From NHS to Naturally Healthier Solutions

Welcome to the first post of my energy awareness blog – a blog that will be centred around my personal energy awareness journey 🙂

For some time (since 2008), since the first training with the energy doctors – Stephen and Lynda Kane from The School of Energy Awareness – I have been practising energy awareness techniques that have proved, from personal experience, to be extremely powerful and life-changing. Lynda and Stephen offer practical things that one can do to change one’s consciousness, and in fact, one’s life (because the two are not separate).

The training that they offer is was no one-off training that is nice and enjoyable for the day and then forgotten about – it is a new way of living, which would give me daily improvements when practiced as often as possible – even over a decade later.

At the time of the first training, I was in a much different place. I had no job, no higher education, my mother had just died by suicide, and I had a toxic partner. My mental health was poor; I had been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, and I could not see things improving. It felt like the mental health system (the NHS) could only offer so much -they placed me on medication, gave me a helpline number and referred me to the early intervention team. Back then, as is typical with people who are depressed, I had no motivation to do much at all, including incorporating the ‘Living With Energy Awareness Training’ into my life. I was plagued with self-doubt, which seemed foreign to me at the time, and I lacked the motivation and persistence to bring it into my life.

It wasn’t until years later, after hitting a crisis point in 2013 that had been building for years, that I started to take their teachings much more seriously. The anxiety and depression turned into psychosis, and since the last time I saw Lynda and Stephen in 2008, I had been in hospital a total of 5 times, each time the psychotic episodes got worse, and I was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Life was chaotic and severely unmanageable.

The NHS had tried me on many antipsychotic drugs, some of which left me with some debilitating side effects that dramatically reduced my quality of life. Regrettably, I turned to street drugs to feel normal again, which was pretty much the worst thing that I could do. My brain chemistry was already awry before any other chemicals were added into the equation; it was like turning a fire pit into a ring of volcanoes, which could erupt at will.

Over the years, the NHS proved to be hopeless in their pursuit to treat my condition (more about this in another post), at best, they gave me tablets, and contained me until the hallucinations stopped being so intense. My quality of life reached some unbearable points that seemed to plateau. Over the years, I did not get any better, but indeed a lot worse. The psychiatrist called me into his office – he said that I was in a very serious situation, that at age 24 I had been sectioned four times, and that if I did not immediately stop taking drugs, then my prognosis would be very poor. I started to panic that things would never get better for me, that I would never get my mind back and my life on track.

Luckily for me, I had met Lynda and Stephen before all of this, and their training stuck in my head. I’d had a few sessions with them, and I knew that what they teach could improve my life, that they could go beyond the scope of what the NHS could offer. Thank goodness that I kept the training manual and have a (sometimes) quite photographic memory.. (autism has some perks :-)). Their approach is warm, patient and caring, it genuinely feels like they have my best interests at heart – they gave me what the NHS failed to provide – consistent open minded and non judgemental support and empowering techniques that transformed the energy underlying my problems.

After years of going in and out of crisis, and trying the medication (which did not help to make me happy), I found myself stuck in a psychiatric rehabilitation unit after 5 hospitalisations (the longest of which was 3 years). When I felt well enough to take it on, I started incorporating the returning life sequence – a moving meditation that was taught on the training) into my morning routine. After years of feeling hopeless, overwhelmed, in turmoil, and not smiling, I did the returning life moving meditation for maybe 2 weeks and I started feeling like I was walking on air. It was such a relief – I finally had some joy in my life. After all these years of suffering, with this new energy I became determined to improve my life.
Within 2 weeks of doing the meditation, I was enrolled on an access course, for which I got up at 7am and made a 2-hour bus journey to the college 3 days a week, and i started going for prana walks every day. I had energy, I was smiling, I felt uplifted and happy, and even though I was still struggling at times, I successfully completed the access course in 2019. I am pleased to say that I am now partway through studying for an MA in Interdisciplinary Psychology and planning on pursuing a PhD, and in comparison, my mental health is great!

Not only am I doing an MA in Interdisciplinary Psychology and living independently in my own flat with no support after being a revolving door patient for all of my 20s, and living in supported accommodation until 2023, I have started a small business from home called Ki to Life and overcome many repetitive and stressful states of mind. I have my self esteem, I frequently have joy, lightness of being, fulfilment, and my perspective has shifted. This is way beyond anything that the NHS did for me. It’s like the NHS placed a metaphorical band-aid over a gaping wound rather than healing the underlying problem causing the wound.

Ever since then, I have been trying to implement as many of the techniques taught by Lynda and Stephen as possible. Whenever I’m feeling off, I now have things that I can do to shift the negative energy. It is very empowering having the tools to personally change my consciousness that I can use at any time, wherever I am.

Some of the things that have helped me are:

Energy exercises (tai chi-like exercises that they call weaves),

Meditations (of which there are many)

Energy testing

Following my energy

Practicing attitudes of acceptance, service, attention

Living with intent

Being on the right supplements

Lynda and Stephen teach these methods – not as a retreat where you try things for one day, but making them a part of your very life, interwoven with how you live minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day. I have very much felt the benefit, sometimes instantly, with the things that they teach people. I can be lost in unmanageable negativity (i am also autistic and have CPTSD), and then do one technique and within seconds / minutes – I feel brand new – calm, peaceful and more myself. It is very empowering to have the tools at hand to change any negative energy state – and to make choices that are going to bring me positive energy. My attitude to life has changed, I am bright, positive and always aiming for the next thing rather than existing day to day and not really going anywhere

Just as they have taught, keeping up to these practices and new attitudes has helped to lessen my stress burden, brought in new success energy, helped with focus and helped me to make wiser choices.

It is a game changer knowing the energy doctors – Stephen is highly skilled and can see how anything – from houses and tablets to food, hair colours and holidays – affects your energy body. He can see what makes your energy stronger and brighter, and what causes you harm.

I’m not saying that some of the medications given by the NHS are not helpful – mine is essential for my mental health and was desperately needed – (thankfully Stephen can see how it lights up my 6th chakra). However, I have found out personally that medication alone did not give me the change in consciousness that has dramatically changed my experience of being alive gradually over the years. With a persistent approach to my practices and ‘jumping in at the deep end and learning how to swim’ – no matter how difficult – I have more joy, clarity and success in life. It was worth putting the effort into myself as my life has improved tenfold.

Just as Lynda and Stephen say – changing your energy changes your life, and it really did for me

This is just a brief outline of my journey; I could really fill a few books talking about this, which is, indeed, a future goal that I’m currently setting in motion.

If you would like to know more about my energy awareness journey and the improvements that it is bringing me –for example, how my mental health is enhanced and the concrete effects it has brought into my life, then please check my future posts.

That’s all for now, folks! 

Rose xxxxx