I hear the word “energy” thrown around a lot. Today I had an opportunity to reflect on it further. I went to see my functional medicine doctor, Dr. Green, who performed autonomic response testing (ART) on me. He had me touch specific parts of my body with one hand while testing my muscle strength to determine if there was weakness in parts of my body and placing multiple vials in and out of a small pouch hanging across my shoulder. The vials contained small amounts of supplements used to treat the various ailments he treats. I eventually caught on to what he was doing. As he instructed me to put my fingers on multiple parts of my body, and based on whether I could keep him from pulling my thumb and ring finger apart or not, he would place a particular vial in the pouch and retest. He mentioned that he was putting these products into my energy field to see how my body responds to them.
I admit I was skeptical. I believe that we are energy and that this entire cosmos, including us, is made up of energy, but this testing method seemed a little bogus. Now, I’ve read The Biology of Belief. I have the Emotion Code book. I have a book called, The Body Keeps the Score, and the one thing I learned from that book is that the body (energy) always knows the truth, even if the mind lies. I have watched the Heal documentary and consumed so much other energy and energy medicine material. Yet, I was standing in my doctor’s office, unsure whether what he was doing was legit. So, when my body responded to what my mind already knew, and Dr. Green came to the same conclusion, I was a little taken aback.
Here’s what happened. Dr. Green prescribed a gut repair product that I abandoned in the second week of my protocol because it made me feel sick. When he tested my small intestines today, he detected weakness. He still detected weakness when he put a vial of the product I abandoned into the pouch hanging on my shoulder. He was able to pull my fingers apart with ease. He placed a different product vial designed to provide the same gut support as the first product into my pouch, and when he tried to pull my fingers apart again, he couldn’t. I never told Dr. Green that I stopped taking the original product because it made me feel sick. But my energy told him.
This confirmation happened two more times during my exam. There were even moments when I asked him to repeat the test because I questioned whether he was actually pulling my fingers apart with any real force. After he confirmed several things in my body that I was aware of, but he was not, I realized that this test was real. That energy is real. Our energy fields are real. These statements sound like really obvious things to say, but I hadn’t grasped how much our energy in and around us teaches us about ourselves. It’s intelligent. It’s accessible to us if we choose to understand how to heal it, how to read it, learn from it, and wield it–without the interference of the rational mind.
The idea of energy medicine makes more sense to me now. Healing any ailment starts with addressing the energy that preceded it. Ultimately, today was a lesson about spirituality. A lesson about the all-powerful unseen. A lesson about knowing thyself, before and beyond my physical body.