Depression and the Radiant Circuits

DEPRESSION AND THE RADIANT CIRCUITS: 2 CASES

1^st Case from the Radiant Energies Module 2^nd Case from the Clinical Illustrations Module

In both cases, Donna Eden, an energy healer with clairvoyant abilities and author of the book Energy Medicine, was the practitioner. Before presenting the cases, here is her answer from an e-list with her advanced students who were asking what she does when a severely depressed client is virtually unable or unwilling to actively participate in the treatment. Her answer:

"One of the secret thrills from my practice is what can happen when a client comes in with a really bad attitude—usually someone coerced the person to get to the session, many times it was the wife—often the person is also extremely depressed, sometimes suicidal. I focus on the person's energy, not the story. I simply go about getting the energies balanced in a basic way (Wayne-Cook, K-27, the Basic Routine) because the energies would always be scrambled or not crossing over or not flowing or homolateral (see Neurological Disorganization module), and certainly the radiant circuits would not be connected. I make sure I do energy testing on these people, before and after using those basic techniques, so they will see that something is shifting and moving. When people get a demonstration from energy testing, they usually become a little more interested and a little more involved. From the quick balance, they usually also begin to feel a little better, and this generates some hope, which is the energetic opposite of depression. From there, I may do a deeper balancing. Sometimes they want to talk, which is fine, but I keep working on their energies. If they do decide to talk, I would usually focus on the chakras while they are talking, working on various layers and finding where the energy is stuck. And I would always send them out with homework. I don’t overburden them with heavy routines, but I particularly emphasize the techniques that made them feel better in the office."

CASE 1

A man came for a session with his two little boys because it was his turn to take care of them. He was the pastor of a large progressive church in town, but his ministerial persona was crumbling. He was desperate inside, and he had become harsh and brittle with others. His temper was easily provoked, particularly by those closest to him. This was his first session. A story emerged. He had a son who had died at 2. He was separated from his wife and they were deciding whether to divorce. He was trying to get his spirit back and to get relief from the pain and anger he was carrying. He knew it was hurting the boys. He did not think there was a chance for his marriage.

He was talking a mile a minute. When energy goes out like that, the person isn’t able to receive. Incoming energies are literally being blocked by the pressured speech. Usually in a situation like this, I begin by "unscrambling" the force fields. But I had an instinct to go right to his radiant energies. I began holding points that stimulate the radiant circuits and connect them with one another so the entire radiant system is activated. He immediately fell silent and began to relax. It was as if he were taking in the most soothing nourishment. After a time, he began to cry and cry.

The boys came in concerned that I was hurting their daddy. But he was so soft when they came in, which was such a relief from the harshness they’d been living with, that they started laughing and laughing and laughing. And it made him laugh as well. I was just holding points. That’s all I was doing. All three of them became relaxed. I got the boys to go back into the other room. Then the man began to shake. His tremors were so violent that it was one of those rare times I wanted to intervene in a natural process. I began to make him stop. He said, "No," so I let him be. He just kept shaking and releasing. Then he became still, and it looked like he was in bliss.

We worked with the radiant energies in each of his next several sessions, but from that first session, his demeanor changed, particularly with his wife. He had never realized why he was so angry at her. But as he softened and they began to communicate, he discovered that he had (irrationally) been holding her responsible for the death of their son. He’d never uttered this thought, even to himself, and this unacknowledged blame/rage was the domino that resulted in his retreat into a brittle shell.

CASE 2

A woman who suffered with periodic bouts of severe depression had been treated over a period of years with unsuccessful talk and drug therapies. She believed that if she were able to heal the torments from her past, her depression would lift. She responded well to chakra work. Over several months, distasteful or forgotten scenes from her childhood would emerge and the traumatic energies associated with them purged.

It seemed she had energetically cleared truckloads of bad memories she had not been able to release through talk therapy, but she was enormously disappointed with the outcome. While she was no longer so entangled with the traumas from her past, they were not replaced by any kind of happiness. When caught in her old story, she at least felt an intensity when she would cry and wail and go to pieces. Now nothing made her feel alive.

I could see that her energies were gridlocked. Over the years, they had spiraled down into extreme life-negating patterns. Her radiant circuits were hardly even moving, and when I looked at her energies, I could see no radiance anywhere in her body. Her energies had a uniform dull appearance. Even after the significant, desirable healing of her childhood wounds, her body was simply unable to come out of its deadness. Deep tension and negative thinking had become habitual and were deeply ingrained. She in fact hated the idea of "positive thinking" and was irritated by people like me who seemed "too happy."

She herself certainly wasn’t going to look foolish by acting happy, but she longed for more passion and a sense of aliveness. As the inner deadness persisted, she went into greater despair than ever. Her treatment progress ceased. Her disappointment and negative thinking began to dominate the sessions. We reached a point where I wouldn’t even let her talk during the treatments so she would stop countering the energy work with incessant negative patter. This was over 20 years ago, and I’d not had much experience at that point working with the radiant energies, but I decided to experiment.

As I applied techniques for activating the radiant circuits, the first thing to happen was that tension would leave her body. This allowed the radiant energies to begin to move, which literally began to flush the negative energies from her system. Then she would feel something akin to happiness well up from inside her. It was an odd sensation for her. She knew glimpses of happiness from when she would receive a compliment or something good happened in her life, but this was coming from within. From one session to the next, the feeling would remain longer. She had been using marijuana and other drugs to get high. The radiant energies gave her the same feeling. This amazed her.

It was hardly an instant cure. It is necessary to rebuild the radiant pathways when habitual energies gravitate toward deeply established negative patterns, and it is hard not to feel negative when this is the energetic foundation of your emotions. With persistence, the pathways did re-build. Her bouts of depression gradually ceased, her pessimism shifted, and she became more upbeat in both her mood and her character.