Q09: How do I find a Balancing Therapist?

Q10: Am I better served by someone who uses many options?

Q11: I have heard that Alternative Care approaches are New Age.
         Are they?

Q12: I would like my Conventional doctor to know what I am considering.
         Is there a problem with that?

Q13: Has anyone been born without Energy Blocks?

Q14: I follow disease prevention practices. Will that keep me healthy?

Q15: Some people say we create our own illnesses. Do we?

Q16: How do I know if my health is jeopardized by Energy Blocks?

Q09: How do I find a Balancing Therapist?

This is still difficult in the Spring of 2004, as I am the only one practicing The Higher Self version of Balancing Therapy described on the Balance section of Earthtym.net

In North America, there is little cultural encouragement for the development of spiritual skills required for the optimal application of this approach. Considerable time and effort is required in most cases and the personalized nature of the therapy does not permit the regular scheduling of appointments and routine and somewhat general delivery of services provided by other modalities.

By my exposure to other forms of Energy Balancing, including Kinesiology and Acupuncture, I estimate that the Higher Self system is 10 times more effective. However, the other forms can be learned in a more analytical and predictable fashion and most North Americans expect the routine, repetitive session exposure to health assistance they have been exposed to for the rest of their lives from the Conventional care institution. A general income instability associated with the provision of this form of Balancing therapy is also a deterrent in a capital-based society.

You can find potential and partially skilled therapists all around you. Any therapist who uses muscle testing in their practice can utilize the same form of testing, diagnosis, and design of resolving ingredients as is outlined on the Balancing Therapy site. If you don't make a request to them, they have little motivation to examine the site (http://www.earthtym.net/balance.html) and extend their skills. If you present a market and a focus of interest, the outcome could be positive for both of you.

I may be reached at e-mail Contact

Q10: Am I better served by someone who uses many options?

The question of many versus one or a few modalities is a good one.
In the area of health, we often overlook the fact that many influences can contribute to our maintaining our health or of our becoming ill.

There are times when a very skilled specialist will serve us best for our ailment yet is limited to their area of expertise. But this is seldom.

More often, symptoms of distressed health may indicate a wide variety of possibilities. It may be that only one of those possibilities is the root of the problem with other regions being depressed because of their association with the central organ of imbalance. More often, several influences will be contributing to the symptoms and will require a variety of health improvement choices for efficient recovery to begin. It can even happen that the main source of the difficulty is not indicated at all by the symptoms because the symptoms are being generated by second and third level sources seemingly distant from the main source, according to general or popular understanding.

The relevancy of the above possibilities can quickly be focused into an efficient approach IF the practitioner you visit has some means of dependably and quickly reducing the confusion of the large number of possibilities to the features of the reality --- Get to the point! There are few such diagnostic options which are both accurate, low cost, and fast. I know of few beyond Spiritual Guidance and Muscle Testing. A lack of availability of these may mandate more technical testing and the benefits, risks, delays, and costs connected to them.

The first best step is an accurate diagnosis.
Without that, maltreatment by any practitioner may make you more ill, dramatically delay your improvement, and, for thousands of North Americans each year --- could result in death. That is by nationally recognized statistics published in late July, 2000, in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Assoc.)

The second best step is to find a skilled practitioner who can provide a health benefit approach directly related to the accurate diagnosis and within your resources. The greatest options are useless if you can't access them by reason of distance or capital resources. The best practitioner is the one who will humbly recognize their own weaknesses and inabilities and make an effort to find someone more experienced and skilled in the health field service you need. Your difficulty may be totally inappropriate for him- or herself, yet, if he or she finds you a relevant resource-person, they have greatly assisted you. Reward them accordingly.

A great disadvantage of the health institution teaching practices generally followed in North America, and of the long-term attitudes of many of the participants is the general level of intolerance and personal insecurity. I, and many others, have gone to doctors with specific problems and suggested diagnosis only to be informed that what ever we have, it isn't what we suspect --- because that is not their diagnosis. And while they are unable to diagnose the condition and understand the symptoms, they solidly refuse to refer you to anyone else.

If they discourage you enough maybe you will just go away and not return. If you don't return, they tell themselves that they have cured you of your hypochondrial anxiety. Of course, if you die, you don't return either. And if you go to another practitioner and they assist you in recovering, the more intolerant doctor is likely to take the position that you were not ill originally and that the other physician is a quack. This is, in spite of the tests taken in the first doctor's office clearly showing that you were sick. I have experienced this myself and too frequently hear similar experiences from others. Doctors, if you don't like the bad PR, don't make it happen.

SUMMARY: Get a good diagnosis first, then get the most relevant treatment you can find. A sincere practitioner who will first listen to you and then suggest a direct or combined plan of assistance, and, who is humble enough to readily admit when he does not know, and, supportive enough to try and refer you to someone who can help --- is your best choice. They may utilize many modalities themselves or as few as one. It is not quantity that counts. It's the quality of the person.

Q11: I have heard that Alternative care approaches are New Age.

More specifically: "What is New Age and what other generally described approaches are there?"

"Old Age" medicine is typically any Conservative North American status quo approach to medicine. For the most part, it is only a bit more than 100 years old in its common acceptance. It tends to be deductive-biased depending on the assumptions and expectations which lead to the recognition and associations termed facts. When all else appears to be in confusion through a lack of awareness, the conservative approach provides quick and direct responses to medical difficulties. Historically, when the responses prove constructive, they are cast in steel. Errors tend to be forgotten.

Acute illnesses respond favorably often while chronic multi-influenced illnesses are poorly treated. This conventional approach mandates a sanctioned-by-power (of an institution) person, in the form of a doctor, as the ultimate authority over the choices of the patient. He is taught the facts by his trial-and-error and theory producing predecessors, and facts are not to be questioned. North American governments have generally acknowledged and sanctioned this assumed authority into what was a medical monopoly until during the 1970s. Some people argue that it still is.

"New Age" arose as a reaction to the increasing and repeated failures of the Conventional approach. It was part of a general cultural backlash against authoritarian institutions which had dispensed intolerance, abusiveness, and secular mathematical evaluation of individuals for centuries. "God is dead," was heralded in the religious area. Anti-war pacifism was advocated in the previously duty-and-honor dominated aggressiveness of politics. No spanking and no discipline was advocated to replace parental physical abuse.

Many new opportunities for self-awareness development emerged to replace the self-denial social judgement era that encouraged the fracturing of families, health, and the environment for the benefit of the economic and political leaders. With only the past to hate, and deprived of the awareness of other options, a typical choice to choose an opposite direction by reaction appeared better. So from ultra self-sacrifice, we moved to ultra self-indulgence.

The New Age influence on health care modalities was to throw away all restraints and invite a confusion of all options. Confusion is the result of a lack of relevancy. You cannot have relevancy if you do not have experience and knowledge of the option you are considering. Just as the Conventional approaches used the carrier of institutional structure and power and the weight of public opinion and the mass media to justify itself, so, New Age approaches use a format of partially informed personal inclination and anti-authoritarian individualism to justify itself.

In New Age, the individual is the ultimate decision maker about their health. The person becomes the all-knowing god. Unfortunately, the individual seldom is very self-aware and is often poorly informed about the breadth of human health. In addition, with their encouraged lack of self-restraint, and the general abandonment of spiritual skills in favor of Egotism over Super-Egoism, the individual can seldom see more than the most basic options. And those options turn out to be wrong just as often as the decisions made by their Conventional forerunners.

A third approach has always existed but it has always in human history been largely avoided, even denied. We sometimes talk in religious circles about the possibility, indeed the preference of such --- but, we usually exclude ourselves from realizing the benefit of it. That way, we don't have to try. And if you don't try, you can't lose. It doesn't affirm either the state and leadership, or, the individual as an ultimate source of authority and wisdom. It is Spiritual Guidance.

A few Alternative therapist and practitioners, a few scientists, and a few Conventional doctors truly believe in and seek to follow this form of authority. It is acknowledged and expressed on this site. It is the core of the Higher Self Health Balancing System. It is supported by the Seminar Notes pages and the Health Balance Package. It is not New Age. It is not Conventional authoritarianism. It discredits the possibility that any human, regardless of skill, study, or intellect --- can quickly recognize and understand the myriad of influences which can contribute, in personalized combinations, to the development of illness and one's recovery from illness. This skepticism is extended to the groups of persons who form institutions.

SUMMARY: Most Alternative health care approaches are New Age in fundamental belief and practice, but not all.

Q12: I would like my Conventional doctor to know ....?

In an ideal world you would never get sick.
In an less ideal world you might become ill from time to time but you would always be adequately self-aware and understanding of health that you could determine what you needed and when and take action towards your recovery. A little closer to reality, most people know little about the influences which weaken and destroy health. The larger and more structured the society, the greater the likelihood will be that we give over our self-responsibility to others whom we share our income with for their specialization in their service even as we have chosen to specialize in our work. But here, a problem arises.

When you have specialists which hold themselves out as authorities in spite of their acknowledged failures, and, who disrespect others who follow their specialty from a different perspective with an equal yet different degree of success, you have a severe conflict of trust. If you demonstrate that you trust the one party, the second assumes that you distrust them. If either party come to feel that you distrust their judgement, they may withdraw their offer of service on the basis that they can no longer trust you --- that you are not sincere and you may make trouble for them. You have placed yourself in the middle and elected yourself judge. Yet for each of them, neither respect your authority. You are in danger of being a dependent who requires the service of at least one of them, yet are denied by both.

As long as this conflict exists between different modalities of health care and you are too unprepared and too weak to take authority, you will either have to choose very high quality participants, or, conceal the activities of the one from the other. If you find two high quality practitioners who are aware of and respecting of each others skills and who can work together for your benefit, then you have the pleasure and the freedom to be open and honest without risking exclusion and self-betrayal.

SUMMARY: Each persons decision must be made on the merits of their situations and the quality of the persons they are depending on.

Q13: Has anyone been born without Energy Blocks?

The true history of ALL Spiritually Guided persons is that they began without Guidance and likely with energy blocks and later learned to receive Spiritual Guidance. 

Jesus Messiah (Christ) sought Guidance from childhood until he was age 30 and only then received the Gift of the ability to receive Guidance when he was baptised by John the Baptist. This is recorded in all popular and accepted histories of Jesus.

Buddha grew up in financial wealth and privilege and found himself frustrated and anxiety-ridden about his wealth and power: unsettled and unhappy with life. It was only then, that he chose to set aside his power and wealth and learn through practice the skills of No-Emotion and Reverence which allowed him spiritual awareness.

Mohammed was also middle-aged when he, in grief and frustration, retired to a cave and through Reverence and No-Emotion received the directions set out in the Koran.

For all of recorded human history and before, almost every human born has had energy blocks. The few who have not we have no awareness of ... probably because these led balanced lives which neither encouraged them to acquire or resulted in them receiving wealth, power, and popularity during their lifetime.

SUMMARY: If your parents or community have taught you spiritual skills, or, you have gained them by your own motivation, you will be able to prevent Energy Blocks from forming, and, gradually dissipate those you may have been born with. If you do not have such skills, you will build Energy Blocks. The question is only one of when and how many.

Q14: I follow disease prevention practices.
Will that keep me healthy?

The number and style of disease prevention practices depend greatly upon one's community, one's environment, and one's personal awareness. Different precautions are relevant for different reasons in different environments and amongst different communities. You may follow some health maintaining practices but it is almost impossible to know all of what could be a positive practice for your personal environment. To follow all of them would also likely result in what others would call anti-social behavior since many illnesses are acquired through our proximity to others or by their imposed influence on us.

If you have been born with any Energy Blocks or have had any life experiences which have generated Energy Blocks and you have not rid yourself of these --- they can encourage reflex behaviors and attitudes in you which will jeopardize your health. It once again becomes a question of your level of awareness and skill and the freedom and support you have in and from your community. Many people who follow addictive behaviors confidently declare that they are health nuts. Addictive behaviors are not healthy. They eliminate some of our choices. Some of those choices are integral for a healthy lifestyle.

SUMMARY: Unless you are constantly improving your health, and for as long as you are taking an active participation in life, you have opportunities of becoming periodically ill, hopefully of a slight and temporary nature.

Q15: Some people say we create our own illnesses.
Do we?

You have expressed a New Age assumption here which is an Ego rationalization of the frustration of coping with illness. Disease is a fact of physical life. It is not a question of whether we have a disease or not but rather one of how healthy we are. In health, we maintain a balance such that the parasites within us contribute to our health rather than diminish it. We select nutritional quality in the same way.

We don't create disease just as we do not create viruses, bacteria, and the abuse others direct at us. It is our Ego, SuperEgo, and Unconscious choice as to how we prepare and respond to these realities. We can fail to respond through ignorance, confusion, or misunderstanding. We can respond with irrelevance and irresponsibility by letting our Ego or SuperEgo rule our decisions and make needless mistakes through the worship of human authorities we term experts, or, through laziness or desire. 

The New Age approach assumes that we do, or should know everything and understand everything in the universe. It cops out of spirituality by suggesting that if anything goes wrong for us we are justified in having our SuperEgo abuse our Ego for its stupidity. Or, the reverse. So, we strengthen our Ego through abuse and pride. Soon, we begin to believe that we are god. But to cope with our failures we are forced, in this approach, to use our SuperEgo to constantly restrain the frustration, anger, and disappointment of our Ego --- until we have little to express except a bland and artificial acceptance of everything. So, New Age preaches that everything will turn out as it should, if, we let it. This is the opposite of a spiritual approach.

With a spiritual approach, we accept that we know and understand little about the universe. We accept that God knows all and we acknowledge that we have an opportunity to communicate with God by way of the spiritual communication link, our Higher Self. We acknowledge that by humbly asking, rather than proudly assuming, we can become aware of what the most relevant action or inaction or process is required to influence a cure or recovery. We also accept what New Age and agnostics cannot accept because of their focus on the physical.

A spiritual approach acknowledges that for the benefit of the balance of the universe, death is as much a part of reality as life. The spiritual prayer is that one's choices be such as will contribute to the positive direction of the universe as intended by God. In other words, let God's will be done, not ours. As I have always found by following the Spiritual Guidance I have been given, many miracles follow from such Guided actions. Many times, my own life has been saved through the following of such Guidance with the result being that I could contribute constructively to the lives of others by sharing what I had learned through Guidance to cope with an illness I had.

The other side of the equation is that God's will, at some point, will be that we graduate to the spiritual realm and leave our bodies behind. That is, the spiritually aware and Guided person is accepting of death as a new beginning if he, or she, has done their best in this life. The New Age person and the agnostic reject this perspective and find it impossible to understand. In the black and white world they commonly profess, one must either love life or desire death. For the spiritually aware person, one neither loves life nor fears death. One LIVES life. 

In conclusion, we can promote illness through our negligence, and, it can happen to us because of who we are, where we are, and when we are there. If someone drops an atomic bomb on us, we didn't make it happen. We have the equal potential to use our Spiritual Guidance to avoid, diminish the risk of, and recover from disease, or, a nuclear attack --- if, and when, that is God's plan for us.

Q16: How do I know if my health is jeopardized by Energy Blocks?

The only sure way to know is to be tested.
The greater the expertise and influence of the therapist and the therapy which is used as a resource, the more certain you can be as to whether you are currently being influenced by Energy Blocks.

A secondary way of assessing the possibility is to have someone else assess you for symptoms. Do you have any allergies or sensitivities. Do you feel or think in certain frustrating or conflict generating ways when you have eaten certain foods or are in specific types of environments. Have several friends who know you well, and, whom you have reassured that you will not abuse them for their answers, review the Symptoms part of the website and provide you with their feedback. Many people who have symptoms of addictions are quick to deny how much they are influenced.

A third way of assessing if your health is jeopardized is to reflect on your own history of experiences and expressions of behavior and attitude. Do you ever lose control of your actions and feel you should apologize latter? Do you see certain negative patterns repeating in your life? Do you ever say, "I'll never do (that) again?" Check out the rest of the site for indications as expressed through symptoms, addictions, or intolerances.

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