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January/February 2002 Featured Stories
Donna Eden's Energy Medicine

by Connie Hill

Donna Eden

Donna Eden has an excitement and vibrancy about her that is evident on her videos: Introduction to Energy Healing and the 6 tape series Energy Healing. Donna is also the author of Energy Medicine.

Connie:  Hi Donna. Can you tell me how you got into the field of Energy Medicine?

Donna:  Quite organically!  I had tuberculosis as a tiny girl. My mother also had TB. We had to get a court order to get her out of the terminal ward in the hospital and she healed herself even though she had only one damaged lung. She lived until a year and a half ago. Doctors said she needed penicillin for the rest of her life but she went off everything and that's when she got herself well.

My mother saw energy so she'd just talk about it as if it was natural and my brother, sister and I all saw energy. I think that almost every one sees energy but that gift is not kept alive in our culture.

Connie:  Like kids that see "imaginary" friends.

Donna:  That's right!  I was 22 when I found out that the whole world didn't see energy. "Seeing" energy is a major guide for us.

At 16 I developed MS. My legs would give out as I walked up stairs and it got worse. It was not diagnosed until in my 20's. Then at 27 I had a heart attack, I had asthma, hypoglycemia and by 30 I could hardly walk out my door without getting very sick. The doctors gave up on me and it was the best thing that could have happened. Suddenly I knew I could heal myself!

The tops of my legs from my hips to my knees didn't work so I would sit in bed and see if I could make the energy connect. That's how it began and I got stronger. Then I went to Fiji which was a huge turning point. While I was there I was bitten by an insect and went into a coma. Some local shaman took me, dug a hole in the sand and put me in there. The doctors said there was nothing they could do, but the shaman said "of course she will get well."  I remember waking up twice with my head was sticking out of the sand and they would pour water over my head. All of the toxins drained into the sand. I remember thinking "finally someone knows what they're doing!" 

I stayed in Fiji and worked with the shaman for awhile. It was like remembering something that was familiar to me. When I came back to the US I saw a girl in the airport who’s t-shirt had a hand on it and the words "Touch For Health."  I asked her what it was about. She said "I'm going off next week to become a 'Touch For Health' instructor. I said "Me too."  And I went!  Everyone else knew how to muscle test--and I didn't, but I learned. And saying "me too" felt like lightening hit me.

By the end of the week when I finished that class, I had started my divorce, taken my kids and set-up a practice. That weekend I taught my first class and I think I charged $5 for the whole weekend. I'd never taught anything in my life but I really wanted to share what I knew. That was the beginning and I've always worked since then.

Connie:  What an interesting story!  Tell me why a person would use energy medicine.

Donna:  Because it's natural, organic, accessible medicine with no side affects. It's free and it's more than healing. Maybe a person wants to get their energy back, or lift themselves out of depression, or strengthen their immune system, or take away pain--energy medicine can do all those things. It also starts evolving you. We live in a world where we are so immersed in unnatural energies. Our atmosphere is filled with unnatural energy, toxins, chemicals and microwaves. Then we have stresses. People don't know what hit them. Whether it's formaldehyde in the rug, someone else's energy or a bug. These tools help you figure it out. You get stronger and the things that used to knock you out no longer knock you out. I'm sure that by making your body stronger you evolve it to be able to handle the world you live in. We don't have another million years to get it together. We have to prime that evolutionary pump. If we're going to thrive we have to participate in our own healing by evolving and teaching our own bodies to adapt to our environment so it doesn't kill us.

Connie:  As you were talking it hit me that for the last 30 or 40 years we have really given our power away to doctors. It's like they know everything and we don't. And this is about us taking our power back.

Donna:  It's true. One reason for writing this book was that I really wanted to empower people and give them the tools to get themselves well.

Before I wrote Energy Medicine I used to give my time to schools and the elderly. It was so rewarding to see children be powerful. It's not just about health. A school child may have problems learning and this medicine can help your brain be more receptive.

I teach in Australia once or twice a year. Whoever takes the classes, this medicine evolves with them. In one third of the schools in Australia energy medicine is now mandatory. Kids have not only gotten higher grades, but their self esteem has increased.

I love to teach the elderly, too. In my first elderly class there was a man who was very depressed. He was in his late 80's and he'd had a stroke six months before. He just wanted to die. At first he would not participate because one side of his body wouldn't work. I put him in front of a mirror and said "Just imagine yourself doing these exercises."  After awhile I noticed he felt a little better. The nursing home staff said he wasn't going to get any better--he had just a little bit of movement on one side and the other was totally "dead."  But after awhile he got movement on the "dead" side to the point that he could walk around with a walker. And that's the point: to have your last years not be so horrible. I don't think we are meant to be so debilitated. 

I read this morning that 130,000 people in the US die each year from medicines! That's a lot of people!  Years ago I was taken to court for getting people off of medicines. The case was dropped because the doctors who had brought the case couldn't find one patient who was not glad and feeling so much better. Ten years later those same doctors invited me to speak at the hospital!

Connie:  OK, so how does energy medicine fit with Western medicine?

Donna:  That's an important question. I'm not against western medicine. I see the miracles that have occurred. And for the last 15 years many doctors have referred patients to me because I worked well with them. The two systems can be very complementary. Many people's mythology is "I could never leave western medicine. This is where I put my trust and my beliefs."  You can strengthen your immune system to tolerate chemotherapy.  I think energy medicine and western medicine working together is the wave of the future by the way.  It's not an either or situation. I got a great letter from a woman with three children in a school program that used energy medicine. The mother said "We've been doing the daily exercises and I noticed for the first time since the children were born they didn't have any colds for a whole year."  Also, the mother broke her arm and shoulder in an accident and she healed so fast. Her kids did healing treatments on her and her doctors were amazed. She said "Now I know my body is getting stronger and more in alignment."  It's the way energy really wants to move in person's body.

I want to tell you it's not because I'm so wonderful. It's that we're all healers. In Ashland I have a reputation with those who had chronic fatigue. They come to me in droves. I always teach my patients how to do what's needed. They get a session and then I teach them how to work on themselves. Everyone!  I don't know anyone I worked with who didn't get over their chronic fatigue syndrome.

Connie:  Thank you Donna.

Connie Hill works at New Renaissance Bookshop and is a local astrologer. She can be reached at 503-291-8229, ext. 2 or gmnite@yahoo.com.

Join Donna at New Renaissance Bookshop for An Intimate Afternoon with Donna Eden on Sunday, February 3, 2002 from 4:30-6 pm. Call 503-224-4929 or visit our website: www.newrenbooks.com to register. The cost is $15.  Donna Eden will be offering an Introduction to Energy Medicine on Friday night February 8th, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. and an all-day workshop on Saturday (9:30 – 4pm) at Unity Church, 4525 SE Stark St., Portland.