June 2019
Energy Medicine
06/25/19 Filed in: Wellbeing
"In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy."
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
Daughter of a physician and a nurse educator, I grew up in a household where dinner table conversation often consisted of hospital talk. My father, an anesthesiologist, gave spinals to women in labor, a practice more commonly used in those days. Although he claimed he had given over 50,000 spinal injections, and while I'm sure he was there when some of the women gave birth, I don't ever recall him mentioning that wondrous miracle. Instead he spoke of all the things that had gone wrong at the hospital that day.
My father, a German Jew who had escaped Nazi Germany and whose own parents hadn't, was a highly cultured, intelligent man prone to guilt, overwork, dissatisfaction and complaint. Given his challenging history, it makes sense that he might focus on the negative, but I have to admit our dinner table conversations did little to inspire my confidence in hospitals or in allopathic medicine.
While there have been remarkable advances in the field of allopathic medicine, and I'm certainly glad to be living in an era where so many aliments people would have have previously died from are now manageable, treatable and often curable, I've always gravitated, perhaps based upon my personal bias, toward what I broadly refer to as Energy Medicine.
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– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
Daughter of a physician and a nurse educator, I grew up in a household where dinner table conversation often consisted of hospital talk. My father, an anesthesiologist, gave spinals to women in labor, a practice more commonly used in those days. Although he claimed he had given over 50,000 spinal injections, and while I'm sure he was there when some of the women gave birth, I don't ever recall him mentioning that wondrous miracle. Instead he spoke of all the things that had gone wrong at the hospital that day.
My father, a German Jew who had escaped Nazi Germany and whose own parents hadn't, was a highly cultured, intelligent man prone to guilt, overwork, dissatisfaction and complaint. Given his challenging history, it makes sense that he might focus on the negative, but I have to admit our dinner table conversations did little to inspire my confidence in hospitals or in allopathic medicine.
While there have been remarkable advances in the field of allopathic medicine, and I'm certainly glad to be living in an era where so many aliments people would have have previously died from are now manageable, treatable and often curable, I've always gravitated, perhaps based upon my personal bias, toward what I broadly refer to as Energy Medicine.
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