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Reversing Epigenetic Damage From Viruses

September 29, 2022 By Don Ka'imi Pilipovich

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes

Viruses are little bits of genetic material. They’re not even alive in the strictest sense, but they can affect living organisms in a powerful way.

These effects go beyond making you sick; they can and do disrupt the genetic expression of your own cells. In many cases the disruption is temporary and goes away once the infection is resolved.

In other cases, the genetic disruption affects how your cells operate even after you get over the flu or cold. These changes can even be passed down to future generations.

These kinds of changes are epigenetic in nature because they change how your genes express in your body. Which means that they change how your body functions.

Why This Matters

If you have epigenetic damage either from a virus or from a toxin you can end up with a variety of diseases that can be related to a chronic distortion of the immune system:

  • Chronic inflammation
  • Arthritis
  • Autoimmune disorders
  • Cancer
  • Heart disease
  • Metabolic disorders including diabetes
  • Hashimoto’s disease
  • Diabetes
  • Alzheimer’s disease

This is only a short list of problems that can result from epigenetic changes, but if you have any of these issues (or know a family member or patient with these issues) read on to find out how these changes can be reversed.

The good news is that unwanted changes in genetic expression and cellular functioning are reversible. A recent study at the University of California showed that viral epigenetic changes can be reversed.

The really good news is that we can reverse this damage with Accunect.

To understand how this is possible we need to understand more about epigenetics.

“Epigenetics is the study or how your behaviors and the environment can cause changes in the way your genes work”

“These changes are reversible”

- Source: CDC website

Is It a Bug or a Feature?

This somewhat trite expression comes from the early days of computer programming.

Although many times unexpected behaviour of a program was actually an error or bug, in some cases it was actually an undocumented feature.

The ability for viruses to introduce new information into our system isn’t a flaw, it’s actually indispensable.

All significant evolutionary changes have happened as a result of our physiology embracing a welcome bit of viral information that provides for greater adaptability and competitive advantage.

And we are surrounded by viral particles. One study estimated that 800 million viral particles fall on each square meter of earth every day.

Some of these viruses are necessary – a healthy person has up to 300 trillion viruses in their body at a time and they play a crucial role in keeping our microbiome healthy.

The challenge is how to select what viral information to accept into our body vs what to reject.

Since we are surrounded by viruses all the time, it makes sense that our body is designed / evolved to be able to make these selections.

What is Epigenetics?

Epigenetics is the study of how genes are expressed. Our DNA contains all of the information necessary to build and maintain our bodies, but not all of that information is turned on all the time. It is turned on and off in response to our environment, diet, stress levels, and other factors. Over time, certain genes can become permanently turned off, which can lead to disease.

Epi is Greek for “on top of”

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes that operate “on top of” or “in addition to” our traditional theories of genetic inheritance

How epigenetics works is that certain molecules can attach to your DNA to effectively hide or “turn off” certain segments so that it can’t be read.

The result is a bit like a redacted document – all of the original text is still there, but you can’t read it anymore.

This is definitely a feature.

From embryology, we know that an embryo cell is unlike any other cell in the future person: it is undifferentated.

As the embryo turns into a fetus, different areas specialize into liver cells, muscle cells, etc. through an epigenetic transformation that is signalled by the variations in the bioelectric field of the developing fetus. So the possibility of epigenetic change is definitely a feature.

But sometimes it can be a bug.

A virus, or in some cases toxins, may turn off a portion of the genetic code that governs the ability of the body to suppress infection or to suppress tumor growth. This results in a weakened immune system. Other changes might produce chronic inflammation.

In other cases a viral infection may turn on sections of DNA that should not be activated.

Many of these epigenetic changes are heritable: we can pass them on to future generations.

To restore proper cellular function, we need to “undo” the blocking, or “un-redact” the DNA.

What Drives This Process?

The actual molecules that attach to our genetic code to make these changes have to come into the cell through the cell wall.

It is the electrical field, or energy surrounding the cell wall that determines which molecules can attach to receptor sites and enter the cell.

This explains why strong electrical fields can have such a negative impact on health because they can disrupt this cellular level chemical communication process in a way that can create epigenetic damage.

There is also an electrical field in our body all the time. This is the one created by our mind. This pervades every aspect of the body and carries intelligence to each cell.

This means that the state of your mind affects the electrical field around your cells. That in turn creates the potential for epigenetic change.

Someone who is repeatedly exposed to trauma will likely develop PTSD. We now know that there is very often an epigenetic change that leads to a constant state of anxiety – and that this change can be passed on. This is part of what makes PTSD difficult to overcome – it becomes locked into our genetic expression.

Being constantly in a state of fear or readiness produces excess cortisol, which has been strongly linked to epigenetic changes in many studies.

If your mind tells your body that life is dangerous and that you need to be on constant alert your body reprograms itself to comply.

The situation is unlikely to change without breaking this vicious cycle. The challenge is to reduce the fear state for long enough to stop the signal to the body that it needs to be ready for danger at all times. Until that signal stops, the chances of reversing the epigenetic damage is low.

This implies that epigenetic damage and the potential for epigenetic healing both are tied to the state of your mind.

What State is Your Mind In?

Or more importantly, how can you change your state of mind?

Chinese medicine has long recognized that our mind is affected by our energy state. And the reverse is true as well: the mind can affect our energy state.

One of the functions of the acupuncture meridians is to carry the “knowledge of function” to all parts of the body. The energy field of meridian energy is a field of functional intelligence that controls the nervous system and other body functions. This notion is startlingly prescient in light of modern theories of epigenetics.

It’s been known for over two millennia that excess worry disrupts the state of energy in the Spleen meridian. This produces physical symptoms like weakened digestion but it also makes the person prone to worry – which keeps the Spleen energy weak and distorted.

Changing the State of Your Mind

Telling someone not to worry, or not to be anxious doesn’t help them.

But changing the state of their energy can help.

Using acupuncture or herbs to strengthen Spleen Qi/Energy helps the person to break the worry cycle.

The more time they spend in a state of strong Spleen Qi/Energy and low worry, the more likely their body can reverse the underlying cellular functioning imbalance.

Unfortunately, if all you do is stimulate the Spleen meridian with acupuncture the effects aren’t lasting, the person experiences temporary relief but because the body is epigenetically programmed to worry they may be dependent on regular sessions to maintain their Spleen energy.

How Does Accunect come into this process?

Accunect builds on the insights of acupuncture theory, but includes principles of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, physiology, osteopathy, and applied kinesiology to work on more levels. This allows us to get more powerful results.

The basic premise of Accunect is that the body is designed to heal as long as it is giving the right amount of resources to all functions, and that it is properly coordinating activity in the body. Stress, whether it is emotional trauma, injury, poor diet, lack of sleep, or overwork disrupts this balance by putting the body into fight or flight mode.

We get the nervous system to rebalance coordination of specific body activities by tapping over the brain.

We get the acupuncture meridians to rebalance accordingly by tapping over the heart energy center, the control center for all the acupuncture meridians.

We can and do balance the energy in the acupuncture meridians. It’s kind of like acupuncture without needles, but it’s so much more as well.

We can also identify and help the person release beliefs that create excess emotional responses.

And we can clear the emotional charge from past memories. This is crucial, because if these memories linger even at a subconscious level they are creating stress and distorting body function.

We can address how we process sensory information to make it more useful. This builds on the central premise of cognitive psychology, which is that events do not cause emotional response – perception does. Two people can look at the same event and have very different emotional responses because they perceive them differently.

We also can improve our ability to use both masculine and feminine thinking into our perception of the world and our ability to see solutions to challenges.

We can balance the functions of the endocrine system, focus on circulation of nerve supply and blood flow.

We balance other energy systems, such as the chakras, five element energies, and even specific acupuncture points (without pressing or needling).

And we can focus on specific areas of the nervous system, including those that are involved with emotional response and activation of the fight or flight nervous system.

By addressing the issue on multiple levels we are able to change the energy state of the body, and change the energy state around the cells that affects epigenetic programming.

We even have an Epigenetic Update procedure that focuses on shifting how the functional intelligence, or knowledge of function, is stored in the energy blueprint in the body (referred to as Ancestral Qi in Chinese medicine).

Taken together, the various techniques can reduce stress and cortisol levels, a driver of epigenetic damage.

We can also improve circulation and oxygenation of tissues to lessen the possibility of DNA damage.

And we can balance the immune system to reduce inflammation.

Taken together, the various techniques in Accunect can help the body recover from epigenetic damage from viruses or other sources so that people regain optimum health.

Using This Knowledge

The Epigenetic Update procedure and our immune balancing procedure, Defense, are both covered in depth in the Accunect Body course.

Accunect Body is available for instant access online. You can study at your own pace, and there is also a series of weekly support calls so that you can ask questions, practice with other students, watch demonstrations and receive healing for yourself.

Give Me Instant Access to Accunect Body

If you haven’t studied Accunect Connect, you can also study this course online – instant access available now.

Accunect Connect is the foundation course of the Accunect healing system and is a prerequisite for taking Accunect Body

You learn to balance the organs and their meridians, as well as other key systems of the body: endocrines, the brain, sensory processing, immune function, hydration, fight or flight nervous system, and more.

You also learn to balance emotional responses and how to release common belief systems that create stress in the body.

It's complete enough to have a successful energy medicine practice even without taking any of the advance Accunect courses.

You can also study Accunect Connect for family wellness if you're not a practitioner; there are no prerequisites.

Give Me Instant Access to Accunect Connect

Dr Don Ka'imi Pilipovich is an acupuncture physician and the co-founder of the Accunect Healing system. He has been studying and practicing Chinese medicine for over 30 years and has been teaching internationally for over 20 years.



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The “Magic” Secret for Low Back Pain

July 28, 2019 By Don Ka'imi Pilipovich

 

Why do we balance Archetypes in Accunect Zoom?

Because it works. I use archetypes extensively in all of my Accunect sessions and the results are amazing.

And by amazing, I mean concrete measurable results.

Here’s an example:

I’ve had truly miraculous results with low back problems with one simple balancing – the archetype of Jupiter and the sacrum.

It goes like this. Someone comes into my clinic complaining of low back pain. Because part of my background is in massage and manual therapy, I will usually take time to do a simple evaluation of pelvic alignment. If the pelvis is crooked, then the sacrum – which is the bone that the spine rests on – will be tilted. This puts a lot of stress on the spinal muscles because they are trying to balance your weight on an uneven surface.

And sure enough, I often find that the pelvis is really crooked – which explains the low back pain. Usually the hip bones are twisted in relation to the sacrum throwing everything out.

Then I do Accunect. And the first thing that comes up is often Jupiter to sacrum. I tap for a little while, and then re-evaluate their pelvic alignment – sorted! Pelvis level, back released all in under a minute from one tapping. No pushing, no pulling, no massage or bodywork. Just Jupiter and the sacrum and tap the brain and heart so that they take a “fresh look” at the situation and back pain sorted.

So why does this work?

First thing to remember is that the bones only go where the nervous system tells them to go. The nervous system sends signals to the muscles around the bone and that’s what controls alignment.

This means that in order to correct postural alignment you should really address the nervous system, and not just push on a bone.

To work on the nervous system, you need to work on the mind because the mind controls the nervous system.

This is where the archetypes come in. The archetypes represent aspects of our mind and personality.

We use the planetary archetypes in Accunect, which are derived from the gods of ancient mythology. Mythology was the psychology of the past – the stories of the gods having conflicts were really describing the conflicting voices in our mind.

“Astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity” – Carl Jung

Jung was one of the most influential thinkers in the fields of psychiatry (and anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies) so that’s a strong statement from someone of his knowledge and background.

All of the archetypes represent one of our inner voices. We all have a voice that says we can do it (Mars). But some people hear that voice loud and clear and take charge of their life while others have trouble hearing that voice and lack confidence in themselves.

Jupiter is like our inner spiritual teacher. Jupiter is the voice that knows the big picture is out of our hands and that we should simply do our best and then turn it over to higher power. Jupiter brings hope, faith and optimism.

When we balance Jupiter with the sacrum, we update the mind with the voice that says “even if I’m having a bad day, in the big picture I’m in good hands.” Jupiter says “I’m supported.”

And the since the sacrum’s job is to provide support, Jupiter helps the mind to feel supported and then the mind regulates the nervous system to send more balanced signals to the muscles around the sacrum to allow it to be level.

This is a glimpse into the power of the techniques in Accunect Zoom. We delve deeply into the connections between mind and body in numerous ways so that we can better balance the mind to balance the nervous system to balance the body.

Accunect Zoom Online

You can study Accunect Zoom online August 9-11, 2019

There will be recordings so you can watch the replays over and over.

And 4 support calls afterwards to ask all of your questions and have more practice.

Click here to register

 

If you’ve taken Accunect Zoom in the past you can take the course at a reduce price. This is only for students repeating Accunect Zoom. Click here for monitor price.

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Be Careful What You Say

March 12, 2019 By Don Ka'imi Pilipovich

I should have been more careful about what I said in the January blog post about understanding the concept of healing crisis vs healing response. And I did say that some people have an immune backlog – they were exposed to a virus but never took enough time off to allow their immune system to clear it. Which means that sometimes people will get sick as part of a natural healing response.

What I should have also said to practitioners was “Please don’t tell people they might get sick after a session.”

This omission has become apparent as I’ve had people emailing me to ask if they should warn people they might get sick after a session. My is answer is NO.

Most people don’t get sick after receiving a healing session. So I don’t tell people that they might get sick, because that would be planting a suggestion into their subconscious mind that they are supposed to get sick. Or that getting sick is part of receiving an energy balancing.

Just because some people have an immune backlog doesn’t mean that everyone does.

And I find that because Accunect works to optimize efficiency in the immune system, even the people that do need to clear out and old virus or toxins generally do so easily and without a strong reaction. So why plant fear?

Words have power. Saying someone is likely to get sick after a session is the same as offering a prognosis, or prediction of the progression of someone’s condition. And a prognosis is actually a form of diagnosis.

We don’t diagnose in Accunect, we simply look for areas of the body mind that are ready to function better in some way and focus the body’s awareness on those issues so that it can come into balance. That’s safe.

Diagnosis, and prognosis, can be dangerous. A diagnosis has the potential to disrupt the functioning of the nervous system, and hence the rest of the body by creating a perception of fear. This puts the body into fight or flight nervous system tone and the immune system is then compromised as a result.

In his book, Be Careful What Your Pray For – You Just Might Get It, Larry Dossey discusses the idea that a diagnosis can be a form of medical hex or curse. In his years as a practicing physician, he witnessed first-hand how positive thinking can improve healing results. And he cites lots of research into the power of prayer that corroborates that view.

Dr. Dossey has also observed that negative thought or negative expectations have a strong potential to worsen a patient’s condition – they can become a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. There are many documented cases where some received a wrong diagnosis, or their test results were mixed up with someone else’s test results – leading to being given someone else’s diagnosis. In many of these cases of switched test result an previously healthy person quickly develops the disease they were told they had – and in some cases die from it before the error is realized.

This is why Dr. Dossey chooses to use a strong label like “medical hex” to describe the power that diagnosis can have on someone’s health. He presents substantial evidence that telling someone they are going to die can cause them to die – even if they weren’t actually sick. If that’s not a curse or hex, what is?

So be careful what you say. There’s enough people focusing on the negative possibility and looking for what’s wrong. If you keep looking for what’s wrong you’ll find it – or create it by creating negative expectations. We need more Accunect practitioners focusing on what could be better to create more potential for healing.

For an Accunect class near you, please visit the calendar page.

If you have taken Accunect, check out the Accunect Practitioner Development and Certification Program to take your practice to the next level and become a Certified Accunect Practitioner.

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Community Call March 7, 2019 – Perception Creates Reality

March 6, 2019 By Don Ka'imi Pilipovich

We all know we see things differently – that’s a big part of why we have arguments. If everyone saw the same thing and understood it in exactly the same way there would be much less to argue about. We argue because we are convinced that there is one version of reality out there, and we simply need to explain ourselves better for the other person to come to their senses and see the universe correctly – by which mean the way we see it.

What if we actually saw different realities? What if our observation and perception is actually defining and creating the universe we see?

That’s exactly what quantum physics says is going on. Even though quantum theory is over a hundred years old, the implications of the theory are so staggering that few physicists are able to really approach these ideas openly. One of the early contributors to quantum theory, Niels Bohr, once said that if someone thinks they understand quantum physics, they really don’t get it – because you can’t understand it. Other physicists think that physical laws actually do change according to beliefs in collective conscious – that the world we see is a product of a cultural habit of seeing the world in a certain way. This theory is borne out by the observation that people in heightened or altered states of consciousness are able to “bend” the laws of physics – it’s as if the world is responding to their world view instead of the world view of the surrounding culture.

What does this imply for health and healing? How much do our collective ideas about what conditions and diseases are hard influence whether or not people get better or not? Before the discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, its cause was a mystery. For a long time people were believed to be cursed and that they could be healed by a touch from a royal, such as the king. And the death rate from tuberculosis was shocking. Once the bacterium was identified, the death rate went down dramatically, decades before there were any antibiotics available. People saw the disease differently and it lost its mysterious power.

I’ll talk about the idea of perception actually creating reality and how that relates to Accunect during the next Accunect Community Call – Thursday March 7th at 4pm London time. If you haven’t signed up for the call you can do so here.

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Healing Crisis – Myth or Misunderstanding?

January 8, 2019 By Don Ka'imi Pilipovich

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This post was inspired by a couple of recent events. The first was a student messaging me because a client had mentioned having a chronic symptom get worse after an Accunect session – and she wanted to know if she had done something wrong or what she should have said to the client about it. Other symptoms had improved, but the one symptom had gotten worse.  It’s worth noting that the issue had started many years ago after a really bad infection and had never totally cleared up since that old infection many years prior. The other event was that I had just posted a lecture on Opportunities in the Accunect Practitioner Development Program on how to recognize challenging situations (like serious conditions and chronic illnesses) as really being opportunities to watch a bigger miracle.

So was the client’s symptom aggravation a healing crisis or not?

In this instance, some aspects of health improved although one symptom worsened – that’s not a crisis to me. It’s likely that the Law of Cure applies.

The idea behind the Law of Cure is that in homeopathy and in acupuncture we heal from the inside out. What this means is that more recent symptoms are likely to heal first, and then older symptoms are likely to reappear or re-intensify before being cleared – in the case above a number of newer symptoms improved, while the older symptom worsened temporarily.

I have to say that I don’t really like the term ‘healing crisis.’ Or maybe I don’t like the way people use the term. Sometimes the way people say healing crisis makes any response to a session that isn’t instant relief sound like a problem. And other people use the term in a way that avoids the discussion of whether over-treatement or over-stimulation might have been an issue. For some experiences I think the better term might be ‘healing response.’  Sometimes the body needs to rest, or give energy to the immune system so that it can do it’s job. That’s a healthy healing response. But over-treatment can push the body past it’s limits and create a healing crisis where additional stress is placed on the body – more stress than would be necessary to clear the issue.

What is a healing response and how do we define a healing crisis?

There’s lots of reactions that people refer to as a healing crisis, here’s some of the most common experiences:

  • ‘Catching’ a cold
  • Feeling toxic or foggy
  • Feeling tired
  • Having soreness or pain
  • Feeling very upset or emotional

All of these reactions are possible after any kind of therapy, whether it be massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, energy work or herbal/nutritional therapy.

Sometimes these reactions point to a positive healing response. Other times they can represent over-treatment or over-stimulation. One source of some of these symptoms can be what’s called a Herxheimer reaction, or detoxification reaction. This happens when the body releases old toxins faster than the elimination organs can deal with them. This is where the possibility of over-stimulation comes in: clearing out old toxins is good, but trying to detox too fast actual creates additional stress on the body. It’s not just uncomfortable to go too fast, it’s a stressor that can weaken your system and deplete your Qi/Energy. I might call that a crisis. I think it’s better to encourage the body to detox at a more comfortable pace – one that doesn’t cause additional stress on the body.

Sometimes people are too busy to take time off to have a cold or flu. So they take something to suppress the cold symptoms. The problem is that they turn off their immune system by taking the cold medications. This pushes the virus or other microbe deeper into the body. The body puts the immune response on hold until the ‘emergency’ is passed. The virus is still there, but the immune system is ignoring it so you don’t have aches and pains or fever so you think you aren’t ill.

If an Accunect session brings more awareness and hence energy to the immune system, the person may experience cold or flu symptoms while the immune system clears out the old pathogen. But the energy work didn’t give the person the virus, it just woke up the immune system. That’s a healing response, not a crisis.

Here’s an image to put it into perspective: you’re really busy so you decide you don’t have time to take the trash out from the kitchen and put it into the outside bin for collection. You just keep tossing the trash into the pantry and closing the door quickly so you can pretend everything is okay. At some point someone comes over to your house and notices a smell coming from the pantry. You finally realize that you are going to have to make time to take the trash out. Taking the trash out after it has been rotting in the pantry for a long time is going to be a smelly and unpleasant task. But cleaning out the pantry isn’t a crisis. The real crisis was throwing all the trash in there in the first place.

The good news is that we see far less of these kinds of reactions with Accunect than with any other therapy that I’ve studied or practiced. I believe that the reason for this is that we place such an emphasis on looking for what is ready to shift or change, and not focusing on what is wrong.

As a result, clients typically clear out old toxins, emotions, and pathogens at a more comfortable rate without causing additional stress on the body. There might be some hiccups on the path to recovery, but I generally see far less negative reactions with Accunect than with other therapies.

The healing response may include something other than instant relief and abundant energy because the body has to rest or clean house. But I reserve the term healing crisis for when the patient is experiencing excess stress from the healing process. In my opinion the process of healing has likely been pushed too fast and that’s why they are in overwhelm. Because we only look for what’s ready to change in Accunect and don’t give medicines or manipulations we see healthy healing responses rather than healing crises.

I’ll go into each of the common kinds of ‘healing crisis’ below to shed more insight on them.

Getting a cold or flu after a treatment

Not taking time to have a cold is a very common occurrence. We’re conditioned to think that taking time to get sick is a weakness. How often have you heard someone say “I don’t allow myself to get sick! When I start getting sick I just push harder and tell my body to be strong!” Advertisements for cold remedies show people being too responsible (maybe self-important?) to take time off. So they reach for the cold remedy and trudge on through rain and sleet and snow…

My teacher Dr. Lam Kong used to say that a healthy person should get sick four times a year, once at each change of seasons. The idea is that you need to let the body ‘clean house’ periodically. If you get sick at the change of seasons and don’t fight it, you can be a little bit sick for a day and then be well again. The idea is if it’s only been a few months since the last time you let your immune system ‘clean house’ it doesn’t take long to clear out the recent toxins, bacteria and viruses.

Dr. Kong was a tenth generation Chinese Medicine physician who had been in practice for nearly fifty years when I studied with him. People who don’t take to get sick accumulate an immune backlog that weighs the body down. He called it ‘old flu.’ People with old colds and flus that have never been cleared don’t look sick – they look tired.

Many conditions that we call ‘syndromes’ in western medicine are really ‘old flu.’

We call something a syndrome when it is collection of symptoms that we don’t understand the cause of.

Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia syndrome are very often caused by old flu. Depression can be caused by old flu. Infertility can be caused by old flu. And I’ve seen multiple cases of epilepsy and other seizure disorders caused by old flu.

My teacher Dr. Angela Longo taught me Dr. Kong’s method of feeling the presence of old viruses by taking the meridian pulses at the wrist. Then we would use an herbal formula to encourage the body to work on an old/buried virus. And then the patient would have the flu. But we didn’t give the patient the flu – it was already in their system, sometimes from years before. We just raised it to awareness.

Sometimes we would end up having to clear several old flues from someone. It’s a challenging thing to explain to patients, because no one likes getting sick any more than they like cleaning out rotten trash from the pantry. And western medicine often focuses on suppressing symptoms rather than treating the root cause, so people are used to symptoms going away or being reduced.

But after the patient finished having the flu and we could no longer feel the indication of an old flu in the pulse they were healthier. Their chronic fatigue lifted and their muscles stopped hurting. I had one patient who was having several grand mal seizures a day when she began treatment. After clearing one old flu the seizures reduced by half. We cleared several old flues over the course of several months, and when all the old flues were gone she was seizure free.  Getting the flu and feeling terrible for a few days is way better than having to wear helmet for protection in case of seizure for the rest of your life.

With Accunect I see this process of having an old flu clear, but usually in a much more gentle fashion. Most of the time their immune system clears out old infections in a graceful way and over time they get healthier and I can no longer feel the old flu in the pulse – without them having to have a full blown flu with high fever and discomfort. Occasionally I have patients that do get sick after an Accunect session, but in general their symptoms are less severe. I believe that this is because Accunect can also balance the immune system in many different ways to make it more efficient.

Feeling toxic

Again, detoxing is a good thing. But if happens too quickly or in the wrong order it can cause stress on the body. More is not always better.

Liver cleanses are very popular and many people think you need to take really strong cleansing herbs to detox. In Chinese Medicine the preferred approach – developed over two millennia of clinical discussion – is to gently support the liver with strengthening herbs instead. When the liver is strong it’s natural function is to detoxify the body. Trying to detox without making the liver strong first is like putting the cart before the horse: you don’t get very far for the amount of energy expended and you end making the horse angry.

Our approach in Accunect is to look for what is ready to function better and bring awareness to those areas. In this way we help to improve the body’s natural ability to cleanse itself rather than pushing it with powerful herbs or medicines. Hence we see very few detoxing reactions compared to other therapies.

Feeling tired

Just like we don’t take time to get sick, we often don’t take time to rest. It’s a myth that we should have abundant energy all the time. We need to rest and sleep every day.

Our culture prizes overwork. The Protestant work ethic dominates many western cultures. America was founded by Calvinists and Calvin taught that you knew God loved you if he gave you the willpower to work hard every day. Taking time off was a sign that you were a sinner sure to end up in hell.

As a result, many people are always running on adrenal energy and they are exhausted without knowing it. They are always in ‘fight of flight’ mode.

Over the years I’ve seen a number of people in chronic adrenal fatigue who didn’t even realize it. They felt somewhat tired, but their commitment to their responsibilities was such that they would just drink more coffee and plow on. They couldn’t function without the coffee, and the combination of coffee and fight or flight energy was making them think they were just a little tired – rather than exhausted.

In a few of these cases, the Accunect session served to finally switch off the chronic fight or flight activation. And then they would sleep for 24 hours straight. That’s a not a crisis, it’s a miracle. If you haven’t rested properly in years, it’s a good thing when you manage to switch off and rest. The key here is that Accunect didn’t make them tired. They were already exhausted and running only on adrenal reserves. The Accunect session allowed their nervous system to come out of fight or flight activation and then they realized that they were tired.

Feeling soreness or pain

I’ve seen these kinds of responses over the years more in response to bodywork such as massage or manipulation. Again sometimes it’s an appropriate healing response, and sometimes it’s a crisis.

If a muscle has been tight for a long time there will be lactic acid built up in the muscle. Because the circulation is poor due to the chronic contraction the muscle will more likely be numb than painful. When you release the muscle and the circulation is restored, there is some soreness from the lactic acid release, but this eases over the next few hours and it’s generally good by the next day. That’s a normal and healthy healing response. Muscles can release from Accunect sessions as well, and in some cases there can be soreness when this happens.

I’ve also had massages where the therapist worked too hard or too fast and I’ve been left bruised from the overly strong pressure. In these cases the soreness may last for days. That’s a healing crisis. I would have preferred that the therapist honor how much my body was ready to release on that day rather than literally pushing for more.

Feeling the difference between what’s ready and when you are overworking is part of the ‘art’ of massage and new massage therapists sometimes overwork until they get enough experience to feel or intuit how much to do in a session. An experienced therapist learns to feel how much pressure is enough or too much and gets better results with less effort and less soreness.

With Accunect, we don’t physically manipulate the body, we just raise awareness of areas that are ready to shift or improve so we see healthy healing responses rather than healing crises.

Feeling overly emotional or fragile

Just like we can only clear toxins so fast, we can only release old emotions so fast as well. The ‘better out than in’ philosophy still applies, but if you push too hard to clear everything all at once it can cause additional stress.

Sometimes less is more. With emotional releases many people have been led to believe that a bigger release is better. But I’ve also seen that just as flushing too many toxins out of the body at once stresses the elimination organs, pushing too many emotions out all at once stresses our mind and body.

Some therapies (and some therapists) think a huge cathartic release is a sign of a powerful treatment and a good thing. But there is often a new trauma created by the experience of losing control. One step forward, but also a step (or more) backward.

Since our focus with Accunect is to look only for what the bodymind is ready to release, and then we just hold the space with the tapping for the mind and heart to release it, the process is typically very gentle. Accunect isn’t a counseling therapy, we only hold the space for the person to release whatever they are ready to.

A lot of times people just naturally clear out old emotional baggage in their sleep and gradually feel lighter. Other times there is a stronger emotional release, but it usually passes quickly and gracefully.

I used to get more cathartic releases with other therapies in the past, but with Accunect the process is both gentler and more lasting. The release of old trauma is deeper and more complete when it is allowed to process at a more comfortable level.

Conclusion

Sometimes people need to clear out old toxins, emotions, or immune issues and an Accunect session can help to stimulate that process. Feeling tired or having a cold or flu after a healing session can be a healthy healing response. Tapping over someone’s head and heart won’t give them a flu or push toxins into their body. But many people have been too busy to take time to detox or cleanse so when their immune systems gets more energy it will start to work on the old backlog of immune issues.

It is possible with many therapies to over-stimulate.  When this happens the body releases more toxins and emotions than the elimination organs can handle. Or you can force the immune system into an overly strong response. This is a healing crisis. The art of massage is to not work too hard, the art of herbalism is to figure out the right dosages of herbs to support the body rather than stress it, and the art of acupuncture is to give enough stimulation without over-stimulating the body.

It takes many years of practice to master the art of ‘dosage’ in most therapies. One of the great things about Accunect is that we simply raise awareness of areas of the body that could function more efficiently and let the wisdom of the body take the appropriate action from there. So you can learn to do safe, effective treatments with Accunect in one weekend!

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