True Holistic Healing

I guess everybody has their own opinion and idea what holistic healing relates to, and my opinion is mostly borne of my life experiences both as a healer and as a person.

What i experience in my clinic , and what is borne out in clinical results, are the effects of thoughts and emotions being both processed through the body and sadly, very often held within the body/mind/matrix.

We all know from being human that emotions have power, and they can help us or hinder us. Many variants in outcomes come down to our conditioning, and environments - which include of course our relationships.

Not just our human relationships, but also with animals, plants and nature at large. And crucially our relationship with ourselves.

In the modern world these relationship tensions also extend to the dynamics of our workplaces, with bias and restrictions hidden in the soup of industrial and workplace relations processes.

Holism and holistic healing has a direct relationship to all facets of our humanity. If we separate and segregate as Western Medicine does so well, we remove the causal links to these very many influences.

In my healing modality, who you are is centric to what is happening within you.

Holism and holistic healing relates to us and our world connections in their entirety. We want to examine the causes and the effects together as a story and unwind how we hold to the experiences.

In clinic it is very common for me to be in detective mode in relation to the experiences of the individual. Such as “ what was happening at the time of this injury or onset of illness?”, and often relationships are involved in the emotional aspect that your body has to process on your behalf and often held on to.

When mind and emotions are focused the can have a strong effect on bio-electricity.

It will do anything that you ask of it - if you want to hate, it will process that anger on your behalf, if you wish to yield and be compassionate and mindful, then thats what the hormones will reflect.

Learning awareness of environmental factors with skills such as mindfulness - quiet awareness observation, is wonderful. And the next level is to observe and understand how we as individuals process things emotionally and what habits and patterns are established.

Decades ago my training in inner child type therapies and Jungian psychology allowed me to view the mind in very interesting ways.

As a science, the study of emotions on physicality has also come a long way, we have language for instance that articulates the relationships between organs and emotions. Clear examples are Livid/Liver - Anger, Gut wrenching/stomach - disappointment, You’ve got Gall/Gallbladder - over stepping the mark, Venting your spleen - anger, Heart Broken - Grief etc.

Why have we attributed these emotional outcomes to organs?, because we know that acute or chronic exposure to these emotions has deleterious effects on these parts of our biologies.

There a very many publications on these matters now - one of my favourite authors is Candice Pert. 

I use this knowledge to both diagnose and treat - I learnt this at AcuEnergetics energy medicine college in Balmain in Sydney (www.acuenergetics.com). We have many thousands of clinically recorded outcomes over the last 25 years that this type of hand applied resonance practice has been operating. 

Indigenous healing and shamanic healers have of course been applying these techniques and others for thousands of years with profound insights.

It has been over ten years since i was at that the AcuEnergetics college and i’m sure that much has developed and changed there and within their curriculum, I have gone on to much more advanced study of TCM , anatomy, biology, histology and Channel theory elsewhere, particularly at S.S.O.M.A. with Dr Daniel Keown in the UK - but the one unmistakable brilliance of Kevin Farrows work at AcuEnergetics was his comprehension of how the person holds the experience is more important than the event.

Two people might experience the same event very very differently and hold on to it very very differently. An example might be a hippy and a banker might both escape death in a train accident.

These people have different conditioning - the hippy may be more accepting and philosophical - the banker may be less yielding and more fearful of the potential loss of his life and achievements / assets etc.

One moves on relatively quickly, and the other holds tension and anxiety from the experience because he values what he potentially might have lost differently (fear). We are of course referring to mental conditioning here, and it’s my job to understand very quickly what type of conditioning that you might be holding onto.

These conditionings are reflected in the focus and tension that we hold in the mind and body - of which my StraightenUp Mind therapy is very helpful as a decoder.

It is a tremendously complex skillset that I have, a combination of observational counselling training, detective like mindset to piece things together from the evidence of your life stories, and the feeling function training with my hands coupled with extensive knowledge of both the physical and energetic body gives you as a client a very very unique practitioner experience. One that is steeped in holistic healing on a very deep level.

As a student of any craft you cherry pick what is efficient in practice, and acknowledging and utilising this part of the holistic nature of the persons personal journey is in my humble opinion absolutely critical.

People who are very serious, opinionated and closed minded ( always right ) are the hardest people to treat, because they know what they think that they know - and know little about themselves as a rule. The are busy being experts in everything except what matters.

The better we know ourselves, the better we can observe what we do to ourselves energetically ( emotionally, mentally, psychically etc). The very best practice to move toward mastery of knowing ourselves would be to love, meditate and practice compassion. The hippies win again..

Occasionally in clinic i get this very strong urge to ask the client “ how well do you know yourself”, which is always met with a pause and mild shock type of moment. It’s not that some of these people aren’t very highly developed holistic people because they are - but we can all forget that there is a soul, a person in this experience, not just a computer collecting data - and that person is fully immersed in holism wether they know it or not.

What is normally happening is that the client has been very absorbed in their life, without time applied to reflection or stillness.

Finally as a holistic healing practitioner I find that there is a fundamental requirement to be applied to every client regardless of their experiences, and that is respect. It is not any easy path to be human, it is though a path that we share..