About the Energy Medicine workshops in Portland last weekend

[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

In case anyone wants to know how last weekend's EM workshops went for

someone who attended one for the first time, here's my " short "

version of it:

 

I went to Donna's Energy Medicine workshop last weekend in Portland.

Three days of Great fun. Great people. Great energy. I learned a lot

from the countless demonstrations and drills we did. I'm still

buzzing with a high level of energy and am taking the day off to

recap on all I learned and to read David Feinstein's book " Energy

Psychology " . He taught some new and different things well worth

becoming familiar with.

 

A really fun thing happened to me after my early afternoon check in

at the Embassy Suites. Getting to Portland is a few hours drive for

me so by the time I arrived I was a bit wound up and not in the best

of moods. Portland traffic on Friday is pretty tough and my

adrenaline was going. (Will have to work on that with EFT now won't

I)

 

Anyway, I'm slowly lugging my bag to the elevator when I notice

someone is walking behind me who just seemed to appear out of nowhere

as I approached an empty elevator. I step in, turn around and am

looking right at Donna Eden who has followed me onto the elevator.

She's standing next to the controls and asks me what floor I am going

to. I say a surprised hello as she presses my floor number, and I

tell her I'm here for her workshop. We talked for a little bit on the

way up. What a treat!

 

This was the first time I met her and just have to say that she's

even more " vibrant " , " bright " and charming than in her videos. You

can't help but be affected by her. Such a lift!

 

I also met our own Doc John La Tourrette who was there as one of

Donna's dozen or so training assistants to help with the 300-plus

attendees. Wow, I really wasn't expecting so many people, but it's

great to know there is so much interest.

 

By the way for those of you who haven't met Doc, you couldn't find a

more friendly, funny and genuine person. During a break he was

checking my foreign language skills because I mentioned something in

a post about having studied foreign languages in highschool. So when

he'd said something to me in Spanish (not my best language) I'd said

something in return in French, and he never even got embarassed by

what I said back to him. I also had a split-second sparring match

with Docspeed, and he really is quick by the way. I think I had a

slight advantage though because I was holding a cup of hot tea at the

time. So he backed off. You're funny Doc!

 

I got a bad headache the second day of the seminar. Headaches are a

rare thing for me so I knew something was up. A band from my brow to

my crown were throbbing in pain at SUDS 9 just before lunch on

Saturday. We had done a number of energy drills that morning. I

suspected it was my location in the room, the large number of people,

maybe even certain people near me, because when I moved to different

locations it seemed to improve a little, but not enough.

 

To remedy it I did a few things, the crown pull, TW sedating,

pressing on the forehead points. I got it down to SUDS 5, but it

still wasn't enough. Maybe I didn't do them long enough? I was

determined to resolve it with the energy skills I knew worked so

well. So I went to my room during the lunch break to try some EFT

and I managed to get it down to about SUDS 0 to 1/2. So far so

good!

 

When I came back after lunch and walked into the seminar room my head

started throbbing again... SUDS 3 and rising rapidly! I mentioned it

to Doc and he took me through an EFT drill using some different

affirmation wording that I probably would never have thought of

choosing, and it worked! I did the energy zip-up drill at the end

and it stayed there. Thanks very much for helping me Doc.

 

Later in the afternoon. When one of my chakras was being cleared it

triggered a SUDS 4-5 throbbing headache that was concentrated again

in a band from the third eye to the crown. I just relaxed the best I

could and let it move out. By the time the brow chakra were all

cleared the headache was completely gone and hasn't returned. I felt

supercharged with energy and absolutely great. That was last Saturday

and I'm still feeling that way.

 

One additional note: When I did the chakra clearing on my partner I

used Hakalau to see/sense, rather than with the closed eyes that was

suggested. I tried both ways and Hakalau made it much easier to sense

the chakras, the shape and some other interesting things going on

with them. So practice doing Hakalau, I think you'll notice a

difference in a lot of things you do.

 

I also enjoyed David's Energy Psychology seminar on Sunday. I

learned that he has a slightly different approach than Gary Craig's

version of EFT. He uses a LOT of energy testing to calibrate, and

after reducing the issue down to a very low SUDS with the basic drill

he follows it with another drill where he reinforces the new positive

state that is attained by doing a SUDS from 1 to 10, where 1

means " unaccepted " and 10 means " completely accepted " . He then does

tapping with the appropriate affirmations for that.

 

He demonstrated this all very well on a sweet lady from the audience

who had a fear of needles and has been diabetic her whole life.

David also presented some interesting scientific evidence on the

effectiveness of all of this that beta thinkers would probably

appreciate.

 

I was there not only for own my education but also on a fact finding

mission for several friends who are very interested in energy

medicine but know little or nothing about it. I am getting them all

together to watch the videos next weekend and practice some energy

testing and drills. I'll pass on as best I can what I've learned. My

next step from here is to keep practicing and then take the five day

EM workshop.

 

What's really cool is that my husband who is a bit skeptical about

energy medicine, kinesiology and such, really seemed interested now

because I phoned him and told him how the workshop was going. When I

got back he wanted to hear all about it and to start watching the

Energy Medicine videos right away.

 

I did some energy testing on him yesterday when I got back. The first

time it didn't work, and that is because I didn't do the three thumps

on myself to " wake up " my energy. Could you say that the three

thumps is an " on " switch? When I then did the three thumps, it

worked like a charm. He was a bit surprised by the difference. In

retrospect doing it without the thumps was a good demo for how it

works and why we do specific exercises in a very specific way in a

specific order. There is a science to it. And what's really cool is

that another tough skeptic was quickly convinced!

 

That's all I have for now. If you have an opportunity to take one of

the live energy medicing workshops, I say go for it. I doubt you'll

be disappointed.

 

Lori