The Patient/Practitioner Relationship, Part 2
By John Veltheim, D.C., L. Ac.

This is Part II of our Health Article published in last issue's Health Mastery Ezine.

We'll start with the Summary of "The Patient/Practitioner, Part I":

"A dynamic interactive relationship exists between the patient and the practitioner. Each participant is there to fulfill whatever result, good or bad, may be forthcoming. Likewise, their presence and mutual interaction is the outcome of predetermined factors inherent within each. Universal laws such as synchronicity and sequential cause and effect influence the final outcome of any treatment. Actions are irrevocably taking place between the two players involving all the dynamics thus far described. These are descriptions of the game of life.

By understanding this process, we can arrive at a philosophical understanding that will transmute the apparent struggle of life into a process of exciting events to be observed and played out. During this process a deep awareness may occur at various levels in each participant that can transform lives.

There are various stages of these dynamics that depend upon the state of awareness of each participant and are relative to the factors described so far.

These dynamic stages between patient/practitioner I will summarize into three main levels for this article. There are many sublevels of interaction that will be described in my forthcoming text book on BodyTalk.

There are various combinations of interactions. For example:

1) Closed patient - closed practitioner

2) Closed patient - open practitioner

3) Open patient - closed practitioner

4) Open patient - open practitioner.

A similar list of multiple combinations could be done for other factors. For this article I will focus on the three major levels of treatment from the perspective of the practitioner.

Level 1 treatment

The practitioner goes through the mechanics of a set treatment oblivious of the dynamics of healing. They treat at a gross level and rarely achieve more than Band-aid temporary relief. There is limited focus from the practitioner and they are usually fully shut down, or are going through a cynical phase in their life which keeps them superficially shut down in their work.

Level 2 treatment

The practitioner is mindful of the dynamics of treatment and keen to help. They remain focused during their time with the patient and endeavor to overcome any of the negative factors we have spoken of. They are in an efforting mode so the healthy ego is engaged, only this time they are at least trying to channel their efforts constructively.

In most cases, the most successful of these practitioners use some form of visualization to enhance their work. For example, the Reiki practitioner who is treating a sprained ankle may; 'see' the energy pouring into the body; 'see' the increased blood and lymph flow; 'see' the white blood cells doing their work; or other similar visualizations according to their background and training. Highly successful practitioners visualize the energy flowing in response to the treatment. Mindscape techniques are a good example of putting this concept into action.

At this level, if the patient is 'closed', the practitioner will have to use his 'openness' to interact with the patient and eventually stimulate some level of openness in the patient, otherwise the results will be limited. This usually means more treatments so the patient's defenses can be worn down.

Eventually, as the patient increases in confidence and opens to the practitioner, the treatments are allowed to move to deeper levels and in the causal plane. Trust evolves, and a paradigm shift occurs. Lasting results can only occur when this paradigm shift happens.

This means that the change has occurred deep within the psyche of the patient. Belief systems supporting the disease have dissolved, and the bodymind is under 'new management.'

The second level of treatment is the optimum level for the majority of patient and practitioner interactions. To go to the next level requires that both the patient and practitioner have satisfied most of the factors described so far.

Level 3 treatment

In my own experience I have found myself in a situation where the treatment protocol required for a patient is not obvious and does not fit into the 'normal' textbook situations. This can mean limitations in treatment possibilities and results. Sometimes, when the conditions are right, I was able to fully let go and allow my mind to disengage from thinking. Intuition took over and a treatment popped into my head that elicited results - usually spectacularly, and with profound ramifications. Very often these treatments were unorthodox or unusual-sometimes they were very simple.

I know a lot of practitioners who claim to treat intuitively - and they may - but unless certain other criteria are filled, the results can still be mediocre. For example, many a great treatment is not implemented because the patient is not fully open mentally and physically. If the patient is closed, they will inhibit the whole process.

The level of openness of the patient usually governs the level and depth of intuitive insight of the practitioner. When you are with a closed, opinionated, rigid patient, the intuitive process lacks depth, scope, and flexibility. The success of the ensuing treatment is limited by the patient's indoctrination.

My observations are that the more open and receptive the patient, and the practitioner, the deeper this third level works. When I am presented with a patient who is totally receptive, and communicates that to me verbally, physically, and energically (at the non conscious levels of their being), miracles can and do happen. When I look back on those cases where there has been a reversal of terminal illnesses, dramatic reversal of chronic disease, total changes in body shape, or increased liberation of the mind, the situation has always involved those criteria.

In most cases, the treatment will start with the second level. The efforts of practitioner and patient bring about fundamental changes that, over a series of treatments, create the criteria for the third stage.

The PaRama 'mind-body' levels of treatment

These levels of treatment also apply to nonphysical contact therapy. Mindscape treatments (KG performs all healing sessions while in Mindscape)* usually start with the second level of therapy. Tools are taught to free the mind of its beliefs and mental rigidity. This leads to more flexibility and openness.

(KG teaches clients many such tools to use after their treatment. Her CD, "Success Breakthroughs Using Imagery and Affirmations ~ Tools for Your Healing," is the most powerfully transformative vehicle for freeing yourself from limiting beliefs and mental rigidity that she's created thus far.

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During learning and integrating the information presented in the CD, "Success Breakthroughs…," clients start to experientially observe and realize the absurdity of their deep, restrictive societal conditioning and the way this conditioning profoundly contributes to their feelings of separateness and resistance to unity consciousness.

The action exercises covered in the CD will help to retrain your bodymind to let go to the process of life and strip away your need to live defensively and blocked. As a result of the effects of the CD, "Success Breakthroughs…," clients are open enough to be willing to explore the deeper, more primal restrictions of their life. These restrictions relate primarily to issues of control, polarity thinking and sensuality.)

By the time a client has reached this stage of integration they are ready to work on their personal growth at the third level. They are willing to be totally open to whatever is thrown at them and are capable of dealing with and processing any realizations that arise. This happens spontaneously, and at the deepest level. This has lasting, profound effects that are only limited by the environment they have to go back into.

In both approaches, the third level is always a spontaneous non-efforting stage. Efforting, after all, is the antithesis of the intuitive process. The healing occurs because both parties are allowing the dynamic process to occur."