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Miasm Release: Innovative Energy Medicine
by Darlene E. Paris
Conscious Choice, August 2003
When I first observed a Miasm Release Therapy session -- a new and innovative form of hands on healing work that removes negative energy from the body -- I was reminded of the movie The Exorcist. In this film, two priests attempt to cast an evil spirit from a young girl's body.
While the priests quote scriptures, say prayers, and flash crosses before the possessed girl's face, the energy within her performs all kinds of stunts to prevent the holy men from accomplishing their goal. It rocks the bed back and forth, and raises it from the floor. It throws objects across the room, and even turns the child's head all the way around its body like a corkscrew.
Similarly, during a miasm release therapy session, two or more practitioners work on removing unwanted energy from their client's bodies -- except the energy they're removing isn't anything like the demonic force represented in The Exorcist. The energies that miasm release therapists attempt to extricate are energies that keep their clients from living a full and happy life.
"These energies are called miasms," says Don Massat, founder of miasm release therapy. "They're low vibrational energies that feed on fear, insecurity and guilt," he says. "Since the physical body is a holding place for these kinds of emotions, that's where the miasm makes its home," he explains.
Miasm release therapy is an important modality because it addresses the impact emotions have upon a person's well being. "Most diseases, difficulties, and disorders originate in the emotional body," Massat says. Human beings are made up of three bodies: the physical body, the emotional body, and the astral body. "We're very familiar with the physical body," he says. "It's the body that we can see, touch and feel." However, most of us are unfamiliar with the emotional body and astral body. "The emotional body houses all of our emotions, and the astral body is related to experiences we've had in other lifetimes," he says.
Doctors of conventional medicine are very familiar with the physical body. "They look for physical evidence to prove that there's a disease occurring in the body, and they often treat that disease by suppressing its symptoms. The medical model is designed to use medication to suppress emotions."
For example, he says children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder are being medicated to suppress their feelings. For Massat and his staff, who work at his Tinley Park holistic center, there is no healing without emotional healing for both children and adults. "In miasm release therapy, we work in a way to encourage clients to release their emotions and not suppress them," he says. The emotional body, according to Massat, also stores feelings from experiences beyond this dimension in time that affect the health of an individual. "The emotional body is connected to other lifetimes, and we store emotions from those experiences in our bodies as well."
During one of my appointments with Massat to explore miasm release therapy, I went into a deep place inside myself and relived an experience I had had in a previous lifetime. In this particular dimension, I was driving in a car with people who I presumed to be my family. I saw an image of myself -- a little girl strapped in a car seat positioned in the back seat of an Oldsmobile station wagon. On both sides of me were two boys whom I referred to as my brothers. My brothers and I were singing a song to pass the time away as we traveled, and all of a sudden, I saw the headlights of a semi truck aiming directly at our car. All I could do was let out a shrill scream. I screamed for five minutes. My body shook with fear. I was releasing a miasm.
I cried like a baby throughout the entire session. Although I was a bit startled that I had presumably accessed a different lifetime, the session gave me some insight on why I often have panic attacks on the highway and so avoid driving on them. My miasm release gave me the courage to drive on the expressway with a friend a week after my session.
The Origins of The Work
Don Massat started researching this healing modality 10 years ago after studying other forms of energy work such as reiki, an ancient Japanese healing art where the practitioner channels energy to specific regions of the body, and visionary cranial sacral therapy, an approach to manipulating and adjusting the cranial system which relies upon intuition.
During his sessions, he discovered that with his encouragement the people he worked on would explore deep places within their subconscious minds. "Many of them would travel to other dimensions, or lifetimes, and release emotional patterns they accrued in their past lives," he says. Others re-experienced traumatic episodes that occurred during this lifetime, and took the opportunity to grieve them.
Time travel was a new and exciting venture for his clients, but it was a typical phenomenon for Massat, who had explored releasing miasms intuitively when he was just a child. "As a young boy, I would travel to other dimensions and release negative emotions," he says. "If I was struggling with an issue in this dimension, or lifetime, and had problems overcoming that issue here, I'd go to another dimension and work it out."
During a treatment session, Massat's facility with energy work is strongly felt. The moment he steps in the room, the energy of the treatment room shifts. A loving, healing energy descends upon the place and the person on the table melts into that loving space. Usually there's a small group of therapists in tow to assist Massat with the session, which typically lasts from one hour to 90 minutes.
On the day I witnessed my first miasm release treatment, there were two other therapists in the room besides Massat. The purpose for having more than one practitioner in session is not only to raise the healing vibration in the place so that the miasms exit easily, but it's also to assist one another in removing the energy from the client's body.
Unlike other forms of energy work, such as reiki, the practitioner himself literally becomes a light body, or the universal energy, that transfers light and love to the area of affliction. "I can lay over someone with my heart touching their heart and the energy that has the client stuck in their life will release itself immediately," Massat says.
In some cases, however, the energy is hesitant to leave. In one session I witnessed, the client channeled the voice of her miasm. "I don't want to leave," she yelled. "Please don't let me go." When one of the practitioners finally laid hands on the client's heart with the intention of absorbing the miasm, the energy broke free from the client and began expressing itself through the miasm release therapist.
"I hate you," it screamed at Massat as he stood at the head of the massage table sending positive energy to his client's heart chakra. While the therapist passed the miasm out of her body with the help of yet another therapist, the client became quiet and still.
After coughing and shouting other obscenities to Massat and others in the room (via the therapist who had absorbed the energy), the miasm became silent as the channeling therapist sat by the window allowing the rays of the sun to take the energy away. "We release the energy into the light," Massat says. "The light absorbs the energy and the miasm goes back to the light from which it came," he says.
Although miasm therapy has a definite "woo-woo" dimension to it, that hasn't stopped some health professionals from seeking relief through it for their aches and pains. Dr. Emmett Bentley, a St. Louis osteopath, decided to use miasm release therapy to treat his acute case of diverticulitis, a painful condition of the internal lining of the colon.
Although colleagues recommended he have an operation, Bentley decided to consider other options. After hearing about the success some people he knew had experienced with miasm release therapy, Bentley decided to arrange an appointment with Massat to see whether this form of energy would lessen his pain. "As soon as the session began, I immediately felt a deep sense of relaxation," Bentley says. After one treatment session, he was free from pain. That was seven months ago, Bentley has been an advocate of miasm release therapy ever since.
Medicine of the future
Unlike conventional medicine, there's no scientific research that substantiates the claims made by people who have tried miasm release therapy. The results are not reproducible -- since once the miasm is gone there's nothing to reproduce -- and the reports about the treatment are largely anecdotal. Still, miasm release therapy and healing work like it should not be ruled out as a healing option, Bentley says.
But make no mistake, miasm release therapy is not a form of medicine, as we know it. "It's a mystery," Bentley says. More and more health professionals are delving into that mystery to help their patients.
Psychotherapist Bonnie Williams uses miasm release therapy on several of her clients who suffer from a range of emotional distresses from bipolar disorders to depression. After experiencing the therapy herself, Williams thought that the treatment would help her patients. "As a psychotherapist, I know that people can be in therapy for years and have a great deal of insight and understanding about their patterns and about the things that trouble them. Yet, even with that, they continue to repeat the same patterns," she says.
Today, Williams not only uses talk therapy to treat patients, but she also incorporates miasm release therapy in her sessions. In fact, Williams, who practices in Baltimore, Maryland, is so impressed by the positive results she continues to see in her patients that she's planning to move to the Chicago area to learn more about the modality from Massat. "I think this is the next generation of energy work," Williams says. "When we begin to understand the language of energy, we're able to help more people heal."
Darlene E. Paris is a freelance writer, teacher, reiki master, and colon therapist.
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