A Word from Dr. Gaston

A word on energy medicines. At first glance our bodies are a group of specialized tissues and fluids (muscle, bone, nerves, layers, coverings, guts, glands, blood, lymph, etc.) which work in a coordinated fashion to get each one of us through life tasks and experiences. Food is our fuel, and laying down and sleeping our way to recharge.

If we look more in detail, these specialized tissues and fluids are, themselves, made up of individual units called cells. Same principles of food and rest apply to sustain cellular function. Things get a bit more complex when we start considering the details and metabolic pathways which translate into cellular function.

If we look even more in detail into cellular function and metabolic pathways, we find molecules, atoms, and particles. These have their electric potentials, charge, frequencies, resonance, and energy signatures. At this level things start getting closer to the fringes of established science, more complex and, at times, less understood. Well… less understood, or less well established in mainstream science circles.

Be this as it may, here we enter the realm of the subtle. At this level mainstream academics is, at large, unable to follow. At this level we enter the frontiers of science, the advancing waves led by pioneers; the early stages of the scientific method. True scientists at the forefront have, over the years, brought forth technological advances which have shown, through repeating the experience, to have positive effects on our biology (our bodies), to help our bodies heal. The application of these technologies is what is known as Energy Medicine. Sound, color, electromagnetic fields and frequencies, Quantum Field Theory, scalar fields, vital energy or chi, cellular wall potentials, structured water, and several others are common terms used to describe, at times in quite vehement or flamboyant ways, what we comprehend about these technologies.

Many of these technologies are today at the cutting edge of healing and carry a large body of experiential evidence to support them. Similarly, many of these carry a significant number of detractors. As a rule, the more aggressive the information campaign to discredit a technology, the more attention we want to pay to it. If it was not significant, the threatened system would not waste resources trying to make it go away!

It is certainly challenging to navigate the ecosystem of these new (and not so new) technologies. Courageous exploration tempered with smart skepticism and questioning are an intelligent and recommended approach. If you are inclined to be analytical, read critiques from main stream to technologies you are exploring. Quite commonly you will be able to find in these critiques a generous dose of circular logic that may sound impressive but says little of nothing. As a suggestion if you come across a detractor, ask them if they can explain to you the placebo effect.

The placebo effect, in my humble opinion, is our Holy Grail!

 Dr. Gaston