Spirituality in Energy Psychology

Spirituality: The Third Component of Energy Psychology

We are at CIHS to get PHD’s in Integrated Medicine. Quite frankly, I am thrilled that the topic of spirituality in healing is finally finding its way to the main stage.  I have known that spirituality was a component of healing, since I was eight years old. When I was eight years old my mother was diagnosed with a rare form of benign kidney cancer. We did not know what caused this disease; just that she was very, very ill.  I was scared silly to lose my mother so young. I promptly walked myself over to the Basilica to attend Mass, (I was a practicing Catholic then) every morning at 8 am, and on my knees begged God for her life in prayer, every day for three weeks.  That habit of going to God first has been a hallmark of my entire life. She lived of course; another 25 years until her thoughts created a cancer that captured her spirit and took her where her frail body could not, to be with God.

In my lifetime, I developed the habit of prayer in any and all circumstances that were too big for me, and there were many.   IN 1999 I met Dr. Larry Dossey at an event in New York where he was presenting his findings on the effects of prayer on healing and I thought finally someone has some answers to a “felt sense” of healing that I understood to be real. When I moved to California to follow God’s promise for my life, although I did not know where this would lead me, I was again led to join Saddleback Church. My very first ministry there was the prayer ministry where I spent 5-6 hours every week, typing in prayer requests, and praying over those requests as they were being processed by my hands. This very humble act of seeing, writing and praying those hundreds of prayer requests opened my heart to the needs of all these people whose spirits were dying, damaged or in one trauma or another.   They dared to call it “data- entry.” Oh no, to me it was “soul entry. “  This was the true opening of my soul to the work as a holistic practitioner that a life time of prayer had created.

Seeking my own physical healing once when I was in a wheelchair at 33, just before my mother passed away, once again in NYC in 9/11, and finally as my retina decided to leave my eye and explore the world on its own, ( two years ago) I turned to prayer. I learned the Body talk techniques as a practitioner, and followed the permission requests meticulously in every case. The third request for permission after body, then mind, is always spirit. In all most 95 % of new cases, and 70 % of the continuing cases, I see as a holistic energy practitioner, and PDH in Integral Health, it is the spirit that is in distress over something. We cannot  at this point in our evolution as humans, merely use the Cartesian model treating the body like some watch, open it up, take out a part, throw in two measures of chemo, one measure of radiation and put the part back in , wind up the human. It is the spirit that dies, or leaves the body at trauma and this is usually what creates disease.

I loved the goals of transpersonal psychology that stated: “Spirituality presupposes certain qualities of the mind, including compassion, gratitude, and awareness of a transcendent dimension, an appreciation for Life which brings one’s meaning and purpose to existence. (A transpersonal Integrative Approach to spiritually oriented Psychotherapy. Pg. 177.) Spirituality is essentially a subjective experience of the Sacred. “   Every time I request the spirit’s permission to balance a body on the table it is a sacred experience.  “The spiritual context is foremost, “(Hutton, 1994, Boorstein 2000.). To convey to a patient that you see him/her as being a piece of the Divine is incredibly powerful to counter a lifelong view of worthlessness heard from others. This differs from religion where we believe that each person is a creation of the Divine and must be honored in that regard.  Donny Epstein (Inventor of Network chiropractic) wrote in 1998, “It can help patients go beyond complementary therapy and lead to new dimensions of wisdom and wholeness. “

I was surprised by the fact that only a “very small percentage (5%-10%) of the USA population is NOT comfortable with explicit spiritual practices.  “This number totally surprised me. (Koenig, McCullough and Larson 2001.) I also agreed with the study done by Seligman, 1993, that the statistical buffer against depression is a serious commitment to spirituality in the epidemic that is sweeping the USA. Due to these economic times , these depressions will continue to sweep this country in the next four years quadrupling  its effect. (Seligman 2001).

I thoroughly enjoyed rereading the notes on the Introduction of Energy Psychology with the role of the therapist to help the patient process trauma, complex post traumatic and dissociative disorders,  the”  increasing clinical evidence of the interconnectedness of the body and the mind as it pertains to both mental and logistical wellbeing. “((Brown, Scheflin & Hammon, 1998: Chu, Bowman, 2000). I also met Candice Pert in 1999 as she was presenting her clinical findings at the same conference in New York the empirical evidence linking emotions processes to the immune function in humans has become the latest fascination of my life.

As the negative pathological emotions of anger linked to the liver, resentment linked to the gall bladder, sadness or sorrow linked to the heart, deep grief linked to the lungs, fear linked to the kidneys/ bladder, over nurturing linked to the uterus/ breasts, prostrate, lack of self- empowerment linked to the stomach and digestive system, lack of life sweetness with the relationship of the mother, linked to the pancreas. These emotions not only have negative effects on the person feeling them and their body, but also reflect in relationships with other people also. “High levels of the hormones catecholamine’s and corticosteroids, by the endocrine system lead to illness as they excrete into the cardiovascular system. (Pg. 38 Introduction to Energy Psychology).

Candice Pert talked about these levels of hormones then, in 1998, with the facts that the central nervous system is compromised or impaired in some fashion; the immune system is undermined as well. I could never have imagined almost 10 years ago, that I would have seen this reality in 5 out 5 leukemia patients, compromised emotions, compromised digestive failure, compromised bone or structural failure, followed by leukemia. The progression is always there, in exactly the same sequence.

I am currently working with some of the top formulators in the world to create an immune formula for these leukemia and other blood disorder cases. This can be cured, as can heart disease.” As the physiological changes in blood pressure, heart rate, distribution of blood flow, quality of blood flow and purity of blood contents as examined, within the context of the digestive system, these are all factors which can lead us inventors to cures for humanity stuck in illness.

Also I loved the part in this dissertation where it talked about Larry Dossey’s findings on the non- local mind, the mind that is boundless and unlimited and affects not just their body, but another person’s body at a distance. Even if that distant person is not aware of the effort. I have many long distant clients now.  Initially I was totally shocked at the power and efficacy of the treatments long distance although my hands were not there, and the surrogate tapped. This is the power of prayer and the power of global prayer to change climates, change war, change relationships, prayers lead to world peace. “Patients receiving prayer also had fewer side effects to surgery.” (Dossey, 1999) I know first- hand the power of prayer in healing and prayer in turning away many women in New York from abortion clinics, just by standing on the corner in prayer for them, many of these women chose life for their babies. No words were ever spoken.

The thought field therapies focusing on the meridian system is my next avenue of exploration. Access Consciousness works on the meridian systems on the brain, and although the founder of this work never discusses the brain meridian systems, I know they exist because of the speed of the healing that takes place internally and in the person’s life once the hands are applied to the pressure points. Every single person receives a positive result. Over 800 people on the table, and every person has had a positive effect when hands are laid on their brain’s meridian system.

It is the brain receptors on the white blood cell counts, discovered by Candice Pert and the monocytes revealing these white blood cells in the immune system that I am studying and creating formulations for. “Pert indicated that a person’s emotional state (1997, 1998) required the production of neuropeptides and neuron transmitters within brain cells. If, in fact these cells are carried to parts of the body other than the brain, then the corresponding emotions such as happy, sad, and lonely, or excited might also show up. “ I know this research and the contextual analysis of trauma linked to the person’s history creates threads of pathways in the brain as per the teaching of Dr. John Veltheim in Bodytalk Pa Rama training. These neuron pathways may have single or double knots of trauma threads , and the brain continues to forge the same pathways creating the same results over and over again.

Access Consciousness is the tool I use to change these neuron pathways so that new results can be created and new pathways found.  I believe the protocols of Body talk discovering the debilitation and trauma, and the power of the changed neuron pathways through the brain meridians in Access Consciousness permanently changes outcomes in people’s lives. I see it daily.

Others may have chemical addictions; I am blessed to experience the healing of so many souls through the power of the spirit, the changes in brain physiology through neuron anatomy, and the positive choices that follow the release of these trapped , blocking traumas which the body’s codes cells unlock in every session.

I am particularly interested in the ethno integrity of global “tribes and tribal culture”, the patterns of betrayal or exclusion in these tribes and the effects on the brain and the immune system as a result.  Matrixes, such as families, corporations and work cultures are the largest source of diseased populations we can find. These matrixes can foster growth, mental stimulation and allowance of the spirit, or can also be very large “toxic mine “(mind) fields.

I was also very surprised at Wilber’s points of the causal body being formless, yielding exponential opportunities for growth and awareness.  The most surprising point was that” all traditions consider the formless body the causal integer to creation.” I am also interested in the world centered levels of values in culture, illness and the environment. I was incredibly impressed by his model of all people coming together in integration to greater dimensions of being and knowing in an evolutionary unfolding. Ah, yes…. Right time, right place, right studies!  Thank you, God!

Angelica Wagner,

Certified Bodytalk Practitioner, Pa Rama 1

Certified Access Consciousness teacher, Family Practice, Addiction Therapy

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