January 30, 2022 Sunday Afternoon, Healing Workshop, Part 1
Tavis on Healing Anatomy
Tavis: Good morning. Hi, I’m Tavis Taylor. I’m going to put up a PowerPoint for my section. There are some pretty slides, so you can be entertained by that.
I’ve given this presentation in some format in previous years. I’ve added some things, taken away some things, and go into some detail here.
The topic this morning is Divine Light— the Divine Light energy approach to manifesting the ever-perfect.
We have a concept that we’re going to be discussing, that we have a template in our energy body that is the ever-perfect. It is a complete human body that works well. And the physical body can be a reflection of that or not. And we’re going to go into detail of what that means and and how we can connect with our ever-perfect body.
First, we’ll do a little introduction. You know, why am I talking to you about this? Well, first of all, Barbara asked me.
I’m an MD allopathic physician. I’ve been in medicine for over 30 years. I’m Internal Medicine board-certified an faculty. I teach with the University of Washington School of Medicine, their residency programs that teach medical students and residents, mid-level nurses, nurse practitioners.
But I’m also a Divine Light healer. I started on this path over two decades ago through a ceremonial pathway, working with a very traditional American Indian healer. I did that for a decade and then moved on to a universal approach.
That ceremonial training was very important. It allowed me to learn how to work with the other side in a very strict but protected way. This allowed me to meet and work with my higher self and the healing entities that I work with.
In 2016 I went through some experiences that led to a profound awakening, which led to learning how to use the Divine Light for healing. The approach that I’m going to share with you is learned through that meditation and working with higher self and the healing entities. There isn’t a 3D teacher that I’ve worked with to learn these concepts.
I know several of you are energy healers, and some Reiki Masters. I’ve taught Reiki Masters in the past and they’ve commented that this is beyond their Reiki training. They’ve been able to find useful tools and so I hope that some of this information may be useful to you as well. It’s also always helpful for us to have more tools in our toolbox.
So let’s get going.
Disclosure: So, some of this talk I’ve given to physicians and medical providers, and we always have to say was Big Pharma supporting us. No, nobody is, just the big guy, God and Source. They don’t pay me any money for that.
So, a little bit of science first, some physics. First Law of Thermodynamics: energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can be converted from one form to another. Heat is often a byproduct of [energy] transformation. Why is that important? Because we’re talking about energy, and some energy we can see and some we cannot. Much of the energy that we work with when we’re looking at healing energy many of us cannot see. So, I just wanted to touch on this concept because I use it.
Another concept is string theory. If you listen to physicists talk about it, it’s very complicated. But basically, it just means that everything is made up of molecules. These molecules vibrate at different rates, and this then dictates how this molecule looks and how all the molecules look when they interact together.
The easiest example is water. At a lower temperature there’s a lower vibration, and this water appears as ice. Many of you in the north and all over the East Coast are experiencing this in the last 48 hours. You’ve had a lot of snow, a lot of ice. You raise the temperature and vibration changes and it becomes a liquid. You raise the temperature again, vibration changes again, and it becomes steam. You raise the temperature and vibration again and it becomes a gas that you can’t see it in this phase anymore. You lower the temperature and the vibration and it becomes liquid, as Barbara was talking about.
This cycle of evaporation and turning into liquid, turning into rain, turning into snow, these are the same molecules, but they’re vibrating at a different rate and so they give us different visual appearance. And that’s important, again, when we’re talking about working with energy, talking about working with healing entities. We won’t always see these energies or these entities but it doesn’t mean they’re not here.
I use Divine Light. So, we’re looking at light, can light be a medical treatment, as it is used now in allopathic medicine.
There’s PUVA which is Psoralen and UVA light. There’s 5-Ala. There are lasers which are lights. And I’ll talk about that a little bit, because some of you are familiar with it.
This is a book called The Medicine of Light, which is not available in the US. It’s published outside the US. Our good friend T gave me this many years ago.
It talks about how they’re using light in other countries for healing. They’re taking chlorophyll analogs. You might remember from basic science that plants have chlorophyll which is light sensitive and helps them to grow and do the functions that they need to live.
Since chlorophyll analogs are photosensitized, they can be taken in by the human body. And it turns out that they sensitize cells that are ill, like cancer cells. They don’t sensitize healthy cells. And then these cells that have been sensitized can be exposed to UV light, and they can be destroyed.
Those of you that have gone to the dermatologist with skin-based cancers, they give you a cream and then they have you out in the sun, or they put you under a lamp. This is the same concept. They’re giving you these photosensitizers, exposing you to UV light, and it’s killing the cancer cells.
Some of the research has been done with fiber optics. In endoscopy, they put a tube down your throat, into your esophagus, into your chest. Cancers that are real close to that area can be treated with the UV light from the endoscopy scope, when they’ve been sensitized, but they’re limited. It can only go within a centimeter or so, and that’s not very far—two and a half centimeters is one inch. So, you can’t go very far with that light. But these are up and coming treatments that are possible.
What if we could achieve similar outcomes without expensive chemicals or manufactured lasers or light sources?
The energy work that I do harnesses Divine Light and all its spectrums and frequencies. Therefore, we don’t need to manufacture a specific prism, lens, or a specific manufactured tool that only has a certain frequency of light that’s generated. We can learn to take any of the spectrum of light from Divine Light and use it as needed.
But it turns out there’s a certain spectrum of light that’s more effective than the others.
I’ve been participating in research projects since 2016 to help bring science up to speed with some of these energy concepts. The Rhine Institute in Durham, NC, has an ongoing research component. They’ve been doing research since the 1930s, looking at ESP and mindfulness and different aspects.
In 2017 I participated in a project where the researcher was looking at UV light particles being generated by the light workers. Well, not many UV light molecules were being generated by the light workers, and that wasn’t very interesting. It turns out that it’s not UV light light workers are using, it’s the infrared spectrum.
What I found particularly interesting is, when energy workers work with some patients, the researchers see this fuchsia, purple light. When you look at the light spectrum— go Google infrared light and look at the light spectrum. You’ll see the red light, yellow, orange, all these and the blue light spectrums. When you get to infrared, it’s a pinkish purple fuchsia color. That was affirming for me and I found it very interesting. So, we’re really looking at the infrared spectrum as the healing light spectrum to be working with.
The IONS Institute in Petaluma, California, Institute of Noetic Sciences—I’d never heard of them until they contacted me in 2019. I thought it was a scam at first, but then I looked into it. The astronaut Edgar Mitchell had an Aha! moment, came back to Earth and developed this research institute to look at mindfulness and other aspects of healing.
In 2019, they had a project they called “The Exceptional Energetic Healers Project,” where they invited 20 healers from around the world. I was honored to be a part of that. Each healer went for one week to California to their research site, and they brought in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome.
We were working in a Faraday cage, which is not a cage but is like a big metal room that screens out all other energies so only the energies that are within the box are being used.
These patients were put through some very rigorous testing. They were swabbed for DNA. They had their nerves checked for carpal tunnel. Then the client and healer were hooked up to EKG lines and the heart rates were monitored. Other frequencies were monitored in the room with a random noise generator and another recorder. Distilled water was worn in a small vial around the neck like a necklace by both the patient and the energy healer to see what changes might be going on. There was distilled water put in the room to look at other changes.
There was a seer. She’s a quite adept seer, and she teaches at the Academy of Intuition Medicine® in Sausalito, CA. She stepped in with each and every episode of the research, monitoring what happened with the researcher and the patient, and she kept a very detailed journal.
So, at the end of this research project, all the data was reviewed and they found a very positive P value of benefit for one 30 minute treatment for patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. The patients were evaluated, then they had a treatment, and then they were evaluated again in three weeks. A positive P value means the data is statistically significant. It showed there was persistent improvement in patients’ carpal tunnel symptoms without surgery, it was there right after treatment and persisted during the subsequent three week period.
The University of Washington and Oregon State University are doing water treatment evaluations now. One of the things that we did during the IONS treatment, which was aside from working with the patients, is they brought in two tubes of water and they said, “Treat them.”
I said, “What do you mean, treat them?”
They said, “Do whatever you think you need to do.”
Well, for me, one felt different than the other, like it needed to be healed. So, I worked on it, and then they took the vials and they put the water through a spectrometer, which looks at all the particulate matter in the water. And it turns out that one was distilled water and one was Fuji (mineral) water. And the Fuji water, after I worked on it, was turned into distilled water. All the particulate matter was removed from it. Like, wow! That was cool.
So University of Washington and Oregon Health Science Institute is replicating these water treatment projects to see if they can recreate them. I have already been to the University of Washington, and OHSU is waiting to do their experiments because of the pandemic.
So, these are just a few of the projects that are ongoing, and we’re looking at these treatments. I know there are a lot of other groups doing similar research projects, trying to understand, and if you look at IONS— www.noetic.org — they have a lot of different research projects that they’re participating in.
Regarding the energy medicine treatments, they acquired a significant amount of data from the multiple aspects they were evaluating, and they were able to present multiple publications in science magazines. We see here, Explore January 2021 as the first set of publications, so you’re welcome to look in those journals and read about what they found.
What happens during an energy treatment? Every energy healer, in my experience, works a little bit differently. I can tell you what happens when I work. Part of this is revealed when the seer was looking at the process and documented events in her journal.
I connect with higher self and bring in that sacred light and create a sacred space. Then I work with the patient and the energy to start the healing process. And the patient afterwards gets what I call homework, as this is a joint process. I give patients tools, many of the tools we’re going to be talking about, to learn how to heal themselves. I offer a jumpstart to that, and ongoing treatment and support, if needed.
But as you will find out, it’s largely up to the patient to start their healing path and be a part of it. It’s not something we do to you. That’s something you need to work with yourself.
So what did she see? She saw with each patient that this large column of light came in and anchored, and that is part of my higher self. This creates a sacred space on this plane and other planes.
I’m a teacher in many planes, and what she saw next was in the upper aspects of the room on all sides: these windows opened up. She said it was like a surgical suite, where you’ve seen surgeries going on, and up above there are windows where people are watching. She saw divine beings, cherubs and angels all lined up, watching what was going to be happening.
Then as I was working with the patient, she saw there were two beings that were in coats. She took them to be students, because I’d start to work in an area and they would be talking with each other and turn around and say that I’d already done what they were thinking about doing.
So we’re creating sacred space. We’re working with the patient. We’re working with the entities that are there, and we’re also teaching the process. And, for those that have been to the Casa, the Casa talks about all the healing entities; that some are learning and some are treating. This is the same process— that there are individuals in energy form that will come along and they will learn, as an experienced energy healing healer is working to learn from that person on the other side. I found that all fascinating.
What are the components of light work.
First, you have to suspend disbelief. That doesn’t mean you have to believe, but you have to suspend disbelief that it’s not possible. If you don’t think it’s possible at all, you’ve already contracted and limited the ability to participate in this.
Open blocks, and change our vibration. We’re going to spend a lot of time talking about these concepts. And we’re going to enter into learning about our energy centers next.
Let’s talk about chakras. These are energy centers in our body that work with our spiritual body, our emotional body , and our physical body. You can find thick books written on chakras. They can get very involved and very complex.
Personally, I like to use what’s called a practical approach. I sent you a handout that addresses that.
How are these used? For me, I try to make things simple and easy to use.
So, the first—let’s start at the bottom—is the root chakra at the base of the spine.
The second chakra is yellow and it’s around the umbilicus, which is the belly button.
The third chakra is at the diaphragm, which is where the ribs and the chest meet.
The fourth chakra is the heart chakra, in the center of the chest.
The fifth chakra is the throat chakra, which is in the neck area.
The sixth one is the third eye in the middle of your forehead, which is related to the pituitary gland.
And the crown chakra is just above the head where the divine energy enters
These are my lovely little figurines that I use to describe the relationships that I use in working with chakras. You may have learned a different set of relationships, and they’re valid. These are just the relationships that I use and it works well with the patients that I work with.
Root chakra, sacrum: relationship between you and yourself. This includes your self-esteem, your self-worth. And then the organs in that area— your sexual self, your reproductive self, elimination, bladder and colon. There was a request to have some actual anatomy and physiology, and we’ll go over some of that at the end of this component.
Second chakra, around your belly button: your immediate family relationships, between you and your parents (even if they’ve passed on), siblings, brothers, sisters, partners past and present, and children.
Third chakra, yellow: relationship between you and your extended family and your community—friends, aunts, uncles, cousins, work, volunteer activities.
Fourth chakra: summation of all your human relationships, the ones we just talked about.
So, the bottom three are referred to as your human chakras— all those relationships we just mentioned. The top three, which we haven’t pointed out yet, are considered to be the divine chakras. And the heart chakra is in the middle.
For these (divine chakras) to be optimally open, these (human chakras) need to be balanced. You can imagine, with all these relationship connections, at one moment you can be balanced, and the next moment not. You can be balanced and then some emotional challenge comes in and throws you off balance.
Does that mean the heart chakra is going to clamp down and close completely? No, but it’s just not going to be as open as when these are balanced.
So, one of the issues we run into is because these are uncomfortable to deal with, these emotional challenges, many people just try to put them aside, which I call putting them into the burden basket.
Native women would go into the meadows in the forest carrying a burden basket and they’d pick up all the types of things that they needed to bring back to the camp. As humans, we tend to stuff our emotional baggage into our burden baskets, that we don’t want to use. They get heavier and they get heavier, and they block our energies.
But in order to optimize this divine connection, we need to have open and balanced human chakras. We need to learn how to deal with our emotional challenges. That’s why we’re here— to have these challenges and learn how to work with them and convert them ultimately to compassion, forgiveness and unconditional love.
Throat Chakra (fifth): Speaking one’s truth—and I put here: constructively. But it’s not just speaking; it’s expression, its communication, which comes in many forms. You know, we think of speaking or singing, talking, voice, but there’s also art and music and writing—any way that you can think of to communicate. This affects this throat chakra.
Third Eye (sixth): When open, allows perception of things beyond the 3D realm. You know, people seeing ghosts or other entities, or other colors of the spectrum.
My opinion is that it doesn’t have to be open—to have a balanced human third eye and crown chakra—to work with the divine. Because there are many people that say, “Why don’t I see such and such?” You don’t have to see.
But when you can see those things beyond this third dimensional realm, that’s the third eye opening. Next, the crown chakra is the portal to the divine connection.
So again, divine and human balancing, this helps maximize the opening of the heart chakra, which allows the optimal opening and use and connection with the divine.
Now we’re going to look at anatomy and physiology and relating it to the chakras.
We have male and female physiology. We’re looking at the first and some of the second chakra. They’re not really concrete, defined delineations; they sometimes flow into each other, and energy flows. So we can see here, we’ve got some bony parts. We’ve got the spine back here, and we’ve got the pubic bone up here. On the male, we’ve got a bladder here, female bladder here. We’ve got rectum here.
And then on the female, the internal reproductive organs, the uterus and the vagina coming out the pelvic floor. See there’s potential space here on the male (between the bladder and rectum when you compare to the female); there’s the prostate, right below the bladder. For the male, reproductive organs are mostly outside of the pelvis, here is testes and urethra. All this is in the first chakra and some of this is in the second chakra.
Here’s another view I thought was more detailed and pretty. I really like this view of the female reproductive organs, just really liked like the way it looks. You can see there’s a depth and 3 dimensions, you can see how that energy would flow into this area, and how the colon comes down and behind all of the other pelvic organs. Again, here, the colon comes down behind and in front of the spine, and these are nerves that would infiltrate all these areas.
So, you can start to see which organs can be affected. If you’re having trouble with irritable bowel, see that the bowel actually goes all the way up and around. Go to the next slide, you’ve got the small intestine and you’ve got the large colon. So the small intestine comes down, turns into the large intestine, the colon which goes all the way up the right side of the body, up and behind the liver and behind some of these organs, goes across the body, comes all the way down, and then goes back behind here and back down to the anus and elimination.
You can see, your intestines cover a large part of the abdomen and can be first, second, third chakra. So when you’re having trouble with your bowels, you really will benefit from looking at those first three chakra relationships. What’s going on? Why am I having difficulty?
Third chakra, liver, has two lobes; stomach, spleen is behind here. In the back are kidneys. So, second and third chakras again, gallbladder third, all sitting in this area.
So, when you’re thinking about you’re having a difficulty with your stomach, with your liver, with kidney, pancreas is back here, think about that chakra area and what it represents. What relationships are you going to benefit from? Evaluate and maybe work on these areas and relationships.
Here’s the thorax, heart, medial to left side. There is a diaphragm that helps the lungs work and keeps a separation between the abdominal cavity and the chest cavity.
There’s a local opening right here where the major vessels are. You see the vena cava and the aorta coming down through the diaphragm. The esophagus always also comes down and meets the stomach that is in this area. There’s a little bit of a hole here through the diaphragm. But the majority of the diaphragm is this large muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen and the lungs here on both sides.
Look at the major vessels, and then you head up into the neck which is the fifth chakra. You see the windpipe here. You have a trachea and esophagus that comes down through here. And you have other organs— the thyroid; a major, major organ that’s important for the body. We’ll talk about that again in a minute.
So, going actually from fifth through first, you eat something. It goes through the esophagus, into the stomach down here, and then through all the intestines, through the colon and out. Nutrients are taken up in the stomach and the small intestine filtered through liver. The colon takes up water, gives back water. So there’s a very complex process going on throughout all this.
The endocrine system. So, we have the thyroid gland, that we talked about. Guess we’ll start at the top. Hypothalamus and pituitary gland secrete hormones and go all over the body to tell these organs how much they should be secreting, how much thyroid hormone should be secreted. The thymus gland is much smaller in adults and a part of the immune system. Adrenal glands sit on top of the kidneys. Ovaries for estrogen; testes for testosterone. Pancreas in both genders for insulin.
There’s a constant flow of information between these organs and the brain, the brain saying, “Hey, you need to make more,” if they’re not making enough, or if they’re making too much saying, “Hey, don’t make as much.” It’s a basic communication system but very important. And when one of these organs isn’t working well it affects the whole body
So, reviewing our components of energy:
Suspend disbelief.
Open blocks, change our vibration. We’re going to be talking more about that tomorrow.
Recognizing that we have the chakra energy centers.
Envision healing, not illness.
Regular meditation, prayer, imagery— that’s going to affect our chakras.
Optimizing the body with diet and absence of inflammatory agents, tobacco, alcohol drugs. We’re going to be talking about this mostly tomorrow and in our small groups. I want to comment on the inflammatory effect some more now.
When we’re looking at optimizing our body, giving it the best nutrients—sort of a side comment is that the human body just is an amazing creation. You know, when humans make things like a car or computer, everything has to be working perfectly or it doesn’t work. With human bodies it’s rare that a human body is perfect, but yet they still work and they can work for 100 years or more. So it’s an amazing creation.
We can give it a bunch of junk to eat and it still works. It may not work optimally, but it still works. So if we want to optimize it, giving it good nutrition, decreases the inflammation. We all know that tobacco is not good for the body. It actually creates inflammation that interferes with the lining of blood vessels, creating plaque and blockages in blood vessels, tobacco physically can create cancers in all aspects of the body— head and neck, esophagus, GI, kidney, bladder, osteoporosis in the bones. It affects all aspects.
Alcohol affects liver and can affect brain and kidneys, and can lead to cancer, can lead to dementia, lead to neuropathy where the nerves don’t work properly, can lead to end stage liver disease ,where the body just can’t heal itself anymore.
Drugs— and I’m not talking about your prescription drugs, although there are always side effects to those as well. Talking about hallucinogens and marijuana, you know there’s a lot of controversy about these drugs coming out now. I can share that there has been energy research that’s looked at marijuana, and there’s a large infrared inflammatory process that is generated with it. People will say, well, it helps with pain. We’re thinking that it works like opioids.
What opioids do—there are pain receptors in the body that are supposed to be there. If you didn’t feel pain, you would burn yourself, you would injure yourself and you wouldn’t know, so the pain receptors are there to help you and protect the body. When opioids are taken in, they bind to these receptors to block them so you’re aren’t feeling pain. But then what the body does is, you’re supposed to have these receptors, so the body makes more receptors. And that’s an ongoing process, where opioids block these receptors and then the body creates more receptors. So you’re actually increasing probability of being sensitized to pain, and that’s why they don’t work very well.
We’re thinking that marijuana does similar blocking of some of these receptors, but not actually helping with the underlying process of treating inflammation. So we’re not treating inflammation with these, we’re just blocking a receptor that allows you to feel the pain.
We’re finding that young people are developing strokes and heart attacks with regular marijuana use. There’s a process of hyperemesis syndrome, where people develop abdominal pain and vomiting. They smoke or take more marijuana because it’s supposed to help with nausea and vomiting, but it just increases it. We don’t know why that is happening yet. And it can take weeks for that symptom to go away once they stop the marijuana. And if they restart the marijuana, then it comes back.
There are a lot of things we don’t know about that particular drug that are actually causing problems with healing. I just wanted to bring that to people’s attention, so that when you’re looking at optimizing your healing, you’re aware of that.
Sort of in summary of this, if we harness the energy around us, we can actually restructure components of our bodies. And if we suspend disbelief, and allow our minds to consider we have the capability to affect and change these components, we can promote healing, or we can promote disease. It’s a choice that each of us has.
Let’s take a small break, then we’re going to have some case presentations, and then time for some questions. Keep in mind that we’re going to go into more detail tomorrow, actually talking about how we can work with the chakras and what blocks them, and how to work with these blocks, how to disperse them.
Are there any questions right now?
Q: I know several people who use marijuana for sleep, people who are in their 70s and 80s and have difficulty with other forms of medication. So I’m concerned to hear you say this—because many people I know use this—when you say that there could be some problems with with THC in cannabis. So, if it’s used for that, you know, not on a regular basis, is there still some concern about the use of that product for sleep?
Tavis: Right now, using that product for anything is of concern because we don’t know enough about it, and again, the infrared projects shows inflammation. Spirit has said it shows inflammation. Some THC is different from other THC, right? We just don’t have enough information right now. Thank you.
Q: I was curious about the thymus because, as I understand it, that’s where the T cells are produced, which are really important for attacking and supporting the immune system.
Tavis: It is much larger in the infant and then it sort of shrinks. And it is useful, but it’s just not as prominent for showing it rather large here. It’s just not as prominent as that.
Q: Because I heard that like tapping on it could help kind of bring your awareness there and activate its function
Tavis: I’m not aware of that, I’m not familiar with it. I know there is a tapping process that people do. I’m not familiar with the details of it.
So the thymus is there, (on the slide of the endocrine system) it can create the T cells, but it’s very, very small in adults. If it’s visible on imaging, it usually tells me there’s something wrong with it; we think about adenocarcinoma. It’s very, very small. Mainly pointing out that it’s not this large in an adult, okay? Thanks for the clarification.
Q: May I ask Tavis, to which chakra is the breast area related?
Tavis: That’s the heart chakra and it will be effected by emotions. One of the things that really brought that to my attention was when I was in private practice. I had patients for many years and I was able to follow them. And I started seeing some of my long-term patients develop breast cancer after losing a loved one, or going through a difficult divorce, something that was very emotional. All of a sudden, these women would come in with new breast cancer. And then, maybe one or more of them would continue to get recurrences, and they hadn’t really dealt effectively with their grief process. So, grieving and large heart-oriented problems can lead to breast cancer. It’s that fourth chakra.
Q: The circulatory system, which chakra is primarily involved with that?
Tavis: All of them. The circulatory system goes all over the body from the tip of your toes to the tip of your head.
Q: I’m wondering if the Chinese acupuncture points have anything to do with this light work you’ve been doing. I just wondered because I was born in China, and there’s a lot of things to do, when basically anything could be treated when the acupuncture centers and those that have a lot of points over the body. And I just wondered if this is anything that could be used or combined with what you’re doing?
Tavis: Yes. I’ve actually worked with acupuncturist to do this, and we’ll talk about that at the end of the next session, so remind me, okay?
(break, question while on break)
Q: Can I ask a brief question while people are on break? I noticed in the 1970s that there was a lot of publicity about women getting breast cancer and how there got to be quite a bit of repetitive announcements of how many women were going to get breast cancer in the next year. And what went on my attention with that was during the decade of the 1970s it became my notion that because the media was informing how many women, you know, one out of five or something, like that would get breast cancer, that now all the women were supposed to feel their breast and look in the mirror and see if they have any lumps, and they started going and getting a lot of exams to see if they have any breast cancer appearing. It occurred to me that at that time, that perhaps a lot of the breast cancer that was appearing was the effect of being told that one out of five or whatever it was women to get breast cancer so it was expected. From your understanding, is that a likely scenario, that it can be caused by collective pronouncement?
Tavis: I appreciate your question, Q. But in my experience working with patients, that’s not my experience. Most women actually did not think they’re going to get breast cancer. They do the screening. They don’t have a real fear or real concern about getting breast cancer. Some do, some don’t do the exams. But I don’t think it’s a collective expectation that you’re going to get breast cancer and, therefore, the rates increased.
We didn’t have the ability to find breast cancer early in the past. I remember one time getting a call from the emergency room, probably 30 years ago, “Your patient is in the emergency room saying her breast is falling off.” This is a woman who had never gotten screening and didn’t come in for breast exams and didn’t do her own breast exams. Developed a large lesion, that the breast was just falling away. And one of the things about breast cancer, as opposed to the other cancers in the body, you don’t usually see the breakdown of those organs because they’re inside. But with breast cancer you get these awful ulcerating masses that break through the skin.
And so, by finding them with early detection, with mammograms and 3D mammograms, we’re now able to see them. The smallest size that is usually palpable is two centimeters. But now that they can see them earlier, they can do much less intensive treatments, like a lumpectomy, just taking out the area of the cancer, as opposed to removing the whole breast.
This is why they told women to do their self-exams and to get their mammograms, so you could have early detection. So you wouldn’t have to have these large procedures to remove the entire breast or remove two breasts; you could do smaller procedures and do radiation and chemo, things that were still intensive but not as much as going through a total mastectomy and then having the potential for metastasis for the breast cancer to move to other areas along the bones. The earlier we catch these, the less invasive it is and the less surgery they need. Does that help answer your question?
Q: Very much. So thank you
Tavis: I’ve had women that get their annual mammograms and they’ll come in like three or four months later and say, “I feel a new lump,” and it turns out it is cancer. So even our annual screening sometimes isn’t good enough.
So, that’s why most practitioners will still encourage women to do their breast self- exams. They’re going to know their breasts better than a physician that checks them once a year or once every other year. They’re going to know the changes in their breasts beforehand.
There are a couple of different groups in the United States that put out recommendations for preventive medicine, and one of these groups actually does not recommend women to do breast self-exams because they think they find too many lumps and bumps that have to be looked at, and a lot of them are cysts or fibrocystic changes.
But again, for each individual woman that has found her own breast cancer in between mammograms, I think that is so important to them. And there might be a handful out of the couple hundred that I have seen in the past few years. That’s important to each one of those. They’re not just a statistic, 3% or something. So myself and a number of providers still advocate breast self exams for women.
Q: Which chakra is most likely involved with the bone marrow if you want to target it with prayer and energy?
Tavis: The bone marrow is going to be all over as well. And so, making a connection with the bone marrow and the types of cells and determining what it wants for healing. That would be my recommendation. Does that make sense?
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