I’ve been traveling the world teaching Accunect for four years next month. I’m not tired yet, because the energy of these courses is so incredible that I get a healing every time I teach. But I have been looking forward to having other people teach Accunect Connect for a while, because there’s only one of me. And I still don’t know how to be in two places at once.

So I’m very excited to announce that I’m not alone anymore. The number of Accunect Connect instructors has gone from 1 all the way to 5! And more will be coming soon. This is a huge step forward in making Accunect available to more people and becoming an integral part of the future of medicine.

Sarah Simonis, the co-founder of Accunect and Future Medicine Today, has decided to begin teaching Accunect.  She took time off from her practice and teaching career to focus on raising our son, Max. Then she worked tirelessly running the Future Medicine Today office and developing the Accunect curriculum. She has contributed extensively to the development the Accunect system as well as to establishing the flow of the Accunect courses to make learning fun, easy, heart centered and intuitive. Sarah’s now been called back to teaching and to resume seeing clients part-time to support her teaching. She will have limited availability for distant sessions later this summer so contact us soon to reserve a healing session with her as spots will be limited. Sarah also plans to start teaching later this year.

Accunect Connect Instructor Training Program

Some of the Accunect SelfCare Instructors are now training to teach Accunect Connect. These are instructors who have shown both the desire to teach Connect and demonstrated their ability to teach Accunect principles.

Part of the Accunect Connect training program includes weekly teleseminars, individual assignments, and teaching a new course, Accunect ReConnect that supports students of Accunect Connect in their growth. It’s been a very transformational journey for all of us to meet weekly and discuss in depth the concepts behind Accunect and how to communicate those concepts in a powerful way.

I’m happy to announce the following new Accunect Connect Instructors. They have all successfully completed their training to teach Accunect Connect and will be scheduling courses soon. Congratulations to Laura Freix in Virginia, Patricia Insley in Ireland, and Una O’Rourke in Ireland!

I’m very proud of each one of these people. They’ve shown an incredible dedication to training first as Accunect SelfCare Instructors and now as Accunect Connect Instructors. It’s been an honor to witness their growth and transformation and I’m excited to have them help me in reaching more people with this powerful work.

Teresa Lynch and Jille Smith in New Zealand are in the process of completing their training now, and will be helping me to teach Accunect Connect in New Zealand next month. Come support them in their journey!

Accunect ReConnect – a new course in the Accunect Curriculum

The energy of Accunect Connect is really high – people leave the course inspired by their potential to heal and to help others to heal. Plus it’s a really transformational course on a lot of levels and the energy of being connected a group of like minded people coming together for healing just feels really good. Not to mention the benefit of all the in-class practice balancing sessions.

Now you can reconnect to that experience and take your knowledge to a deeper level with Accunect ReConnect. Accunect ReConnect is a nine week course, with weekly meetings of about 2 and half hours. It is a comprehensive review of Accunect Connect, and more. ReConnect has been designed to help you to:

• Get your practice going
• Gain confidence and experience in practice
• Have a deeper understanding of Accunect concepts
• Create good habits of practice and confidence and experience in practice
• Create more confidence in doing and talking about Accunect
• Renew enthusiasm by ReConnecting to Accunect energy
• Introduce Accunect to friends and family
• Connect with Accunect community of students and practitioners
• Review and practice Accunect techniques
• Have all your questions answered
• Receive amazing balancings

Each week includes lecture on the Connect material, question and answer time, demonstrations, and supervised practice of individual techniques as well as practicing complete sessions using the Health Map. On two of the weeks you can bring guests to learn about Accunect and receive sessions.

Some students have already taken ReConnect, and they loved it. It really helped them to get more confident, clear up questions, get a deeper understanding and they really appreciated that ReConnection to the energy of Accunect and the transformation that came with all the practice time.

The Online Classroom page for Your 5 Faces of God has also moved over to Accunect.com

Login instructions are the same as for all students. See this previous post on Login Instructions for details on how to login, retrieve a forgotten password, or reset your password.

The video below talks about how to access the Your 5 Faces of God classroom page once you are logged in to the student area and how to download the audio lectures, homework self-reflection exercises, and how to receive a certificate of completion.

If you haven’t taken Your 5 Faces of God and want to know more about the course, here’s the course description page.

Here’s the video introduction to using the Online Classroom:

https://youtu.be/JTa91qISon8

The Online Community Resource Pages for both Connect and Zoom have moved over to www.accunect.com.

If you happen to try to login at www.futuremedicinetoday.com those “Login” buttons will take you to the new Practitioner Login on the Accunect website.

If you’ve taken Connect or Zoom you should have received and email with your password and login instructions. If you didn’t, we may need to update our records so that you can access the right resources on Accunect.com, so email us at office@futuremedicinetoday.com with a request to update your record. Please mention when you have taken the courses to help us track down the error.

Here’s a video of the new Resource areas:

https://youtu.be/j0znlun02zg

 

If you can’t find the email with your password or can’t remember it, you can have your password emailed to you, and you can reset it once you are logged in. For more details on how to login, change your password etc, see this blog post.

We’ve completed updated the website! And updated our technology. All the practitioner resources that used to be available using separate login instructions on www.futuremedicinetoday.com are now hosted on www.accunect.com. You will have one login from now on, and all resources that you have access to will show up as accessible in the Practitioner Area. Same email, same password for everything.

To make is easy, here’s a quick video on how to use the new login page.

Note: the video plays at a small size by default, you may want to click the full-screen button to see it easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy6hqw2Xoyg

For those of you who prefer to read rather than watch the video, here’s the brief instructions.

Logging in:

1. You should have received and email with your user name and password.
2. Go to www.accunect.com
3. Click “Practitioner Login” on the top menu bar (upper left hand corner)
4. Enter email address
5. Enter your password
6. Click “Login”

Forgot Password?

1. Go to www.accunect.com
2. Click “Practitioner Login” on the top menu bar (upper left hand corner)
3. Scroll down a little to where it says Forgot your password?
4. Enter email address
5. Click “Send me my password”
6. Click OK on the “email sent” notification box that pops up
7. Check your email to get your password
8. Go back to the login page and login

Want to change your password?

Automatically generated passwords can be hard to remember. If you can’t remember your password and want to change it to something else, then:

1. Get logged in using current password (get it sent to you if necessary)
2. Click on Practitioner Login
3. The system will recognize that you are already logged in and ask you if you wish to change your password
4. Enter new password twice
5. Click “Reset my password”

I’ve established a reputation for being the person to go to for “hard” or “mystery” ailments. Because I’ve taught energy medicine internationally for so many years, I get a lot of referrals for people who’ve been to see many doctors and other practitioners who haven’t been able to help. And I’m happy to say that I usually am able to help when no one else seems to be able to offer any hope.

So by the time people get to me, they are often desperate for answers and desperate for hope. Understandably, they have lots of questions. And the most difficult question to answer is also the most common and the most natural question of all: “How long will it take for me to heal?”

Recently, I had a new patient see me out of concern over a uterine fibroid or myoma. She had been recommended surgery, but was concerned that surgery would affect her ability to have a child later, so she wanted to explore natural options. And of course, she asked me if I had experience working with this issue, and how long did I think it would take to address her complaint. It’s a common condition, so you’d think it would be easy to answer that question, but it’s actually a larger question – read on while I discuss why.

Causes vs. Symptoms

It’s hard to answer because I help people heal – which is a lot different than covering up symptoms. And I don’t know how long that will take. I don’t know how many layers there are to the imbalances that are creating their symptoms. If I just focus on the symptoms, I’m not doing healing. I don’t give medicines to counteract symptoms, because that isn’t healing. And I don’t treat the symptom directly, I always work towards balancing the root of someone’s problems. Most problems don’t happen overnight, and the signs and symptoms develop slowly over time. Some of the signs we dismiss as aging, but bottom line is we usually wait until something is really wrong before we tell the doctor about it.

The other issue for me is that after working with patients for 25 years, I know everything is connected. The physical health problem someone is having is likely a case of the body losing efficiency in it’s natural healing and restorative processes. We are supposed to repair our bodies every day when we rest. If that goes well, we age very slowly and stay healthy. If stress keeps us from going into rest and healing mode, we get behind on healing. If we get stressed for a day, we’re a little tired the next day. If we stay stressed for a long time we get way behind on healing and restoration and we eventually develop disease.

So how we handle our stress affects the efficiency of our body. Our reactions to life stresses create emotional responses, which affect the state of our nervous system. And our nervous system controls the functioning of our body and how efficient it is. This explains why emotional imbalance is considered the major cause of disease in Chinese Medicine.

The Cause

So what’s the real cause of my patient’s fibroid? In simple terms, a fibroid represents blood stagnation from a Chinese Medicine perspective. This means that either there is not enough blood or that the blood is not flowing vigorously enough to prevent accumulation or stagnation of blood, leading to the kind of benign tumor that we call a fibroid. This blood stagnation can come from several causes.

The emotion that corresponds to blood is joy. So not enough blood implies not enough joy. In my patient’s case, she feels stuck in a job she doesn’t like, has a desire to do some other work, but somehow isn’t either manifesting or perhaps recognizing opportunities to create a change in her career. She also doesn’t have a steady boyfriend, which is another stumbling block on the road to her other life desire of having children.  Hopefully a boyfriend would bring some more joy into her life and her body and her blood. And at least a few moments of joy would also be necessary for conception, if you catch my meaning.

When you don’t have strong blood, you feel tired and don’t sleep well or soundly. That fits my patient’s situation as well. She works late, but can’t sleep in because she’s a light sleeper (a blood deficiency sign) and noises wake her in the morning before she has rested enough. So she is always tired. When you are tired and depleted it is harder to make changes in your life – you are just surviving, which is depressing, which means no joy. It’s kind of like a circle where the lack of joy means weak of blood, which makes it harder to find daily joy, and so on in a continuous circle.

Feeling stuck emotionally also puts stress on the Liver meridian, and the Liver meridian is responsible for keeping Qi and Blood flowing throughout the whole body, and especially through the lower abdomen – where her stagnation is occurring. And I actually prefer to say stagnation rather than fibroid, because that makes it more understandable and approachable. Because the physical stagnation is always associated with emotional or spiritual stagnation. If we can shift the mind, the Qi and Blood will follow.

Our Path

The difference people who continually grow and evolve throughout life and those who don’t is that the people who do believe they can, and believe that they are worth it. We all know people of great talent who don’t achieve much, and others with average talent who nonetheless succeed in life.  We all know people who are kind, personable, and attractive who stay single forever. It is our beliefs that determine whether or not we expect the universe (or the person you fancy) to say yes when we ask for something.

The Liver meridian is also responsible for helping us to see a path through life that leads to more opportunity and more growth. So the key to improving blood circulation in the lower abdomen relates to the same energy center that helps us to see our path in life. You can’t really separate the two issues.

Hope

If I am I going to help my patient reduce or eliminate her fibroid I’m going to have to help her body to do the job. Like most of my patients she is a distance patient that I treat over the phone. I can’t do surgery or even acupuncture at a distance. But I can help to shift her energy, and to address emotional states and beliefs that affect how her body makes blood. And that can change not only how her body works to improve circulation and health of her uterus, it can also affect the choices she makes in her life and the opportunities that are available to her.

That’s why “How long will this take?” is a big question. The challenge is that I don’t know how many layers there are and how ready she is to shift. So I simply can’t make specific promises. The good news is that whatever I do to help her fibroid is more than likely going to help her find more joy and opportunity in her personal and professional life. Finding a natural way to reduce the fibroid is great – if that same method helps to help her find a better job, a partner, and a baby then I’m really helping her as a person, not just treating her uterus. That’s my goal, because they are all related to the same quality of energy and mind.

So my hope is healing on all levels. People can change their mind in an instant when they are ready, then the energy and nervous system change and the body changes when the nervous system tells it to change. By the time people find me, they are usually ready to change their mind and ready to heal. Where there’s a will to change, there’s a way.  There’s hope for her, there’s hope for me in my life challenges, and there’s hope for you in your challenges. Wish her (and yourself) luck.

Note:

I’m not against medications or surgery. Sometimes medications are really necessary. Sometimes surgery is really necessary. But medications don’t cure disease, they control symptoms. That’s important, because some symptoms can kill you, or make life very difficult. There are a lot of smart people who have dedicated their lives to finding better ways to control symptoms and to save people’s lives in an emergency. I’m grateful for all of those researchers and clinicians, and they serve an important need.  I’m interested in healing, not covering up problems, so I write about non-medical options.