Energy medicine: are you telling patients too much?

I had an interesting experience years ago, 1998 or 1999, shortly after I purchased a BioMeridian MSAS-Pro. I lived in a city of 220,000, in Central California. Word got around that I had the MSAS-Pro (you know how news travels in small circles) and one day a man came in to see me for a consultation.

He identified himself as a retired physicist. He was of the age to be retired and I had no reason to doubt him, so I assumed he was. I soon learned he wasn’t much interested in my services—he just wanted to see the machine he heard I had and to hear what I had to say about it.

So I went through my spiel, and he smiled and nodded. A few minutes into my routine I realized I was boring him, that what I was saying was child’s play to him. Then he started explaining things to me that very quickly soared ten feet above my head. I think we spent fifteen minutes together, then I never saw him again. I guess I wasn’t interesting enough to him.

I learned some important things that day that helped me in my energy medicine journey:

1)  That all matter is composed of energy vibrating at different frequencies is well known by people with training and education in physics. It’s Physics 101. Having an experienced scientist understand what I was doing was validating to me. It made it not so nutty-sounding after all.

2)  People who don’t have training or are not educated in physics (pretty much me at that time) have no idea that matter and energy are interchangeable. With the little bit of knowledge I had then, still about 100 times more than the average person has, I had no idea what the guy was talking about most of the time he was speaking to me. Imagine how a Joe the Plumber would have felt if he’d been in the room with us?

Let me tell you another important story.

As a doctor of chiropractic, I had to take X amount of hours of continuing education every year to maintain my license, and to help me stay up on new things. Some of these classes were interesting and helpful, others not so much.

One year I decided to take a class on handling auto accident cases. While the instructor did spend some time on treatment approaches (without telling the class anything they didn’t already know), the part of the seminar that has stuck with me through involved testifying in court. 

Accident reconstructionists were new back then. Defense attorneys were hiring them to “prove” that given the circumstances involved, the accident couldn’t have generated enough force to squash a mosquito, let alone injure a human being.

The instructor related the experience of a colleague who’d been depositioned by a defense attorney. The defense had hired an accident reconstructionist who, naturally, claimed the injured party could not have possibly been injured in the so-called accident. The attorney would spout numbers his “expert” witness had generated, pounds of pressure and G forces, which all sounded pretty impressive.

The colleague’s response was simply, “I don’t know about all that. All I know is when the patient’s car was rammed from the side, his left shoulder and leg got shoved into the door and his head slammed up against the window. This tore muscles and stretched ligaments on the right side of his body, causing pain and preventing him from…” (It’s been a few years.)

The attorney would come back with some numbers, and the treating doctor would repeat when he’d already said. That was his story and he was sticking with it. Back and forth they went for a couple of hours. The end result was the defense settled with the injured patient out of court, something they’d been refusing to do. Why? Pay attention, here’s the big message:

They were convinced that because the treating doctor spoke in such easy-to-understand language the jury would side with him and not their egghead accident reconstructionist.

What’s this got to do with practitioners of energy medicine?

People who have no idea what you do need to be told something, but they need you to keep it simple.

It’s tempting to show off what you know by using big words almost no one knows the meaning of. Like the word matter. Tell the average Joe off the street that all matter is energy and they’ll say “Huh?”

The reports that come with my SET-DB™ program are written in language that most people with a fifth grade education can understand. Study the reports and learn the language and you’ll be able to talk to prospective patients about allergy elimination treatment in a way that will make them want to get the treatment.

It may not satisfy your need to show off by using big words, but it will get you more patients.