room where you are told to practice a particular qigong exercise for eight hours a day until your illness disap- pears,” she says.
Achieving Optimal Well-Being That “prescription” barely raises eye- brows in the East, where qigong has been practiced for centuries, but energy healing did not find its first crack in the wall of conventional Western medi- cine until 1980, when Janet Mentgen, a registered nurse and the founder of Healing Touch energy therapy, began introducing nurses to a clinical model that deepens and expands the con- nection between nurse and patient. In 1990, her certificate program was spon- sored through the American Holistic Nurses Association.
Donald Epstein, a doctor of chi- ropractic and author of The 12 Stages of Healing: A Network Approach to Wholeness and Healing Myths, Healing Magic, proposes a model of energetic medicine—reorganizational healing— that emphasizes self-awareness and personal will to change and achieve optimal mental and physical health. Epstein perceives five energetic intel- ligences of the body associated with states of consciousness and explains that reorganizational healing helps individuals create a map to self-assess and draw upon their strengths to create sustainable change.
The paradigm provides tools that Dr. Michele Pelletiere, owner of Pel- letiere Family Healing Center, in Bonita Springs, offers to clients interested in accessing their inner energetic resourc- es through Epstein’s Triad of Change (perception, behavior and structure), to help transform their mental, emotional and physical health.
Redefining Healing
Epstein’s Triad reminds us that we live in a time of profound and revolution- ary change. Scientific evidence from contemporary physicists and biologists confirms that our sensory experience of the world is extremely limited. As we delve beyond conventional models of healing, we realize that some concepts cannot be easily defined in words, and that our language is limited by our dimension. From the perspective of en-
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ergy healing, we may need to become familiar with terms such as nature’s drive for wholeness, resonance, a new band of frequencies, restructuring DNA, local fields and the non-local field, encoding, entrainment, strings, strands, attunement, evolutionary healing and vibration. Perhaps we even need to redefine the word “healing”. As suggested by Dr. Eric Pearl
in his book, The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, healing is about more than the alleviation of symptoms, diseases, infirmities and other notice- able hindrances to full functioning. Healing is also the restoration of the person to spiritual wholeness. In es- sence, Pearl emphasizes that healing is the release or removal of a block or interference that has kept us separated from the perfection of the universe. His model includes the evolutionary re- structuring of our DNA and our recon- nection to the universe on a new level. Like energy medicine, this recon- nection promotes flow, balance and transformation. Reconciling intuition and experience with science and knowledge can help us reach a new level of understanding that not only in- cludes the body as an energetic system, but also assumes a mantle of power and responsibility for it.
Resources
Barbara Brennan School of Healing,
BarbaraBrennan.com.
Energy Medicine University, Energy-
MedicineUniversity.org.
Kimberly Rodgers, Monarch Therapy, 4500 Executive Dr., Ste. 100, Naples; 239-325-9210.
MonarchTherapy.com. See ad, page 11.
Alvina Quatrano, Holistic Healing Arts, 3323 Olympic Dr., Ste. 722, Naples; 732-266-5276.
HolisticHealingArts.info.
Maria Hubbuch, 239-910-6576.
Karen L. Beatty, Naples; 239-269-7788.
BalancedEnergyAndHealth.com. See ad, page 28.
Janice Jackson, 5051 Castello Drive, Ste. 226, Naples; 239-272-8539.
MassageNaplesFL.com. See ad, page 19.
Karen and Neil Kagan; 239-332-3885.
ReikiForEveryone.com and HealthAnd-
HarmonyOnline.com.
Silvia Casabianca, Eyes Wide Open, 9200 Bonita Beach Rd., Ste. 202, Bo- nita Springs; 239-948-9444. SilviaCasa-
bianca.com and
EyesWideOpenC.com.
Susan DeFlavis; 239-340-1036.
Michele Pelletiere, D.C., Pelletiere Fam- ily Healing Center, 9138 Bonita Beach Rd., Bonita Springs; 239-949-1222.
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