May 19, 2011
An airport hotel in Newark, NJ, seems like an unlikely place for medicine to undergo a significant shift, but sometimes the most salient events happen under the most unlikely circumstances. Last Friday, a group of practitioners came together to share some of the best practices they had seen in working effectively with pediatrics— especially autism spectrum disorders. Each of these practitioners brought a different approach to their work, but all of them were united on several key principles that have guided their excellence in healthcare delivery:
The innate healing power of the human body
The need to look at each patient individually
Toxicity and its negative effect on function
The best first step is opening the flow system of the body
Amongst the panelists was Dr. Larry Palevsky, a renowned pediatrician and lecturer and current president of the Holistic Pediatric Association. Dr. Palevsky began the event off by laying out the key skills necessary to be an effective pediatric practitioner. One of the points was to first reduce the amount of potentially inflammatory influences coming into the body, not only foods but also the physical and energetic environment. He went on to examine how opening up the pathways or ‘portals’ of elimination is absolutely key to work with any type of chronic pediatric case— from infections to autism.
This sentiment was echoed by the whole panel, especially Dr. Joy Sakonyi, who offered some insight into working with classic pediatric primary care, everything from ear infections to allergies, hyperactivity to constipation.
As the conversation moved towards autism, Michael Payne, an autism recovery specialist from Richmond, VA, summarized his experience of working with almost 2000 children on the spectrum by stating that ”When you have seen one child with autism, you have seen one child with autism,” a testament to the individual nature of this condition. He gave some significant insight into the importance of the brain stem and how to reduce neuroinflammation through BioEnergetic methods.
Michael also was quick to point out how much he had learned from the mothers of the kids he had worked with, and how involving the parents into the care was a key way to creating an effective medical team. This was music to the ears of two of the other panelists, Sheila Reed and Lauren Stone. These incredible women were drawn to BioEnergetic medicine after first recovering both of their once-autistic sons through homotoxicology. Sheila and Lauren shared some of their incredible insight into the healing potential of imprinting and inverting frequencies into homeopathic remedies, techniques that are helping their current patient populations to regain health faster than ever before, especially with Lyme disease and associated conditions. Cellular health and detoxification was a consistent consideration shared by all the panelists.
However, the one panelist who really seemed to strike a consistent chord with the other panelists and audience members was Todd Stelik, an occupational and cranial sacral therapist who founded CAB (Cranial Assessment of BioResonance), a technique being taught at the Energetix College this year. Combining his hands-on work with homotoxicology has allowed his patients to recover much more quickly, and it was obvious that all the other participants were in alignment with his work.
One of the attendees at the event, Energetix Medical Advisory Board Member Iris Chen, MD, PhD, was so enthralled by the panel she asked for the mic and told the panel that, although they did not practice Traditional Chinese Medicine, their words and stories showed that when it came to their clinical approach, all of them ‘Spoke Chinese.’
No one will ever really know the number of children’s lives that this event will help to improve, but with over 70 practitioners in attendance from all over the country, you can be sure that the ripple effect will be extremely exciting to watch. Energetix is committed to helping practitioners of all backgrounds provide the finest healthcare and it was obvious from this event that, although holistic ideas and paradigms are merging, what is really exciting is what is emerging.
James Maskell
James Maskell has been involved in holistic medicine almost since birth, whether he liked it or not. His first chiropractic adjustment was at 15 minutes old, and he consistently responded well to homeopathy during his childhood.
At the University of Nottingham, James studied Economics with a focus on the food and healthcare industries before following a ‘rebellious’ career path in investment banking and markets which proved short lived. His time in banking showed him that world focus on short-termism across all industries, but particularly healthcare and food were costing society in the long run. America has outspent any other nation in health care and yet has been slipping further and further down the world rankings in key health indicators. So, in 2005, James moved to America to help to shift the health paradigm of the country to incorporate true primary care . . . nutrition, exercise, prevention and holistic therapies.
For 18 months, James was instrumental in the running and growth of The Spa on Green Street, a holistic day spa in Gainesville, GA that seeks to be a model for the integration of spa and holistic medicine. As well as excellence in combining therapies for optimal health outcomes, the Spa on Green Street also set a precedent for excellence in personnel management, systems, marketing and modern retail design.
With these skills embedded, James moved to the Northeast in 2007 to help practitioners grow and develop their holistic practices through a partnership with Energetix, a Bio-Energetic remedy and education company based in Georgia. Having helped hundreds of practitioners look at ways to develop strong, sustainable healing practices, James met Dr Andrew Colyer in 2008 and recognized the congruence of their respective visions which lead to the formation of Holistic Practice Development in 2010.
I got very goose bumpy reading this. I hope you move back to Chicago area so I can attend another series of trainings.
Though I suppose you will do it in San Diago next year.
Good work
James, this is good news for countless children and especially parents of autistic children. The health of the host, as Antoine Bechamp, Dr. Royal Lee and Gaston Naessen proposed to the scientific and medical communities against the tide of medicine’s embrace of Louis Pasteur’s “germ theory” is paramount to any and all efforts to “conquer disease,” which is proving to be and impossible task. Build the host’s health and watch the body heal from within. I applaud you for doing this kind of research and resource gathering that lets us in on what is emerging as the tide shifts toward a more Holistic and realistic approach to human health. Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback, Dr Palombo! Great having you here on our blog!
How excellent to see this further development re assisting in autism healing. Some real sanity in ths article.
Thank you so much for what you do.
Thanks for initiating this event James. I look forward to sharing it with all my practitioner clients who work with Children! Looking forward to the next one.
This IS making a difference in the lives of other people.
Hate that I missed it. Love that I can read about it. May the word spread so that many, many more can be blessed by these types of practitioners using safe,effective remedies!
Ripples is right! There is no greater area of need, and hard to think of an area where there are more natural and safe resources available to be correlated. Great work!
An excellent capturing in words of something both fundamentally right and exciting in American healthcare. Thank you to James and all the panelists.
I read this with great interest James, a comprehensive and collective statement of the understanding and help now available to sufferers of autism. Congratulations on framing it so succinctly.