Adi Saavedra contacted Donna by email last spring to offer his gratitude for Energy Medicine.  Adi is ill with a chronic disease and suffers from a number of syndromes, including an extreme form of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS).  He has had only marginal exposure to Eden Energy Medicine, but has used it to help manage the pain and discomfort that originate from the MCS and related issues.

When Adi was 21 years old, he became very ill.  Over the years he has had a litany of tests, diagnoses and prescriptions, but the illness has continued, his condition deteriorating over the years.  He is now 34.  The exact diagnosis of his disease has been difficult to establish.  He has tested positive for the Lyme spirochete (Borrelia Burgdorferi), but the test has not been definitive. His doctor believes his main issue is Babesiosis, which is a malaria-like parasitic disease.  There are other disease indications as well, but for all of them the tests that Western medicine has in its toolkit are not conclusive, and therefore the solutions offered by the medical community have not been very helpful.

Correlated with these disease factors are a number of syndromes that he must live with, including MCS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Sick Building Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Mold Illness.

For most of his time he must stay at home, keeping plastic over the doors and windows and using a medical grade air purifier.  But of course, he cannot stay in his house all of the time.  When he goes into an environment that he cannot control, he will almost always have a reaction.  If the reaction is not acute, he can try to control it with medicines, herbs or minerals.  If his reaction is acute, there is nothing he can do and must endure extreme pain.  This has been his life until recently, when someone gave him Donna's book, Energy Medicine. Read on ... 

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Of the hundreds of recent articles commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9-11, one is particularly sobering for psychotherapists. A New York Times piece reported that following the attacks, well-meaning mental health workers flooded into New York City, setting up makeshift therapy centers and providing free services in fire stations, offices of major employers, and other convenient locations.

Investigations of the outcomes of this counseling showed that in many cases the mental health professionals were much more enthusiastic about its benefits than the recipients. Some people "undoubtedly benefitted, researchers say, but others became annoyed or more upset." An approach that was widely used, "in which the therapist urges a distressed person to talk through the experience and emotions, backfires for many people. They plunge even deeper into anxiety and depression when forced to relive the mayhem."

For those of us trying to advocate the use of Energy Psychology for post-disaster mental health care (see "Energy Psychology's Magical Mystery Tour of the U.S. Congress"), knowledge of these missed opportunities or actual harm done is particularly poignant. The congressional leaders we visited were well aware that the treatment being offered to our more than 300,000 veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with the terrible symptoms of PTSD is woefully inadequate. And we were able to present them with research that demonstrates the effectiveness of Energy Psychology interventions with PTSD. Studies currently being conducted within the military were initiated from that effort.  Read more 

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In addition to this great exercise, the Three Thumps (p. 74) are valuable for dispelling the blahs.  If mental focus is a challenge, try the Wayne Cook Posture (p. 84).

Page references are to Donna's Book Energy Medicine (2nd Edition), 2008 Tarcher/Penguin.