Re: 's back spasm - -Insurance Issue

[Guest guest]

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Massage has been the most helpful treatment for me as well. And I

know first hand how the energy work is amazing. ... He worked on me

for 3 hours, and I didn't notice a difference until the next day. I

felt better than I have in 11 years. ... Mike isn't set up for

insurance. So, even though I want to call him every week, I have to

be careful, because of the money issue. ... I don't know if you saw

the post about Mike working on 's shoulder. It seems she has

something going on in her elbow. I need to have Mike work on that.

I think I need to start a budget, so I can get him over here more!

Mike:

I am replying to this by open post so there will be no possible

chance of misunderstanding where I am coming from.

You picked up very early on that money is not my prime motivation in

this. It never has been. I didn't go back to school with the idea

of changing careers - there is no way that I could ever make as much

money doing this as I was making in the business world, not even

close. A conservative estimate is that, by retiring at 60 instead of

waiting until 65, I walked away from about a half million dollars

net after tax in salary, bonuses and retirement plan matching funds.

I wouldn't categorize my financial situation as " well off " by any

means, but neither am I worried about where my next mortgage payment

is coming from.

As I have said in several posts at different times, I got into this

specifically to learn what I could to help my immediate family with

pain management issues. That was all. I mentioned in a post

yesterday that I now have three years time and about $30,000

invested in my " training. " If I NEVER recover a single dime of that

back from practicing professionally, every minute of that time and

every penny of that $30,000 was time and money well spent in my

book. I recovered my entire " investment " my second term when I was

able to fix Barb's leg problem that she had suffered with for 15

years. Everything since has just been icing on the cake for me. And

curing my own headaches that had plagued me 25 years was just a nice

big, frosted rose on top of that cake.

But somewhere along the way, fate, destiny, kismet, karma, whatever

you want to call it, seems to have stepped in. I never asked for

what has happened to me this last year and a half. And there were

more than a few times when I was first getting sensitized to working

with energy that it literally scared the living crap out of me

because I didn't understand what was happening to me. I have done

enough studying on it now that I can understand and explain most of

what I have been able to do. The western half of my mind can

finally put in logical, scientific terms what the eastern half of my

mind has been doing intuitively. I said most, but not all. Every

once in awhile something will happen that I simply can't explain.

But the bottom line is that somehow, in some fashion, I seem to have

been given a gift. There is a mystical connotation to the

word " gift " that I don't like. On the other hand, since I didn't

actively try to acquire these " skills' in the beginning, I have to

feel that they are in some way a gift. I may have worked to develop

them once they started, but I never actively sought them out.

But the deeper I get into this, the more convinced I become that

some of these eastern/energetic modalities may hold a key to

addressing some of the long-term, chronic problems that seem to be

totally baffling conventional medicine. In the last couple of

months, some theories have started to crystallize in my mind.

Specifically, fascia IS the connective tissue of the body. It is

one continuous sheet that wraps and interconnects everything, right

down to the cellular level. One of the things I have read about

some of the research done on the standard Chinese meridians is that

they are supposedly imbedded in the fascia; that the fascia is the

carrier of the energy channels for Chinese meridians and Indian

Chakras. We all know what conventional " western " thought is about

this. It can't be, because there is no such thing as an " energetic

body. " Well, what if western wisdom is wrong about this? What if

some of these chronic, including auto immune, disorders are in fact

a dysfunction of the body's " energetic " system? If this is in fact

the case, then you can treat the physical symptoms forever without

getting results. I personally no longer doubt the reality of an

energetic body. I have seen and felt far too much in the last two

years to even begin to question the reality anymore.

All of which leads me to the main point of this post. I have

ideas. I have theories. What I don't have is bodies. I can't test

or prove any of these ideas or theories if I don't have bodies to

work on. My own immediate family is no longer a good proving ground

for me at this stage for two reasons.

After 2-3 years of working on them, I pretty much have my immediate

family in " maintenance mode. " No, I haven't cured anything, but I

have been able to get everybody to the point where the symptoms and

effects are at manageable levels. And if there is " an incident " I

am able to catch it immediately and take care of it before it goes

from being an irritant to a major problem. It is getting to be a

rare day that I don't work on at least one of them for something,

even if the one of them is the dog. It isn't that things are

getting worse for them so they need more frequent work – it is that

they have all recognized the benefits of prompt intervention to keep

things from getting worse. Of equal or greater importance is that

they would be viewed as biased participants.

Again – I NEED bodies! (Or more typical for my twisted sense of

humor, I need lab rats.) I can't test or prove any of my ideas or

theories if I don't have bodies I can try them on. As I think you

picked up yesterday on the posts about 's ESG's, I have some

ideas that I think might be able to help , , you, and

. And they all involve varying degrees of energy work. I think

I can teach you things that you could then use yourself for self-

help and for working on/with your family. You would honor me if you

would let me try.

I have kind of mentally formulated my " life's work " in retirement in

the following ways:

- I am trying to raise awareness of the potentials of some of

the alternatives, both from a patient and conventional medicine

perspective.

- I am trying to break the western mind-set against the

reality of energy work

- I am hoping that along the way, I might be able " to do some

good. "

On the issue of awareness, I have a couple of fairly interesting

things going on right now that I will touch on in a separate post to

the full list.

You are the one who is concerned about paying me – not me. If it

really bothers you, try to get me some paying referral business.

Other than that, I will gladly work on you and yours for free. I

would deem it a privilege.

And on that note, to the entire list, I will work on anybody, any

time, any place that the opportunity presents itself. And

opportunities will present themselves over the next couple of years

because I have a lot of travel on my retirement agenda. My statement

to Tia about " Will trade treatment for room and board " was only half

in jest.