What Do We Mean by Energetic Medicine?
We humans have an internal control system that has the capacity to respond to the continually changing circumstances of our internal and external environment in such a way as to keep within a narrow range of conditions required for life. It holds that when we become ill there is always some confusion of that system that compromises this control system’s optimal internal management of the body. All methods of energetic medicine must do three things to be effective. First, they must access that control system and establish some sort of interface with it. Second, they must assess the way in which that control system has deviated from optimal function. Lastly, they must afford some method of pushing the control system to modulate it back in the direction of optimal performance.
Various systems of energetic medicine date back thousands of years and include the development of acupuncture in China and Ayurvedic medicine in India. Much attention was focused on development of energetic systems of healing in early cultures due to limitations of economics and technology. The degree to which healing can be achieved through energetic measures, as opposed to healing that comes from the application of materials and technology, is one measure of the efficacy of that healing system. In our own culture, the marvel of modern medical technology is rivaled only by the fantastic rise in the cost of that medical system to our society. Some aspects of modern medicine will never be replaced by energetic medicine. For example, the victim of a gunshot or an auto accident would do well to proceed directly to the local emergency room, since energetic suturing is not known to be very effective. When the subject turns to those very serious ongoing challenges to health that come from chronic degenerative disease, however, it is modern medicine that has very little to offer. Patients with conditions like arthritis, allergies, and autoimmune conditions of the gastrointestinal system, nervous system, and connective tissue system may look to modern medicine only with respect to temporary suppression of symptoms, and then often at the cost of unintended side effects of drugs and surgery.
Energetic medicine is really all about correcting the information processing systems that regulate physiology. The ideal that energetic medicine aspires to is the ability to gain perfect ACCESS to this regulatory system; to thoroughly ASSESS informational errors that are manifested as pathophysiology; and to MODULATE that regulatory system until the patient's physiological processes have been tuned to a perfect expression of the innate intelligence that guides all life processes.
It does not matter whether healing is the result of the ministrations of a traditional African healer, an Inuit shaman, a Christian Scientist, any one of the methods of energetic healing that have developed in the alternative medicine community in recent decades, a prayer circle at the local church, NMT- The Feinberg Technique, or even, perhaps, acupuncture and similar procedures. All healing comes from within the body and is an expression of an abiding intelligence resident in all living things. The differences in efficacy of any of these or other methods of energetic medicine relate to such variables as how well the method establishes an interface between the healer and the patient (access), how well the method affords a way to look into that system of programming and visualize errors contributing to the patient’s condition (assess), and finally how well structured, clear, and appropriate is the corrective information that is conveyed to the patient (modulate). These are the only differences between one method of energetic medicine and another. Some methods of energetic medicine are clear about the projection of therapeutic intention by the practitioner as the vehicle by which such informational correction is delivered to the patient. Other methods of energetic medicine foster the illusion that their various special gestures, body points, and paraphernalia inherently carry informational content and are therapeutically significant in their own right,. A more informed view is that such procedural elements of these methods actually function as metaphors to assist the practitioner in defining and delivering therapeutic intention to the patient. Practitioners of such methods may, or may not be aware of this way in which the various elements that make up energetic medicine protocols really work. Without understanding this, energetic medicine may look more like a magic show than a rational approach to health care.
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