This weekend I went to Mount St Scholastica for a workshop entitled "Ministering to Body Mind and Spirit". The Benedictine Nun's advertised this experience as being "for everyone interested in learning how to use the brilliance and wisdom of the body's energies for wellness and wholeness." Friends, as a stage three cancer survivor, I am committed to trying almost anything (with my doctor's approval, of course) to stay healthy....so, with this in mind, I headed up to the mother house.
Sister Linda taught us a Five Minute Energy Routine based on this book by Donna Eden. The routine is very simple and frankly, fascinating. I have been doing accupuncture, at my oncologist's suggestion, for almost three years, so I have experienced first hand the healing benefits of non traditional medicine. Nevertheless, I was still skeptical. Let me be clear; I am all about the idea of healing the body and the mind and the spirit together (sorry Descartes). I just wasn't so sure about this Energy Medicine. But it is easy to do and free, with no side effects, so I soldiered on. Then, as I often do, I read ahead to the last page of the handouts where I found this quote from Dr. Mehmet Oz, MD:
"Alternative medicines deal with the body's energy--something that traditional Western medicine generally does not. We're beginning now to understand things that we know in our hearts are true but we could never measure. As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier in medicine is Energy Medicine. It's understanding for the first time how energy influences how we feel."
Sister Linda maybe should have lead with this. She now had my full attention.
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