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Energy Medicine
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If the first half of the health picture is meeting the physical needs of
the body with good nutrition and detoxifying environmental poisons, the second half is experiencing the body as a system of
energy fields that are affected by thoughts and emotions, past traumas,
habitual behaviors, external energy fields, etc. We are at the beginning of research in this area, although we can measure and often interpret these
fields physically with EEG, EKG, galvanic skin response, MRI, PET
scans, and many other more experimental machines.
Practitioners of acupuncture and other energy healing modalities can
feel and sometimes see these energies, and can manipulate them to
increase the health of the body. We can do the same for ourselves with
certain kinds of disciplines and exercises. This is a fast-growing
field which is revealing more and more the many complex ways the
bodymind interacts with itself and with the environment.
Some of the resources listed here may seem "far out," but if so, try
to keep an open mind and remember that it's part of the way the human
brain is wired to not see, or to dismiss, what doesn't fit into our
current picture of reality - without even absorbing the information. Our
current state-of-the-art science does not understand these phenomena,
any more than it understands the theory of quantum mechanics, or even electricity or gravity, so this
is another area where your own objective exploration and
experience can be invaluable for your own health and growth.
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 Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, and Miracles
Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
2005
Video of lecture The New Biology (1 hour--he's a high-energy, fast-talking speaker, so this is a big blast of information, but he makes creative and understandable explanations.)
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Dr. Lipton, evolutionary biologist, university professor and cell researcher, explains the story of his discovery that the brain of the cell is not the nucleus, as has always been thought, but the membrane, which decides what to allow into and out of the cell at every instant. His experiments showed that a cell without its nucleus, where the DNA resides, was only slightly impaired, but that without its membrane, it died. He demonstrated that the receptor antennae on the cell membrane respond not only to physical molecules, but also to vibrational fields such as light, sound, and radio frequencies.
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Dawson Church, Ph.D.
2nd ed, 2009
website
Dr. Church has gathered, explicated, and integrated many studies in biology, quantum physics, gene research, trauma, electrical and electromagnetic medicine, consciousness, and the power of belief. His conclusion is that the human genome, far from being a life sentence, is extremely malleable, and that with our beliefs, with every feeling and thought, we are "performing epigenetic engineering on our own cells."
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 The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
Lynne McTaggart
2001
http://www.livingthefield.com/
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Lynne McTaggart is an investigative journalist whose exploration of the scientific evidence for the efficacy of alternative medicine led her to found the British health journal What Doctors Don’t Tell You and the associated website http://www.wddty.com/. She reports that when she began seeing conclusive gold-standard scientific studies validating homeopathy and acupuncture, and studies of spiritual healing that were good enough to suggest that something unexplained was happening, she became curious about these “energy systems” that were based on a different paradigm of the human body from that of modern science.
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 The Science and Art of Transformation
A Hands-on Guide to Subtle Energy and Radical Changes
Richard Bartlett, D.C,. N.D.
2007
Matrixenergetics.com
also recommended The Matrix Energetics Experience
"Matrix Energetics is a previously undiscovered, intent-driven, universal expression of energy which is harmonious with the concepts and laws of quantum physics," says Dr. Bartlett. "All physical structure has an energetic template upon which it is based and [which] is an interface between physical reality and the quantum energetic hologram."
Richard Bartlett has developed a powerful paradigm for experiencing our world and transforming it which is based on quantum physics, but includes aspects of almost everything, including zapping a lot of our most precious preconceptions and having fun while doing so. His idea is: intention--YES! Heavy seriousness--no. Just lighten up and get out of the way!
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 Michael Talbot
1996
A long-time favorite of mine, The Holographic Universe details dozens of very well-documented and otherwise inexplicable events—the kind of strange, coincidental, or even unbelievable experiences we can almost forget are even possible if we only pay attention to “consensus reality.” It’s easy to dismiss these things because they seem so implausible, unless we have regularly had similar experiences. Even one or two personal experiences are likely to be drowned out by the roar of the left brain censor.
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 Revolutionary Tools for Dramatic Personal Change
David Feinstein, Donna Eden, and Gary Craig
http://emofree.com/
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Gary Craig has collaborated with Donna Eden and David Feinstein (http://www.innersource.net/) on this book. Written by David Feinstein with a couple of chapters from Donna Eden summarizing some of the principles of energy she describes in her book Energy Medicine, this is a very useful explanation and guide to using the Emotional Freedom Technique developed by Gary Craig.
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 James L. Oschman (forward by Candace Pert) 2000
Website
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If you have a tendency to dismiss homeopathy, therapies that work by “laying on of hands,” energy psychology, and the possibility of treating physical problems with magnets or machines that produce electromagnetic energy, you owe it to yourself to explore the profoundly interesting evidence that is now being produced by researchers all over the world. Oschman has compiled a unique textbook explaining the research on what is known about the energy systems of the body, with theories and evidence about how they interact. There is no question that we are at the very beginning of scientific understanding of this field, but there equally is no doubt that the body is a system of interacting energies.
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 Donna Eden
1998
http://www.innersource.net/
Principles of Energy Medicine
Articles on Specific Energy Techniques
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This is a journey through a world that is unfamiliar to most of us—one where the energy systems of the body are just as tangible and meaningful as the sound of the voice or the expressions of the face. Donna Eden describes in detail her subjective reality, and invites you to “enter a domain beneath the world of appearances.” Eden understands that many of us have been trained to discount these energies and our ability to sense and manipulate them ourselves, even though we may accept acupuncture and all the machine-aided ways of reading the body’s energy, like Magnetic Resonance Imaging, EKG, EEG, or biofeedback that shows brainwave activity.
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Introductory articles from Dana Ullman, D.H.M., MPH, at Homeopathic Educational Services
Homeopathy Information Websites
National Center for Homeopathy
HomeopathyHome.com
Homeoinfo.com
There are lots of good beginning books on Homeopathy--here are two:
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 Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine Rudolph Ballantine, M.D.
1999
Physician, psychiatrist, herbalist, Ayurvedic practitioner, homeopath, teacher.
Buy new or used at AmazonThis is a wonderful and unusual approach which lives up to its title, integrating a number of different systems including homeopathy and herbalism, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, nutrition, psychotherapy, and holistic energetic techniques of working with body and the mind. Ballantine writes about his own experiences and addresses the reader personally as he takes you on a relaxed tour through many of the systems of healing that initially sound so strange to those of us raised with conventional Western medicine. If you ever wanted to understand, for example, how in the world homeopathy or flower remedies could actually work, you will enjoy his explanations and case histories. This is a friendly and gentle way to break preconceptions and open yourself to new possibilities.
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