Energy Medicine
and
Intuition
by Caroline Myss,
Ph.D.
 I disappoint some people when I discuss intuition
because I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a
skill -- a skill based in self-esteem. Developing this skill -- and a healthy
sense of self -- becomes easier when you can think in the words, concepts, and
principles of energy medicine. So as you read this chapter, think of learning to
use intuition as learning to interpret the language of energy.
The Human Energy Field
Everything that is alive pulsates with energy and all of this energy
contains information. While it is not surprising that practitioners of
alternative or complementary medicine accept this concept, even some quantum
physicists acknowledge the existence of an electromagnetic field generated by
the body's biological processes. Scientists accept that the human body generates
electricity because living tissue generates energy.
Your physical body is surrounded by an energy field that extends as far
out as your outstretched arms and the full length of your body. It is both an
information center and a highly sensitive perceptual system. We are constantly
in communication with everything around us through this system, which is a kind
of conscious electricity that transmits and receives messages to and from other
peoples bodies. These messages from and within the energy field are what
intuitives perceive.
Practitioners of energy medicine believe that the human energy field
contains and reflects each individual's energy. It surrounds us and carries with
us the emotional energy created by our internal and external experiences -- both
positive and negative. This emotional force influences the physical tissue
within our bodies. In this way your biography -- that is, the experiences that
make up your life -- becomes your biology.
Experiences that carry emotional energy in our energy systems include:
past and present relationships, both personal and professional; profound or
traumatic experiences and memories; and belief patterns and attitudes, including
all spiritual and superstitious beliefs. The emotions from these experiences
become encoded in our biological systems and contribute to the formation of our
cell tissue, which then generates a quality of energy that reflects those
emotions. These energy impressions form an energy language, which carries
literal and symbolic information that a medical intuitive can read.
Here is an example of the kind of message the energy field may
communicate. Let's say you had some trouble with math when you were in elementary
school. Knowing the fact that twelve makes a dozen would not ordinarily carry an
emotional charge such as would alter the health of cell tissues. On the other
hand, if you were humiliated by the teacher because you didn't know that fact,
the experience would carry an emotional charge that would create cellular
damage, especially if you were to dwell on that memory through adulthood or use
it as a touchstone for determining how to deal with criticism, or authority
figures, or education, or failure. An intuitive might pick up the literal image
of your exchange with the teacher or any other negative symbol linked to that
experience.
Positive images and the energy of positive experiences are also held in
the energy field. Think of a time when someone praised you for a job well done,
or a kind act, or for some help you gave someone. You feel a positive energy --
a surge of personal power within your body. Positive and negative experiences
register a memory in cell tissue as well as in the energy field. As
neurobiologist Dr. Candace Pert has proven, neuropeptides -- the chemicals
triggered by emotions -- are thoughts converted into matter. Our emotions reside
physically in our bodies and interact with our cells and tissues. In fact, Dr.
Pert can no longer separate the mind from the body, she says, because the same
kinds of cells that manufacture and receive emotional chemistry in the brain are
present throughout the body. Sometimes the body responds emotionally and
manufactures emotional chemicals even before the brain has registered a problem.
Remember, for instance, how quickly your body reacts to a loud noise before
you've had time to think.
As Dr. Pert said on Bill Moyers's Healing and the Mind,
Clearly, there's another form of energy that we have not yet understood.
For example, there's a form of energy that appears to leave the body when the
body dies. . . . Your mind is in every cell of your body.
Moyers: . . .
You're saying that my emotions are stored in my body?
Pert: Absolutely. You
didn't realize that? . . . There are many phenomena that we can't explain
without going into energy.
Reading the Field
In addition to reading specific dramatic childhood experiences, sometimes
an intuitive can even pick up on superstitions, personal habits, behavior
patterns, moral beliefs, and preferences in music and literature. At other times
the energy impressions are more symbolic. For instance, from one patient who was
suffering from tightness of breath, I kept receiving the symbolic impression of
him being shot in the heart before a firing squad. Obviously this had not
literally happened to him, but he had undergone extensive medical tests, which
could locate no known physical cause for his condition. After I shared my
impression with him, he told me that his wife had betrayed him several times
with other men, and being shot through the heart was exactly how he felt about
her actions. By admitting these emotions, which he had previously tried to
ignore, he was able to address the problems both in his marriage and in his
health.
Our emotional energy converts into biological matter through a highly
complex process. Just as radio stations operate according to specific energy
wavelengths, each organ and system in the body is calibrated to absorb and
process specific emotional and psychological energies. That is, each area of the
body transmits energy on a specific, detailed frequency, and when we are
healthy, all are in tune. An area of the body that is not transmitting at its
normal frequency indicates the location of a problem. A change in intensity of
the frequency indicates a change in the nature and seriousness of the illness
and reveals the stress pattern that has contributed to the development of the
illness.
This way of interpreting the body's energy is sometimes called vibrational
medicine. It resembles the most ancient medical practices and beliefs, from
Chinese medicine to indigenous shamanic practices to virtually every folk or
alternative therapy. The truth is that energy medicine is not new; but I believe
my interpretation of it and of how you can use it to heal spiritually in
conjunction with contemporary medical treatments is unique. If a person is able
to sense intuitively that he or she is losing energy because of a stressful
situation -- and then acts to correct that loss of energy -- then the likelihood
of that stress developing into a physical crisis is reduced, if not eliminated
completely.
While I can parse the language of energy for you so that you can begin to
see and feel the human energy field, begin to understand its corresponding
spiritual anatomy, begin to know the sources of your personal power, and begin
to develop your own intuition, I have some trouble explaining exactly how I
personally acquire energy information. Other intuitives appear to have the same
difficulty, but we all pick up on information that has the strongest impulse --
the most intensity. These impulses usually relate directly to the part of the
body that is becoming weakened or diseased. As a rule, a person's energy system
transmits only the information that is essential to bring the conscious mind to
an awareness of the imbalance or disease. Like the shot in the heart image,
symbolic information can sometimes be disturbing. But this intensity is
necessary in order that the body's message can break through the habitual mental
or emotional patterns that caused the disease to form in the first place.
Medical intuitions cooperate with the body's intention to promote its own health
and life; that is, our energy will always seek health, in spite of what we may
do to ourselves physically. If, for example, we tell a lie, our energy field
will often communicate to the other person the energy fact that we are not
telling the truth. Energy does not and cannot lie.
Stay with Your First Impression
When you receive an intuitive impression about yourself or the person you
are reading, pay attention to whatever image comes up. Most people are looking
for safe intuitions, not healthy ones, and safe insights, not healthy insights,
because they usually want a safe passage into the future, into the unknown. So
you may be tempted to dismiss a disturbing image that you receive, or one that
is not congruent with your own desires or those of the person you are reading.
Most people who come to me for an evaluation have already intuited themselves
that something is wrong, but they are hoping that I will give that feeling some
other meaning, such as "You're merely going through a natural body change, but
nothing is wrong with you physically".
This article is excerpted from:
 Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
by Caroline Myss, Ph.D.
Excerpted by permission of Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House, Inc.
©1997. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted
without permission in writing from the publisher.
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About The
Author
Caroline Myss,
Ph.D., is an internationally sought-after speaker on spirituality and personal
power. She is widely recognized for her work in teaching intuitive diagnosis and
is a pioneer in the field of energy medicine. Visit her website at www.myss.com. Caroline is the
author of: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can, Anatomy of the Spirit, and Sacred Contracts.
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