The Relationship Roller Coaster

By Dondi Dahlin

My Mom and David have always been extremely hard workers. The people who work with and love them are often trying to get them to slow down. But, when you feel you were born to help others heal, your work is never done.

They often fold their strong work ethic into unique workshops, specifically one which started a long time ago and has come full circle with their New York Times Bestselling book, The Energies of Love.

Before The Energies of Love there was The Relationship Roller Coaster, and it took place while white water rafting on the Rogue River in Southern Oregon during the early 1980s. That’s right! Imagine battling white water, flying down class IV rapids in an 8×5 floating container, and diving deep into the issues of your relationship with your mate. At night, after navigating the mighty river, couples would delve into the dynamics of love around a cozy campfire while learning techniques to communicate more effectively. Mom and David took many couples on this adventure while traversing their own relationship and inviting nature in.

Throughout my teenage years, Mom and David packed school auditoriums with their teachings about The Relationship Roller Coaster and I gleaned the information and techniques to improve my own relationships through my 20s and 30s. Now in my late 40s, I still use techniques they taught me 35 years ago, and when I do, there is always positive progress in my relationship with others and with myself.

One of the most important things that Mom and David taught me was how to recognize whether a person perceives the world visually, tonally, digitally, or kinesthetically. Knowing this valuable little gem has helped me get through a lot of conflict over the decades in a much more graceful and far less debilitating way than if I wasn’t aware of people’s sensory types. Knowing my own sensory type has allowed me to understand why a tone in someone’s voice can trigger me so immediately into defensiveness, or why I look at situations and see everything wrong with them, or how easily I can feel my heart hurt and how quickly tears come. Can you guess my sensory types? If you don’t know yet, I will give you a hint: My mind never sees in graphs or lines and logic can seem completely illogical to me.

If you don’t know about the sensory types, and if I have peaked your interest in them, then you are in for a treat! For the last year and a half, we have been preparing The Energies of Love Super Summit. You will see marketing and publicity over the next few weeks about our very first endeavor into the world of summits, which can be so powerful and inspiring.

Don’t miss the fine print that The Energies of Love Super Summit is FREE! Added bonus: You don’t have to grab your oars and hit the river or pack into an auditorium to learn Mom and David’s simple yet profound protocols for having healthier, more loving relationships. We are bringing The Energies of Love into the comfort of your home!

What you won’t see during The Energies of Love Super Summit is what happened when we were on the road filming. When we went into the homes of Bruce Lipton and his wife Margaret Horton, Dawson Church and his wife Christine Church, husband/wife team Alberto Villoldo & Marcela Lobos, and Jean Houston we were all viscerally impacted by the filming sessions. More than once, our film crew was emotionally moved to tears by the wisdom of these incredible leaders and their thoughts about the biology, energy, spirituality, and psychology of relationships.

We hope you will join us for some of the most internationally recognized leaders in biology, psychology, shamanism, spirituality, new thought and human potential. You may have heard these experts before, but in The Energies of Love Super Summit, you will get to see them in new ways. The summit is video (not audio), and the experts open up about love, relationships, and what keeps two people together and evolving, or not. The summit brought us to laughter, tears, and into our hearts while we watched these accomplished teachers embrace vulnerability, the difficulties of relationships, and the infinite rewards of loving.

This event is made even more special by Mom and David guiding couples through a new evolution of their relationships, and in September we will share it all with you. I hope you will join us! I know I will be watching the summit for all seven days and sharing it with my friends so they can improve their relationships and have more joy in their lives. See you at The Energies of Love Super Summit!

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Karen BerryThe Relationship Roller Coaster

Can Energy Medicine be Used with Animals?

By Donna and David

Young Tiernan Tracing Rex’s Governing Meridian

We loved Shasta. Shasta was a Golden Retriever/Irish Setter mix who had the dignity of a Setter and the smarts and happy personality of a Retriever. She was the first dog who was truly ours together. We were in our 30s when Shasta entered our lives, just a few years after my (Donna’s) professional Energy Medicine practice had entered. Shasta was one of the first recipients of many of the techniques we now teach in the Certification Program. She was also one of my first collaborators as an Energy Medicine practitioner.

Shasta would greet my clients with a tail wag and a friendly sniff. Then she would take her place under the treatment table as I got to work. We had some concern that Shasta would take on people’s illnesses, but what I could see was that Shasta’s energies would engage the client’s energies in ways that were beneficial for both of them. That’s how it usually works for me as well.

We lived on an acre in the country just outside of Ashland, Oregon, and after Tanya and Dondi had left home, we took two more large dogs into the family. All three were between 70 and 90 pounds, and they all shared in their love of the land and in their love of food (remember the Far Side cartoon of two enthusiastic dogs watching their owner preparing their meal and one of them excitedly saying to the other, “Oh boy! . . . It’s dog food AGAIN!” It was like that.). We believed in energy testing our own diets, and we believed in that for the dogs. Each body is unique, and what would be good for one wasn’t necessarily good for the other.

As a result, we had a ritual about every six weeks of ushering the dogs into their accustomed spots in the back of our pick-up and driving them to the Grange Co-op, which was pet friendly and carried probably two dozen different types of dog food. We would march all three of these noble creatures into the Co-op and individually energy test them (using surrogate testing). “Ah, Shasta is OD’d on Science Diet for a while, but she’s strong on Nature’s Variety Duck and Turkey formula. Willow is ready to go back to Science Diet. Spirit is strongest on the Canine Wellness Protein Focused Formula this month.”

We will tell more stories about Shasta, Willow, and Spirit in future issues, but will close here by saying that the first Eden Energy Medicine canine recipient, Shasta, lived 17 healthy years. Even after her eyesight and hearing started to fail, she held her own with Willow and Spirit. She died quickly in an accident rather than old age.

We hope you enjoy this issue, which features a case history about EEM with a cat, an article on the incredible class Madison King will be offering for applying Energy Medicine with your pets, and an introduction to our upcoming Facebook Contest, “Favorite Fur Baby Friday”.

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Karen BerryCan Energy Medicine be Used with Animals?