Donna and David Keynote Major India Healing Conference Virtually While Eva Gold Presents In-Person

By Eva Gold

An outside view of the pyramid where the conference was held.

Donna and David were invited to present a keynote address at a major healing conference in India. India has opened its doors to embrace technology and modern approaches to wellness, all while respecting the ancient techniques of meditation and yoga. Donna and David’s travel schedule didn’t allow them to attend. Instead they delivered their presentation electronically from the U.S. while the entire conference was gathered and listening to them in India. Meanwhile, I flew to Pyramid Valley, India, to follow their talk with an in-person keynote and a post-conference class.

Great speakers came from all over the world to share their energy-healing discoveries, techniques, and inventions. There was a presentation about using light and crystals to balance chakras, meridians, and Radiant Circuits. Another fascinating speaker demonstrated the effect of light on allergies. Other topics included laser therapy for pain and tinnitus, regression for healing difficult cases, and many forms of meditation. Doctors, scientists, psychologists, and therapists shared their case studies, triumphs, and defeats.

When Donna and David were “Zoomed” in, they presented all kinds of energy ideas and exercises for beginners. Watching Donna’s energy artistry mesmerized me once again, as it always does, and the entire audience as well! She tested and corrected all the energies of the Daily Energy Routine, the Aura, energies crossing over, grounding, and more. But her most convincing tool, and what the audience really loved, was energy testing. They couldn’t get enough of it and embraced all of our EEM techniques unlike any crowd I had ever seen!

My live presentation followed Donna’s and preceded Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, who is widely known as Dr. Quantum from “What the Bleep do we Know.” I found myself on a big stage, blinded by many lights and cameras. Although I had prepared my seminar in a logical sequence, I quickly realized that a linear approach would go against the natural flow of our participants’ way of being. They didn’t want or need long scientific explanations about how things work energetically, in fact, talking about energy and living with energy as a lifestyle is quite normal there. It was evident that energy testing was the most important thing for our friends in India to witness. So, I jumped into my ‘spontaneous shoes’ and went with the flow. They were quick to accept the theory of energy testing, but when actual proof was demonstrated right in front of their eyes, you could literally feel an energy shift in the room. They were delighted to experience simple methods of testing and correction. It was a pleasant surprise to most of them and it created an instant trust in EEM.

Eva Gold presents on stage.

When I walked off the stage I found myself surrounded by many people asking to be tested. They had come to the conference with a strong desire to discover and were very enthusiastic to learn more about EEM. They wanted to know where their bodies were, energetically. They loved ‘hooking up,’ spooning their feet, and doing crossover patterns. They were curious about the Triple Warmer and how to combat stress. Their radiant faces and curious minds melted my heart. One by one I met with every person who had questions or wanted to be tested and gave each of them one exercise to practice based on their imbalance. We kept it playful and enjoyed a fun evening. These people had the most sincere and heartfelt response to our EEM introductory presentation I had ever seen. It was 10:00 p.m. when I finally went to my room that night, exhausted but inspired!

Pyramid Valley was buzzing with excitement throughout the weekend. As I walked through the courtyard, I was delighted to see people walking around Thumping, Cross Crawling, and Hooking -Up. They wasted no time in putting their new skills into practice. People would stop me to show off what they’d learned and some even asked to be re-tested. They beamed when they were able to discover an imbalance – as they learned this is the first and most significant step towards resolving an issue. They LOVED testing energies! EEM was highly successful and I believe its popularity will grow in India from this point forward; it found a new home with friendly family members of bright minds, kind energy, and loving hearts.

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Karen BerryDonna and David Keynote Major India Healing Conference Virtually While Eva Gold Presents In-Person

Is Energy Testing Accurate?

Anne Jensen, Ph.D.
Kinesiology Researcher

By David Feinstein, Ph.D.

One of the challenges in developing Eden Energy Medicine was to teach people who – unlike Donna Eden – don’t “see” energy, how to work effectively with the body as an energy system. To do this, we rely on a method used widely by many health care providers – particularly chiropractors, kinesiologists, and Touch for Health practitioners – for assessing the flow of energy through the body.

Each of the body’s major energy pathways – the meridians – moves through a different muscle. By positioning the body and applying pressure in a manner that assesses the relative resistance of the muscle, a determination can be made about whether the meridian energy associated with that muscle is flowing through it optimally or is inhibited or blocked.  Conventionally called “Muscle Testing,” Donna calls this “Energy Testing” because the strength of the muscle is not being tested. It doesn’t change from one moment to the next.  What is being tested is the flow of energy.

Research on the reliability of Muscle Testing has been mixed and ultimately unpersuasive. This has long been of concern to us, but we have interpreted the inconsistent findings as being based on the fact that many of the variables involved in the process are difficult to control, contaminating research results. For instance, since the mind can demonstrably influence the flow of energy, if the practitioner is nervous about being evaluated in the research setting or believes a particular outcome will be correct, this in itself will influence the flow of energy through the meridians and thus the test. We teach our practitioners ways of keeping the mind from interfering with test outcomes, but these methods are not widely practiced.

So we have been particularly interested in new research on Muscle Testing that has come out of England’s exalted Oxford University and which is very encouraging about the accuracy of the method.  I recently met the scientist who conducted this research, Anne Jensen, Ph.D., at a conference in Vancouver. I had already read the papers presenting her research, and I attended her lecture at the conference and then had the honor of having lunch with her.

What did I discover?

I learned that the Oxford team estimates that more than one million people use Muscle Testing as an evaluation tool.  This includes approximately 40% of the chiropractors in the U.S., but also practitioners in dozens of other health care disciplines. Like Donna, Jensen makes a distinction between testing the strength of the muscle and the state of the muscle, for which she uses the term “neural control.”

In Jensen’s initial experiment, Muscle Tests yielded significantly greater accuracy than when the practitioners made an “intuitive guess” about the condition being tested. A replication of the study produced a similar finding.

While the experiments did not show Muscle Testing to be 100% accurate, they do suggest that the approach provides information that should be considered along with intuition, observation, and client reports. And some of the practitioners did achieve nearly perfect accuracy in their tests.  We consider this an extraordinary finding since the research was being conducted outside of any treatment context, where the natural rapport between client and practitioner is likely to enhance the accuracy of the test.  One other finding of great interest is that practitioners who were relatively new to Muscle Testing were as accurate with the method as those who had been using it for years, suggesting that if you are applying a method incorrectly, applying it incorrectly for a decade does not make you better at it.

Click here to learn more about Jensen’s online courses.

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Karen BerryIs Energy Testing Accurate?

Spreading the Spirit of Tikkun Olam

EP Canada

David Feinstein presenting at the Energy Psychology Conference of Canada

By Dondi Dahlin

When I recently MC’d the Energy Psychology Conference of Canada, our good friend Sharon Cass-Toole told me that we need to keep spreading healing and “Tikkun Olam.” Tikkun Olam is a Jewish concept represented by acts of kindness to repair the world. Sharon has extended the spirit of Tikkun Olam at her Energy Psychology Conference of Canada every year for the past 19 years. This year was no exception in bringing healing and light to people, especially those who have experienced grief, loss, and trauma. And, truly, who hasn’t? That is just about all of us. We are living in some scary times, fueled by fear, ignorance, and intolerance. Sharon shows us how to empower ourselves with an excellent array of teachers, classes, vendors, and music that she offers every year. People from all over the world attend the only conference of its kind in Canada.

This year the Energy Psychology Conference of Canada was held in Vancouver, British Columbia and it featured a multitude of workshops including transforming grief and loss, the effect of transgenerational traumas, helping children and teens through Energy Psychology, emotional reframing of trauma-induced pain, birth trauma syndromes, sound healing, sacred geometry, epigenetics, and an exquisite panel of doctors and healers who discussed what to do when energy healing fails. Keynote speakers included Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Dr. Christine Page, Dr. David Feinstein, and Dr. Dawson Church.

We celebrate Sharon and her husband Meyer Toole, and look forward to their 20th anniversary event in Toronto, October 2018. In these days when so many people are turning to online education, we love to support high-quality live events like theirs. Live events are rarely lucrative. The people who run them do it out of love and passion for the work. Conferences like Sharon and Meyer’s, with diverse offerings and excellent presenters, hold a magic that will never be duplicated online. It is wonderful to bond face-to-face with people of like minds! We will be in Toronto in 2018 to further this important work and we hope to see you there! Click here for details about the 2017 conference.

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Karen BerrySpreading the Spirit of Tikkun Olam