Note: these testimonials were written by people who used the same method as we teach at the Academy (life technology), sometimes under different names (Energy Clinic was set up the Academy in 2000 and it provides energy training and Rejuvenation, which are versions of life technology; the Academy is the educational arm of Eden Phenomena).

Emmit Autrand, 26

My name is Emmit Autrand and I live in Sacramento, California.  I am a 26 year old single father of the most precious 6 year old little girl named Gabriella. When I was 20, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.  My life quickly headed south.  Within months I was blind, deaf, and confined to a wheelchair.  Quickly I learned how to navigate the Medi-Cal system in order to obtain medical treatment to manage my MS and to stay alive.  I gradually regained my sight and hearing and managed to move from the wheelchair to a walker, and then to a cane. Somehow, I managed to keep a positive attitude through all of this.  During the first year of my MS there were times that I really wanted to give up.  But as hopeless as things seemed for me, failure was not an option.

Six months before I was diagnosed with MS, my father died suddenly and unexpectedly. I found myself shouldered with the responsibility of caring and providing for my mother and two younger brothers.  My father's death took its toll on me.  It was a slap of hard reality.  Soon after that my daughter was born. This was another reality moment for me–-a very good one. It felt like I was caught between the clash of two cymbals, the cymbals represented by the worst moment in my life and the best.  I felt like I had to grow up over night.

During this time, as luck would have it, I was able to run two automotive shops. But soon after my baby's mother left, and that meant I had to become the best mommy/daddy I could be.  Then the MS diagnosis.  All of this within a year!  I couldn't manage my shops and they faded away.  Everyday became a struggle to manage and survive.

I was on the computer one day this last January, supporting people with MS on the website www.dailystrength.org.  I had posted a response to a young girl who was questioning whether or not she would walk again. She had just recently been diagnosed with MS and wrote "I hope one day I will be able to walk again."  I wrote back "The first thing is you have to quit hoping and start knowing. Knowing that YOU ARE GOING TO WALK AGAIN. First hand experience has taught me the mind is a very powerful thing."  Right after making my post, I received an email from a woman named Sonja Bistrovic , at the charity "Life's 4 Living" in London.  After a few e-mails back and forth, she offered me an opportunity to go to China for a Health Rejuvenation Program which offered natural healing for people with MS.  NO ONE CAN BEGIN TO IMAGINE MY SURPRISE A T THE POSSIBILITY OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENING TO ME.  Within two weeks, I was hobbling with my cane onto a plane on my way to China.

The fact that I am walking without a cane is testament to the effectiveness of the Eden Phenomena Rejuvenation.  Videos of my progress in China can be seen at www.potentialeducation.blogspot.com.  Although my balance is not the best that it can be right now, I can say with utmost certainty that on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the worst), I started the Rejuvenation program at an 8 and am now at a 4.  I have no doubt that as I continue the practices I learned while in China I will continue t o improve.

Based on what I learned at Rejuvenation in China, the way I think about things has changed. I am a lot more focused now.  The way I act is completely different than before. I'm more relaxed overall and my day to day activities are less stressful.  Exercise is a daily routine for me nowadays.  Without Rejuvenation I'm  sure my life would be very stressful, but thanks to Eden Phenomena that's something  I don't have to go through anymore… Thank you.  Now that I'm home, I'm figuring out what will be the next move. I would love to open the national Rejuvenation Center for MS and chronic disease here in the United States; at least one i n every state.  It would be a dream come true.  I've always loved to help people out and with Rejuvenation it would be the best of both worlds for me. I would be able to help others to get on the path to recovering their health the all natural way.  I have lived with MS first hand and want to pass on the same opportunity for healing to others that I received in China.  It would also allow me to do the other thing I love which is running a business.  Since China, I believe I made some very good connections with people in Rejuvenation , and I can see how much support is offered through the Rejuvenation franchise system.  

 

Laura, social worker, 39

Until a couple of years ago, apart from the odd cold and minor ear infections I had never been ill in my life. By the time I reached my 30^th birthday I had developed chronic gastritis, chronic IBS and a year later I started to experience severe attacks of vertigo, which was eventually diagnosed as labyrinthitis, a form of virus that affects the inner ear.

I felt unwell every day. At times the vertigo and the gastritis symptoms would subside but the IBS symptoms were always present. I was put on a very restricted diet, but I was still in pain and I felt constantly bloated and uncomfortable. I stopped socialising and against my wishes I had to give up work. I was a counsellor/social worker and loved my job very much. Due to the stress that I was experiencing with my symptoms my relationship with my partner broke down and he moved out of our flat.

I saw doctors on a weekly basis. I was fortunate enough to have private insurance and was able to see many consultants and specialists. I also saw homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths and dieticians. I had numerous tests and did physiotherapy for the vertigo, but nothing was really helping.

The gastric symptoms felt as if my stomach was burning away. I could not digest any food due to the IBS and the vertigo attacks were reducing me to a very helpless mood. I felt totally burnt out.

In the back of my mind I knew that I had been very stressed at work. I had not been happy in my relationship (which started a year before I got ill), my diet had been quite poor for a long time and I was overall pushing myself too much.

 

My feelings of helplessness and anxieties increased. I was eventually referred to a clinical psychologist who put me on anti-depressants. I could not cope with the side effects (increased anxiety) and gave them up. I saw a hypnotherapist who helped me with my anxieties. The sessions gave me some relief but my health was not improving. The more ill I felt, the more desperate I became.

One day I woke up feeling even worse. My vertigo symptoms were really becoming overwhelming and I was crying most of the time. That morning I remembered picking up a leaflet a week earlier, advertising a self-healing course at the Energy Clinic. I rang them up and went along to the course.

The Energy Clinic claimed to be able to help me with all my symptoms, through relaxations and healing sessions.

Their work is based on the Chinese understanding of energy and health. I was told that by raising my positive energy level, I would slowly release the negative energy that was blocking my healing.

I did my first healing session and felt very relaxed but nothing more. It was the confidence of the instructors and the testimonies of clients that persuaded me to come back. I knew nothing about energy healing but I felt so desperate for a solution that I decided to give it a try.

I have now been coming to the centre on a daily basis for 4 months. After two months of healing and relaxation sessions all my symptoms of IBS disappeared and slowly but surely my gastritis symptoms diminished. I still have vertigo but I am lot less fearful of the symptoms. I am now able to go swimming three times a week and I socialise at the weekend (day-time). I started to do some physiotherapy for the vertigo again (I had to stop physiotherapy since it used to worsen my symptoms and increased my anxiety).

My depression has lifted and my feelings of anxieties have dramatically reduced. I have not fully recovered but I feel on the way to recovery. I do not feel desperate any more. I am no longer crying and I am coping a lot better with every aspect of my life. Instead of feeling as if there was no way out, I am not looking forward to a brighter future. I am hopeful and as a result I feel much stronger.

The process of healing naturally has helped me to recognise the connection between mind and body and how my emotions have had such a big impact on the physical health. I have understood that by healing my emotions I am healing my body.

My experience of healing at the Energy Clinic often feels as if a miracle is taking place.

The instructors at the Energy Clinic have provided me with 100% support every step of the way and have show a great deal of understanding, compassion and patience during difficult times. (Written in November 2002).

May 2007

Much has changed since writing my testimonial in November 2002.

I continued to attend early morning healing and relaxation sessions for a further two years until December 2004, when I gave birth to my first child Samuel.

During these two years, every area of my life improved:
In June 2003 I felt strong enough to go back to full-time work and began to work for Islington Fostering service as a social worker, supporting and training families to care for foster children. At about the same time, I met my partner Gareth, with whom I still enjoy a fulfilling relationship.

But most importantly, I got my health back. With each healing and relaxation session I felt stronger and more positive.

Increasingly, the sessions helped me to change my negative thoughts into positive ones. My depression completely lifted and I continually felt physically stronger.

I also began to run every morning at 7.30am before work (this was suggested to me by my instructor). Running was hard at first because it triggered strong vertigo symptoms. With regular running practice and after many months, I was able to run for over an hour without feeling any symptoms. 

The birth of my son Samuel took 10 hours and was an easy delivery. The relaxation technique learned at the Energy Bank, helped me to remain calm during most of the labour (almost!)

At that time, I only had one fear remaining: I was concerned about

post-natal depression. I had experienced such low moods when I was ill and I was scared that those feelings would all come flowing back.

I can now say, that even during the most challenging times at home and this includes no sleep, a crying baby, a kitchen full of washing up and a partner working late most evenings, that I never fell back into depression, not once. The reasons for this are very clear to me: I had acquired the skills to change my feelings of depression into positive thought and positive actions. Every time I felt low, I told myself that this was negative and not useful. I would then force myself to think in a positive way and used every possible free moment to relax.

I now use these techniques in every part of my life. With time, any challenge, any difficulty, is eventually turned into a positive learning experience as opposed to a problem I can’t solve.

Today I work four days a week for Islington Fostering service for the fostering recruitment and assessment team. I enjoy my work and feel that I am able to manage work/home balance well. I have just completed a PQ1 award course in Social work. It is a challenging degree level course in social work which is famously renowned amongst social workers to be hard to manage when working – not to mention caring for a toddler).

Following Samuel’s birth, I did not attend any sessions for 17 months. A year ago, I began to do some sessions online. Doing sessions from home makes it a lot easier for me as I lead a busy life and would not be able to go to the Energy Clinic.

The online sessions help me to increase my awareness about relaxation techniques and about how to manage my own health and increase my energy levels. Overall, I am always learning new skills with regards to improving all areas of my life. Those skills also include how to manage my son’s behaviour in ways which increase his self-confidence and self-esteem.

I still run 4 times a week and mostly feel very fulfilled and happy in my life. I firmly believe that the above is a direct result of learning how to ‘be’ different in the world in order to connect to a more ‘positive energy field’ to lead a fulfilling life. My aim and goal for the future is to teach this knowledge and wisdom to help others to solve their problems and to improve their quality of lives.

Geraldine, 55, teacher, London

I would like to mention two particularly impressive health results I have had over the last seven years.

In December 2000, when I first visited the Energy Clinic, I had been habitually smoking again for five years. Prior to that I had had eight years completely free, and occasional/social use before that. After my first visit where I followed a half hour relaxation, and an assurance that they would help me, I revisited a few times over the next fortnight, mainly out of curiosity and a wish to understand more, but deep-down convinced  that it would be my own efforts that would get rid of the smoking, and that I was not there yet.

On Christmas Eve, eleven days after I first visited the Energy Bank, I was suddenly aware I hadn’t had one cigarette during this time – I mentioned it to a family friend who offered me one, and I was able to say “No” without any feeling of determination or effort at all. It was as if the whole notion of smoking had slipped into the past and any power it had had for me had been totally diluted to ‘flush away’ status. Seven years on, bar a short lapse of a couple of weeks in 2003 while staying at the house of a smoker, I have been cigarette free. Something shifted with no conscious effort or will power on my part and I am and will always be more than grateful for that gift.

The second result came in the autumn of 2006, when I managed to trip and fall on the street and give my left wrist a Smith’s fracture (known in the medical world as “nasty”, “difficult” and “complicated”).

I went to the A and E  of the nearest hospital where I had to wait three and a half hours for the orthopaedic staff on duty who were in theatre fixing a broken hip. Primary diagnosis from other staff following an X-ray indicated that while they might pull and set it that night, as it was bad there was a definite possibility I would need surgery and possibly metal pins. I was not happy about this prospect.

During the wait in A and E, I listened continuously to a recorded relaxation on my MP3 that had been produced by Energy Clinic, and which I had always found effective. Although my wrist had a slight feeling of numb, dull ache it was not acutely painful and I felt no need for the pain relief – paracetamol etc that they kept offering me.

I was seen just before midnight by two hard-worked interns – they said they would set it as best as possible, but that the consultant would decide on treatment in the morning, and that as it was nasty, I should not be too hopeful of  a simplistic solution. After it had been pulled and set (“he’s done a really beautiful job” the female intern told me), I was transferred to a ward for the rest of the night, where I continued to use the MP3 relaxation throughout the night and did another  relaxation by phone early in the morning.

When the consultant arrived with his team, he reiterated the good work done in the setting, but added that with this type of fracture there was the strong tendency for the set bone to slip once the swelling had gone down. However he said I could go home and return to his clinic in a week’s time for review, with the proviso that I would immediately go to the hospital should there be any change or pain.

During that week, I relaxed three times a day using the MP3 recording, and also attended the Energy Clinic twice for longer guided relaxation with an instructor. When I went to the consultant’s clinic the following week, an x-ray showed that there had been a very miniscule slip of the bone, but nothing that impeded the setting or healing. The consultant said that it seemed remarkable, but that it was early days yet and I was to return again in a week’s time.

I continued the MP3 relaxation three times daily and two guided sessions at the Energy Clinic. I also used daily phone sessions with an instructor, and did early morning physical exercises in the park.

X-rays and check at the following week’s clinic showed no slips or displacements at all. I then continued the routine appointments, x-rays and plaster changes for the next two months, along with the daily exercises, and relaxations at home, without problems before being discharged for six months in December.

I had a question answer session with the consultant who told me that given his experience of this type of fracture, and the break that I incurred, he would have been willing to bet money on me needing surgery and insertion of one or more pins, and that I was very lucky. Once again I remain more than appreciative of this result.

 

Toby, Graphic designer, London

I initially came to the Energy Clinic because I had been unwell for about five years.  I had a lot of problems with my bowels and bladder, with painful urination and very loose bowels.

I saw a doctor about five years ago and she just told me to stop drinking beer and to come back in six months.  This wasn't really the answer I was looking for.  I saw a nutritionist and changed my diet but it didn't have a major effect.  Then I went to see an acupuncturist and started doing yoga and gave up drinking.   

I have been taking a lot drugs for ten years, including cocaine, ecstasy, smoking pot every day and smoking cigarettes as well.  I came across the Energy Clinic by doing Yoga as it had opened my mind a lot.  I wanted to cure myself in another way besides going to the doctor.

A typical week

I would get up on Monday morning and roll a joint before going to work and then maybe smoke another during the day.  Then I would smoke five to eight joints in the evening.  That routine lasted from Monday to Thursday. 

Friday afternoon at work, I would start doing cocaine and this would last until seven or eight.  After that I would go out drinking and then stay out for most of the night drinking, doing cocaine and maybe doing some ecstasy.  I would get a few hours of sleep and then do the same thing on Saturday during the day and night and mostly on Sundays as well.  That takes us back to Monday.  I felt a bit rough on Monday through to Wednesday or Thursday but I would feel better by Friday and then back out onto the town. 

Energy Clinic

First Session…

When I first came to the Energy Clinic I felt straight away more content and happy with myself. 

Two Weeks…

And within about two weeks, I found that I had just completely given up smoking, cigarettes and smoking dope, which is something I have been doing for a long time. And then I was still going out drinking.  I didn't come to the Energy Clinic for a couple of weeks and one night went out drinking and took an ecstasy tablet and I felt terrible again. 

One month…

Within about a month I felt no desire to do any drugs or drink any alcohol. 

Three months…

It's been about three months now that I haven't touched any alcohol, smoked any cigarettes or dope, or taken any class A drugs.  I don't feel any desire or need to.  I feel so much happier and so much more content with myself. I look at people who smoke now and I wonder why they do that to themselves.  This has been quite a dramatic change in a short period of time.

My physical condition has improved quite dramatically.  My bowels are much better.  I had liver spots quite badly for about two or three months and they have cleared up. I have become much clearer, more focused on what I want to be doing and feeling really content.  Before that I wanted to escape by smoking and taking drugs.  Now I am much more happy and content.