Alternative Medicine
In Search Of Self Healing
By Bridget Dinsmore
Apr 18, 2008

Have you ever just sat and watched your breath and observed how your belly moves up and down. Does your breathing have a low or high energy level. When you are angry have you ever counted to 10 to slow down your breathing. Have you ever counted sheep to help you fall into a relaxed sleep. When an emergency crisis arises do you try to stay calm through your breathing. Have you engaged in exercises such as yoga, or martial arts that co-ordinate movement of the body and breathing. During meditation practice the breath is used to stay focused. During childbirth some women use a rhythmic breathing pattern to help them focus and relax during contractions; it appears that when we enter this universe, breathing is a life force energy that we need to stay alive and healthy.

I first became aware of this dormant Universal Life Force Energy about six years ago when I began my self healing journey. Since that time this Universal Life Force Energy is subtly entering the main stream of the medical world as complementary medicine. This energy is free, it cannot be packaged, or put in a pill form. Scientist have no explanations for Universal Life Force Energy healings, except to consider this energy may have a placebo effect. The medical profession has no scientific data to confirm Universal Life Force Energy Healings. Anecdotal healings are not recorded.

I recall when I was eight years old telling my mother I had a headache. She held me close and cupped her hands around my forehead and the back of my head. I do not remember how long it took but I do remember my headache being relieved. Old wives tales were part of the poor and working class culture where I grew up. This may have been my first informal introduction to the use of Universal Life Force Energy. I often recall and sometimes joke about growing up vegetarian because we could not afford meat. Now that I can afford meat and pay for prescription medicine, I am reverting back to that not so well-off lifestyle that was part of my earlier years in a working class culture.

During my healing journey I had a conference with DR. Christane Northrup. She suggested I contact Peggy Huddleston who Lived in Cambridge MA, and authored the book "Prepare for Surgery,Heal faster" I was not interested in meeting with Peggy, surgery was not part of my plan. I politely accepted the information and placed it in my phone book. I continued my search for holistic healing. A few weeks had passed and I was at a dead end I could not find what I was looking for. Holistic had turned out to be a misused and over used buzz word. My time was running out, I had told my oncologist that I needed 3 months to do some spiritual healing. My search was becoming fruitless. I pondered calling Peggy Huddleston, I envisioned someone in a dark parlour with glowing candles surrounding the room. Then I thought, what do I have to lose by talking to Peggy. I called Peggy and told her my vision. She was very cordial and invited me to meet with her. She suggested I bring my husband or a friend with me. That same day my Husband and I arrived at Peggy’s house, we were brought into a large bright front room, where the evening sun sent a glow of orange light around the perimeter of the room. Her dog monkey sat at my feet. Peggy asked me some questions and jotted down my responses on her yellow note pad. Then she told me to put my hand on the part of my body that needed to be healed. It felt very comforting as I connected to the area that needed healing . Peggy did a visualization weaving in the information she had gathered from me. I felt at peace. When the visualization was over Peggy gave me a tape that was part of her surgery program with the visualization format. I was going to adapt it to meet my own personal needs. Some people who used her program healed before major surgery. I had my work cut out for me. Peggy had also suggested I contact Janice Anderson a RN and Reiki Practitioner who had healed her broken pelvic bone.

When my husband and I left Peggy’s house. I was feeling so relieved that my search was starting to have a direction. I was also unaware at that time that Peggy had re-introduced me to Universal Life Force Energy. Like my mother she did not put a name to this innate healing, Think about it, if you injure yourself your hands automatically go to soothe the injured part of the body. When you have a toothache, headache, stomach ache, your hands naturally goes to the part that needs healing. When you are relaxed you give yourself permission to heal.


As I grew in knowledge of this Universal Life Force Energy, I implemented it into my life through the Reiki system. My search for self-healing was successful plus I discovered that my inner spirituality helped nurture the overall process. I owe it to all the lessons that I learned along life’s pathways.