for those suffering from lyme disease and other chronic illnesses

by Connie Strasheim

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED how many folks have been brainwashed into believing that health is achieved solely through the killing of some bugs with a biochemical agent? Throw a few antibiotics at the body, and soon you’ll be fine.

Yeah, right.

Then there are energy therapies, such as Quantum Techniques (QT), whose holistic applications go beyond the killing of bugs to the identification and removal of toxins of all kinds, including emotional trauma and other environmental poisons that get pent-up in the cells.

QT recognizes that illness isn’t simply a product of a few creepy crawlies, but rather of brokenness, on as many levels as the Empire State building and involving as many layers as the plumpest of onions. Disease is a product of self-hatred and lies we tell ourselves, as well as broken relationships with ourselves, God and others. QT likewise recognizes the role of other environmental toxins in illness, such as pesticides and the plastic food we ingest. Not to mention the bugs, which should be more like an afterthought for some.

This isn’t the way we’ve been taught to think about illness. For any of us to understand Lyme disease on this level would mean doing internet research and consulting God and heeding the intuition within that begs not to be silenced, even though it might be easier to ignore it than to face the demons inside of us.

Yes, a clean case of Borrelia burgdorferi may be where it’s at for some, but the rest of us will have to get a sharp knife and start peeling the onion, with a willingness to recognize what the mess of chronic illness is often about. This is what three years of research, my gut and my god have told me.

I don’t own anyone’s truth but my own, but maybe you’ll agree I’m on to something here. And if it’s really about bugs and a slew of emotional, spiritual and other environmental toxins, then how does one therapy cover all these bases?

Let me preface my explanation with a science lesson. Quantum Techniques, as other energy healing modalities, believes that illness occurs because of disruptions to and miscommunication within the body’s energy field. It also recognizes that cells aren’t made up solely of physical matter, because, according to quantum physics, matter is comprised of energy. Yes, you heard right. You are a little bundle of energy (I know, now you are saying, don’t I wish!). But it’s true.

This energy can be skewed by toxins, whether these are from infections, harmful thought patterns or contaminated food. Consider that all things in existence, all that can be felt and seen and heard, and even that which cannot be observed with the senses but which nonetheless exists, contains a frequency that exerts an influence upon the energy field of the body. That influence is either positive or negative, driving the body towards health or towards disease. The Chinese have had it right for a zillion years, and we in the West have yet to grasp the concept of energy. When it comes to existence and healing and all things life, energy is a big deal.

And what’s more, energy can be altered by spoken words. If you believe in the god of Christianity (as I do), or even if you don’t, you might subscribe to the theory that God spoke Creation into existence and that He granted it the power to change the world with words. We humans can build up and tear down, heal and cause disease to ourselves with the words we speak. Quantum Techniques might be thought to harness this belief because it uses spoken codes and affirmations to alter dysfunctional energy patterns in the body and, hence, cellular behavior.

QT also alters the energy of thoughts, which, according to Bruce Lipton in his book, The Biology of Belief, have the capacity to alter a person’s DNA. Yes, many scientists now think you can alter your genes, for better or worse, by the wicked or loving thoughts you tell yourself. Because of its holistic applications, Quantum Techniques is worth considering as a primary treatment for Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses. After all, healing from Lyme disease might really mean healing from all kinds of garbage we didn’t even know we held inside.

excerpted from: The Lyme Disease Survival Guide: Physical, Lifestyle and Emotional Strategies for Healing. Copyright 2008 by Connie Strasheim.

photo credits: Insomnia © Karen Winton / iStockphoto

Connie Strasheim is an accomplished health care journalist and the author of The Lyme Disease Survival Guide: Physical, Lifestyle and Emotional Strategies for Healing. A Lyme disease sufferer, she maintains a blog on Lyme disease and other issues related to chronic illness called Lyme Bytes. Currently, she lives between Denver, Colorado and San Jose, Costa Rica.