Mind Body Systems

From an interview with Barbara Gibb

NHE: Could you explain a little about the various systems in the body that affect the digestive system – and how that affects the treatment of digestive disorders? For example, are there things that need to be taken into account that perhaps aren’t, in conventional medicine?

A natural Mind-Body therapist does not think of a 'health condition' or body system in isolation from the whole body/person. An energy healer senses the physical 'seen' body (that is the physical body that most of us can 'see') as just one visible layer of an inter-connected resonating field or the 'aura' of an individual - a 'dynamic light-filled field of different densities'.

Sensing the auric field of an individual, depending on the skill-set and focus of the practitioner, can be a real advantage if you're seeking to enable the wellness resource within or behind the disharmony. Disease or dissonance sits in and clouds the auric field, disrupting chakra flow, well before it expresses into the physical body.

Our physical body is interpenetrated by an energy double, called the etheric. In addition our psyche consists of a number of energy fields within which are found transforming or transmitting centres, known as chakras. Each chakra influences the others, so a digestive imbalance may not simply be based in the Solar Plexus Centre.

The main focus of healing with any energy healing is that we're needing to align our physical body to the energy of our higher self, where the essence or blue-print of our innate wellness is held. This healing alignment can be achieved in any number of ways; yoga, prayer, self-reflection, meditation, sport, exercise, psychotherapy, mind-body work - it is always a personal curiosity, intention and willingness to heal and grow, hence the client-centered approach.

The 'Digestive system' could be understood as one resonance of a vibrant individual's whole 'note', or wholeness blue-print. In the Vedic (Indian) system, the digestive system is the physical manifestation or the main 'expression' of the Solar Plexus Chakra.

I'm trained in esoteric healing, which is a system of healing that acknowledges our mental and emotional, etheric and physical body, but recognises that we are also spiritual in our expression. We have a very subtle spiritual vibration, which each individual will view and express in a highly personal way.

This knowledge model originates from the ancient Vedic (Indian) tradition, which proposes that each of our major endocrine glands are energized by energy wheels, sitting in our energy field. If you're an energy healer, those are visible to the trained 'eye'. They resemble transformers that step down the energy from subtle spiritual energies to the etheric sheath, informing the physical bodies.

It's interesting that each of our seven major chakras 'ground' in the body as a major endocrine gland. So we have.

1.       the pineal gland, which relates to the crown chakra

2.       the pituitary, which relates to the ajna chakra

3.       the thyroid, which relates to the throat

4.       the thymus, which relates to the heart

5.       the pancreas, which relates to the solar plexus

6.       our gonads, (ovaries and testes), relate to the sacral centre

7.       and in our base chakra - a very important one for humanity - the adrenals, which control the kidneys and are very important for the fight, flight or freeze responses. And we're going to talk a little bit more about the digestion, so that's where those become important.

The chakras are a songline, or a chain, which connects our higher self with mind, emotions, etheric body, chakras, meridian systems, the nervous system, blood circulation, organs and tissues.

Now dis-ease of any kind results from an interruption of energy at any level in this chain. Mind-Body therapists acknowledge and balance at all of the levels of that chain; not purely within the physicality that orthodox medicine recognises.

So it's a bit like reading other octaves of a musical system and being able to see into that system as a complete concerto, and tune individual instruments to harmonise that music.

It's also important to be listening to the individual music, which is why a Mind-Body therapist is not working a rote way with, say, digestive imbalance. Sometimes, a different remedy method is needed for each level of imbalance, eg, homeobotanicals might augment energy healing, for different levels of vibratory dissonance.

And modern physics is starting to catch up and give clues about the understanding of how these energy fields might underlie the human physical body. A number of medical researchers are starting to provide a framework now to understand the chakra system and the effect of our psyche on our health. So there are many parallels and crossovers now.

Note: One of my teachers in the field of esoteric healing and energy alignment is Judy Jaka, who is a naturopath who currently teaches and practises in Australia, and she has some very good books on meditation and natural therapies and in particular the one I've just been quoting from, 'Synthesis and Healing', which is about subtle energies and natural therapies for optimal health and highly recommended for anybody who's interested in subtle energy healing.

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