| A few obvious disclaimers are in
order. Virtually every response began "Without being able to personally assess your
energies, I can only make some general suggestions." While this statement has often been
edited out of the responses to avoid becoming repetitious, it always applies. Letters
obviously do not give any health practitioner a basis for making a firm assessment or
formulating a treatment. The spirit of this page is educational rather than prescriptive. It
shows how to think about applying energy medicine in a broad range of situations. It is
also important to understand that "diagnosis" and "treatment" within
energy medicine have different meanings than they have within traditional medicine. The focus
is not on symptoms or illness; the focus is on keeping the body’s energy system strong,
vital, harmonious, healthy. Diagnosis is of the energy system, not of the illness.
Symptoms provide clues about where the energy system needs attention. Treatment is not the
treatment of symptoms or illness, it is the treatment of the energy system. These
distinctions are vital not only because it is legal to educate people to keep their
body’s energies healthy and not legal for unlicensed people to diagnosis and treat
illness. They are vital because they show you a fundamentally different way of thinking about
health and illness, built on a paradigm that directs your attention to the energetic
foundation of staying healthy.
The techniques suggested here may be
used along with traditional medical treatments and will generally complement them. It is
important that your health care professional know what other interventions you are using.
Finally, because the questions were for the most part asked by people who had read
Donna’s book or been to a class, many of the dialogues assume that you have access to and
familiarity with the book Energy Medicine. We hope you will find this to be a valuable
and vital learning tool.
These dialogues were
edited by David Feinstein with the assistance of
Patricia Butler, Nancy Heyerman, and Sara Allen. |
