Even after being an energetic practitioner for over 20 years, there are still moments when I just have to step back in awe. Awe and profound gratitude. This work is so powerful and beautiful.
Last week I had one of these moments after a session with a client who had phantom pain.
Phantom pain is experienced in a limb or an organ that is not physically part of the body; often an amputated arm or leg.
In the clinic where I share Healing Touch, I worked with a woman who had extreme pain in her left leg that had been amputated many years before. She was suffering. She told me her pain medication was no longer controlling her pain and on a scale of one to ten, her pain level was a 10.
I could feel with my hands the areas in her biofield where the “blockage” was – about 6” where her left knee would have been and then all along the inner shin from the knee down. She was so sensitive to my hands in her energy field that I had to move very slowly, or she would twinge in agony. For the first ten minutes of the session, I held my hands just outside the area of the blockage of the knee that was physically not there. I used a technique in Healing Touch called pain drain.
It took at least 20 minutes before she could even begin to relax. The full session was 50 minutes.
After the healing, she looked so relieved. She stated that her pain was now a 3. She was also very comforted to know that I could feel exactly where her pain was in the leg that was not physically there. We had our session at a clinic, so I will not be able to follow up with her. I don’t know if the pain came back after our session, or eventually went away.
I’ve never worked in my private practice with phantom pain to see if a series of healings would completely and permanently relieve phantom pain, but in my sessions with Veterans and those done in volunteer clinics, Healing Touch has been very effective in reducing phantom pain.
Awe and profound gratitude. It’s a good feeling.
Jeri Lawson is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork sessions Monday through Friday, 10 am to 6 pm, in the Temescal Area of Oakland, California 510-601-9632