Woman, Harness The Power of Your Energy
Karen: How do you define EM? Donna: Energy Medicine is both a complete system for self-care and self-help and a complement to other approaches to medical care. In energy medicine, energy is the medicine and energy is the patient. That is, the body heals by activating its natural energies (energy as the medicine). You also restore energies that have become weak, disturbed, or out of balance (energy as the patient).
Energy Medicine can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders, and can also promote high-level wellness and peak performance. It utilizes techniques from healing traditions such as acupuncture, yoga, kinesiology, and qi gong. Energy Medicine is the science and the art of optimizing your energies to help your body and mind function at their best. Controlling your chemistry by managing your energies is the fast track for helping your body adapt to the challenges of the 21’s century.
Karen: For readers who are not familiar, what do you mean by subtle energies? Donna: Subtle energies are energies that we don’t know how to detect directly or to measure, yet we know them by their effects. Gravity is the most well known force that we can’t detect or measure directly, but we know it because of its effects. In my work, there are many kinds of energy we don’t know how to measure but which can be engaged to bring about healing. These energies also have an intelligence that I find amazing. Your body’s subtle energies are smarter than your intellect when it comes to healing you. They know how to mobilize themselves to do what is needed. No instructions from you required. Certain energies also carry information. Past trauma is carried in the chakras in as much detail as it is carried in the brain.
Karen: What was it like to practice (EM) in the 1970s?
Donna: When I began my practice in 1977, EM was not even in the vocabulary of conventional health care. Back then, it seemed ultra woo-woo. I was even brought to court by a group of physicians who got the DA to charge me with practicing medicine without a license. The witnesses they called were their own patients who had also come to me. They testified that I had worked with them on illnesses that only licensed medical professionals are supposed to treat. But, the witnesses backfired for the doctors because they all said that they were helped by the energy work more than by the doctors. The judge asked the doctors to produce one witness who said that working with me hadn’t helped them. They couldn’t. The judge dismissed the case and gave the doctor’s a stern lecture about being more concerned with protecting their turf than the well-being of their patients. Ten years later, the same doctors brought me to their hospital to teach a class to their staff.
