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What is generally called a health care system in the modern world of the United States has close to nothing to do with either health or caring. Today’s societies — especially that of the United States — are caught in and often dedicated to cycles of disease creation at the benefit of major corporations and political entities and then at treating symptoms of the diseases at the benefit of major corporations and government entities. The cycle is one of propaganda designed to encourage people to make themselves sick and then to encourage them to seek attention from government-licensed persons and organizations to enable them to function with their present diseases while continuing to follow the guidelines for accumulating more diseases and seeking more help from those entities that enable them to continuing functioning so as to accumulate more diseases. The whole process is firmly based in marketing and operates for the benefit of the organizations directing the marketing.

One major area of disease creation marketing is that of food and beverage. Major companies marketing products that do nothing except make people sick and pollute the environment are among the largest, wealthiest businesses in the nation. 

Soft drink companies market gazillions of gallons of substances consisting largely of caffeine, sugar or some substitute, and water — carbonated or not.  The products serve no nutritional purpose while adding to the problems of pollution , global warming, solid waste, and related concerns.  The sugar adds empty calories to the diet contributing to behavioral problems, and replaces beverages that are either more nutritional (juices) or neutral but necessary (water).  

When one of my children was in college and living in a fraternity house where all the members were engineering students, He usually stayed in the house during the Thanksgiving recess.  I would go there and fix a Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and assorted things that go with it.  I was amazed to learn that some of those kids had never had a home-cooked meal but had lived all their lives on pizza, subs, hamburgers, french fries, soft drinks, pastries, and related items.  They weren’t poor boys and had had restaurant meals, more-or-less nutritious, but never a home cooked meal.  This type of diet obliterates all consciousness of nutrition and is a major contributor to the problems arising from obesity and assorted other conditions forming the path to disease.

The seeds of malnutrition are sewn early in a child’s life.  In my case ( born in 1935) the nutritional information concerning the importance of milk was supplied by the milk-producers associations.  The guidelines for meat were supplied by the meat-producers association.  The guidelines were presented as health-producing and were generally accepted withut question under the assumption that they were backed by some kind of research and supported by the all-caring government.  So that what information people thought they had about nutrition was based upon self-serving lies aimed at increasing sales.  So my meals consisted of meat and potatoes and a vegeatble or two thrown in to round out a supposedly healthful diet.  Breakfast consisted of pancakes, bacon/sausage/ham, eggs, and bread.  Lunches were usually sandwiches — lunch meat; tuna salad; cream cheese, olive, and nut, peanut butter and jelly.  Probably the diet was neither as healthful as advertised nor as unhealthy as now often pictured.  But I don’t think I had a salad other than lettuce and tomato  until I was in my twenties and eating in the kind of restaurants they had then which served actual food.  I grew up with no real health problems, thin, active, and apparently generally healthy and, except for conditions related to the over-consumption of meat and potatoes and lack of appetite for vegetables and fruits  remain so into my seventies. 

Today, the lack of nutrition combined with the lack of exercise in the United States has evolved to the point wherre children less than 10 yers old are developing diseases of mal- (or, perhaps, mis-) nutrition — diabetes, high cholesterol, …. A sane society would provide nutritional meals and plenty of activities and facilities emphazing exercise.  Our society, it seems to me, is insane.  It is destroying its children and extending life without purpose into ages where essentially helpless people are stored in warehouses until they die of the diseases resulting from lifestyle.  Almost none of the real emphasis in so-called health care is oriented around preventing preventable diseases.  It is oriented around encouraging the diseases and then treating the symptoms with increasingly expensive chemicals, and removal/replacement of parts that need not wear out to begin with. 

I am a person interested in the concept and practice of healing. I have been trained as an Ericksonian hypnotherapist and master neurolinguistic programmer. I have practiced taiji and qigong. I have learned therapeutic massage. I am a pharmacist, a Reiki master, a practitioner of therapeutic touch. I practiced meditation for a long time. I am a person who heals by somehow manipulating subtle energies. Such activities are sometimes called faith healing. While I have no argument with the idea that the energies come from outside myself and are channeled through me or directed somehow by my intentions, I don’t see the processes as having anything to do with faith except that the term, faith, may be taken to mean learning to believe that what seems to be happening is happening. They are physical processes involving energies which we are not very good at measuring. The ability to be involved with those energies and to learn to apply them probably exists in each of us but are ridiculed by our society and suppressed in children so that many if not most adults find themselves no longer able to sense them, at least consciously, or to benefit from the application of them.

I am constantly bewildered by subtle energies and I am able to apply them in ways which sometimes seem miraculous. The concept that is difficult to truly accept is that, although I may set out to help someone with some problem, my intention is never to heal that problem. My intention is to help create an abundance of energy which the other entity’s protective and healing systems can use to advantage in THE BEST INTERESTS of that entity while not interfering with my protective and healing systems so that all that happens is also in my best interests.

The healing can involve a person who has recently died or, lived thousands of years ago, animals as well as humans, and individuals thousands of miles away. Help for any one individual may include the energy healing as well as others of the healing techniques I have learned through the years.

All healing is internal to the individual being healed. Doctors don’t heal anything, healers don’t heal anything. They provide help to the individual’s immune processes enabling the individual to heal naturally.  Since those natural healing processes are not well understood, no kind of healing or medical attention is infallible.  In hypnotherapy or neurolinguistic programming the fortunate discovery of the effective way of reframing (describing differently) an experience underlying a condition impacting a person’s whole life can be healed immediately in a way which seems miraculous.  The problem for the therapist is to find the underlying cause and think of the right thing to say.  Neither of those is guaranteed in any therapy session.

Energy healing is similar but even less understood.  I have had what seemed like very good results in helping with healing a growing variety of conditions: the eye of a cat in the Pacific Northwest, stopping the death of a cat suffering from renal failure again in the Pacific Northwest for several months so the devoted human “owner” could accustom herself to the anticipated death, dental pain in the Southwest and Southeast, in the Mid-Atlantic region: depression, PTSD, Lupus, uterine fibroids, dental pain, a cold, headaches, and probably others that I am not remembering.  All of that while not leaving the area of central Pennsylvania and usually without ever seeing or talking to the person being healed.  I care about people in general and have sent energy to many people who simply asked me to without having any feedback concerning its effects.

HEALTH is an elusive concept. Related concepts such as maintaining health, evaluating health, health care, health care system, and restoring health are also elusive. We speak of our health care system which I see as having little if anything to do with either health or caring. Rather, it is a disease management system designed by drug manufacturers and insurance companies and underwritten by government to maximize the transfer of funds from the general public into the coffers of those corporations.

One way of conceptualizing the universe is as an energy field with areas where the frequencies and intensities of the energy vary in ways that result in galaxies or stars such as our sun or planets such as the earth and in the various features of which the earth is constituted: rocks and soil and water and plants and creatures of many varieties.

Humans are part of the universal energy system and each human is, in itself, a complicated system of components all of which are composed of energy. Our understanding of the human organism deepens and widens, sometimes gets stuck in a rut, finds branches to the ruts, discovers or rediscovers concepts which are either new or mostly abandoned long ago.

In recent years the general concepts of health and wellness have centered around what we usually think of as physical and chemical. There is a constant search for chemicals to modify every condition somehow identified as abnormal and undesirable. The chemicals have helped many people through problem situations and there can be little question that they are of value. There is, however, room for questioning whether the chemicals are worth the enormous costs that put what we call health care outside the reach of most people.

Another part of the present general notion of health care is surgery. We use chemicals to treat joint pain but when the pain is no longer tolerable or the part no longer works we replace it.  We use chemicals to treat assorted problems of circulation and respiration but we use surgery as a last resort in replacing hearts and lungs. We also replace kidneys and livers when they cease to function adequately. We cut out tumors and cancers, and repair damage from assorted accidents.

Our model of health has grown to include psychiatric conditions which are dealt with using chemicals or various types of social interactions which take place in groups of two or more participants and referred to loosely as therapy. We have gone through periods in which the therapies included considerable use of things like electrical or insulin shock or cutting parts of the brain. I suppose some of that continues but, in general, it has been found that such techniques are not usually helpful.

There has never been a shortage of alternative approaches to dealing with the concerns of people. We have manipulative approaches such as various types of massage, chiropractic, and osteopathic. Osteopathy, of course, has mostly dropped its manipulative treatments so that there is very little difference in the training of MDs and DOs. There are treatments such as hydrotherapy and techniques for inducing sweat, often as part of some sort of cummunication with spirits.

There is also a growing awareness of techniques for modifying areas of the human energy field known as subtle energies. There are many approaches to obtaining such modifications and a growing body of research into their effectiveness. It is such techniques that are of most interest to me.

There is some sense in which I seem to be an energy healer.  I am a Reiki master and have had classes with assorted practitioners/teachers of energy medicine and energy psychology.  But what healing I do has little connection with any of the classes I’ve had.  My experiences in healing are so different from each other that I have difficulty finding the connections among them.

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