Anne Schneider
OVERCOMMING
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
FIBROMYALGIA
AND
MULTIPLE ALLERGIES
WITH
NMT - THE FEINBERG METHOD
a personal success story
Copyright, 2010 by Anne Schneider
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Schneider, Anne -
Overcomming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and Multiple Allergies with NMT - The Feinberg Method
For quite a while now, I have been thinking about writing a book on my experience with a new treatment modality, called Neuro Modulation Technique - The Feinberg Method, NMT for short.
Today, I have finally decided to get serious about it and put pen to paper so to speak.
Before I set out I asked myself:
Are you really serious about doing it - I mean, really dedicated to the task at hand?
Why do you want to put yourself out there, share some big proportion of your life’s story with complete strangers?
Putting myself “out there”, sharing with you, my readers, parts of my life I have never talked about to anyone, takes some courage to do.
I never liked to talk about my worries a lot, kept most of them "under my hat" in daily life. The result of that strategy, which I know at least some of you also employ, was and still is, that most people who knew me thought of me as virtually indestructible and free of complaints.
If you want people to think that you are strong and resilient, free of complaints - just do not complain.
Yes, indeed, why would I do this now?
The answer is quite simple:
To give some hope to those who suffer from conditions they think can not be healed or even improved.
I was once in that position, thinking that I would have to live with a slowly but surely deteriorating health for the rest of my days - a vision that did not make my future look bright. I thought that the best outcome for me would be if things just would not get any worse - I never expected to be healthy again.
Allergies and Chronic Fatigue had become so much a part of my life that I thought they were just the normal part of being me.
The only thing that did annoy me was the fact that others expected me to behave differently than I did.
Mind you, I was at the end of my twenties and had started to behave like a seventy year old... - no wonder friends and family thought I was getting a bit odd.
Looking at it now, I feel both sad and happy. Sad, because so many years of my youth were spent on a downward slope - happy of course, because things are so very different today.
Yes, I am writing this now because I want to give witness to a process called “healing through intention” and show you what can be done without taking drugs and pills, if you allow yourself time and permission to heal.
I am writing this to share some of the insights I had during my NMT treatment with Dr Feinberg, and to illustrate this treatment process.
This book is not a kind of scientific literature, telling you how and why what works, or how and why something does not work. I leave that to those who are more scientifically minded than myself and who have the means to carefully set up experiments and research protocols.
At the time of this writing, there is a very nice outcome study regarding the effectiveness of NMT on cavitations, and another well organized study on the effectiveness of NMT on autism is well on it’s way.
I expect that there will be lots more to come - but for me, NMT has already shown it's effectiveness, since it helped me to regain my physical health and improve on my philosophical understanding of life’s processes.
So what you will get is a very personal healing story, pickled with some humour. As my lost humour has returned to me it is now being thrust at everyone in sight. So if you find a sudden change in style, do not worry – it is just me putting on my humorist’s hat to describe some of what was happening in my life at the time.
Looking at certain things in a humorous way sometimes helps to digest what has happened…
It is my fondest hope that you will be able to restore your own health - which was given to you as a gift for life. If my words inspire you to give yourself another chance at getting well again, putting myself “out there” has been worth it.
There is something I would like to put your attention to, right from the start: Mine was a miraculous healing, but it did not happen at the blink of an eye.
I am aware of the fact that many people at this day and age either expect no healing at all, or expect profound healing to happen at an instant. Whilst both are possible, I guess, for me it did not happen either way. I was able to heal severe multiple allergies, as well as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, but I did take my time over it.
It is my firm believe that once we are dedicated to become healthy again, we can achieve the most miraculous things with the aid of the right methods.
And when it comes to the time we allow ourselves for the healing process, we should also consider the length of time it took us to become ill and the time we spent in that unfortunate painful state.
I was never blessed with over boarding patience but I am fully aware of the fact that any healing process does take its time even so there are more and more people out there trying to convince me that instantaneous healing is what we should try to implement.
For me, recovering from something that is said to be incurable is enough – I did not need it to happen in an instant. Maybe you will agree with me when I say that it is the healing that counts and not the time taken over it?
Before I tell you my story I will leave it to Dr. Leslie Feinberg to explain his technique to us, as this will give you an idea of the treatment method I chose as my path to healing.
NMT – an introduction by Dr Feinberg
A new, unique, and powerful system of healing is gaining recognition around the world. It is Neuro-Modulation Technique – The Feinberg Method (NMT) and it is on the cutting edge of vitalistic medicine.
The vitalistic principle (as opposed to mechanistic) seeks to induce the ill or injured mind-body to more efficiently re-direct its physiological resources and shift the life dynamic away from degeneration, back into the direction healing and wellness.
What kind of patients benefit from NMT?
All kinds, suffering from allergies, asthma, arthritis, autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, dental cavities, emotional problems, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, virtually every sort. Yet, it would be misleading to say that NMT is a treatment for any disease. How can that be?
NMT is best understood, not as a cure or even a treatment for any specific disease, nor is it a method of medical diagnosis. Instead, NMT addresses the errors of physiology that produce disease at the informational level.
Which means, if we agree that every physiological event that occurs in the body begins as the result of cell signalling – not a controversial point of view – then that signalling, that set of instructions is the informational level representation of what subsequently manifests in the body on a material level. If this is so, then the corollary to this is the idea that whenever the body engages in disease producing pathophysiological behavior, there must necessarily be fault and/or deficiency in the informational basis of that behavior.
The NMT protocol is a wonderfully complete and scientifically based system of interactive communication between the NMT practitioner and NMT patient, that allows the practitioner to carefully investigate the informational nature of the patient’s condition or complaint.
The NMT therapeutic approach is a system based upon modular elements we refer to as NMT clinical pathways. Each NMT clinical pathway is an algorithm, a carefully crafted set of questions and corrective statements organized around some specific area of body function, like allergy, infection, pain, emotional physiology, and other issues. These NMT pathways are used within a simple procedural template, that prioritizes the NMT clinical pathways that the mind-body recognizes to be of greatest clinical value at the moment.
Pathways are selected one after another, building up the corrective content of the NMT therapeutic session to its completion. This informationally rich protocol is delivered to the patient using the NMT trained method of structured intention. The result is an incredibly powerful and effective, yet gentle and safe method of health care, that can be learned and practised by anyone who works in a helping profession.
The NMT perspective on mind is that both the conscious mind, and the unconscious mind, what we in NMT prefer to refer to as “other than conscious mind” (OTC), are both aspects of a single and integrated human organism. NMT views the conscious mind as that portion of mind that supports the whole mind-body by successfully negotiating the needs of the organism with the external world.
The OTC mind is that inward directed aspect of self that monitors and regulates the internal environment by regulating function.
Only the conscious mind controls speech, apparently because it is a tool of interaction with the external world. The OTC cannot control speech, but it can control all sorts of body functions, such as muscle contraction, skin sweating, and brain waves. So, in order to respond to any question that might be presented to the body, the body must modulate such a body function.
In NMT, we navigate through our NMT process with the patient, based upon muscle response testing in which the OTC mind causes changes in muscle strength to signal a yes or no response to a question. Galvanic skin response, perhaps even EEG tracings, could be similarly used, but are less convenient.
As we apply the NMT protocol in this way, patients with virtually any disease, injury, complaint, or compromise of health are induced to more efficiently produce wellness instead of illness physiology. A human being is an integrated, whole, intelligent, and self-correcting organism.
When NMT is proficiently applied, the mind-body is brought to a better and more valid awareness of its internal conditions. Each NMT session re-evaluates the patient’s status and provides new corrective information to guide the mind-body back to a functional profile consistent with robust health.
NMT may be practised manually, or with the aid of the newly released NMT Scalar Treeview computerized system. This is an expert system that brings even the novice NMT practitioner to a very high level of clinical skill very quickly.
This system also provides a way to continually support the patient’s NMT treatments by use of mp3 files, that can be given to the patient to play back using any media player, and a small silent scalar antenna that produces a scalar field of the corrective information of the NMT session, which may reinforce that treatment and contribute to a more durable and profound outcome.
MY STORY
Sitting in a cafe eating Dutch wafers with ice cream, cream and some fruits, my friend Joanell from Holland asked me how it is that I am so convinced of the Feinberg Method.
I told her in a few sentences what had happened to me over what seemed to be the recent past. When I had finished, she exclaimed: “Martina, does this mean you have been ill for almost 25 years?”
It was then that I realized that indeed I had been ill for half of my entire lifetime, and for most of my adult years.
How did it happen?
What was the cause?
Difficult to say exactly what caused my body to give up functioning perfectly, but I will try to pinpoint the ”big events”.
Up to 1985, my health was very robust indeed.
Not quite true of course.
As a baby, I had suffered from volvulus which had to be straightened out in two risky operations, but it appeared that I decided to stay alive after all.
Apart from that rocky beginning, my health was very good. I was a bright and - according to my mother - wonderful little girl.
I well remember deliberately getting and keeping my feet wet, so I might have to stay at home from school for a day or two- but it never worked. There was just no way I could make myself ill in those days...
But there was one thing that happened about once or twice a year - I was prone to getting colics, terrible, terrible tummy ache of the murderous kind.
Maybe this was caused by my allergy to carrots or clover or some not yet ripe fruits I used to gobble up as a kid?
At age ten I had my tonsils removed and I was dead scared of the dentist.
At the age of 24, I was bitten by a tick, which infected me with the then quite uncommon FSME virus, and caused me to stay in bed for two weeks. I recovered beautifully, but for a few weeks after getting out of bed I was unable to drive a car without cutting the curve stones when going around a corner.
My life was very active; I was out and about with my dogs and friends virtually all hours of the day, organizing and running a local dog training club, studying psychology at University, spending most weekends as a steward in the ring at far away dog shows - in short: tiredness was not a word in my dictionary.
The very first time I heard of such a thing as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was when a friend was feeling tired and without strength for seemingly no reason at all. She contacted all kinds of specialists and finally they came up with the diagnosis of CFS, caused by an infection of the Epstein Barr virus. This, in 1984, was something hardly recognized by the medical profession in Germany, and perhaps even in the whole of Europe. Seeing my friend suffer so much made me feel very sorry for her - little did I expect the same thing happening to me only a few years later.
When I was 28 years old, I had to be rushed into hospital with terrible pains in my abdomen, caused by endometriosis cysts which I had been unaware of. The cysts were surgically removed and to prevent their re-occurrence I had to take some hormones, which put my body in a state of semi-pregnancy for six month.
These hormones upset my whole physiology and as a consequence my weight increased by at least twenty kilos, which took some time and effort getting rid of again.
As an aftermath to surgery I started to feel sick once in a while, it was like having the flu without a runny nose. Periods of lying in bed for a week or so, experiencing severe thirst, got quite common for me; my GP kept testing me for Diabetes which luckily was not the cause of my complaints.
Some month later I began to suffer from terrible headaches, after having being exposed to a work environment heavily contaminated with mildew, and sure enough I was being diagnosed with a severe allergy to moulds.
My overall health had started to deteriorate, and I had started to use a lot of homeopathic medicine to alleviate my symptoms of whatever.
All of a sudden, virtually out of the blue, my body was showing symptoms like an irritable bowel syndrome, which turned out to be very unpleasant, as you can imagine.
That was the beginning the time when I had to go to sleep very early and also take regular afternoon naps most days.
Pondering on the following years, I can only describe these as a constant struggle against tiredness.
During the week I would work as a psychotherapist with no more than four clients a day having to go to bed for some hours in between sessions.
At the weekends I would go out and about, but back to bed at nine pm at the very latest.
My marriage suffered greatly, because with all this tiredness I just did not have the strength to go out in the evenings, did not feel like talking a lot to my poor husband, and just wore a “leave me in peace” attitude most of the time.
I just felt he was asking too much of me and was not meeting my needs the way he should have - not realizing that I was not meeting his either.
All I longed for was peace and quiet after work and that was that.
I always felt that there was far too much on my plate, but when looking at it now this was not the case - I just did not have the strength and energy to lead a normal life, that was all there was to it.
Well, my marriage came to an end, as so many marriages do.
That year I experienced my first severe burnout.
My head was empty, I was forgetful, I just could not work any more and the doctor ordered me to take a break. Luckily, my insurance paid without delay, so I did not need to worry on the financial side.
At age 43, I had my uterus removed, due to a big myoma which had given me massive PSM pains for years. The surgeons at the hospital said they would also remove some inner scar tissue which originated from previous surgery like the ones I had undergone as an infant. Surely I agreed to their proposal since I thought that would be the best thing to do.
After surgery, my friend Ulrike, who was working as a head nurse at the gyn ward, informed me that they had accidentally cut into my large intestine and so the operation had taken a lot longer than expected.
Just one week later I left hospital, feeling quite well and fit; I started my own fitness program walking up a very steep hill with the dogs at least once a day and all seemed to be well.
Two weeks after surgery however, I started to feel really ill with an increased body temperature. The radiologist diagnosed some fluid in places where no fluid was supposed to be, and they told me that I had attracted some post-surgery infection. Because the “normal” antibiotics did not work, a friend who is also a doctor gave me some off-market antibiotic, which luckily did the job to beat the MRS.
What followed was a time of almost constant urinary tract infections, which I first treated with homeopathy and in the end with antibiotics. I was getting more and more impatient with my body and the symptoms "it" was producing - I was just getting fed up of all those infections.
I had been back at work for about one and a half years when my batteries were empty again, and once more my GP diagnosed Burnout Syndrome, but actually he should have diagnosed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome...
I was off sick for another three months, and I had come to the conclusion that something must be seriously wrong with me somewhere. I blamed most of it on my hard job as a psychotherapist and contemplated giving up my practice... but what was I supposed to be doing instead?
In 2005 when I had once more managed to get myself on track work wise I had to have some more surgery done, as a Newfoundland dog crashed right into my right leg, fracturing the head of my tibia...
They put two screws in and I spent some time in a wheelchair and later walked on crutches - those were some of the worst months of my life, because I was stuck in the house all day, unable to walk in the forest, which drove me almost insane.
But those six month went by - I did get through them without losing my sanity and I was still alive...Of course those screws had to be removed again so two years later I was back in the operating theatre.
Whilst my physical health was slowly slipping further down the hill, I was pushing my professional life uphill - or at least trying to do so.
I took some more training, this time qualifying as a group psychotherapist and took on more clients. Soon my small office became too small and I saw it fit to move into a bigger one.
By the time I had managed to completely ruin my ability to work, I had a brand new posh office - the smartest psychologist’s office in the area.
The guy I rented it from had taken roughly 50 grand in his hands to furbish it for me - I had borrowed 50 grand from my bank to furnish it the way I thought my clients and I would love it to be - complete with a new computer system, video beamer, new sound equipment and non see through curtains…
I had even ventured to employ a part time secretary to do the office work, which was going to come along with all those new clients.
You know, when you are out to ruin your life, it is really good to ruin it big scale…
I have always adhered to the principle of “if you do something, just do it right” - mediocrity was never something I would be found to be guilty of.
My social life was virtually non existent any more because I used up whatever energy I had left at work, and now my professional life was almost in ruins as well, and, what was most important, even my ability to take the dog for a walk had successfully been destroyed.
Of course at that time in my life I felt I was being victimized by my tiredness - I just could not figure out when or what to owe for this “blessing”.
And what a “blessing” it was.
To give you an idea of the degree to which I had managed to ruin my life, I would like to share with you one of my days at the time:
Wake up at seven in the morning, feeling tired. Go to the kitchen, make some coffee, bring coffee back to bed. Sit in bed, contemplating past and future for one hour, drinking more coffee…
At nine o’clock leave house without breakfast - breakfast would only make me even more tired. Sometimes I would have a bun for breakfast and feel my energy level drop shortly afterwards…
On good days walk to work which meant creeping uphill a lovely forest path, walking along a beautiful ridge and downhill on the other side - walk would take approximately 40 minutes.
Ample time to contemplate new plans of how to ruin my life by taking on more clients…
More and more of this time was spent contemplating of how to satisfy those clients’ needs without actually wanting to spend my time with them.
Creeping up the hill was absolutely torturous, since the muscles of both legs had started to hurt some time ago, making every step I took a rather unpleasant experience.
Arriving at the office, I had some more coffee, often shared some with my clients, ran a group session for two hours with a group of nine not necessarily "easy" patients and set out for home.
After arriving there, went straight to bed at 12:45, where I remained till 14:30. After some coffee I went back to work, this time I would cover the three miles by car.
Afternoon session ending at six in the evening; I did some food shopping, got home, fed my dog, watched some television - back to bed at 9:30 pm, into a deep, restless, non-refreshing sleep.
The highlight of my days was my lunchtime nap - if I did not get that I would be a pain to my entire environment.
Telling you about it now makes me sad since I, by foolishly allowing Les Feinberg to treat me, lost all access to that land of milk and honey, but paradises do not reveal themselves before they are lost, do they?
To prove to you, my reader, how successful I was at ruining my life and to make you even more jealous of my abilities to do so, I would like to share with you the highlight of that season.
My Tuesday afternoons were spent treating a really wonderful bunch of women. This was real fun, we would laugh for most of the time, even so dealing with difficult issues. These ladies did their very best to stop me on my tracks to the promised land of misery, giving me the unwanted feeling that therapy could be easy and fun and healing …
Anyway, I taught them a lesson one day.
About half an hour before the beginning of the session I had a mumbling in my stomach, which turned into a cramp and then into one of my "beloved" agonies. By the time it reached that stage we were halfway through the session. I was hardly able to move, let alone talk and they were shocked and most worried about me.
Little did they know that this was one of the masterpieces my body had programmed itself to perform every now and then, seemingly out of the blue. This ability to make myself suffer in a very weird and wonderful way had been with me all my life - successfully getting me to spend weeks at a time at the hospital as a child.
Anyway, my poor clients did not know all of this, and it most successfully ruined their day.
One of them took me home, where I took some useless medicine, suffered some more, really enjoying it.
Yes, such was my ability to ruin my life that after having been in the new and wonderful big office for eight months, I could not go there any more due to my pain syndrome - which was, by that time, diagnosed as Fibromyalgia. The pain in my hands, legs, hips and back had become so disturbing that I could not concentrate on my clients any more so working became virtually impossible.
The next six months were spend contemplating on what to do, repenting what I had done so far, pleasantly suffering along, dreaming about a future which would bring me even more opportunities to suffer.
At the end of that year I had to give up my practice because I felt I just could not cope with all it´s responsibilities any more. I was sick and this made me change my professional life for good.
There was just good thing - all of those years I had an insurance at my disposal, which compensated me for not working due to illness. -
To those people who think health and prosperity are the things to attain, maintain and enjoy, mine would sound like a rather sad story, which by that time had come to its anticlimax.
The pain specialist I had to go and see ordered me to change my life, go out more often, enjoy myself more, meet people, go to the gym on a regular basis - but she failed to tell me where the strength for all those activities was to come from. She prescribed pain killers and some kind of anti-depressant which was also supposed to take away the pain. Apart from that, she told me to practice some relaxation technique on a daily basis - I never had the guts to tell her that my second name was “relaxation technique”.
During the interview I got the strong impression that she was putting me into the "nutters box"...
To the person who’s goal it is to live a life of suffering and misery, the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia, which is one of those “incurable” conditions that promises a life full of pain and dismay, is indeed a climax.
MEETING NMT
How did I come to meet up with NMT and Dr Feinberg when I was living in Germany and NMT was being mostly practised in the US? How did I get to know about this absolutely new and unique method?
Is there such a thing as coincidence?
Well, I was searching for alternative treatment modalities for animals, since I had decided to follow my vocation and start practising energy psychology with animals.
At the same time I had become very interested in any kind of healing stories and their scientific background. So I bought a book entitled “The Heart of Healing” which I found to be very well composed and inspiring. In this book I found an article about a horse that had almost lost its eye, but had some NMT treatment which helped him heal his eye. I was absolutely fascinated.
I also read the stories of a lady who recovered from cysts and an elderly gentleman who had managed to heal an arthritic knee he had suffered from for years. In all these cases, including the horse’s one, traditional medicine had suggested surgery as the only means to make things better.
Being me, I immediately checked out the NMT website and found that NMT seminars were coming to the Netherlands in May that same year.
Being me, I immediately registered myself for this training, which consisted of three levels.
Being me, I thought I would learn a method I could then use for treating and helping animals.
Being me, it never occurred to me that this was just for me, myself and I.
Well, this was going to be the experience of a lifetime.
I got in contact with a philosophy of life I had never considered before.
To begin with I got a severe shock when I found that my English was not working at all!
Since I had spent some years living in England, and was very attached to my friends over there, I knew that my spoken English was excellent. Can you imagine how odd I felt when I found that I just could not follow what was being lectured?
All the Dutch people there seemed to understand and I just could not make sense of it. My wits simply failed me. To make matters worse I found that when we had to do some muscle response testing, which is one of the NMT tools, I just was not able to do it. Since I had been working with EFT and other energy psychology methods, I had been very capable of muscle testing before I took the NMT seminar.
I felt like a complete idiot during most of the Level I because I seemingly had lost all my skills like language and muscle testing abilities.
So as all else failed, I used my EFT to tap myself into NMT so to speak and slowly managed to understand what it was all about.
Some would say that I had managed to overcome my resistance to a new and unique way of life and healing.
“Healing by intention”, helping others to get better by communicating silently with them on an “other than conscious” level, helping them to become aware of faults in the way their mind-body works and suggesting to their “autonomous control system” different ways of looking at its behaviour and then enhancing it to correct those faults...?
How weird was that?
I do not know what I had expected this NMT to be, but this was definitely not “it”.
Helping people to recover by just placing thoughts and intentions before them was something I had never come across, even so I had studied different energy psychology methods.
It also never had occurred to me that all those methods only work because the practitioner sets his intentions so they should do so. That people and animals as well as plants and organizations improve their state not because of some actions like tapping are being performed, but because the practitioner sees his patient as already healing and improving.
I also came to understand that it is not the patient’s belief in the treatment that matters, but the belief of the practitioner. After all, how can you facilitate healing if you do not believe it is possible?
Those insights were mind-boggling to say the least, and sort of turned my understanding of the treatment process upside down.
Luckily, I had already gone into some of the theories presented like quantum mechanics and its implications for the healing process, but I had to come to the understanding that the laws of quantum mechanics are not limited to healing but that most of our life is run by their principles.
What was the hardest to swallow was the fact that we create our own worlds and interpret the information our senses give us as reality, when there is no fixed reality at all.
Yes, I knew all these things, but never actually bought these as being realistic, and yet I was being asked to use these principles and integrate them into my life.
What I had not come across in my previous trainings and explorations was the assumption that life is just one big process of consciousness and that there are no real barriers between me and you; that we share consciousness and are, indeed one and the same. There is no division between the elements of the universe and we are all in here together in different shapes and sizes, each of us occupying his or her unique point of consciousness. When I use the word “we”, I mean us as human beings, but also our brothers and sisters from the animal kingdom and plant life and indeed everything that exists in the universe.
When I listened to Dr Feinberg explaining all those weird and wonderful things in a very engaging fashion, I asked him if this view of the world had made his life any better. You should have seen the amazement on his face when presented with that question.
I can still hear his answer: “Has it made my life any better? Of course it has!!!”
Well, even so he had said it wholeheartedly, that did not convince me at all…
After all, science-based psychology had taught me to believe only those things which have been proved as facts and not to buy into any silly sounding philosophy.
By now you know that I was not easily convinced by anything. I was and still am a person who is quite sceptical. I do not believe everything I am told and to be convinced, I need proof and hard facts. To me this is essential when you work in the health field, since there are many, many people who claim they have got it all and know it all, when indeed they know next to nothing.
Not knowing much is not a fault within itself, but when it comes to treating sick people, promising them health and happiness one does need to know what one is doing.
After all, there are far too many people suffering intensely, who turn for help to those who promise them an easy way out, only to find themselves in even greater problems after the treatment they may have received.
So this was my position when I attended the NMT seminar – I was open enough to be there and wise enough to be sceptical
THE TURNING POINT
After some theoretical explanations about NMT and how and why it works, Dr. Feinberg treated the first patient.
He was a young man, suffering from severe pains in his leg and back due to Parkinson’s disease.
He had had this crippling pain for a long, long time and nothing had helped him so far. Dr. Feinberg worked with him for half an hour and then asked him to get up and walk about.
I was sitting in the front row, so I could see the look on the young man’s face. What I saw was a big, big smile and I wondered what he was smiling about. With awe in his voice, he told us that the pain had gone, that he was completely free from it.
We saw him again in the course of the seminar, when he told us that some of the pain had returned after twelve hours. He was then treated again and his pain was completely gone.
Of course he, being the patient of a local NMT practitioner, continued his treatment afterwards.
Well, seeing long standing pain gone within half an hour sure seemed impressive...
The next patient treated at the seminar was a lady suffering from terrible Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, due to some cruel experience she and her family had gone through in one of the Eastern countries. She was very frightened, had regular nightmares and panic attacks, combined with severe feelings of guilt.
Within the hour she could think about what had happened with complete peace and calm, whereas before she would get severe flashbacks just by the thought of thinking about it.She had been cured without any need to talk about what had actually happened; there were no tears involved and no suffering.
Knowing from my own experience as a psychologist treating people with PTSD how difficult it was to actually alleviate those symptoms, I was almost convinced that this Dr. Feinberg was really onto something.
As the seminar continued, I witnessed more people getting better by short periods of treatment.
One fellow student comes to mind, who suffered a lot whenever he had to stay away from home, since he had severe chemical sensitivity, presented himself with runny nose, nausea and headaches as well as burning and itching eyes. After two short treatments he was perfectly well and even went for a dance one evening.
Yes, well, as all seminar participants were getting their share of treatments, so was I.
After listening to part of my story and symptoms, Dr. Feinberg diagnosed a body burden of 450 infectious agents via the muscle response test is which used as a diagnostic tool in such a way that its outcomes are interpreted as the awareness of the mind body in regards to the question asked.
Using the Infectious Agents Pathway, Dr. Feinberg helped my Autonomous Control System to become aware of the fact that indeed there were pathogens in my body and that indeed my body was able to destroy them by the activation of immune system cells.
After the treatment I felt somewhat exhausted but relieved, ready for more.
During the cause of the seminar, I learned that pathogens are able to change their shape and appearance, cover themselves up, get rid of their cell walls in order to survive in the body. Common medical testing can no longer detect those cloaked forms, and therefore the patient is diagnosed as “pathogen free”. This is quite often an erroneous assumption, as research done by Dr. Lida Mattman illustrates.
Some pathogens hide away so profoundly that when under attack of an antibiotic quite a few of them survive. When the antibiotic has left the body, those forms then recover and carry on with whatever they were originally doing, attacking body cells and producing toxins.
Infectious agents can either live in between body cells or inside body cells. Those living inside the cell are very difficult to detect for the immune system. The only chance the body has then is to be made aware of the possibility that the pathogens may indeed exist in a cell wall deficient form or be otherwise cloaked, or that they exist inside a body cell. With such an increased awareness, the body can set out to search for those forms and then fight them more efficiently than any antibiotic can.
Soon the connection between the heavy burden of infectious agents and my growing symptoms became apparent to me.
In the attempt of protecting me, my immune system had started to see danger in almost anything it encountered and fought it with all its might, causing all sorts of discomfort to the body it aimed to defend.
"Immunological paranoia", when Dr. Feinberg first “diagnosed” this condition, I could not help but laugh...
Paranoia, to a psychologist, is a very serious condition, in which the patient feels he or she is being chased by someone with evil intentions. I had never ever thought of myself as paranoid, but now this label was thrust at my immune system...When I started thinking about it a bit, I suddenly realized that yes, indeed, some of my behaviour was indicative of "immunological paranoia".
Whenever I travelled, I carried with me some hand disinfectant, which I would use after using some public convenience – as an extra after washing my hands...Upon entering a hotel room I would immediately disinfect any door knobs, light switches, the telephone, the TV remote control - not to mention the bathroom.
Whilst I know from informed and reliable source that many hotel personnel clean cups and glasses with the same cloth as the toilets not using those might be a perfect idea. Disinfecting anything in sight in a hotel room maybe carrying things just a little bit far – then again, it might not be...
It all had come to a point where I would even wash my hands after greeting friends and clients, feeling very vulnerable in the presence of someone exhibiting the slightest symptoms of a cold.
I was just so frightened that I might pick up a bug or two, which would, in due time, make my misery even bigger.
There was the feeling that my immune system had lost all its inherent strength to protect my health and this distrust in my own defences had been increasing all the time.
I told you already that I suffered from a lot of allergic reactions those days, didn't I?
Well, one of the worst was my allergy to raw carrots, which, in my childhood, had given me some weeks at the hospital (why did it always happen during my holidays?).
Remember, in those days allergies were an undiscovered territory and not well diagnosed.
Anyway, standing at the buffet with Dr. Feinberg, I related to him my carrot story, when he came up with the idea that I should imagine eating a carrot. Being the good student I was, I imagined it and almost fainted. I experienced panic symptoms, tummy pain, all blood seemed to have left my head, I started sweating and they had to quickly bring a chair.
Sure enough, the allergy got treated, along with my adverse reactions to apples... At the end of the seminar I could eat some raw carrot without any problems, no itching, no pain, no nothing.
Micro- organism harmonisation...
As my treatment at the seminar commenced, I was informed that it would be a good idea to harmonize the relationship between myself and my micro-organisms...
Micro-organism harmonization procedures were the last thing I wanted – I just wanted to get rid of them!!!
Leave me alone, bugs and micro-organisms; after all, it is all your fault!
Little did I know at that time that yes, there are at least billions of beneficial micro-organisms inhabiting my own and your body alike, keeping everything in good working order. What I was also unaware of was the fact that bugs and viruses only harm the body if they exceed a certain number or engage in harmful behaviour.
To me, all micro-organisms seemed to be bad and the bad ones seemed very violent – out to get me.
So, I suppose, at some level I had been fighting them all along and they had been fighting back, each of us trying to eradicate the other.
After having been treated for this behaviour, I immediately felt at ease, sort of relaxed. After a good night’s sleep I could not believe my eyes when I saw my face in the mirror – I did actually look much younger than the night before!
And this is what the other seminar participants told me: you look so much younger, it is unbelievable...!
As the seminar progressed, I did not only witness people getting better all the time, but I also noticed a great shift in my own energy.
At the end of I, I ventured to drive all the way home from the Netherlands to my place in Germany. This was a five hour drive and I had attended the seminar all day long. When I finally left it was eight o’clock in the evening, by the time I got home it was way past midnight – before the seminar I would never have done this. I would have stayed at the hotel till next morning, because I would have been far too exhausted by a full day’s work to even dream about driving for so many hours at night.