Healers' reactions to clients (was Protection from and Tranference of Evil Qi)

[Guest guest]

The reactions of healers to clients is a subject which needs to be studied

and addressed more by both scientific and esoteric healers. Neither the

strictly scientific healers NOR most alternative schools of healing have

looked at this subject with the attention it needs. The truth is that the

healer's reaction to clients can impact greatly on the healing process. It

can facilitate it in the case of wise healers who know this phenomenon

occurs and who have learned to work with it or around it. It can be a

roadblock to healing in the cases of healers who have not yet learned or

admitted to themselves that it occurs.

 

I want to go into this first from a Western, more scientific approach.

There are MDs, DOs, nurses, and others who will tell you straight-out that

some patients have an effect on them. These are the wise MDs, DOs, nurses,

etc. who generally are very good at what they do. They often are above

average in their practice of medicine, sometimes even extraordinary.

Frequently their practices build up very quickly because of word of mouth

from their patients to their patients' relatives and friends. The reason

these healers are so good at what they do is that they not only have the

scientific competence and caring which is so vital to being a successful

healer, they also know a great deal not only about other people, but more

important, about themselves.

 

Whenever I hear anyone say that s/he is completely scientific, completely

objective, and pays no attention to emotions, I am very, very leery of the

individual because I know that a person who believes him/herself to be

completely objective and " scientific " usually is one of the least scientific

and objective individuals. This also is an individual who misses quite a

bit which is right under his/her nose. Things which should be factored into

an " equation " in order to gain true understanding are being left out because

this person doesn't assign any validity to them. Everyone has biases. Wise

people know this and allow for their biases and are more careful in their

analysis as a result. The person who believes him/herself to be completely

scientific and objective is failing to consider the possibility of his/her

biases influencing his/her outlook or conclusions. This is a person who

sometimes does not realize where boundaries are extending or that instead of

being objective, s/he's actually influencing outcomes.

 

The truth is that people influence each other, and doctors, nurses,

scientists, engineers, etc. are no more exempt from this than anyone else.

Let's take a look at one of the ways in which this happens.

 

How do you react when you are around an angry person? Many people will

become angry and hostile toward the angry person. They will gear up into

" fight " mode themselves. There is nothing esoteric about this reaction.

It's an evolutionary response. Animals who survive sometimes are those who

meet aggression with aggression. Sometimes, it's the animal that slinks

away or becomes passive. But the dominant animal usually will react to

anger with anger. The adrenalin starts flowing, muscles tense, teeth are

shown, growls come forth, etc. A person in a position of authority - like a

doctor - is a dominant animal.

 

But, among humans, this also is a personal response. Consider for a moment

an adult who as a child was brought up in a family in which meeting anger

with anger was the best and most appropriate survival option. Consider a

person who was raised in an abusive family. Such a person does not want to

be around a person who is angry. Even though this person may not react with

any outward show of aggression toward the angry person, this person wants

the angry person out of his/her environment ASAP. The angry person is shown

the door without ever being listened to.

 

And, consider a person with unfaced anger issues of his/her own. The last

thing such a person wants is to be around someone who is openly angry

because this makes it harder for this person to keep denying and suppressing

his/her own anger.

 

Many doctors and nurses will feel threatened by an angry patient and will

react with anger toward that patient and/or with showing the patient the

door as soon as possible. This occurs even though the anger is not directed

toward the doctor or nurse. This occurs even though the patient may only

appear angry (like people in pain). It occurs because the doctor or nurse

has never really learned about anger. It occurs because the doctor or nurse

has never really learned about themselves and their responses. They're

reacting automatically without stopping to analyze and work around or with

the anger. Anger in a client can be a diagnostic tool. Medical and nursing

schools used to teach students that when a patient appears angry, suspect

that the patient is in chronic pain. Also consider the possibility of

digestive system problems. TCM healers are taught to suspect Liver

imbalance when clients appear angry. (If you don't believe me that chronic

pain can cause a person to appear angry and even be angry, just look in the

mirror the next time you have a toothache or a headache or a bout of

arthritis which is not responding to pain medication. It won't be a

smiling, happy face that peers back at you. Also, severe pain will cause a

person to regress emotionally.)

 

People react to others - the bright smile that beckons and causes others to

relax, the haughty and comtemptuous look in the eye that drives others away,

the folded arm stance that says a person is resistent, etc. Even when

people aren't consciously aware of body language and other non-verbal clues,

they're being affected by them. It's a good idea for healers of any school

to become more aware of the non-verbal messages they may be sending. This

would fall under " bedside manner " for MDs and DOs. It's also a good idea

for healers to learn to relax. A healer who can't relax is going to have an

uphill climb putting clients at ease and getting them to relax. Getting

clients to relax is going to be critical if the healer uses Chinese pulse

diagnosis.

 

Some people have a talent for relaxing and helping others to relax. I'm

told a lot that I have a soothing effect on people who are anxious. Part of

it probably is all the meditation I used to do (enables me to relax

instantly most of the time when someone else is anxious and needs help

calming), but part of it may be due to the fact I have far more Yin energy

than Yang. One of the functions of Yin is to calm.

 

As hard as patients' emotional states can be on Western establishment MDs,

DOs, and nurses, they can be even harder on some alternative healers who are

working with clients in a more open manner. I'm talking here about healers

like massage therapists, Reiki healers, those practicing external Qi Gong,

those using shamanistic-type techniques, and others. And few of these

healers are taught how to deal with the effects of clients on healers. As

far as I know shamanistic healers are taught protection techniques, but few

others are.

 

I don't want a debate on here as to whether or not there is something to the

use of crystals, visualization, meditation, etc. The main point for this

list is that healers are affected by the emotional states of clients and

there are techniques which can help healers " mellow out " and avoid burnout.

 

Discussions of more esoteric topics like external Qi Gong are permitted.

External Qi Gong healing refers to a healer using his/her Qi Gong to

influence the flow of Qi in a client's body. The closest Western analogy is

the laying on of hands, and according to evening news reports in the US,

this is being experimented with at some hospitals in order to see if it can

provide a little extra something which helps patients to heal better and

faster than they otherwise would. I believe there also are experiments

being done to see if these healers can influence colonies of bacteria in

petri dishes, thus trying to establish if the help these healers give to

patients is due simply to suggestion or human interaction with extra

attenion or if something else also is happening.

 

Most of the reports I've heard concerning the possibility of Evil Qi

transfer to the healer are coming from the practice of external Qi Gong.

 

I want to remind readers that according to Western anatomy and physiology,

there is no known reason why acupuncture works. There are theories about

the release of certain chemicals, but as far as I know, based on anatomical

models of the nervous system and the circulation system, there is nothing to

account for why acupuncture works and why needles stuck in one part of the

body will affect another part of the body. The West knows about " referred

pain " in which pain in one part of the body is felt in another part due to

the path that certain nerves take, but this does not account for some of the

sensations felt when acupuncture or even acupressure is used. Thirty years

ago before a Western journalist received acupuncture anesthesia during an

emergency operation in China, acupunture was regarded by practically

everyone in the US as just esoteric mumbo-jumbo. More people began to take

it seriously when it was demonstrated to work on animals, thus eliminating

the possibility of a placebo effect.

 

Those wishing to learn more about techniques such as breathing exercises and

Qi Gong exercises which increase Qi in the body and about techniques for

directing Qi flow within one's own body might want to check out some of the

martial arts message groups for another view of the subject.

 

I do ask that posters list contraindications and cautions when posting. The

possibility of negative Qi transfer is one of the cautions which should be

mentioned when people are considering experimenting with external Qi Gong.

 

Victoria

 

 

 

 

 

 

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