DOnnA
see the energy, so she knew when
she was moving it.
As Eden learned to work with
EDEn
her energy fields to achieve
personal health, she began help-
ing others, traveling the world to
teach and practice her unique
energy
system of energy medicine. Today,
Eden has worked with more than
10,000 people to restore energy
medicine
systems within their bodies that
have become weak, disturbed or
out of balance. Students fill her
workshops and seminars, eager to
“A
s soon as Donna
experience the power.
enters a room, the
During her first 20 years of
healing begins.” The
healing work, Eden witnessed that
words of Angie Dickinson when
virtually everyone has the ability to
speaking of Donna Eden’s work.
feel energy. They didn’t need to be
For anyone who has met
able to see it to work with it. With
Eden, it’s hard to imagine this
that in mind, she released Energy
vibrant and healthy woman as
Medicine in 1998, with its revised
a poster girl for her own energy medi-
edition expected to hit the bookstores
cine. Yet over 3 decades ago, while in
her early 30s, Eden was told by doctors energy
this fall. She has also produced two vid-
eos on the subject, and in 2001 helped
that she should start working toward
getting her affairs in order, that there
is the medicine
establish the non-profit corporation,
The Energy Medicine Institute, whose
was nothing more they could do. She
was that sick.
Eden suffered a heart attack in her
and energy is
purpose is to promote the advancement
of energy medicine. Additionally, along
with her most senior faculty, Eden devel-
late 20s, and had dealt with conditions
like Multiple Sclerosis, food allergies, also the patient
oped a two-year Eden Energy Medicine
Certificate Program, holding the first
hay fever, severe asthma and hypo-
glycemia since she was a child. Her by Gail Cornwell
major training session in May of 2004.
After completing the intensive two
Multiple Sclerosis had advanced to the
year hands on certification program
point that she could barely walk, and herself healthy.
in Phoenix Arizona, Patty Allen, of
she had become allergic to all foods Eden began studying ancient ener-
Alternative Energy Therapies, has also
except red meat. It was as though her getic healing practices. Drawing from
helped many people learn to use simple
body systems were just shutting them- the Chinese meridian system, Japanese
energy routines to keep themselves
selves down, one by one. Jin Shin, Chakra system of Ayurveda
healthy and balanced. “Every physical,
Although Eden’s physical body had from the Indian subcontinent of Asia,
mental or behavioral problem has a
been born unusually vulnerable to ill- as well as other indigenous healing prac-
counterpart in the body’s energies,” says
ness, as an individual she exhibited an- tices from around the globe, including
Allen. “Keeping them in balance and
other rare quality. Like her mother, Eden those of the Hopi, Tibetan and Brazilian
healthy can actually prevent the onset
could “see” and “feel” fields of energy cultures, she began tracing and swirling,
of illness. When illness and disease are
within and around herself and others. tapping, pinching, twisting and mas-
already present, most conditions can be
Up until this point in her life, the saging areas along her body to influ-
improved or overcome by redirecting
energy was just something she had ence her energies. She worked daily to
and correcting imbalances in the body’s
been aware of. After the doctors’ decree reestablish connective points, to move
energies. I have seen this first hand in
though, her view began to change. and redirect the energy along her body’s
my personal practice with conditions
She began to look at the energy as a pathways as she practiced the routines
such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue
potential tool, a way to heal her body. she had developed. Eden could literally
and pain syndromes, diabetes, de-
Rather than just seeing it, she started
pression, auto-immune illness, panic
to analyze it. Flows and patterns soon
Virtually everyone has the
disorders, uterine fibroids and hormone
became apparent, with blockages and ability to feel energy.
imbalances. Because energy is pli-
imbalances exquisitely obvious. The
They don’t need to be able
able and easier to shift than the physi-
next step for Eden was to figure out
cal body, it can be redirected quickly.
how to work with the energy to make
to see it to work with it.
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