Complementary Medicine – Releasing the Healing EnergiesComplementary medicine is on the rise. Every year new ideas, systems and therapies are put forward as the latest and better way to overcome physical and emotional health problems. Various surveys have shown that more people every year put their trust in a ‘natural’ cure for their problems before consulting modern medical advice or at least are known to be receiving some alternative therapy at the same time. Why, as we move into the future of a medical world which more than ever before understands the workings of the body and mind are people putting their faith in complementary or alternative health care therapies? Perhaps in this world dominated by chemicals and technology it is time to stop and consider the implications of the new environment we are creating for ourselves. For the most part the public are pleased to accept any aid that at first sight appears to make our world and our lives healthier, more secure. We are pleased to accept any medical advancement that allows us to be born, live and die with our self respect intact and without pain and suffering. But in order to do this we are changing or bypassing many of the rules of survival. Medical scientists in the main look at the effect of their work on the physical, at the moment of application, to determine if the treatment or therapies are successful. Rarely do they consider the energies that are being suppressed or eliminated to show the benefits of their technology. It also has to be acknowledged that rarely does medical science consider how the state of illness came to be. Anything less than full health is unnatural and the cause has to be fully considered before any measure of success can be assured. In areas such as disease the cause is obvious enough and chemical and medical technology are usually successful in limiting or destroying the invading organisms. But what of conditions that are not caused by invading organisms but start within the body’s own complex mechanism? It is as if the body willingly allows, and in some cases even aids, the destructive forces to succeed. These are not so easily ejected from the human body or mind. Conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, childhood asthma and many more appear as if from nowhere and begin their destructive work. In these situations the doctor is working against the body and mind when he attempts to halt or eradicate a condition. In this the medical profession is not helping the body and mind do something it wants to do but is actively forcing it to go against its own wishes. The doctor cannot win in such a situation. He may win a temporary battle but he cannot win the war. The energies that allow us to experience consciousness and life are complex and many, but what are they? How do they change and evolve to cause us to be who we are? Are science and technology making it easier for us to come into our full potential as they claim or are they actually suppressing levels of consciousness and awareness causing us social and health problems? In summary we are but an ability to communicate the total sum of information we have inherited or experienced at any given point in time. That information is contained within us as energy. The first and most basic of energy, instinct, is an inherited program of development to ensure that physical and sub conscious reactions follow a predestined plan of healthy living from birth through to death. The second energy, also normally outside our control is that of sub conscious reaction. This is the energy of memory which builds on experience to control reactions to events that experience has taught might be harmful to survival. The third energy is that of awareness. The energy of creative imagination, thought to survive the death of the former two. It is this energy that allows us to look at our body instead of seeing through it. Until recently religion has been the inner strength for overcoming personal health and emotional problems. In its various ways it gives meaning to life that is more than just survival. Religion serves a creative purpose and without a stimulated creative will there can be no survival or cure. To understand who we are, and why, we need to understand the energies which allow us to be healthy or unwell and to look at all aspects of awareness. Unfortunately the medical profession has, by and large, taken upon itself the role of master of survival and left no place for the individual to be responsible for himself. This has left the individual at the mercy of a medical profession which is fighting energies it little understands while at the same time giving the individual no role to change or work with the energies that are his life force. Let us consider briefly the life forces, the energies, involved in keeping us alive and healthy. Let us begin our investigation of who we are with the basic actions of being alive. The first and most important part of being alive is instinct. Instinct is the ‘something’ that causes us to want to eat, breathe, drink, run and the millions of other actions that are all part of life. Instinct is an inherited energy which ensures that at the correct moment in the development of life, attitudes and physical responses are regulated in an orderly way to ensure survival, growth, reproduction of the species and, at a predetermined time, bring life to an end. In this way life is a planned process from beginning to end. Instinct is a programmed physical and emotional response timed to release chemicals and cause body changes at the correct stage of development. It causes changes in attitude and physical development as we progress through life. Consider some of the changes a child goes through at the time of puberty. Physical changes through life are all too clear as are the change in attitudes. The once quiet happy youngster changes, often into a surly uncompromising and selfish adolescent, until the instinct of puberty has run its course and complete independence is assured. In nature’s world such behaviour ensures independence and a distancing of the youngster from the family group, a need to move away, find new friends and so ensure that the gene pool is spread and in-breeding prevented. When the instinctive desire to separate is denied it becomes suppressed, it does not disappear or get washed away. When the instinct is not allowed expression it will be held just below the surface of consciousness to plague the individual on every occasion that something causes it to be stimulated. This unreleased energy of instinct can have damaging effects on any part of the body from the brain to the feet as the releasing physical energy competes with unreleased emotional energy. Let us imagine a baby about to enter into the world. This is its great moment. It has for nine months been preparing for its birth. During the previous few hours many physical and chemical changes have been happening in its little body. It is being prepared and equipped to fight and struggle into life. This will not be an easy task, the channel through which it must come is small and will be enlarged by the head as it pushes itself through. Mother is also going through chemical and physical changes that will make her body do strange things which she is unable to resist. But just at the moment when the instinct is fully released and baby begins its advance into life mother is opened by caesarean section. Baby is lifted into the world with no need to push, or struggle, no hours of pain and baby is delivered safely into the arms of a loving mother. The surgeon is a happy contented man and the medical team congratulate themselves on another safely delivered baby. Everyone is happy, mother and baby continue to thrive and develop normally. But do they? Mother still has within her the force, the energy that says she has to push something out. This becomes a sub conscious desire that often results in gynaecological problems later in life. And what of the baby? At a deep subconscious level it will still be waiting to release the birth instinct. The child is likely to have breathing problems especially at night which is not unlike being inside mother. It still considers itself unborn and therefore should not be breathing. Sometimes as an adult these children develop bronchitis or breathlessness which is eased with a steroid inhaler. Such people rarely breathe deeply. They have many physical and emotional problems such as neck and back pains, relationship difficulties and others too many to relate in this short article. By not allowing the developed instinct of birth to exhaust itself, the built up energy will remain within the child through its life to cause any number of physical and emotional disorders. Medical science cannot possibly be successful if it doesn’t realise what is causing the difficulty, often a difficulty it is guilty of causing by its own efforts to make life easier for all concerned. The energy of sub conscious reaction is well documented but rarely is it seen as a separate energy. It is based on memory and has no concept of time or future. To the subconscious the past is always now, it lives its past in current time which it often displays in distorted and painful body language. Subconscious energy is reactionary, it’s every response and action is based on what was, as if nothing had changed since the initial experience. Many of the physical conditions doctors deal with are reactions to previous trauma and unless they find the trauma and eradicate it the problem, the pain will continue. If the cause of the problem can be eradicated surgery and drugs are often unnecessary. One such problem is breast cancer which is often caused by a relationship difficulty between the patient’s mother and herself. If mother has died without the emotional crisis being resolved the instinctive need to be nurtured is activated as body language in the patient. It is then that breast cancer (a need to be nurtured) begins to take hold. I have witnessed many early breast tumours being successfully treated by no more than therapy to satisfy the patient’s need for acceptance by her mother. This is a perfect instance where allopathic medicine and spiritual therapy work well together. We are all well aware of the causes of a phobia; the experience of something that caused fear in the child will continue to recreate the same response in the adult if the sub conscious has reason to believe it is again threatened in the same way. But it is not so commonly recognised that attitudes and pain can just as easily be the result of an earlier experience as can physical reactions. Jealousy, anger, backache and other physical and emotional problems can often be traced back to childhood experiences even though they only become apparent in later years usually after some trauma which releases the earlier memory. Spiritual energy, the energy of awareness and creativity is an energy that overlays the earlier two. It has little concept of the past and is mainly concerned with the future through creativity. This energy can, and does, exist and have awareness through many reaches of dimension. This is the energy that causes beneficial change in all things but only when it is caused to be responsible for the medium through which it works; mind and body. There is a symbiotic relationship between these three energies which need to be allowed to develop naturally. Modern medicine tries to affect the first two without giving any thought to the third. This removes the creative ability of the body’s own recuperative resources. A doctor’s main responsibility is to satisfy a need and that need is more often to release an energy than remove a physical part. Somewhere deep inside every person there is a knowing of what the problem is and in every person the cause of their problem will be different to another’s. Because the medical profession is not satisfying the patient’s need for release or balancing of their energies they are turning to other forms of health care which more closely satisfy their needs. This is the cause of the current trend in complementary and alternative health care and given a choice as to which they prefer many surveys have shown that modern medicine is not the favourite. It is well past the time when medical science should have studied the source of life, instinct, subconscious and creative energy. Until they do the public will turn increasingly to less medically trained alternative therapists such as spiritual healers and others who better understand their patient’s needs. Malcolm S. Southwood (This Article was written for and been published in the Magazine Breast Care 8 / 2007) |
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