I
have just received the following most heart-warming email from a fellow five
element practitioner, which, with her permission, I want to share with
everybody interested in receiving confirmation of how effective simple five
element treatments can be.
“I thought you might be
interested to hear about the success of my low cost clinic at Quay Place in Ipswich.
You may remember that you
kindly wrote a reference for me to start working at this venue. It’s a heritage
and wellbeing centre managed by Suffolk
Mind. I’ve been working there for
just over a year now, offering a low cost clinic on a Tuesday
afternoon/evening.
The sessions are aimed at
people with mental health issues who are currently waiting for a referral or
for counselling/cognitive behaviour therapy, or who feel overwhelmed by the
thought of talking therapy.
I offer 30-minute sessions
on a 1:1 basis, for £17. I’m absolutely amazed and humbled by the response and
the number of people who come - my 5-hour clinic is consistently fully
booked.
I’m using very simple five
element treatments - IDs, EDs, AE and source points with minimal talking.
People who come are extremely stressed and traumatised and cannot cope with
in-depth TDs - they just need to relax and let the needles do the work, with
minimal intervention.
The treatment gives these
patients a degree of consistency and a plan of action, and a feeling of
autonomy in that they are being proactive in addressing their condition.
There’s nothing worse for
these patients than hanging around and waiting for the mental health service to
get its act together- it’s demoralising and disempowering. These treatments
give the patients hope and a vision for change - and that’s vitally important in
their journey to recovery.
My home clinic is also
extremely busy and I’ve had to change my way of working in order to accommodate
more patients.
I’ve recently had patients
seeking treatment on the advice of their hospital consultants - how amazing is
that?! It seems that the Western medics
are finally getting the message!
I am eternally grateful to
you and Guy for your inspiration and support early on, which has enabled me to
gain confidence in my practice, so that in turn I can help others to help themselves.”
Thank you, Jo Banthorpe, for sharing your rewarding experiences with me, and for allowing me to pass on what you have written to encourage other five element practitioners How lucky we are to be engaged in such life-enhancing work.
When I was studying with JR Worsley all those years ago, I
would make notes of what he was teaching us during the years of my LicAc, BAc
and MAc studies with him at Leamington. For some time afterwards I kept these handwritten
notes in a rather unordered collection in an A4 file, and rather forgot about
them. To my surprise and delight I
discovered a few days ago that at some point I must have decided it was time to
sort them out and store them in a forgotten computer folder, which I just
happened to come across. Reading through
these notes again after all this time I realised that I had discovered a
veritable treasure trove. They contain
much that inspired me then, and still inspires me, but also things that puzzle
me and which even now I don’t really understand.
This reminds me of something JR replied when asked a
question in class, “If you have to ask that question, you won’t understand the
answer”, a profound comment which I took to heart. I
understood this as being his way of telling us that we had to do the hard work
of finding our own answers, and not rely on him to spell those answers out. So there are still things here and there in
the notes which I must ponder. These
notes represent my own personal legacy, a handing down of a tradition from a
master to one of his most devoted pupils.
I am now reading through them carefully to see how much it
will be useful to pass on to others, particularly also to my students in
China.
This has been a most unexpected and welcome discovery which
coincides very neatly with the imminent publication of my seventh book, called
appropriately My Five Element Legacy. This will be available in mid-April from Singing
Dragon Press: https://singingdragon.com/uk/products. You can get a 10% discount on this book and
all my other books when you quote discount code Y18.