A BURGEONING WORLD OF ALTERNATIVES
A brief essay on finding your way through the healing and spiritual community by Jeremy Anacker
Have you noticed? The gates are open!! Hospitals and health care providers such as Meriter, Group Health, and Dean Care for more than several years now have been providing alternative avenues for better health and wellness. Now that you can take a class on Reiki, Chi Gung and receive a treatment such as massage or acupuncture in a conventional setting, it also seems as though the appreciation for alternatives is increasing everywhere. Brochures and flyers fill the walls at local coffee shops and health food stores. Since you are reading this article, you might be one of many who really wants to know more about the alternative world of inner renewal and vitality. There are so many options and so many perspectives that you could become completely confused. Or worse yet, you could find yourself on a long and expensive road of hopping from one thing to another without finding an answer that has a lasting effect. You might get swept away by a quick fix remedy with a benefit that is a temporary placebo; you also might encounter something that is amazing and profound that feels just right. How do you know which way to go? Okay, so you pick a direction and now you end up at an introduction to a cutting edge innovation on Shiatsu. How do you know that you are in the right place for you? Here are a few pointers that might shed some light on your process.
Point one: See yourself in a process and set an intention to enjoy it. It is fascinating to know about and experience the increased levels of ease that come from a soothing massage or from something very subtle like acupuncture. In fact it is actually amazing that you can find enormous peace and vitality through a simple intentional energy clearing and activation method called Pranic Healing.
Another aspect of your process orientation is learning that trouble spots and moments of no progress are just as important as euphoric experiences and aha breakthroughs. This is because, in the world of holistic thinking, the moments of no progress are actually growth periods that are not easy to recognize. The difficulty can arise in your thought process. Focus on developing a deeper connection with your spirit rather than trying to attain spiritual experiences. There is a common phrase that has emerged in many circles, "I am not a physical being looking for spiritual experiences, but I am a spiritual being in a physical experience." Put this phrase on your refrigerator and think of it often. Many of the shifts that you are looking for are bound to happen with effortless ease.
Point two: Begin the process of developing a discretionary eye. Be wary of anybody that has a claim for being the best miracle worker or having the best method on the market. No one size fits all. You need to learn to develop a subtle sense of knowing about what you, as a sovereign soul, are called to do. If a practitioner or teacher has a sincere interest and intention to be truly present and serve, the benefits that emerge are mysteriously natural and multitudinous. Whether it is subtle intentional work like Cranial Sacral Technique or Reiki or a very strong methodological approach like Rolfing or Acupressure, it is good to know how a tone of good humor and easygoingness truly sets up the field for lasting shifts in levels of peace and ease. After all, if you learn to take your life lightly you may not get a knot in your back in the first place. And would it not be true that lightheartedness is a viable approach to undoing the serious heavy spot that is interrupting your natural energy flow?
Point Three: Don't put a method, a practitioner or a teacher above you. The new consciousness book market is full of material that can inform you of your own power. This process is often called Intention. The ultimate and overall truth is that a circumstance or encounter might be a trigger for what is ripe to happen in you. If you learn to give yourself more credit, you put yourself in the driver's seat towards greater wellness and/or awakening. I have found that I must be in the right place if a teacher specifically states that you are in a process of finding your own inner teacher. The process towards lasting benefit is very often facilitated by a teacher or method. This potential is multiplied when the student is fully informed and shown how to take charge of their own growth. A teacher or method may well facilitate your internal process of listening to the teacher in you as you grow toward lasting benefit. The potential for this movement is multiplied when you are aware and ready to take charge of your growth. The true outcome is based on your own willingness. Perhaps you can recall a famous passage in the bible where Jesus did his miracle healings. When they were accomplished, he immediately said that the healing was made possible by the person's own faith. Of, course it is easy to see the benefit of associating with an evolved mentor and cultivating your own ability to trust a greater principal or belief system whether you deem it a higher power or the spirit within.
Now, you have a few pointers that might help you navigate through the alternative marketplace. Naturally, these are basic guidance strategies that you develop and fine-tune over time. You will notice that some teachers really do use shady tactics like extravagant claims and fear and others are simply adamant about notions that are fallacious and a waste of time. I recommend that you be grateful that you have become more aware in whatever way that it has come and that you can now recognize presence or lack of honesty and sincerity. Now simply move on towards what seems to work for you. In this process expect bumpy spots and dead ends, especially at the early stages. When the fever to try everything in sight starts to ebb, it is time to mark it on your calendar as a truly sublime shift. You have arrived at a place where what is in you feels bigger than anything out there. This is where the true fun can begin, because you find yourself encountering others who are simply fellow aspirants. With them, you are walking a parallel path with strategies to use and share. It is now time to know that you have entered into a world of greater wellness, gracious fellowship and a very divine flavor of fun.
Energy Testing: Jeremy also teaches energy testing as a tool for discerning your way through healing options, teachings and teachers. Energy testing also known as the kineseological test was developed by John Diamond and then applied to spiritual discernment by Dr. David Hawkins. See his book, "Power VS. Force" for a more in-depth inquiry into this very important topic.
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