The Fundamental Field (of Advanced Energy Medicine) provides a scientific theory with a therapeutic application. It is a uniquely new and modern approach to medicine and healing, traditional/energy medicine in particular. Dr. Metz has built his theory on life-energy, as it is expressed through the fundamental forces of nature and science (i.e. physics and systems theory). This life-energy is our fundamental spiritual essence. It is what creates, organizes and sustains our mind and body.The Fundamental Field itself is an actual field of polarized energy embodied in an atom-like pattern.  This field is the basis for Fundamental Field Therapy, which balances life-energy, thereby restoring health, promoting self-awareness and healing.

An Excerpt From Dr. Metz’ Upcoming Book: Introduction and The 8 Characteristics of the Fundamental Field:

Introduction

The Fundamental Field (of Advanced Energy Medicine)  is about medicine and healing. But it also considers a profound question, “What is the fundamental nature of life?”  I believe this question must be the starting point of any comprehensive discussion on medicine and healing. Why? Because it seems evident that if our healthcare and medicine are going to be truly effective and efficient (the current system is not) then life’s fundamental nature should be at their foundation. The Fundamental Field (of Advanced Energy Medicine) is the culmination of my quest to define life’s fundamental nature and develop an advanced medicine an advanced healing discipline based on this nature. From my experience, the Fundamental Field is a unique, effective, and efficient discipline of medicine and healing. The Fundamental Field is the result of over a quarter of a century of research, theoretical development, and clinical experience. In this endeavor I incorporated information from modern biology and conventional medicine, traditional medicine, energy medicine, chiropractic, psychology, mysticism, physics, and systems theory. One of the most profound discoveries of this quest was that the definition of life’s fundamental nature contains nothing biological! It is based on the ideals of spirit, physics, and systems theory.

How did I come to this definition? Through my research and clinical and life experiences I came to believe that life must be an expression of spirit or consciousness. Spirit is life’s fundamental nature. This idea is certainly not new. The challenge presented by this idea from a medicine and healing perspective is, how does spirit as life’s fundamental nature translate into a practical form that is based on science? I found this form is best described by physics and system theory (this physics is not quantum physics per say and the Fundamental Field is not based on the idea of quantum consciousness). These points can be summarized as three principles; for medicine and healing to be truly effective and efficient then life’s fundamental nature should be at their foundation, life’s fundamental nature is spirit,  and for medicine and healing to be truly effective and efficient they also need to be based on scientific theory. These are the three principles that describe the approach that I call Science with Spirit, the basis of the Fundamental Field.

The 8 Characteristics of the Fundamental Field

1).  The Fundamental Field is Humanistic and Patient-Centered Medicine. In accordance with the view that all life is an expression of spirit and the recognition that this is a necessary part of scientific medicine and healing we, as medicine and healing practitioners, are compelled to treat patients (clients) with respect, attention, and compassion. We are not dispassionate objective observers that see our patients as merely biochemical machines, but like ourselves, as struggling souls and unique individuals searching for health and happiness. This respectful, non-judgmental, and compassionate approach as well as having common healing experiences may have a healing affect and be as important as the knowledge we have. This view also means that ultimately each of us is our own healer and must take responsibility for the creation and solution of our health problems, although initially we may not be aware of the part we play. The Fundamental Field provides us the opportunity to understand our part and address the deeper variables and energy patterns of trauma and adaptation in our mind, emotions, body, and behavior, often unrecognized, which may be causing or contributing to our health problems. From this knowledge we are no longer see ourselves as helpless victims of seemly random and incomprehensible chemical forces that need to be saved or fixed. This approach is a process of self-discovery, personal integration (becoming whole), and empowerment as we connect to and resource the spiritual and archetypal, universal and original, energies of consciousness and life. Empowered with a new perspective, we thereby become less dependent and begin the dynamic process of making changes and choices that facilitate our healing. As practitioners our role is to provide compassionate acknowledgement, insight, awareness, and therapeutic support for the patient’s healing process based on Fundamental Field Theory and Therapy. 

2.)  The Fundamental Field is Advanced Energy Medicine. The approach that sees life and medicine as primarily a function energy rather than chemistry is called energy medicine. In energy medicine it is energy that organizes and guides the chemistry.  In the Fundamental Field this energy is called life-energy. It is life-energy, as an expression of spirit, which creates, organizes, and sustains the mind and body. Life -energy is a traditional concept. However, in the Fundamental Field it is given a modern scientific explanation, discussed shortly. In western traditions this energy is called vital energy. Most traditional cultures have a name for life-energy, some idea or model about how it works, and a practical application of these models in their medicine. Some of the traditional names for life-energy are; vital energy, chi, prana, innate, ki, and mana. Some important traditional energy medicine disciplines based on life-energy are: polarity therapy, acupuncture, ayurveda, jin shin, original chiropractic, reflexology, and various chakra systems. The incorporation of the concept of the traditional life-energy was necessary to formulate the Fundamental Field according to Science with Spirit principles. And, in accordance with these principles, the Fundamental Field had to provide a scientific explanation of this energy. Through the process of formulating this explanation I was able to unite the different disciplines of traditional life-energy medicine listed above into the all-encompassing Fundamental Field energy system. This provided a single integrated therapeutic hands-on approach. This is how one can receive many of the benefits of these different disciplines, and more, simultaneously in one Fundamental Field Therapy session. The Fundamental Field’s scientific explanation illustrated how these traditional energies systems, when viewed as electromagnetic energy and then connected together take the form of a large-scale, human size, atom. This is how they are understood within the context of physics (as the fundamental forces of nature) and systems theory (incorporating fractal organization and the concept of organizing principles).

The following is the definition of the Fundamental Field as life’s fundamental nature:

Life is result of the expression of spirit (consciousness) called life-energy. Life-energy is the fundamental forces of nature (mass-inertia, strong, electromagnetic, and gravity; and the geometry of space-time) in a large-scale atom-like configuration. For humans it’s a human-sized (fractal) atom, functioning as a hyper dimensional (subtle dimensional) organizing principle, interacting upon and through the quantum vacuum (the energy field of space).

Don’t worry, after reading this definition, if you have a difficult time with physics and mathematical formulas, there are none. The focus of this book is not on the quantitative aspects of this definition. The emphasis is to translate these facets of physics and systems theory into our psychology and physiology (in other words, into aspects of our mind, emotions, and body), then to describe how these aspects relate to health problems, to the broader context of our lives, and how they provide therapies and actions that address these problems.

From its scientific unification of the different disciplines of traditional energy medicine the Fundamental Field unites the two great traditional healing systems of Ayurveda from India and Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture from China. The Fundamental Field shows the relationship and connections of the traditional Ayurveda elements of ether, air, fire, water, and earth to the Traditional Chinese Medicine elements of metal, fire, earth, wood, and water. An important point here is that the Fundamental Field does not negate any healing discipline or conventional medicine. Nor does it translate one discipline into another. For example, it does translate polarity therapy into acupuncture, or vise versa. Instead it shows how these traditional disciplines relate to one another. In other words, how these disciplines are connected to one another, how they interact, how they function as an integrated whole, and how they could be understood within the context of modern science as an interconnected network of energy and information in an atom-like form and function. Rather than diminish any discipline, the Fundamental Field provides an opportunity for practitioners and doctors to enhance their practice and understand how their approach relates to the broader context of medicine, healing, and science.

3. )  The Fundamental Field is expanded Mind-Body Medicine. The Fundamental Field expands mind-body medicine beyond the conscious mind to include and emphasize the unconsciousness aspects of our mind and emotions. It is these unconsciousness aspects that are the most important in addressing health problems. In the Fundamental Field the conscious mind is analogous to the surface of a river, but it is the deeper unconsciousness currents that determine the direction of flow through the terrain (of our lives). The Fundamental Field shows how the spirit, mind and emotions (both consciousness and unconsciousness), and body are connected. Mind-body connections describe what aspects of the mind and emotions are connected to what body physiology and structure and can thus identify the mind and emotional factors involved with a health problem. These mind-body life-energy connections can be addressed in a therapeutic hands-on way to affect all these different aspects of our being: spirit, mind, emotions, and body.

4.)  The Fundamental Field is Holistic Medicine. It is a holistic energetic framework that demonstrates how our life and health are connected to everything around us. We can thus understand our health problems within the broader everyday context of our lives, like our family, community, work, relationships, and spirituality. The Fundamental Field reveals that how we relate and interact with these things (including and beyond diet, exercise, and stress) effects are health. This gives us, as patients or clients, practical ways to comprehend and take action to address these problems. Mind, body, and life are connected together as a functional whole.

5).  The Fundamental Field is Systems and Holism Medicine. It incorporates the different energy systems of traditional energy medicine, listed above, their mind-body associations and holistic meanings into an integrated whole. This provides new insights, connections, and therapeutic approaches that can not be attained by any combination of these energy systems, and we can also include into this combination conventional medicine. In other words, the whole is more than the sum of its parts, no matter how holistic the parts may be defined. This is why the Fundamental Field is not integrative medicine, which I also described as combination medicine; it is holism or integral medicine. Here the advanced nature of the Fundamental Field and its practical applications are readily apparent. Its form and function defines a large number of unique, effective, and efficient therapeutic reflex points, and patterns of these points.  These points and patterns contain those that are exclusive to the Fundamental Field as well as all the points of traditional energy medicine and, most importantly, the means to integrate all these points into one approach.

In addition, the Fundamental Field shows the connections between health problems that appear disconnected or isolated in conventional and specialty medicine. These holism connections show that these perceived isolated problems are often parts of larger patterns of energy and information in the Fundamental Field, not problems onto themselves. In the Fundamental Field approach health problems are treated as parts of larger patterns of adaptation, connection, interaction, emergence, and purpose. These patterns incorporate one’s spirit, mind, emotions, and body and connect our health to everything around us. This is the opposite of the conventional medicine which sees health problems as isolated broken bio-chemical parts. This leads to the reliance on specialty medicine. As a result, it’s not unusual for a patient to have many specialists. Each specialist working in relative isolation (nor is alternative medicine, or the energy medicine subsystems, immune to this notion). Each will order their own test, imaging, examination and treatment procedures, as well as medications. The consequence of this is: information, treatment, medication, cost, and danger to the patient overload. In addition, we the patients, end up isolated from our own health problems. It is this approach of seeing health problems as broken bio-chemical parts, each needing their own specialist, that is the source of the problems; cost, ineffectiveness, and danger to the patient, that medicine is facing today (2011).

6.)  The Fundamental Field is Contextual and true Generalist Medicine. The Fundamental Field’s atom-like fields function as a universal organizing framework (principle) of life.  In other words, the Fundamental Field is the universal blueprint, or morphogenetic field of life. Just as the fundamental forces of nature apply throughout the universe, the Fundamental Field organizing framework applies to all life throughout the universe, including aliens, if they exist. This is possible because as an organizing framework the fundamental Field does not specify details. It is robust to (not significantly effected by or insensitive to) details. In other words, it can accommodate a multitude of different details, including bio-chemical details, without significantly altering its framework. Thus, details can vary, and these varying details help define the various life forms, species, and individuals. The Fundamental Field and its atom-like organizing fields have large, simple, and universal features, like magnetic polarities, that I call contextual features. These features can be used to treat health problems without having to define and address problems in terms of bio-chemical details. A magnetic field interacting with and organizing different types of metal filings is a rough and simplified analogy here. The magnetic field is analogous to the Fundamental Field and the different metal filings are various chemical molecules. There are a number of different ways that the filings could be organized within the magnetic organizing framework. This is the basis of contextual approach to medicine and healing. It addresses the features of the organizing framework and its processes that are constant and universal; they apply regardless of the detailed content or nature of the health problem involved. This is true generalist medicine. The contextual approach is how the Fundamental Field imparts simplicity to therapy. Fundamental Field Therapy does not have to account for every detail of content, like bio-chemical details. Problems at the detail or content level can be resolved by addressing the larger universal contextual framework of the Fundamental Field. Contextual treatment protocols can be simplified or expanded (which may include addressing the content or specifics) to accommodate the knowledge base and experience of practitioners. One does not have to hold multiple academic degrees in order to practice Fundamental Field Therapy. It can be practiced by the lay person with a little training, as well as the most knowledgeable of practitioners.

7.)  The Fundamental Field is, by scientific necessity, Intuitive Medicine. Once we begin to understand how life functions as a system we can begin to interact with life as a system in the evaluation and treatment of health problems. In order to do this requires that we alter the conventional approach of objective analysis and deterministic control. Instead, the underlying complexity of the system requires the use of intuition, energy resonance, pattern recognition, real time interactions (where the sequence of interactions is important), spontaneity and uniqueness in the applications of treatments. There is also the recognition that causative factors can change depending on the organizational and energetic states of a problem, and the realization that the healing process must take its own course, not to be predicted and controlled. This summarizes what I call the Fundamental Field complex system analysis approach. One problem has been that even if one takes a systems approach, how does one deal with the overwhelming biological complexity? My solution has been to address the universal features, context, of the Fundamental Field organizing framework, in other words, addressing contextual features, not the numerous patterns of the details or content. In this Fundamental Field complex system analysis contextual approach life is seen as a function of a few large simple universal energetic structures interacting in complex ways. This is in contrast to the conventional approach which sees life as a mechanical assemblage of bio-chemical components. Here, life is a function of multitudes of small complex chemical structures interacting in simple mechanistic ways.

8.)  The Fundamental Field is a valuable adjunct to Conventional Medicine and Psychotherapy. The unique, innovative, and comprehensive Fundamental Field approach differs from conventional medicine on every one of its primary principles listed above, except the need to be based in science. The Fundamental Field is a different approach that warrants consideration based on its own scientific principles and research. It is an effective and efficient as it addresses life at its fundamental level. It does not generate the dangers and prohibitive costs of conventional medicine as it does not rely on biochemistry, technology, or specialty medicine. The Fundamental Field is also a wellness preventative approach that promotes optimal health. It is not limited to the treatment of disease. Despite these differences, or more precisely, because it is so different, the Fundamental Field is not necessarily in conflict with, a substitute for, or redundant to conventional medicine. As a society we have invested trillions of dollars over a century of time in the conventional approach. We need to take greater advantage of this valuable information by seeing it in a broader context and putting it to better use. For example, one promising application in this regard is the modulation of a person’s response to pharmaceutical agents, like chemotherapy, to reduce toxicity and enhance effectiveness.

Our Mission at the Center is to Accomplish Effective and Efficient Healthcare, Which Requires Us To:

1.)  Honor Each Person’s Spiritual Nature

In accordance with the view that all life is an expression of spirit and the belief that this is a necessary part of scientific medicine and healing we, as medicine and healing practitioners, are compelled to treat clients with respect, attention, and compassion. We are not dispassionate objective observers that see our patients as merely biochemical machines, but like ourselves, as struggling souls and unique individuals searching for health and happiness. This non-judgmental, integrity-based approach, as well as having common healing experiences, has a healing effect and is as important as the knowledge we have.

2.)  Have a Scientifically-Based Theory

The scientific method is needed to distinguish incorrect theories, superstition, and dogma from valid and useful scientific knowledge. Therefore, for medicine and healing to be truly effective and efficient, we believe it also needs to be based on scientific theory. In addition, it is self-evident that for medicine and healing to be truly effective and efficient it also needs to be based on life’s fundamental nature. According to our paradigm, life’s fundamental nature is spirit. Thus, medicine and healing needs to be based on life’s fundamental spiritual nature and science. This approach is what we call Science with Spirit, which is the basis of the Fundamental Field Theory and Therapy.

3.)  Facilitate Personal Responsibility and Empowerment

This approach emphasizes that ultimately each of us is our own healer and must assume responsibility for the creation and solution of our health problems, although initially we may not be aware of the part we play.  The Fundamental Field provides us the opportunity to understand our part and address the deeper variables and energy patterns of meaning, purpose, trauma and adaptation in our mind, emotions, body, and behavior, often unrecognized, which may be causing or contributing to our health problems. From this perspective we are no longer helpless victims of seemly random and incomprehensible chemical forces that need to be saved or fixed. The Fundamental Field approach facilitates mind-body self-awareness, personal accountability, and empowerment as our clients are encouraged to reach for their optimum health, gain inner strength and connect with their own intuitive potential.

4.)  Offer Resources, Information and Support

We strive to do our best to provide this to clients, professionals & lay persons alike, via therapeutic sessions, seminar instruction, websites, & a comprehensive book which will outline the scientific basis for Dr. Metz’ Fundamental Field Theory & Therapy.

The 3 Aspects of Fundamental Field Therapy:

1.)  Energy Resonance Evaluation (Scanning) / Intuitive Medicine 

This consists of the mindful use of a practitioner’s ‘felt sense’ of energy resonance in order to scan the various energetic features of a client, like tuning into a station on the radio. It is used to evaluate how the client’s psychology, physiology, and structure are relating and interacting, a mind-body systems approach, and how these patterns are reflected in the broader holistic context of one’s life. This is a method of gathering information within the specified conceptual framework of the practitioner by finding the answer within that context that best matches the current situation in the client, like performing a Google word search on the computer and then selecting the best fit. Energy Resonance Evaluation (Scanning) is part of the Fundamental Field intuitive approach to complex system analysis.

2.)  Energy Awareness Dialogue (Reflection) / Integration

Dialogue consists of verbal communication between practitioner and client, and inner reflection by the latter.  It is primarily directed towards explaining, from an energetic perspective, the mind-body factors related to health problems and how these problems relate to the broader context of one’s life. It is also part of the process of making connections between one’s past, present, and future and bringing energetic trauma and adaptations, usually unconscious mind-body patterns, to the light of consciousness for energetic processing, integration, and healing. Thus, this mind-body approach is beyond positive thinking, visualizations, and affirmations.

Integration is a process that takes place within the client in order to reestablish energetic wholeness. This often involves inner reflection, and ultimately reconnecting with formerly dissociated parts of the energetic system: past trauma and other unconscious mind-body patterns. This process can occur spontaneously as a part of healing, or by directed intention, when the client actively attempts to go back in time to access the disconnected, dissociated energy for past-present integration and mind-body healing.

3.)  Gentle Balancing Touch (Energetic Bodywork)

This bodywork is the hands-on component and primary modality of Fundamental Field Therapy. It addresses the flow and balance of life-energy within the body to reestablish energy integration and self-awareness to restore health. This is accomplished by the practitioner contacting specific reflex areas or points on the client, like acupuncture points. Or, by the client themselves for post-session guided self-treatment.

It is life-energy as an expression of spirit that creates, organizes, and sustains the mind and body. Life-energy, sometimes called vital energy, is a traditional concept. In the Fundamental Field it is given a modern scientific explanation, as an expression of spirit, as the fundamental forces of nature embodied in a large-scale atom-like form and function. This atom-like energy acts as a hyper-dimensional (subtle dimensional) organizing principle, interacting with material reality upon and through the quantum vacuum (the energy field of space).

Within this atom-like energy system are contained the different life-energy systems of the traditional energy medicine: polarity therapy, acupuncture, ayurveda, jin shin, original chiropractic, reflexology, and various chakra systems.  The Fundamental Field is thus the original, all-inclusive integrated model from which these well known healing disciplines emerge. Here the advanced nature of the Fundamental Field and its practical applications are readily apparent.

The form and function of the Fundamental Field defines a large number of unique, effective, and efficient therapeutic reflex points and patterns which are exclusive to the Fundamental Field, as well as all the points of traditional energy medicine. Most importantly, it provides the means to integrate all these points into one approach. In this manner, life and health are addressed at their most fundamental level, and it is revealed how one can benefit from the subsystems listed below, simultaneously, in one Fundamental Field Therapy session.

The following are the Subsystems of the Fundamental Field Pattern (Illustrations are simplified) © 2010 by Richard Metz:

Fundamental Field Theory and Therapy sees life as the interface between science and spirit. Life is as an expression of spirit, as life-energy and information, which is the fundamental forces of nature embodied in form and function as a large-scale atom-like pattern.  As such, it provides a means to address all health problems.  However, it does not claim to make a medical diagnosis, or to provide any substantiated treatments of medical conditions beyond those associated with the energy medicine subsystems that make up the Fundamental Field.

Choices ~ Always Choices ~
Always Changing
(Photo by Maggie Begley)

Energetic Bodywork ~ An Avenue for Lasting Change…

On one of Oprah’s final shows, she was reflecting on lessons learned. Oprah was interviewing an anorexic woman who was being given the advice, by a celebrity guest, to “Just change the way your brain works,” in other words, to just change her thoughts. And the woman replied, “But HOW do I do that? I’ve tried and it hasn’t worked.” Oprah said it was at that moment that she realized that she not only had to show people different possibilities for change, but she also had to show them HOW to accomplish that change in their own life, by giving them the tools to do so.

I agree, we do have to have a tool box of resources that we can go to for support. Such basic information as to the “care and feeding” of our own body:  HOW to eat and exercise right, how to lose weight, how to meditate, how to have better interpersonal communication, organizational and personal make-over skills, as well as how to awaken politically and philosophically to new ideas. But some things go way deeper than the how-to basics, like with this poor anorexic woman, who felt helpless and eventually succumbed to her disease.

We don’t have to stay victims. If we can manage to get help, we can get to the undercurrents of psychological trauma that’s going on, which often influences all else that we try to accomplish. I, and many of my clients, have asked the same question: “But HOW can I change? What can I DO?” It is never as easy, nor happens as quickly as we’d like. We just want it fixed, and NOW! But it takes awhile to unravel those things, most of which have been with us, at least initially, since birth. Like unravelling necklaces that got intertwined in the jewelry box, it takes gentle patience, not force. Pulling and tugging just makes the knots tighter. But if we are not DOing, we feel like we have no control, and we don’t like that! Sometimes no matter how much our Conscious Mind wants something, our Subconscious/Unconscious Mind may not be ready, it’s just not up to speed with the rest of us yet. Those energetic blockages in the Subconscious/Unconscious Mind, are what need to be dealt with first, or at least in conjunction with that which we are already conscious of.

“A real solution comes only from within and then only because the patient has been brought to a different attitude.” ~ Carl Jung

Energetic Bodywork is one of the best things you can DO to facilitate this movement of energy towards a ‘different attitude.’ I can personally attest to this. The Fundamental Field Bodywork portion (Gentle Balancing Touch), is one of the most important things I have participated in. That (largely Unconscious) Mind-Body connection is what helps integrate disparate parts of our Selves, thus making the ‘different attitude’ an obvious and welcomed by-product of the process. You can’t just think or will your way to changing those deeper unconscious dysfunctional un-truths, those learned thought patterns that compulsively drive you to feel or act the way you do, even when you try your best not to. Eventually you will embark on a journey of personal and psychological processing. As I said, energetic bodywork has been my preferred route. (Click here to investigate other avenues of psychological processing/change. Though I know nothing else of the mudrashram.com organization, theirs was the only other post I found on the internet today that spoke of psychological processing in a way in which I could relate, and thought very interesting as well).

This inner attitude is not so much about DOING, as it is about BEING…patiently waiting for our own information to be revealed as our own Innate Intelligence permits and deems it so. Certainly another thing that we can DO is to consciously maintain a positive and open attitude of surrender about going through the painful process of returning to a healthy, authentic place, finding a lesson in every situation and learning from it, with gratitude. This is easier if you have a spiritual belief/community, and/or a practitioner/loved ones to support you during the tough times. The Mind-Body connection healing process of awareness is a very visceral experience, sometimes without words, only FEELINGS and sensations (like shivering, shaking, stomping, kicking, anger, crying, and familiar physical pain/discomfort). I’ve heard many a therapist say, “You have to feel it to heal it,” and “Breakdown equals break through.” I’ve learned to trust and honor every feeling, sensation, thought, and vision I have, as it always speaks to me. Even though I may not understand what is happening at the moment, I eventually notice a pattern and make a connection (over time, with help from Energy Resonance Scanning, and from my own intuition and experience). All those things you think are crazy are trying to communicate something to you that you are holding in your Unconscious/Subconscious Mind. All I can say is, it is a process, unique to everyone, but with the same disconcerting components…Growing Pains!!!  All of us who are going through the deep healing that is born of integration and purification tend to feel majorly crazy, like we are going bonkers, and losing it.

To give you another perspective on the process, from another culture, read the following excerpt, which is just a portion of a bigger article:

My view on this is slightly different, as I feel that none of us are healers per se, though we can heal our Self; in fact that is our mission, with the help of God, the Creator, the Energy Source of Love.  Along the way, we lose track of our own Divine Essence, it’s no wonder to me that it is such a crazy-making adventure to find our way back. Unfortunately, our Western culture doesn’t do a very good job of supporting this process, I think because it is such a foreign concept, so mysterious, and therefore scary, to most. I so agree with this sad misinterpretation that people who are struggling in this way are dismissed, instead of supported.  Later on in the article the Shaman refers to possession by outside spiritual/psychic entities being problematic. To this I would say, I don’t think we are necessarily “possessed” by any outside entities, but rather by the constraints and traumas, the energy fields of our own poor minds. Although, I would agree that our individual energetic make-up can make us more vulnerable to certain outside entities, as with the energy fields of other people, places and things we encounter — such as a stressed-out partner, a frenetic traffic jam, a flu virus, certain foods or medications — which can destabilize and disrupt our own systems in the process. So I suppose, why not other more psychic and/or spiritual entities? Regardless, I think the same would hold true, you have to be a energetically receptive host in the first place for anything outside yourself to take hold. That’s why being grounded in your self is so important. Reel it in. Ask for Divine protection and guidance, and highest healing good, for whatever you do.

Here’s some further insight, from an acquaintance of mine who asked to remain anonymous. This was she and her husband’s experience with the benefits and challenges of receiving psychotherapy. I give this example, and the one above, so that if you are going through this, you don’t feel quite so alone:

“BOTH my husband and I have been working on these things during the past couple of years…Last year, because of the work he and I had been doing with therapy, he TRULY got in touch with his authentic self. This resulted in a break-down, of sorts. He had severe anxiety attacks – not realizing what they were initially, and seeking medical ‘solutions.’ His therapist said he had seen this many times and, while it was scary to watch, he had never had anyone who hadn’t landed on their feet. My husband did. As he now says, be careful going into therapy and digging deep – the end result is INCREDIBLE, but the process can be challenging.”

This was also my personal experience as a patient, under the care and guidance of my mentor Dr. Metz, as well as witnessing it with a few of my own clients. Just for clarification, Dr. Metz and I are not psychotherapists, but we do deal with the psyche as an energetic field, from an Energy Medicine point of view. There is no doubt that the psyche and the body are an intertwined, interconnected system, with the Unconscious Mind largely in control of the show! The goal is to bring the entire cast of characters to center stage, so that they can be fully revealed, and dealt with in the light of day! You can then write a new and improved script for yourself.

I also must emphasize that the healing process is ultimately about love, compassion and acceptance, not about assigning blame or judgement. Even if we go there first, for valid reasons, we eventually learn to look beyond and deeper. It’s about connecting to the ENERGY of the emotion, feeling, or thought. Relationships create their own dynamic which become an entity of their own. Ultimately, we are angry at situations, not people. Reflecting on our relationships with other people is our way in to discovering the pain. Working through that emotion we feel towards another is part of discovering the trauma. Eventually we will be able to be more objective and to forgive the person, ourselves, and the situation. Remember, we are all at least half responsible for every adult dynamic we are part of. In this way, we are all students, and teachers, of one another.

The connections and realizations of the Conscious Mind usually come last, as the final step, not the first. Or in a series of slow unfolding, as often the pain is too much to bear and/or the information is too much to integrate all at once. That’s why it’s called a “process,” of processing. We are healed from the trauma once that energy is able to circulate freely through all the three Poles of the Fundamental Field: Positive Pole (Conscious Mind – Central Nervous System), Neutral Pole (Subconscious Mind -Parasympathetic Nervous System), and Negative Pole (Unconscious Mind – Sympathetic Nervous System). I myself have suffered from many illnesses. Energy Work has helped me get in touch with the dissociated emotional pain that got displaced into my body, making me ill. Once I healed the emotional pain, the illnesses diminished or ceased altogether. I only have a few left now, maybe three…believe me, there used to be many more, at least a dozen.

I realized along the way that stress, from holding those emotions, plus all the new triggers, was one of the largest culprits (and I think that’s true for everyone). When I took a 5-month trip abroad, my illnesses disappeared after a week or two. To me that was no coincidence! Not that the trip was easy breezy, it was not. But it allowed me a temporary reprieve from my limited sense of self and the expectation and overwhelm of responsibility that I was feeling at home. For me, travel has always been a welcome drug of choice. In Polarity Therapy terms, it supports my Ether Element, the Element that governs identity, self-expression, communication, boundaries, personal space, freedom and beauty. Ahhhhhh, just the thought of it makes me breathe easier.

What is your pain? And what is your ‘go to’ place? What information can you learn to incorporate, to DO? And then, can you learn to just BE with yourself, and your emotions, from a place of acceptance, in a way that is honest and supportive? You can start by asking for Divine Guidance and Protection, set a healing intention, ask questions, contemplate and reflect on the answers that come to you. Trust the process that unfolds…for better or for worse, in sickness and in health. Make a commitment to love your Self, as you would love another.

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Everything in this glossary has a unique take, via Dr. Metz’ Fundamental Field Theory & Therapy. Some are common psychological terms which you may recognize, however we use them within the context of Fundamental Field Theory & Advanced Energy Medicine Therapy, which sets them apart.

Terms listed with (FF) prefixes mean that they are a concept unique to Dr. Metz & part of his Theory. We have put this list together for the benefit of our patients/clients (& those who visit our websites), as a reference guide for the terminology we use during our treatments & the ensuing healing processes.

Listed alphabetically, not categorically:

Addiction / Codependence / Passive-Aggressiveness / Obsessive-Compulsiveness / Anal-Retentiveness = unconsciously motivated dysfunctional behaviors which attempt to meet needs/calm anxiety/gain control in indirect ways, without having to face the problem head on, through: relinquishing personal power through dependence fixation; care-taking others at sacrifice to one’s self; non-confrontational hostility; fixation on indulgent & repetitive activities; fixation on order & perfectionism.

In Dr. Metz’ Fundamental Field Theory of Life-Energy, the subtle energy that organizes the body is primarily magnetic energy. It is an expression of Spirit (through the fundamental forces of nature, primarily electromagnetism), in an atom-like configuration. The Fundamental Field Pattern of Life-Energy is what creates, organizes and sustains the mind, emotions and body. Chakras, per Dr. Metz, have subatomic particle-like properties, and when looked at as a group, they have an atomic-like structure. In other words, different chakras have different positive, neutral, and negative electro-magnetic charges. The spinning chakras create the three Poles of the Fundamental Field: Positive, Neutral, and Negative. If you were to talk about these three Poles of the body from his theoretical perspective, with any other practitioner, they wouldn’t know what you were talking about, unless they were familiar with Dr. Metz and his theory. For instance, if you went to your acupuncturist and said, “I need a little work on my Neutral Pole today,” you would get a quizzical look in return. Dr. Metz’ Theory is very complex in its simplicity, at least to me (complex to me, simple to him ). To see how this pattern unfolds and functions, you’ll have to take his seminar or read his book. Being the developer of this Theory, presently he is the only one who thoroughly understands it and is the only one who can teach this broad understanding of the energetic body.

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The Positive Pole of the Fundamental Field:

Located at the Head, Spinal Cord, Sacrum & Coccyx, via Chiropractic & Cranio-Sacral Systems, Conscious/Sub-Conscious Mind (Thoughts) & Central Nervous System.

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The Neutral Pole of the Fundamental Field:

Locations All Over the Body via Acupuncture Meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine & Jin Shin Jyutsu Points called ‘Safety Energy Locks’, Semi-Conscious Mind (Sensations) & Para-Sympathetic Nervous System.

The beauty of Fundamental Field Therapy is that once you know the context of the larger pattern of polarized energy flows, you don’t have to know every detail of the system. I am not as familiar with the Acupuncture Meridian System, or the Jin Shin Points,

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which are part of the Neutral Pole, but I do know where their reflex areas exist in the body. By contacting the palms of the hands and feet, as well as the specific points on the digits for Acupuncture Meridians, and any of the 26 Jin Shin Points, I can address the Neutral Pole without having to know all of the particular details ascribed to each point.

Per the International Academy for Medical Acupuncture, from whom Dr. Metz is certified in Acupuncture Meridian Therapy: “Meridian therapy is the accepted name employed by those who practice the principle of Acupuncture without the use of a penetrating needle. Acupuncture is a principle, not a technique. Therefore there are many ways to stimulate an Acupoint other than a needle, just as there are many different strokes used in swimming. Many practitioners use electronic stimulation, laser beam or pressure massage to treat an Acupoint. The principle of Acupuncture does not change, only the technique.”

I am very familiar with the Negative Pole, its associations and contacts. My training is in Polarity Therapy which, along with the Indian System of Ayurveda, is included in the Negative Pole of the Fundamental Field.

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The Negative Pole of the Fundamental Field:

Located Along the Midline at the Caduceus, via the Chakra Systems of Ayurveda & Polarity Therapy, Unconscious Mind (Emotions) & Sympathetic Nervous System.

“It is important to note that the Fundamental Field Theory does not negate any healing discipline, or conventional medicine; it can, and does, function as a valuable adjunct to conventional medicine and psychotherapy. Nor does it translate one discipline into another. For example, it does not translate polarity therapy into acupuncture, or vice-versa. Instead, it shows how such disciplines relate to one another, how they connect, interact, function as a whole, and can be understood within the context of modern science, as an interdependent network of energy and information, in an atom-like form and function. Rather than diminish any discipline, the Fundamental Field provides an opportunity for practitioners and doctors to enhance their practice and understand how their approach relates to the broader context of medicine, healing and science.” ~ Dr. Metz

In Dr. Metz’ Theory, these subsystems are all valid ways of viewing and working with the energetic body. Each sub-system has a mind-body emotional component, as well as a connection to other areas of nature, food, the seasons, astrology and the cosmos. Their integrity is maintained within the larger context of the entire energetic pattern of the Fundamental Field. Like unique branches of the same tree, you can examine one part of one branch, and be able to deduce a lot about the tree, but it is not the same as stepping back and taking in ALL aspects of the tree as a magnificent whole.

I will end with this overview of the Fundamental Field by Dr. Metz:

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“The Source Chakra for the creation of the Fundamental Field of Life-Energy is located between the eyes, at the Eye-Center (also known as the ‘Brow Chakra’). It has an electrostatic charge, positive for male or negative for female. When it spins, as all chakras do (‘chakra’ means ‘spinning wheel’), it creates a magnetic field, like the field around a magnet, not unlike the magnetic field of the earth. This magnetic field has three Poles: Positive, Neutral and Negative. Within each of these Poles, new chakras are created. These chakras are the atomic components of the Fundamental Field.

In the Negative Pole are the electron component chakras. These five chakras have a negative electrostatic charge and when they spin they create the Five Elements of Ayurveda/Polarity Therapy :  Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth. However, unlike the atom, the Fundamental Field electron components are held relatively stationary. They do not orbit around the protons and neutrons (the nucleus). In the Neutral Pole are the neutron component chakras. They have a small gender charge and when they spin, they create the Five Elements of  Acupuncture: Wood, Earth, Water, Metal and Fire, which are distributed on to the hands and feet. In the Positive Pole is the chakra of Positive Fire, the proton(s) component. It contains the positive form of the other elements. It is considered one chakra. Thus, there are seven chakras on the midline of the body: The one Eye-Center Source Chakra (a.k.a. ‘Brow Chakra’), the one Positive Pole Proton Chakra above the Eye-Center (a.k.a ‘Crown Chakra’), and the five Negative Pole Electron Chakras below the Eye-Center. There are also five Neutral Pole Neutron Chakras on the hands and feet.

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The Fundamental Field and its large-scale (fractal) atomic energies function as a hyper-dimensional (subtle dimensional) organizing principle interacting with material reality on and through the quantum vacuum (the vacuum energy field of space). As an organizing principle it does not specify details. These are filled in by environment and evolution of various life forms. It is the universal blueprint of life, it will work on aliens, if they exist.”

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Energy is what animates us and gives us life. Everything (including every thought, word, and deed) is made up of energy and carries an energy field with it. In nature, there are five primary subtle energetic elements: Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. Ether is equated with Space, inner as well as outer. In this last post in my series of five, I will discuss the elemental energies of Ether, both its Chakra and its Vibrational Levels within the body, as the Negative Pole of the Fundamental Field, the magnetic pattern of Life-Energy.

It has been said that the Ether Chakra is a container, which “holds the space” for the other elements to express themselves. Emotions and other stresses often get clogged here, and we need to free up the space, one way or another, to get the energies flowing again. We’ve all experienced getting a “lump in our throat”, having a “pain in the neck”, or “needing our space”. That’s no coincidence. Even art looks more balanced when you create a little empty “negative space”. It’s just better when we don’t try to fill everything up. And I mean everything. But most of us are often very uncomfortable with empty space and quietude, but we have a habit of not liking things that are good for us. That doesn’t make it right.

Ether energies arise from the 5th Throat Chakra as it spins, carrying a negative electrostatic charge. This Ether/Throat Chakra is located in the region of the throat, with reflex areas at top of the head, midline, hair, face, ears, body cavities (i.e. lungs, bladder, mouth), thyroid, neck, skin, joints, thumbs and big toes; it also associated with addiction, environmental and other sensitivities, psychological and auto-immune disorders. With auto-immune problems, you basically have a situation of “self attacking self”, when your own system doesn’t recognize itself. This attack by your immune system on your own cells, tissues and organs causes inflammation and damage which leads to auto-immune diseases, which may be a primary or contributing factor in cases of: arthritis, alopecia, asthma, celiac disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, endometriosis, fibromyalgia, hepatitis/cirrhosis, inner ear disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, and ulcerative colitis, to name a few.

Issues that also pertain to the Ether/Throat Chakra are in the spectrum of: Space, spacial relationships, coordination (i.e., quick reflexes vs. clumsiness), boundaries, travel, time, organization of items and information (i.e., such as with classwork, office files or computer work; also, being a “neat-nick” vs. “clutter-bug”); and ambiance (being aware of and appreciating subtle nuances). Also, how you perceive and deal with yourself and others in terms of identity, acceptance, acknowledgment, self-expression, and communication (speaking and hearing in the truest sense; also, being shy or excessive talking). If we are having challenges with issues such as these, they are usually old ones, being triggered by new ones. We are unconscious of many of the traumas we carry around with us. Those past thoughts and emotions often get disassociated and “thrown off” for our physical body to hold, and deal with. With Ether it could be that extreme grief gets held in your joints, causing joint pain. When you deal with the grief, the pain in the joints goes away, at least that’s what happened for me. Because Ether has to do with boundaries, or lack thereof, Ether depletion makes one more open to “letting everything in” (such as viruses, or environmental contaminants) and “inviting it in for tea” , creating a hospitable environment for it to thrive. Our psychological proclivity to taking in things which are not ours, at sacrifice to our own self, is also what’s at play here. If there’s any kind of problem, we tend to blame ourselves first (with depression, anger turned inward, and thoughts of suicide).

Any depletion or excess in this Ether/Throat Chakra, be it emotional, mental or physical (whether you are consciously OR unconsciously aware of it), will affect these areas in particular, as well as your entire system. In the examples given here, those with Ether weakness are of course the most vulnerable, and these areas/issues are usually the first to show up in times of stress. As we know, the mind/emotions can affect the body. For example, if you are in a situation in which you feel you “trapped” and you feel like you can’t speak or are not being heard, it may show up physically as insomnia and/or neck pain. Your physical body can also affect your emotional body. So, if you are stressing your body by living or working in constant proximity to people and noise, or you get a virus, this can destabilize your emotions around feelings of self-worth, wanting to be acknowledged, needing time alone and wanting to retreat or sleep, and if that doesn’t happen it could make you more stressed out, creating a feedback loop of mind-body-mind-body stress. This is partly how the connection works. Of course, each person and situation is different, and the interactions can be a little more complex than that, but Dr. Metz and I have a handle on that in terms of helping you to figure it out. That’s our job.

Dividing our energetic body into these Elemental components and approaching them in this way, helps us to organize and understand its features better. But when it comes down to it, there is a lot of overlay, interplay and interaction going on between the Chakras and their Levels that is not so cut and dry. This is true especially since each of the five Elements are associated with their respective Chakras (#1 Earth/Root Chakra, #2 Water/Sacral Chakra, #3 Fire/Solar Plexus Chakra, #4 Air/Heart Chakra, and #5 Ether/Throat Chakra), and then each Chakra is comprised of five Vibrational Levels (#1 Earth/Structure, #2 Water/Biochemistry, #3 Fire/Physiological Motivations, #4 Air/Motion, and #5 Ether/Psychology). This is part of what makes us “fractal” (having the same configuration at all scales of measurement).

Per Dr. Metz:

“A good analogy here is to see each Chakra as as a musical note. The five Chakras are part of a scale of seven Chakras and there are five overlayed octaves, referred to as the Vibrational Levels. Therefore each Chakra vibrates five notes, each an octave above or below the other. For example, each Chakra vibrates five notes, a note from each Vibrational Level, or octave. In the body these “notes” are: Ether (Psychology), Air (Motion), Fire (Physiological Motivations), Water (Biochemistry), and Earth (Structure). In other words, each elemental Chakra vibrates at each of the five elemental Vibrational Levels, each note with their own attributes.”

In the Ether/Throat Chakra, the attributes of the five vibratory levels are: 1.) Psychology = grief, jealousy and joy; 2.) Motion = expansive and enlongated; 3.) Physiological Motivation = getting sleep (i.e., dream cycles, restorative cycles, insomnia, apnea, or oversleeping, etc.); 4.) Biochemistry = the bodily fluid of saliva, as well as interference from food, supplementation, drugs, allergies, sickness, and disease (including cancer) that affect the Ether reflex areas/organs; 5.) Structure = hair and teeth.

Thus, based on our fractal nature, you will find something you can relate to in all of the Chakras, but some might stand out to you more than others. That has been the case for me. Since my most basic trauma occurred in Ether, I’m all too familiar with the ramifications of its disruption. I think it’s part of what makes me so engaging and empathetic, as well as easily overwhelmed. It’s not so much that I absorb other people’s energy, as I react within myself to certain patterns that people present. The exception is when I am giving a treatment. I can maintain very clear boundaries and can easily distinguish “who is who”. And in this case, I don’t feel responsible for solving their problems…”You’re not responsible for everything on God’s Green Earth”. When a acquaintance told me that once, it really hit home, and I listened. For me, I didn’t know it at the time, but I was unconsciously recapitulating a childhood pattern – that it was up to me, and me alone, to fix the problems I saw and to make it all better. With lots of inner work on my self, I’m slowly outgrowing that compulsion, and becoming more balanced around what I do/don’t do. My only responsibility now is to stay connected to my authentic self which helps me to better serve and to be a healthy role model, which enables me to do well at my job. I now realize that is ultimately up to the client to take the ball and run with it, with me cheering and offering support from the sidelines. I am seeing these healthy skills becoming tangible in other areas of my life as well. It is, and has been, quite a journey…getting reacquainted with all my disassociated parts. Fundamental Field Therapy is what made it possible for me; that special integration of mind-body awareness that comes from the bodywork, and the “awareness dialogue” that happens as a result.

These are some of the ways you can keep your Ether energies balanced: Surrounding yourself with, or wearing, the color blue; listening to the sound of silence; connecting with Spirit via meditation or prayer services; engaging in the arts of music and Feng Shui (getting organized and creating ambiance); traveling; focusing on the sense of hearing; getting a facial or a neck massage; practicing yoga or tai chi; eating foods that are artfully presented and eaten in beautiful and calming atmosphere. You can also contact any of the aforementioned Ether reflex areas on your own. For example, when I’m trying to fall asleep at night, I automatically hold my hands to my throat, or grasp my thumbs. You often see Babies doing this too, sucking their thumbs that is, to self-soothe and maybe even drift off to sleepyland.

The general rule for keeping everything in balance is not to over-do or under-do anything. “Everything in moderation” is sometimes easier said than done, but it’s important to at least keep ourselves reminded of that fact, and to have fun exploring the various possibilities that come our way. Finding what works best for us is a journey of discovery. (Since everyone is unique and different, I’m a big fan of “whatever works”! ) As dynamic energetic beings, we are not fixed entities. It is necessary, therefore, to re-evaluate ourselves on a continuing basis, and to make the needed adjustments as we proceed on our path.

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Our mind affects our body, and our body affects our mind. It’s all interconnected. Here is some information about the mind-body connection via Dr. Metz’ Fundamental Field Theory. I know it’s a different way of viewing things for most of you who will read it. It has its roots in Indian Ayurvedic philosophy, and Polarity Therapy (which its creator, Dr. Randolph Stone, referenced and then linked it to modern science via the magnetic model of energy). Dr. Metz has taken it a step further.

Energy is what animates us and gives us life. There are several vibratory components in the body, expressing this Energy in various ways. All of nature is made up of these subtle elemental energies, all with different rates of vibration, from subtle to gross: Ether (Space), Air (Gases), Fire (Transformations), Water (Fluids) and Earth (Solids). In terms of density, Air is the second most subtle of the energies. Dividing the Elements of our energetic body, and approaching them in the following way, helps us to organize and understand its features better. But when it comes down to it, there is a lot of overlay, interplay and interaction going on that is not so cut and dry. You will find something you can relate to in all of these Elements, but a few might stand out for you more than others.  The Fundamental Field Theory/Therapy applies to animals as well. Your pets have their own problems, and like children, they are energetic sponges for what’s going on around them, in their caretakers’ lives.

These elements are also associated with the Astrological signs. Air in particular represents the signs of Aquarius, Libra, and Gemini. In the following descriptions of Air, the Air Signs (or those with lots of Air in their charts) are most vulnerable in the areas mentioned. Air is near and dear to my heart, as I am a Libra, a self-proclaimed “bleeding heart”, an obsessive thinker, a fast-talker, and have breathing problems and immune disorders, to name a few things.

In the body, the Air Element arises from the #4/Heart Chakra as it spins, carrying a negative electrostatic charge. The Heart Chakra is located in the region of the heart, with reflex areas at the shoulder tops, thymus, mid-back, kidneys, calves, ankles, index fingers and index toes; it also encompasses the nervous, respiratory, circulatory and immune systems. It also involves the qualities of movement, gentleness, lightness, quickness, and mental acuity.

The Air Element also pertains to the issues of: How you perceive and deal with yourself and others in terms of unconditional love, affection, compassion, charity, empathy, passing judgement, receiving or offering emotional and mental support; If we are having challenges with issues such as these, they are usually old ones, being triggered by new ones. We are unconscious of many of the traumas we carry around with us. Those past thoughts and emotions often get disassociated and “thrown off” for our physical body to hold, and deal with.  Psychologically, Air is associated with love, desire, sadness, and disappointment; it is speedy motion; physiologically, it is associated with breathing; biochemically, it is associated with the bodily fluid, sweat, as well as interference from food, supplementation, drugs, allergies, sickness, and disease (including cancer) that affect the Air reflex areas/organs; structurally, it is associated with the skin.

Any depletion or excess in this chakra, be it emotional, mental or physical (whether you are consciously OR unconsciously aware of it), will affect these areas in particular, as well as your entire system. The mind/emotions can affect the body. For example, if you are in a situation in which you feel you are not being cheered on or supported, or feeling suffocated by “smother love”, it may show up physically with lung problems, tight shoulders, or immune trouble due to a weak thymus. Your physical body can also affect your emotional body. So, if you are stressing your body by living or working in a smoke-filled or allergenic environment, this may challenge your lungs and destabilize your emotions around feelings of disappointment or lack of affection about something that is already an issue in your life, making it feel worse. This is partly how the mind-body connection works. Of course, each person and situation is different, and the interactions can be a little more complex than that, but Dr. Metz and I have a handle on that in terms of helping you to figure it out. That’s our job!

If you have problems with any of these things, it could be due to blockages in these particular areas, or at any point in the system which reflexes to these areas. Dr. Metz/myself would determine that by using what Dr. Metz calls “Energy Resonance Methods”, which is a skill that one can learn, a “felt sense”, not necessarily a psychic or an intuitive one. (It’s like tuning an instrument, or your voice, to a pitch pipe. You can hear and feel the resonance, whether the two are in tune or not. Anyone can develop this skill with desire and practice.) Similarly, Dr. Metz and I can scan one’s system with a question in mind, and we can feel the resonant pull of energy when we’re in sync with the question. For instance, we could ask, “What is the energy in the system currently dealing with that is most urgent?” We might get verification on our answer by running our hands along the body, and feeling a resonance when we get to the kidneys, which could mean the Air Element is being disrupted. That would pose another set of questions, such as: “Is this person stressed and by what? What is draining the energy there?”

Some Air Issues that could be in question are: Are you experiencing too many mental demands, taking intensive night classes after a full day’s work? Not eating enough fruit and nuts? Feeling overly compassionate, crying at commercials and the like? Unable to get in touch with your true heart’s desires? Unable to connect from the heart or say “I love you” with ease? Feeling scattered and/or moving too fast? Air-headed, or too “in your head”?

After information is gathered, through these means and discussion with the client, bodywork can then begin. There is another set of questions that helps direct the customized protocol, but intuition, in addition to resonance, is now the best way to treat the energetic system, being that it is interconnected in ways that are complex and not linear.

During a treatment, the client’s system takes in the energy being radiated and focused by the polarity and placement of the practitioner’s hands, like acupuncture does with needles (and jumper cables do with a battery). With the intention and attention, of both practitioner and client, towards “Highest Healing Good”, the client’s own innate intelligence does triage and sends the energy to where it’s needed most. After the treatment Dr. Metz/I would again reassess the client again, via Energy Resonance Scan, and make suggestions as to what the client might do to facilitate/maintain an energetic balance appropriate to their system.

In general, these are some of the ways you can keep your Air Element balanced: Surrounding yourself with, or wearing, the color green; listening to, or playing, high-pitched fast music; engaging in the art of dance; focusing on the sense of touch and sour tastes; and eating green food, and foods that grow 6 feet or more above the ground (fruits, seeds and nuts).

The key to keeping everything in balance is not to over-do or under-do anything. “Everything in moderation” is sometimes easier said than done, but it’s important to at least keep ourselves reminded of that fact, and have fun exploring the possibilities!

Keep the Home Fires Burning

Energy is what animates us and gives us life. There are several vibratory components in the body, expressing this Energy in various ways. All of nature is made up of these subtle elemental energies, all with different rates of vibration, from subtle to gross: Ether (Space), Air (Gases), Fire (Transformations), Water (Fluids) and Earth (Solids). In terms of density, Fire is right in the middle.

In the body, the Fire Element arises from the #3/Solar Plexus Chakra as it spins, carrying a negative electrostatic charge. The Solar Plexus Chakra is located in the region of the solar plexus, with reflex areas at the head, forehead, eyes, umbilicus, mid-back, thighs, liver, gall bladder, middle fingers and middle toes, blood and circulatory system, digestive system (assimilation), metabolism, and the stress response of the conscious mind.

The Fire Element also encompasses the issues of:
How you perceive and deal with authority figures, including yourself; personal power, control, and transformation; will, vitality, enthusiasm, brightness, expansiveness; and physical activity.  Psychologically, Fire is associated with anger, rage, frustration, resentment, and forgiveness; it is shaking motion; physiologically, it is associated with the urges of hunger and thirst; biochemically, it is associated with the bodily fluid, urine, as well as interference from food, supplementation, drugs, allergies, sickness, and disease that effect the Fire reflex areas/organs; structurally, it is associated with the blood and lymph vessels, arteries, veins and capillaries.

Any depleting activity in this chakra, be it emotional, mental or physical (whether you are consciously OR unconsciously aware of it), will affect these areas in particular, as well as your entire system. The mind/emotions can affect the body. For example, if you are that you are in a situation which you feel you have no control over, it may show up physically as an ulcer or migraine headaches. Your physical body can also affect your emotional body. So, if you are physically stressing your body with overwork, stress and strain, and/or eating too much fatty, acidic food which affects your gall bladders ability to process fats…this might make you more susceptible to feeling vulnerable around other people’s “demands”. This is partly how the mind-body connection works. Of course, each person is different, and the interactions can be a little more complex than that, but Dr. Metz and I have a handle on that in terms of helping you to figure it out. That’s our job!

If you have problems with any of these things, it could be due to blockages in these particular areas, or at any point in the system which reflexes to these areas. Dr. Metz/myself would determine that by using what Dr. Metz calls “Energy Resonance Methods”, which is a skill that one can learn, a “felt sense”, not necessarily a psychic or an intuitive one. (It’s like tuning an instrument, or your voice, to a pitch pipe. You can hear and feel the resonance, whether the two are in tune or not. Anyone can develop this skill with desire and practice.) Similarly, Dr. Metz and I can scan one’s system with a question in mind, and we can feel the resonant pull of energy when we’re in sync with the question. For instance, we could ask, “What is the energy in the system currently dealing with that is most urgent?” We might get verification on our answer by running our hands along the body, and feeling a resonance when we get to the liver, which could mean the Fire Element is being disrupted. That would pose another set of questions, such as: “Is this person stressed and by what? What is draining the energy there?”

Some Fire Issues that could be in question are: Are you experiencing too many physical demands? Not eating enough complex carbs? Angry or frustrated over a situation? Feeling a lack of drive, will, personal empowerment? Or are you too bossy or controlling, and need to de-stress and diffuse?

After information is gathered, through these means and discussion with the client, bodywork can then begin. There is another set of questions that helps direct the customized protocol, but intuition, in addition to resonance, is now the best way to treat the energetic system, being that it is interconnected in ways that are complex and not linear.

During a treatment, the client’s system takes in the energy being radiated and focused by the polarity and placement of the practitioner’s hands, like acupuncture does with needles (and jumper cables do with a battery). With the intention and attention, of both practitioner and client, towards “Highest Healing Good”, the client’s own innate intelligence does triage and sends the energy to where it’s needed most.  After the treatment Dr. Metz/I would again reassess the client again, via Energy Resonance Scan, and make suggestions as to what the client might do to facilitate/maintain an energetic balance appropriate to their system.

In general, these are some of the ways you can keep your Fire Element balanced: Surrounding yourself with, or wearing, the color yellow; listening to, or playing, loud staccato music; engaging in the art of painting; focusing on the sense of sight and bitter tastes; and eating foods that grow from ground-level to 2 feet (grains, legumes and seeds).

The key to keeping everything in balance is not to over-do or under-do anything. “Everything in moderation” is sometimes easier said than done, but it’s important to at least keep ourselves reminded of that fact, and have fun doing it!

Water is about bonding & relationships.

The Five Subtle Elemental Energies of the body are the same as those in nature: Ether (Space), Air (Gases), Fire (Transformations), Water (Fluids), and Earth (Solids).

The Elemental Energies in your body also have the same color configuration as a rainbow: Ether (Blue), Air (Green), Fire (Yellow), Water (Orange) and Earth (Red). In the Negative Pole of the Fundamental Field of Life-Energy (a.k.a. the Sympathetic Nervous System, the Chakra System at the Caduceus, and the domain of the Unconscious Mind), the Water Element is the second most dense of these Five Elemental Energies.

In the body, the Water Element arises from the #2/Sacral Chakra as it spins, carrying a negative electrostatic charge. The Sacral Chakra is located at the sacrum, with reflex areas at the chest/breasts, shoulder blades, sacral belly, bladder, spleen, lymphatic system, reproductive system, secretory glands, hips, pelvis, buttocks, feet, ring fingers and ring toes.

There are also five Levels of Vibration within each of the Five Elements. (Think of there being five 5-layered cakes. Each cake when sliced has five layers). For example, the Water Element, on the Level of Psychology (Ether/Space), is associated with attachment and letting go, lust and gluttony; on the Level of Motion (Air/Gases), it is flowing movement; on the Level of Physiological Motivation (Fire/Transformations), it is associated with sex, regeneration and reproduction; on the Level of Biochemistry (Water/Fluids), it is associated with interference from food, supplementation, drugs, allergies, sickness, and disease that effect the Water reflex areas/organs; on the Level of Structure (Earth/Solids), it is associated with the musculature, tissues, glands, membranes, ligaments and tendons.

The Water Element also encompasses the Issues of: Family, bonding, being parented and parenting, physical nurturing, sexuality, sensuality, creativity, and emotional acuity.  Any depleting activity in this chakra, be it emotional, mental or physical, will affect these areas in particular, as well as your entire system.  For example, your emotions can affect your physical body.  If you are feeling abandoned or overwhelmed in a relationship, it may show up physically as painful shoulder blades, immune issues due to clogged lymphatics, lack of libido, menstrual pain, or even prostate or breast cancer.  Your physical body can also affect your emotional body. So, if you are doing too much bending/lifting putting stress on your hips and sacrum and/or eating too much fatty, acidic food effecting your ability to fight off viruses…this might make you more susceptible to feeling vulnerable around sexual or physical nurturing issues, feeling closed down, or conversely, like you’re not getting your needs met. This is partly how the mind-body connection works. Of course, each person is different, and the interactions can be a little more complex than that, but Dr. Metz and I have a handle on that in terms of helping you to figure it out. That’s our job!

If you have problems with any of these things, it could be due to blockages in these particular areas, or at any point in the system which reflexes to these areas. Dr. Metz/myself would determine that by using what Dr. Metz calls ”Energy Resonance Methods”, which is a skill that one can learn, a “felt sense”, not necessarily a psychic or an intuitive one. It’s like tuning an instrument, or your voice, to a pitch pipe. You can hear and feel the resonance, whether the two are in tune or not. Anyone can develop this skill with desire and practice. Similarly, Dr. Metz and I can scan one’s system with a question in mind, and we can feel the resonant pull of energy when we’re in sync with the question. For instance, we could ask, “What is the energy in the system currently dealing with that is most urgent?” We might get verification on our answer by running our hands along the body, and feeling a resonance when we get to the feet, which could mean the Water Element is being disrupted. That would pose another set of questions, such as: “Is this person stressed and by what?  What is draining the energy there?”  Some Water Issues that could be questioned are:  Too many parenting responsibilities? Not drinking enough water, or eating enough leafy greens? Overindulging? Hormones gone askew? Fighting a virus?

After information is gathered, through these means and discussion with the client, bodywork can then begin. There is another set of questions that helps direct the customized protocol, but intuition, in addition to resonance, is now the best way to treat the energetic system, being that it is interconnected in ways that are complex and not linear. During a treatment, the client’s system takes in the energy being radiated and focused by the polarity and placement of the practitioner’s hands, like acupuncture does with needles (and jumper cables do with a battery).  With the intention and attention of both practitioner and client towards “Highest Healing Good”, the client’s own innate intelligence does triage and sends the energy to where it’s needed most. After the treatment Dr. Metz/I would again reassess the client again, via Energy Resonance Scan, and make suggestions as to what the client might do to facilitate/maintain an energetic balance appropriate to their system.

In general, these are some of the ways you can keep your Water Element balanced: Surrounding yourself with, or wearing the color orange; listening to or playing slow smooth music (like the cello); getting your feet and hips moving through swimming/dance; making love or getting a massage; playing with children; cuddling animals; engaging in the art of cuisine/cooking; focusing on the sense of taste, salty tastes in particular; and eating orange foods, as well as foods that grow from ground-level to two feet (leafy vegetables, melons, cucumber, squash).

The key to keeping everything in balance is to not “over-do” or “under-do” anything. “Everything in moderation” is sometimes easier said than done, but it’s important to at least keep ourselves reminded of that fact, and have fun doing it!

Earthen Solids

The Earth Element is the densest of the five elemental energies in the Negative Pole of the Fundamental Field. It is associated with the #1/Root Chakra at the base of the spine at the coccyx, low back, abdomen, adrenal glands (stress response), the neck, knees, pinky fingers and toes.

The Root Chakra encompasses the issues of career, money, the basic necessities of life and survival. Any depleting activity in this chakra, be it emotional, mental or physical, will affect these areas in particular, as well as your entire system. For example, if you are worried about money, or your house, or your job, it may show up physically as low back pain. The physical can also affect the emotional, so if you are doing things that are stressing your low back, this might make you susceptible to feeling more vulnerable about finances. This is how the mind-body connection works.

Ways to keep Earth in balance is by tuning in to: the color red; slowing down, steadiness, structure, security and groundedness; low droning sounds (like listening to or making a drumbeat); your sense of smell; the art of aromatherapy, sculpture and gardening; weight-bearing exercise, such as rock-climbing; sweet tastes and eating foods that grow below the ground (roots and tubers, like potatoes, beets, carrots, onions, garlic, and jicama). The key is to not under-do or over-do anything.

On the Psychological Level the Earth Element is associated with: fear, worry, insecurity, greed, courage and generosity; on the Level of Motion, the energy is contracted; on the Level of Physiological Motivation it is associated with digestion, elimination in particular; on the Level of Biochemistry it is associated with the blood, and issues of food, allergies, sickness or disease that affect the Earth reflex areas; and on the Level of Structure it is associated with bones and joints.

If you have problems with any of these things, it could be due to blockages in these particular areas, or at any point in the system which reflexes to these areas. Dr. Metz/myself would determine that by using what Dr. Metz calls “Energy Resonance”, which is a felt sense, not necessarily a psychic or intuitive one. It’s like tuning a guitar to a pitch pipe, you can hear and feel the resonance, whether the two are in tune or not. Anyone can develop this skill with practice.

Similarly, we scan your system with a question in mind, and we can feel the resonant pull of energy when we’re in sync with the question. For instance, we could ask, “What is the energy in the system currently dealing with that is most urgent?” We might run the hand along the body, and feel a resonance when we get to the adrenal glands. That would pose another set of questions, such as: “Is this person stressed and by what? What is draining the energy there? Too much worry? Too much sugar? Too little rest?”

After information is gathered, through these means and discussion with the client, bodywork can then begin. There is another set of questions that helps direct the customized protocol, but intuition is now the best way to treat the energetic system, being that it is interconnected in ways that are complex and not linear. The client’s system takes in the energy being radiated by the polarity of the practitioner’s hands (like jumper cables to a battery). With the intention and attention of the practitioner towards “Highest Good”, the client’s own innate intelligence does triage and sends the energy to where it’s needed most.