Getting Unstuck #23 – Personal Care

Stress is the ultimate cause of illness and mortality. Stress is not a disease. Stress causes illness and disease. 90% of what sends people to their physician is stress-related illnesses.? Shawna Freshwater, PhD??

Since the COVID crisis started in 2020, things have gotten much worse.

Even before the onset of COVID, we lived in a world and community where stress, tension, anxiety, depression, fear, isolation, and trauma were increasing at exponential levels. These emotions have led to a negative shared energy field. If left unchecked, these emotions and negative energy fields are leading to widespread chronic illness and mental health issues.

The health care system in the United States is broken. It is the kindest way I can describe the system.

Dr. Andrew Weil stated, “I don’t think we have a health care system in America. What we have is a disease management system.” The traditional model for western medicine is to diagnose, treat, but not cure. Treatment is to prescribe medication and drugs or surgery.

The United States makes up 5% of the world’s population but consumes 80% of prescription drugs. Something is seriously wrong with this picture. Why do many world-class athletes go overseas to address and rehabilitate injuries? Why are prescriptions and medical procedures far less expensive in other countries? Why do so many different countries combine Eastern and Western Medicine, and what is Eastern Medicine?

Our health care is at a crossroad.? Are you going to make the necessary lifestyle adjustments in your diet, exercise, rest/relaxation techniques to address the geometric increase in stress, tension, anxiety, depression, fear, isolation, and trauma? Do you even know where to start??

The cost of healthcare is out of control.

• There are approximately 8,000 new drugs in development at any time. Most of these drugs do not address the root cause of stress. Many are specialty drug classes that carry a significantly higher cost.
• The health care infrastructure and the personnel are overwhelmed, over stressed, and burned-out
• Businesses must get control of health and wellness costs.

Even before the onset of COVID, people have been looking for more control over their personal care.? Energy healing and integrative wellness is a multi-billion-dollar market. The "take a pill" model is simply not adequate. This model addresses the symptoms, not the underlying cause of many illnesses.

Moving from the treatment model

The goal is to pivot health care by offering proven and time-tested modalities to help millions of people address their stress, anxiety, fear, frustration, and unresolved trauma. This model has been very successful in countries impacted by continuous war, relocation, and genocide.

Even medical doctors are questioning the current model. The idea is to combine both “Western Medicine and Integrative Medicine.” MDs understand the root cause of many chronic illnesses is stress, anxiety, fear, frustration, and unresolved trauma. Energy healing and integrative wellness are gaining traction, particularly with millennials and younger populations. Seniors, those fifty and older, are tired of the “continuous and constantly changing prescription drug routine.

What is Energy Psychology and Integrative Wellness?

These modalities are not new. They have been used since Before Christ (BC). They faded away in popularity and practice as pharmaceuticals became more accepted.

In a report Applications of Energy Psychology in Addressing the Psychological Roots of Illness by David Feinstein, published April 19, 2021, stated:

The impact of psychological factors on illness is being biochemically mapped. The subspecialties of psychosomatic medicine, health psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, and integrative medicine work with mind and body, work in concert to promote health and healing. A specialized set of mind-body approaches, collectively called “energy psychology,” is being utilized within these and related clinical frameworks to facilitate beneficial changes in the neurological underpinnings of (1) mental states that impede immune function, (2) emotional influences that contribute to illness, and (3) inner resources that promote healing. By combining practices from time-honored healing traditions, with concepts and techniques drawn from contemporary psychology, practitioners use one of the most popular variations of the approach to teaching patients to tap on a prescribed series of acupuncture points while repeating phrases that activate areas of the brain involved with the issue receiving attention.

Preliminary evidence supports speculation, consistent with more than a hundred peer-reviewed clinical trials. The procedure can send deactivating signals to areas of the limbic system in hyperarousal and send activating signals to regions of the prefrontal cortex that support executive functions such as planning and managing stressful situations.

Mental and emotional health issues have spiked.

Traditional medicine addresses these issues with various medications, including Opioids, which have created an addiction epidemic. Conventional drugs to treat symptoms carry a host of side effects and do little to improve life quality. How many times between refills have your prescriptions been modified or adjusted based on the adverse side effects or impact??

People are more actively and aggressively looking for alternatives.

People inflicted with pain, chronic illness, mental and emotional distress are desperate for treatment that will allow them more functionality. Families of those afflicted are actively seeking alternatives, millennials and younger are actively taking charge of their health and personal care.?

Personal-Care and Personal Growth

A key factor in any form of personal-care and personal growth is learning tools that are effective, easy to use, and repeatable. Since I am not an expert or practice in this field, I have spoken to many professionals with far more knowledge than I possess. Two people I have interviewed that may be able to offer more assistance are Brad Yates, one of the foremost authorities on the impact that tapping can make in our lives; and Darcy Fenoglio a Naturopathic Guided Mentor.

Why should we investigate these alternative methods? Why not? The current system leaves much to be desired. Don’t you want more control over your personal health? Be honest!!