Kari Samuels, Intuitive Counselor

Eastern Mind Meets Western Medicine

Recently I was asked by a client how I reconcile the emotional, the spiritual, and western medicine. For instance, if you have a broken leg, how do your emotions enter into that? Or you suffer from depression, isn’t that genetics? How does the spiritual enter into the equation?

This is something I think about all the time and am still learning. I don’t claim to know, so this is merely my understanding from my experience with clients, with myself, from reading books by medical intuitives, and from listening to medical intuitives diagnose me and others on the radio. So please understand this is my interpretation alone–I don’t claim it to be anything more.

I believe physical ailments have a cause on the spiritual, emotional, and physical level. If you look at this as energy, it would be quantum, subtle, and gross (material) energy. As we learned in physics, energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed. A disharmony begins on the quantum (spiritual) level. Say there is an experience that you need to learn a spiritual lesson from (quantum energy) that causes you to have certain responses that are emotional (subtle energy). When we don’t have the tools, strategies or support to process all of the emotions in an experience, these emotions are stored in our subconscious minds until we are ready to process them. Energy flows through our acupuncture meridians. That energy is emotion, and different meridians channel different levels of emotion. So when we have an experience with this backlog of emotions that are still on our subconscious, the energy (emotions) don’t travel efficiently through a certain meridian, or meridians. This will also affect our choices (physical) about how we respond to and treat our bodies. We will not be aware that certain foods, relationships or behaviors are causing us harm, we won’t have healthy impulses in that area, because the consciousness of that meridian, or aspect of your life isn’t working effectively. We act more reflexively than consciously in those situations. So, over time, when the energy isn’t flowing properly in that meridian (which also will affect your behavior and habits in that aspect of your life) over time, this causes physical degeneration. And when that happens you need some physical help, which can often take the form of surgery, pharmaceuticals, etc.

My teacher of the LifeLine Technique, Darren Weissman says that symptoms are “gifts in strange wrapping paper.” The reason that these ailments are a gift, is that is the only way our body can communicate with us bringing the subconscious patterns to our consciousness. It is the only way that we can bring to consciousness that which we were ignoring before, and that is on all three levels: physical, emotional and spiritual. Therefore, it is always important to treat the physical symptom first – that is the area that has had the most degeneration, and look at the physical habits and treatments to heal that area. And you absolutely cannot address your emotions when you are in physical pain! But there is always more underneath that, that which needs to be healed. The physical is the most dense manifestation of an imbalance, but it always begins on a subtle emotional level.

Part of what I do is detecting certain health problems and understanding the emotional and spiritual reasons behind them – and they are always there. For instance, I noticed I was consulting with several women who had thyroid issues. They were all very outspoken, felt comfortable communicating, and couldn’t understand why they were having issues in their throat chakra – and yet all of them had creative/life purpose urges that they were repressing to accommodate the responsibilities of their family. I guided them to a doctor to treat the condition, and I also encouraged them to pursue their creativity to heal the underlying cause. Because even if you heal the physical, the energy of the emotions underneath that are still looking for expression. More examples: I also notice that several clients with knee pain were afraid of making changes in their lives, and men with back pain often feel overwhelmed with their material responsibilities.

I see the western medicine as being an integral part of the healing process. In some cases, there is nothing better for treating the acute symptoms of imbalance – once it gets to that level. But treating the symptom is one part of the process; you also want to clear the emotional and spiritual issues that led to the imbalance to begin with - and that does include some physical changes as well.

So the next time you’re dealing with your chronic sciatica, by all means go to a doctor. But don’t forget that the sciatica, too, has a spiritual and emotional core, one that needs to be addressed if it is to be truly healed.