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Healing Pain with Energy
The traffic light was red. Mike and Ed were sitting, talking in Mike's car, when suddenly they heard a loud crunching sound. The car lurched forward, throwing them against the constraints of their seatbelts. They knew instantly that an automobile had crashed into them from behind. Feeling the pain caused by the sudden collision, they were dazed and in shock. After the accident, Ed, a dentist, found he had difficulty working because of lower back, shoulder and neck pain. He sought out an orthopedic doctor, who took x-rays. Ed had no broken bones, but now had muscle, ligament and tendon damage resulting in numbness in his left thigh and leg, as well as pain radiating out of his neck, shoulder and scapula regions. Finding his treatment from the orthopedic doctor effective, but slow, Ed (not his real name) insisted on being treated by a massage therapist, and was referred to me. Working as a massage therapist, I was able to loosen his muscles, and help relieve the pain from the muscle spasms which were causing him pain. In addition, with my training in the laying-on of hands healing, I was able to work on the electromagnetic field of his body, sinking my "energetic" hands deep into the body, and relieve even more pain. Ed was very pleased with his progress, and I saw him twice a week for several months until he was able to work with little to no pain. Recently, over Thanksgiving, I both massaged and worked energetically on my brother and his wife, who had also been in automobile accidents. After two years, in spite of continual chiropractic treatment, Marilyn still had a great deal of stiffness and pain from extensive vertebrae displacement, inflammation, and bone spurs in her neck. She was going to cut back on her work schedule as a professor, as she needed to devote more time to healing. The pain was now getting worse instead of better. Again after using massage along with energetic healing techniques, Marilyn was able to move her neck with only a minimum of pain. My brother, Bob, also felt great relief from his lower back and shoulder pain after I worked on him. I find that using the combination of massage and hands-on healing to be extremely effective in eliminating pain. In reality the body heals of its own accord, all we do is help it with the necessary resources. Sometimes the body can use a little extra energy to heal. The laying-on of hands healing can provide that additional energy. When our physical bodies have been injured, say in an automobile accident, the energy matrix on which the cells lie, becomes disfigured and blocked. All energy to heal comes from a higher source, which we can attune to by focusing our conscious mind. I find that simply holding my hands on a painful area, with intent, allows the universal energy of a higher vibration to heal the area. When I was a child I remember wondering about dreams. I remember wondering what dreams were all about. I wondered where we went when we slept and dreamed. As I grew older I continued asking questions. I wondered about pain and suffering, the nature of reality, the nature of disease? Why does one person get sick and another does not? Why is one person involved in an accident and another is not? Why does one person seem to be accident prone and another is not? Events in my life were to force me to take a look at the nature of healing, and the nature of life itself. Back in the late seventies, I had been in extensive abdominal pain. The pain was so great that sometimes I didn't know how I could continue living. I felt enormous anxiety and constriction. At that time any stress caused me a great deal of tightness and pain. Riding on the subways became increasingly difficult. I had panic attacks. I became anxious from the intense constriction in my chest and abdomen caused by any stress or extensive movement. Sometimes I thought I couldn't possibly go on and I would die. Something would give inside and it felt like my heart had stopped. I went from doctor to doctor. I had an upper GI series of x-rays. They showed nothing. Twice I had barium enemas, the lower GI equivalent. They showed a possible spastic colon, but nothing else. I had a six-hour blood glucose test. I did not have hypoglycemia or diabetes. Doctors prescribed regular tranquilizers and stomach tranquilizers. My stomach and my abdomen were very sore, and I felt like I couldn't get enough antacids in me. Doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me, and told me it was all in my head. At that time I was working at Fortune Magazine as a Reporter/Researcher. My initial job had been to design a computer system for the Fortune 500 Directory. After that I found myself researching the Business Roundup economic forecasting section. Because of extensive overtime, I was able to take five week vacations, so I traveled all over the world. Fascinated by ancient civilizations, I felt drawn to go to the Yucatan and visited the Mayan ruins of Chichen-Itza and Uxmal. On the way home I became violently ill, and looking back on it, I never fully recovered. The stomach tranquilizers did not work as the pain I was in grew worse and worse. After awhile the pain I felt in the subways grew unbearable, and I had to take taxis to work. The pain grew even worse. I started looking into alternatives. I went to my first holistic doctor. He gave me what seemed like a hundred and one supplements. I found they were horribly expensive, and that I couldn't digest them. I grew worse. It got to the point where I could no longer get to the office. I was in too much pain. I went on disability. I went to another holistic doctor. He took some tests and found I was allergic to penicillin and subsequently mold. He recommended I see an allergy doctor, which I did. I started to feel a little better. Something was working. He prescribed some other supplements which seemed to help. I felt a little better. I was able to cut back on the medical doctor's tranquilizer prescriptions. After several months I was able to go back to work, but I still did not feel well. I still had the horrible constrictive pains in my abdomen. I kept on searching. One day a woman I knew suggested that I go to see a psychic healer. Judith was connected with a religious group. I was still in a great deal of pain and I was willing to try anything. She sat me down in a chair, then sat down in a chair across the way, and looked at me in a strange way. After a short while she said that she could see my aura, and it looked like there was blackness over my entire abdomen. I was elated. She had just validated my pain. All the doctors had said they couldn't find anything the matter with me, that this "illness" was all in my head. Judith proceeded to stand up. She came around behind me and put her hands on both my shoulders. She said to close my eyes and she was going to send me energy. I sat there for about forty-five minutes feeling somewhat spacey and more and more relaxed. When she took her hands off of me I was amazed. The intense pain I had been in had been substantially reduced. Believe me this caught my attention!!! Unfortunately the pain did come back, but never to the same extent I as when I first saw her. I continued seeing Judith and took weekly classes with her for about five months. I was substantially better, but I didn't feel totally comfortable with the religious teachings. I kept on searching. I went to a lecture on homeopathy, and was intrigued by the notion of energetic medicine and the idea that "like cures like." I found that the homeopathic remedies acted similarly to the energetic healing. I left Judith to study with the Homeopathic doctor. I found myself again responding in a very positive way to the homeopathy. Slowly I was healing and getting better. The Homeopathic doctor offered me a job. I was excited, as I hadn't really enjoyed my job at Fortune. With the magazine coming out monthly, every four weeks was another deadline. I was always under a great deal of pressure. I've always liked research work, but I felt more drawn to the health field and helping others than to economics. Under Dr. Singh's umbrella and tutelage, I ended up seeing patients as a lay homeopath. After several months Dr. Singh moved to New Jersey, and I decided to go to massage school so that I could do what I really wanted to do, the laying-on of hands healing, like Judith. My massage training at the Swedish Institute in New York City, lasted for over a year. We studied anatomy and physiology, as well as pathology, and massage technique. After my graduation and licensing, I continued to look for ways to heal a person at a deeper level. Several more years passed. I continued doing research for various magazines in a free-lance capacity, and did my massage practice from home on a part-time basis. I continued to be drawn to healing. In 1984, twelve years after my trip to Mexico, I met a woman at a party who hadn't been well since a trip to Greece. I hadn't been well since my trip to Mexico. She was going to a specialist in third-world country diseases and was being treated for parasites. This doctor, unlike most doctors, diagnosed in his office using a scrape test from the intestines, rather than a stool test. I found that I had amoebas and giardias, both parasites. You can't see parasites on an x-ray. I continued searching. In 1988 I heard about Barbara Brennan and her four-year school of healing. I attended one of her introductory classes, and decided to join her school. As I recall there were 125 students in my freshman class. Thirty-six of us graduated four years later. I was asked to continue on as a Teacher Trainee for one additional year. I had found what I love to do-to work energetically and spiritually with people-on both the Body and its connection with the Mind. I had spent a little over a year at the Swedish Institute for Massage in New York, however, I was to devote five years to this school of healing. I also studied with several other healers, Jason Shulman, Rosalyn Bruyere and Amy Skezas. The school opened me to look at life in many different ways-to look beyond the physical, to question the very fabric of life. In 1992, I graduated from the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. In 1994, I moved to Tucson, and in 1995, I set up my own school of healing-the Institute for Health and Healing-a two-year school, in which I share the accumulation of all my many years of training; the principles and study of energetic, hands-on or spiritual healing. As I believe healing is done with an awareness of, and connection to a Universal Divine Intelligence, whom many call God, the school is set up under a non-denominational church. Within each of us is a spark of this Universal God Substance. As we raise our awareness, our consciousness, and connect with this Source, a power far greater than ourselves, a Healing Intelligence is able to work through us. As we learn to love one another, an connect with a higher source, healing will take place on the planet. Phyllis Winslow is the Director of the Institute for Health and Healing, certified by the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) She can be reached for private appointments and information on classes at (520) 909-3455 or (520) 323-9325. |
