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by Kyle Davies, Mickel Therapy Director
“Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.”
Virgil
We are frequently asked why does Mickel Therapy work, and how is it different from other types of conventional and complementary treatments and practices? Arguably there are numerous reasons both theoretical and practical. However, for the purpose of this ezine, we are going to focus on one of the main reasons; and, like everything in Mickel Therapy it is simple. It’s all about cause and effect.
In many areas of healthcare we are used to working on effects. Examples of this are evident on our television screens everyday. There is an advert that perfectly exemplifies this for me. A lady is walking around juggling miniature versions of her children, husband and various other things in her life. She picks things up and puts things down but keeps on walking. She stops briefly to take some tablets and then gets going again.
The strap-line that appears on the screen is ‘xxxx, for those who just keep going’. So, what’s going on here; lady has headache and takes some pills, what’s wrong with that, you might ask. Well, from a Mickel Therapy perspective the headache is a symptom which is an effect, and the pills are designed to work on that effect by obliterating it. This may work in the short term, but if that headache keeps returning the cause will need to identified or the chances are it will be develop into something much bigger and more debilitating.
Simply working on effects can bring some success when the cause is in the past and is no longer evident in the present. A good example of this could be that I break my leg playing football and find myself with a plastered leg for 6 weeks. The plastering primarily deals with the effect, i.e. a broken bone. This works well for 2 reasons; first the cause is in the past – the football game. Second, the plaster isolates or protects my leg and prevents further causes.
However, problems arise when causes are still evident in the present and the only action taken is an attempt to eradicate the effect. One thing we are very clear about when dealing with all ‘Energy Disorders’ is that the causes are evident day to day.
I recently had a client suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome say to me that he had received some acupuncture treatment which had alleviated some symptoms to a certain degree for about a day or so. He wondered whether this had all been in his head – i.e. was he imagining the benefit. I suggested to him that it wasn’t imaginary at all. The acupuncture was seeking to realign his ‘energy system’ that was out of balance – working on the effect. In the moment this worked fairly well. The problem was that because the cause of the energy imbalance was not addressed and, unfortunately for my client, evident every day of his life, the symptoms returned within a day or so.
This seems to be the case for many types of healthcare treatment and is why many sufferers of CFS, ME, Fibromyalgia and Irritable Bowel Syndrome persist with complementary or alternative treatments – some benefit is derived for a short period of time. They all realign energy systems to some degree or other but almost never address the actual cause of energy imbalance so symptoms always return.
The reason why the Mickel Therapy process works when clients apply it to their Energy Disorders is because we look to identify the causes of energetic imbalances or symptoms and address these causes. Sounds simple, doesn’t it. The problem can be that in a culture so caught up in seeking to quickly eradicate effects, shifting focus to causes sometimes requires something of an uncomfortable stretch away from the familiar.
“Find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.”
William Shakespeare
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