Energy Medicine M
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Spring 2008 Issue
ENHANCE YOUR WELLBEING
energetic balances that really work
ACUPUNCTURE & ACUENERGETICS速 blending age old modalities
OPENING YOUR HEART and learning to forgive
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TREATMENTS
AcuEnergetics® is fast and accurate and can be used to treat a wide range of physical, mental and emotional conditions. Many people come for specific treatment of an injury, chronic health problems or work/family related stress. Some clients attend sessions to work through issues that arise frequently in their lives, such as anger, fear guilt, insomnia, relationship breakups and panic attacks. Others come because they find that energy balancing helps relax them and keep them at optimum health.
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Common conditions treated include: • Chronic back & neck pain • Depression and anxiety • Menstrual & fertility problems • Chronic fatigue • Chronic stress & panic attacks • Headaches • Trauma & grief • Abdominal pain & constipation • Low energy • Breathing problems • Sore knees, shoulders & joints • Speed up healing after surgery • Sports injuries
AcuEnergetics to run more meditation workshops in India in 2009
How does it work? In short, AcuEnergetics® practitioners understand how energetic channels and centers work in the body. When these channels are blocked, specific illness, pain or symptoms can appear. AcuEnergetics® practitioners work with chakras, pranic fields, meridians and other energetic channels. Using their hands they feel blockages and imbalances in the energetic system and can clear them using various energetic techniques. What happens? During an AcuEnergetics® treatment the client remains fully clothed. Depending on the treatment, the practitioner may treat with their hands on or off the client’s body. “If you wish to see why the body is the way it is, look at how you’ve been thinking for the past ten years. If you wish to see how your body will be in ten years time, look at how you’re thinking now.” Buddha 550bc AcuEnergetics® is a modern energy healing modality, based on a detailed understanding of the energetic physiology & anatomy of the body. It combines the latest discoveries in energy work with traditional knowledge from ancient texts by Chinese, Middle Eastern, Indian & Western Physicians. AcuEnergetics® understands the whole energy body and its connection to the mind, which is vital for the effective treatment of any symptom in the body. AcuEnergetics® & Energy Medicine Magazine This magazine is owned and produced by AcuEnergetics® and all content is copyright AcuEnergetics®. AcuEnergetics is located at 372 Darling Street, Balmain, NSW, Australia 2041. Ph: 02 9818 1522. Email info@acuenergetics.com
AcuEnergetics® will hold its next overseas meditation classes in India at the Osho Meditation Resort in January 2009. The courses start on the 2nd January and will be run by AcuEnergetics® founder and master practitioner Kevin Farrow. Dates for the workshops are as follows: 2-3 January: Swimming in the Sea of Qi 5-7 January: Becoming the Buddha ~ The Ancient Tantra 10-16 January: The Sephiroth Training: Opening to the Light Additional information on the Osho Multiversity website can be found at www.osho.com
AcuEnergetics Workshop announced for Canada in 2009
For the first time ever, AcuEnergetics® is proud to announce it will be offering the Level 1: Skills for Living workshop to its friends all the way up in Canada. AcuEnergetics® Practitioner and teacher Dave Flakelar will be the one pioneer this trip in March 2009, which will hopefully become a regular on the calendar. For more info contact the shop on 02 9818 1522.
Tai Chi Classes in Balmain
The AcuEnergetics® Centre is still running regular Tai Chi courses for all levels at the centre. Classes are held on Monday and Wednesday at 7pm. New students are able to begin at regular intervals. If you’re interested, us on 02 9818 1522.
Books for your spirit A Beautiful Little Bookshop
If you’re into the human body, the mind, the energy system and fascinating books written by incredible people who think outside the norm, then take the time to stop in at this little charm of a bookshop. A perfect way to get you thinking about your consciousness or just how to live a happier life. As well as stocking a great range of books on energy medicine dealing with both ancient and modern approaches, it stocks a range of Sufi, Taoist and Buddhist classics including poetry from Rumi and Hafiz, Osho texts, and western writers such as Caroline Myss and Candace Pert. The Bookshop is open from 9.00am ‘til 6.00pm, Mon to Fri and from 9.00am ‘til 4.00pm on Saturdays and is located at 372 Darling Street, Balmain. Ph: 9818 1522. A selection of beautiful music CD’s are also available.
A New Earth
Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual guide to creating a better way of living and a better world to live in. Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity. Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world.This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one. In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness,Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates.Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are and learn to live and breathe freely. Review sourced from buy.com
The Psychology of the Body Kevin Farrow, Founder and Director of AcuEnergetics®, has released his latest book The Psychology of the Body: The First Accurate Mapping of the Energy Body. In his new book Farrow explains how mind and emotions affect the body through the energetic system. Although this concept of a mind and body connection is not a new one, exactly how this occurs has until now remained somewhat of a mystery. This is where Farrow’s 30 years of research and discoveries provide a clear and precise framework from which to understand how the physical, mental, emotional and energetic systems work together – and how together they can either create illness or wellness in the body.
The First Accurate Mapping of the Energy Body
Kevin Farrow
the Psychology of the body
To purchase your copy contact the AcuEnergetics clinic in Balmain on 02 9818 1522 or email info@acuenergetics.com ®
Founder and Director of AcuEnergetics ® Accurate Energetic Healing Clinic and School
All books are available at the AcuEnergetics bookshop, 372 Darling Street, Balmain. ®
Hardcover 319 pages RRP $130
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A New Way o an acupuncturist meets
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by Rupa Selecki
The ancient Chinese believed a universal life energy called Qi is present in every living creature. This energy is said to circulate throughout the body along specific pathways called meridians. As long as this energy flows freely throughout the meridians, health is maintained. But once the flow of energy is blocked, the system is disrupted; pain and illness occur. Acupuncture works to “re-program” and restore normal functions by stimulating certain points on the meridians in order to free up the Qi. It is one of the oldest, most commonly used systems of healing in the world. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) maintains that good health is ultimately dependent on harmony in mind and spirit as well as balance in our lifestyle and surrounding environment. Medical case histories written around 90 BCE, recently discovered in China, show understanding of the emotional context of illness, and consideration of environmental and seasonal influences, and represent early indications of the science of ‘life nurturing’ medicine and disease prevention (Reference1).
I had also been concerned about using energetic healing without some kind of theoretical framework and clear protocol and at the same time aware of the mounting evidence on the medical values of prayer as well as laughter. Were meditation and good intentions enough? How can we be more accurate? Is the practitioner protected? In my practice I would treat many exhausted healers and therapists. I had many unanswered questions. What I had learned so far in QiGong and other energetic modalities had its limitations. AcuEnergetics® offered an accurate and straightforward system fitting in with all I knew about TCM, health and meditation. Its theory - drawing from Taoism, Kabbalah, Buddhist and Yogic understanding - details how the mind affects the body, how we get sick and imbalanced, and most important, what exactly we can do about it. I subsequently became a student at the AcuEnergetics® school and the specific techniques, balances and treatments I learned made sense, were simple, often fun and felt right . Whilst studying Acuenergetics® I experienced dramatic personal healing and changes and noticed similar shifts and opening in other students.
I have had a number of opportunities to combine acupuncture with AcuEnergetics® techniques and so far I have seen results in a number of situations that would be different to the outcome that based on I have been practicing acupuncture and TCM for 18 years. I have my experience with clients, would be reasonably expected from always tried to keep my approach in tune with the spirit of the acupuncture alone. ancient Taoist texts from where most of our TCM theory originates. There are so far five aspects that I have found interesting and useful I have studied and incorporated into my work both meditation and in relation to acupuncture: Qigong including energetic healing, as well as herbs, diet, psychology, environmental science and conventional medical science. 1. AcuEnergetics® has hand skills which can be used ® on areas and points where it would be unsuitable to I encountered AcuEnergetics accidentally (serendipitously?) a few use acupuncture. For example, I treated a 14 yr old boy for a years ago. My initial interest was for my own personal development and healing and the importance of the meditation component in rugby injury. His ankle was swollen and painful. He had experienced the courses appealed to me. In order to do this work properly you some relief from physiotherapy initially but this was no longer helpful. needed to learn to meditate, be open-hearted and present. It made I used magnetism and resonance hand techniques plus opening sense to balance and ground yourself if you are to treat other people’s meridians together with acupuncture points distant from injury site. He recovered quickly. problems.
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Acupuncturists may identify imbalances from ongoing into my being, to the source of the problem (and this for me included stress or emotional traumas but explanations may be simplistic and things I hadn’t considered and even past life memories ! …and then I the techniques to clear these blockages can be unclear or ineffective. know what I’m dealing with and can integrate things….expressing…. Balancing meridians with Acupuncture usually has an immediate impact learning …this dissolves the issue. Both modalities are non invasive on well-being but may not adequately address how the imbalance or and super gentle’ …Karima , Sydney. Spiritual therapist and psychic injury happened in the first place - some problems may recur, or shift counsellor. elsewhere and may require acupuncturists to refer to other modalities 5. Another unique aspect of AcuEnergetics® I have such as herbs or counselling etc found is that it may be a more effective way to AcuEnergetics® uses knowledge of the chakras and the Kabbalah access meridians and points quickly. There may be an sephiroth map and in great detail clarifies how stress, emotional enhanced sensation of what acupuncture practitioners call ‘de Qi. imbalances in personality or traumatic incidents can affect our energy As AcuEnergetics® practitioners we learn to feel and balance the field and subsequently the meridian system, our internal organs and energetic qualities of chakras, acupuncture meridians and points, and body areas. We literally close our heart off to particular parts of we can feel when any congestion has cleared. Not surprisingly the the body or thoughts ! In acupuncture we would diagnose this as a client often becomes aware of the changes as well . ‘shen’ disturbance and maybe use points to balance the fire energy as ‘When I had acupuncture with Rupa I could feel the Qi in the well as treat the injury . meridian being stimulated….then when she began using resonance, AcuEnergetics® offers a simple way to explore this phenomena in (an Acuenergetics® technique) to a point (on the meridian) then the depth using specific skills to gently unlock and clear such problems whole pathway seemed to light up. Together this had a strong clearing and balancing effect’, Bianca, psychology student. allowing quick relief from symptoms. A female client (E) age 42 had a bad cough and cold since three weeks. She had tried various medical and holistic treatments but was still unwell. She was pale and exhausted. She was due to teach a 3 week course in a few days time. Usually I would treat this with herbs and acupuncture. This time I used acupuncture treating points on the lung meridian and the upper back near the lungs and heart ( UB 14 and UB43, as well as GV 14, shentao, Lung 7) This helped her relax but she was still very exhausted and felt congested. Then I treated the lung meridian and heart chakra energetically. I asked her what had been happening when the cough and cold began. She is a hypnotherapist and familiar with this kind of questioning but at first could not recall anything - then after five minutes of energetic treatment she remembered a big disagreement with her best friend just before the cold started. They had gone separate ways - she had tried to reconcile but that had proved impossible. As she talked I felt her breathing expanding and deepening and the atmosphere in the room changed becoming silent and peaceful. By that evening she had stopped coughing and her energy levels were better. She told me the next day she had not felt so well in a long time and resumed teaching without a problem. Very often we may not recall emotional upsets or consider them relevant to our physical health. E had felt she had come to terms with her grief about losing her friend and had not associated the onset of the cold with this. However when we experience different emotional states our breathing is affected. Usually our natural homeostatic mechanisms kick in to balance things out – we take a deep breath and move on. If we hold onto pain/grief as she did, the Lung Qi (i.e. flow of energy in the Lungs) is affected. The AcuEnergetics® technique helped her awaken and integrate her emotions. She said later, ‘I really liked that I was able to touch emotional issues, I hadn’t connected it with my cold, it helped bring things to my awareness ‘- ‘as soon as I understood this and most importantly for me voiced this during the healing treatment everything cleared’
Liza, a homeopath & counsellor says “I have experienced both Acupuncture and AcuEngergetics® treatments with Rupa… for me the AcuEnergetics® taps directly into the energetic pathways and meridians. Although no needles were used and often even no touching the body, the Acuenergetics® actually feels more substantial…...the more in tune you become you can become part of your own healing -you feel tangible movements of energy and its qualities..” Clients have even been able to accurately experience energy pathways without prior knowledge. A male client age 27 had numbness in lateral aspect of his arm and hand after a skiing accident and also ear problems. I treated his hand energetically, using the (Small Intestine) meridian which goes through the affected areas. He described feeling energy running up his arm to his ear. Then he asked me if it goes through the spine as well (this meridian actually opens another meridian that does exactly that!). After opening the meridians in this way I treated him with acupuncture at the relevant points. He has since begun to regain sensation in the affected areas and feels aware of changes in the energetic pathways. AcuEnergetics® is based on the understanding, that true healing happens when the heart and its infinite wisdom is allowed to connect with the hidden aspects of ourselves. Combining acupuncture with AcuEnergetics® allows me and my clients to enjoy this great potential. Rupa H Selecki BHSc, Dip Ac., practices Acupuncture, TCM & AcuEnergetics® in Sydney, Bondi Junction & Balmain. Contact: rupa@optusnet.com.au or visit www.goldenflowerhealing.com PH: 02 9369 4615 or 0412 717 383 Reference : Hsu, E. (ed.) 2000, Innovation in Chinese Medicine, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K
Enhance Your Wellbeing energetic balances that really work In addition to individual treatments, AcuEnergetics® offers Wellness Balances to clear blocked energy channels, reduce stress and tension, increase energy flow, reduce stiffness, strengthen the immune system and bring about a feeling of deep relaxation and wellbeing.
Sacral Balance This powerful balance clears blocked energy in the spine, legs and pelvic area. Very beneficial for pain or discomfort in any of these areas, as well as menstrual disorders, hip pain and at times of change in your life. Belt Channel & Wind Gates Clears stale energy and winds from the organ gates around the navel and opens the belt channel to the kidneys. Excellent for poor digestion, abdominal pain, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, bloating and tension in the belly and back.
There are several energetic Wellness Balances available. Clients can book all of them for a total cleanse and balance, or book them individually. The Wellness balances include:
Chakra Correspondence Balancing Balancing the chakra correspondences helps to unify the connection between the heart, mind and body. This is a deeply calming and profound balance - ideal to have during times of emotional stress.
Energy Liver Cleanse A very powerful treatment, the energy liver cleanse clears stale and congested energy and helps to detoxify the liver. Ideal for anyone wanting to detox the liver or people who have suffered from bouts of depression, anger or frustration.
Thrusting Channels Balance If you need an energy boost, opening the thrusting channels can more than double the amount of energy your body has available. This balance also assists in improving the immune system.
Energy Lymph Drainage This beautiful, relaxing treatment rejuvenates the body and stimulates the lymphatic system and spleen, boosting the body’s immune function. Circulation of the Light A deeply relaxing balance which stimulates the two main reservoirs of circling energy (Governing & Conception vessels) in the body to assist overcoming cold & flu symptoms, reducing stress, jet lag, poor circulation & low energy.
Reverse Sacral/Conception Vessel Balance This is a very personal balance, but very powerful. Just as it sounds, this balance opens up the conception vessel and reproductive system to allow the body to function optimaly. This helps women to clear any menstrual disorders and is highly recommended as a treatment for infertility or prepregnancy clearing. It also assists both men and women with opening blockages in the sexual organs, as well as healing bladder problems and other complaints in the sacral area.
Practitioner
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Dave Flakelar is one of the most well known practitioners in AcuEnergetics®, having been the first qualified practitioner to be taught by AcuEnergetics® founder Kevin Farrow. In 2001, Dave left behind a stable career in surveying on the New South Wales mid-north coast to take the giant leap into the world of alternative therapies. In the 7 years since he started practicing, Dave has never looked back.
“Making the choice all those years to go down this path was without a doubt one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life,” says Dave. Now with a large clientele in both Sydney and Forster, Dave commutes between the two places to satisfy the growing demand for practitioners outside of Sydney. Dave is also a qualified AcuEnergetics® teacher and next year will teach an AcuEnergetics® workshop in Canada and the United States. “Teaching in Canada next year will be a huge thrill for me both personally and professionally. I love teaching and it gives me a great sense of satisfaction to help share this amazing work with other people. For AcuEnergetics®, this is also a great opportunity for us to continue to grow and help new people in different countries,” added Dave.
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Finding Balance in your heart
Remember the first three weeks of being in love? It’s amazing! It’s when you love everyone and everything…the clouds, the trees, the flowers, the passing motorists, dogs, cats and insects, and of course your beloved. As an added bonus, nothing at all seems to bother you and then gradually, it wears off. Why? The reason that you felt love in the first place was that your heart was open for a short time. When your heart is open you do love everyone and everything. Life is beautiful and profound. Then you start closing down your heart, take a deep breath and re-enter the grey zone. In fact, for many of us, life goes back to “normal”. Usually our hearts are only open when we fall in love, have children or when we are on holidays. We fall in love with a holiday destination because when we go there, we drop our worries and open our hearts. Then we come home, close our hearts, and talk and dream about moving to our geographical ideal. If or when we move there, unfortunately it’s just not the same. If you want the experience of love again, it’s simpler than chasing people or geographical destinations. Just open your heart. You don’t have to pay for holidays or have another person be the trigger. In ancient times, many spiritual schools of learning taught techniques to open the heart centre. Nowadays, while there are still some schools that teach these practices, they have been mostly ignored and forgotten. Our modern love is generally towards an object, usually a partner or child. We don’t think of love as a state of our being, rather as an attitude that we have towards someone or something. When our hearts are not really open, we are incapable of allowing love and trust to be within us. No one learns love and trust, they just happen automatically when we open our hearts. It’s how we’re made. If we don’t love and trust life, then we seek to control it. This controlling and closing of the heart signals is a way of developing illness in the body. In common parlance, we say that we “hold things” against people and situations. In fact what we hold, ever more tightly is our heart. If you shut your heart down against someone, you will have to find the antidote of forgiveness to open it up again. This is not that easy. Just saying “I forgive so and so” won’t make any difference. You will have to discover the true energy of forgiveness in yourself. True forgiveness isn’t something you do, it’s something that you find in your heart. When you find it you will forgive everyone for every thing. Until that happens your forgiving is just practicing.
“If you shut your heart down against someone, you will have to find the antidote of forgiveness to open it up again.”
The ramifications of closing your heart on your physical health are profound, but they are still generally unrecognised. In the 1990’s, Dr Dean Ornish’s famous study of the treatment of coronary patients showed that even “untreatable” heart disease could begin a process of healing when the patients went through a personal emotional counselling process with their partners and family. The publication of Ornish’s study in “The Lancet” and most of the other major medical journals, has ensured that the cutting edge of health professionals acknowledge the link between heart problems and emotional blockage. What isn’t recognised by western medicine is how far this closing of the heart affects the body. In some forms of energy medicine, this heart/body correspondence has been recognised. A simple example is the heart’s effect on the six acupuncture meridians that flow through your shoulder. These meridians are all associated with the heart. [The heart and heart protector channels directly, small intestine and triple heater through their elemental pairs and lung and large intestine through the Ko cycle.] As the meridians act like lawn sprinklers dispersing energy to muscles and tissues, when you close your heart down, this affects the flow of energy in those six meridians. If you damage your shoulder during this period and only have conventional physio, chiropractic or acupuncture treatment, you stand a very good chance of having a long spell off from tennis. It makes good sense to play with an open heart. A simple technique to help open the heart is the Tibetan Forgiveness Meditation. In this meditation, first sit and find a place of stillness within yourself. If that feels impossible, sit and breathe deeply for nine breaths. Then visualise someone whom you unconditionally love standing in front of you. This can be your dog or cat, whoever gives you a feeling of warmth in your heart. Next, bring your friends into your visualisation and stay with the feeling of warmth in your heart. Then, while still feeling the heart’s love and warmth, add your family, then your acquaintances and finally those people that you have issues with. If you can stay with the feelings of the heart instead of the judgements of the mind, you will take a big step towards forgiving others, keeping yourself healthy and making your life beautiful and profound.
Kevin Farrow
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‘Skills for Living’ Workshop
This weekend course is an eye opening experience, teaching you how to increase your awareness and sensitivity to energy. You will discover a fresh approach to all aspects of your life, learning skills to open your heart and bring you more joy, love and energy.
Learn and experience: • Simple and profound meditation techniques to still the mind and open the heart. • How to feel your own and other people’s energy. • How to open your energetic field and balance another person’s. • How to release held emotions and attitudes which cause illness in the body. • An introduction to the physiology and anatomy of the energy body. • Radiance, resonance and magnetic hand techniques for healing illness. • The core understandings of AcuEnergetics® as a healing modality. • The first level of training to becoming an AcuEnergetics practitioner.
AcuEnergetics® is a modern energy healing modality based on a detailed understanding of the energetic anatomy and physiology of the human body. It was developed in Australia by Kevin Farrow and is the result of over 30 years of research into ancient and modern texts by Chinese, Middle Eastern, Indian and Western physicians, combined with many years of clinical research.
This workshop is run several times every year - ask us about specific dates.
Workshop Cost $595
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