the fingers on the forehead and the thumbs in the temples (Energy Medicine
pp. 273 – 275), daily for three to five minutes, can "take out the fire." |
