in a hospital setting would have been considered preposterous. Today, how- ever, more medical institutions are combining these types of treatment with traditional allopathic medicine. For example, Children’s Memorial Hospital, in Chicago, a research-ori- ented emblem of Western medicine, now employs a Healing Touch thera- pist. The hospital, which perennially ranks among America’s premier hospi- tals, is the principal pediatric teaching hospital for Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Mehmet Oz, a leading U.S.


HONORING OUR LIFE FORCE


ENERGY MEDICINE HELPS RESTORE BALANCE AND HARMONY by Linda Sechrist


trivial, until finally, it becomes what ev- erybody knows.” In the field of energy medicine, the experiences of pioneers such as medical intuitives Caroline Myss and Donna Eden, natural healer Dr. Carolle Jean-Murat and Doctor of Chiropractic Eric Pearl validate James’ postulate. Initially disregarded by allopathic


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medicine, the energy medicine these healers practice operates on the belief that changes in the “life force” of the body can affect human health and healing. They maintain that applying this energetic perspective allows them to clinically assess and treat what they refer to as the body’s electromagnetic fields, in order to achieve a healthy


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n William James’ famous hypothesis, “A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, and then dismissed as


balance in the body’s overall energy system. The modality has to do with en-


ergy pathways, or meridians, that run through our organs and muscles. The idea is to uncover the root causes of imbalances and harmonize them at an energetic level before they completely solidify in the physical body and mani- fest as an illness. Such imbalances may be brought on by, for example, such things as emotional stress and physical trauma.


Aid to Conventional Treatment


As recently as 1990, the idea of using any form of energy medicine, such as acupuncture, Reiki, Touch for Health or the services of a medical intuitive


cardiovascular surgeon, was the first to include a Reiki practitioner in his department at Columbia University Medical Center, in New York City. The New York Times reports that Oz allows the use of Reiki during open- heart surgeries and heart transplant operations.


More Insight Medical intuitives say they can recognize problems in the flow of the body’s energies and are able to accurately predict the kinds of physi- cal problems that are likely to emerge before any symptoms are detected. Eden, who has had a lifelong ability to make health assessments that are confirmed by medical tests, can look at an individual’s body and see and feel where the energies are not flow- ing, out of balance or not in harmony, then works to correct the problem.


“I was 22 before I discovered that


everyone didn’t make their decisions after first seeing and sensing energy,” says Eden.


Carolle Jean-Murat, a California licensed obstetrician and gynecolo- gist who now practices as a medical intuitive and healer, left her 30-year allopathic practice to focus on natural healing. Today, the native of Haiti specializes in helping women restore their mental, physical and spiritual health. “I am a healer who has the ca- pacity to see, feel and hear whatever a client is going through, because I see them as a whole: energy, body, mind, soul and emotions,” says Jean-Murat.


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