Introduction to Energy Healing
by Dr. Dale Schusterman

We live in a sea of energy. Radios, televisions, cellular phones, and wireless computer networks operate on unseen energy waves. Our bodies also operate within a human energy field that some call the aura.  Electric fields give off magnetic frequencies allowing scientists to document these fields with their instruments (EEG, EKG). New detectors can sense the biomagnetic fields of the heart from more than 15 feet away!

Acupuncture

The preeminent field of energy healing today is Chinese medicine or acupuncture. Dating back thousands of years, this ancient science has found a great audience in the West for one major reason— it works!

Energy Techniques

In an era when science is excelling in taking apart the cell, even to the genetic level, many are drawn to expand away from the smallest parts to embrace a holistic approach to healing. People are discovering that they are capable of moving the energy within and around their bodies through breathing techniques, yoga exercises, Qi Gong, and so on. They do this because they feel better, think better, and it improves their health.

Laying on of hands has been practiced for millennia, however, in recent years it was considered only a part of the religious domain. People know the value of being touched by others in a loving and caring way. Scientific research has validated the positive effect this has in the healing process. We know instantly when someone touches us if we like their ‘energy’ or not.

Energy Healing for Stress Reduction

If energy healing does nothing more than reduce stress, then it has a dramatic biochemical effect on the body. Balancing the hormones of stress will cause an improvement in digestion, assimilation, elimination, circulation, and mental function. There is great evidence that energy healing accomplishes much more than this.

Many holistic therapists now incorporate forms of acupuncture, polarity therapy, chakra balancing, and other forms of non traditional healing. A search of any health oriented magazine today will show a wide variety of ‘energy therapists’ to choose from.

How to Choose an Energy Healing Practitioner

The most important factor to consider is the person(s) with whom you will be working. Although the technique a healer uses is important, of even greater significance is the person giving the treatment. In energy healing, the method will only take you so far. After that you are reliant upon your practitioner’s perception and insight, and the subtle energy that the he or she can transmit. The holistic healer must take care of his or her own health and be able to transmit a clear, focused healing energy to the client. This cannot be taught, but it can be cultivated. It is something we should all strive for.

Do it Yourself

While it may take years to learn acupuncture, there are many first aid protocols one can learn from books and short classes. Many of the energy healing procedures are available for the general public to learn through weekend courses and seminars. These are not meant to substitute for traditional medical procedures, but they can greatly assist in a person’s wellness, stress reduction, and self-empowerment.

Sign Language of the Soul

The Sign Language of the Soul procedures are a new form of energy or vibrational healing. They work on the concept of resonance. The map of the energy body (soul) is the same map that operates within the body, although in a different dimension. When you stimulate one map, there is resonance to the same area in the other. In this way one can attune the physical nervous system to the soul and thereby achieve great balance and healing.

Anyone Can Do Their Own Energy Healing

While the book is geared towards holistic healers, anyone can learn the quick and easy centering process. It takes less than a minute to perform. Instead of taking the time to learn the four balancing procedures, you can look at the healing symbols which accomplish the same thing. Therefore, the learning time to become proficient at these procedures is quite minimal and the benefits for applying them have great potential.

The following pages have excerpts from the book and give some detail about the various parts of this work.  Some of the topics may be new to you, so just read it for an overview. You do not need to know all the inner workings of a television in order to enjoy a show. Likewise, you do not need to understand all the circuitry of the human nervous system-soul connection in order to apply the balancing procedures.

The History of Hand Signs

Specialized hand positions called mudras are used to seal, or lock into the body, certain energies or states of consciousness. You can use these hand positions to center yourself for healing and balance. Historically they have many uses, but in this work you can achieve harmony and health with the simple movements of your hands.

• The Polynesians use special hand positions in their dance rituals. They are used as a non-verbal narrative tool that expresses the story they are telling.
   
• The folklore beings of many Asian cultures are depicted with different mudras in their hands. Mudras are also prevalent in the hands of many Asian religious masters, and in images of their deities..
   
• Statues and paintings of the Buddha show his hands in different mudras, and these mudras are still in use in Buddhism.
   
• Statues of Hindu deities show different mudras in their hands. Practitioners of yoga use mudras to focus energy in certain ways during the postures (asanas), and especially during meditation. Each mudra has a mantra or Sanskrit power phrase associated with it, and the two often function together. We have all seen the thumbtips touching the index fingertips in people who are meditating.
   
• Paintings and engravings depict Jesus, angels, saints, and other biblical personalities with their hands showing specific mudras.
   
• Kabbalistic literature includes many diagrams of the hands with Hebrew letters on the different joints, and modern rabbis continue to use the blessing mudra of the Levite priests.

The ancient masters, saints, and teachers were communicating a message with their hands. These hand positions were not random, as they tell us something about the message or perspective of the teacher. It is not uncommon for people in deep meditation to have their hands unconsciously form specific mudras. The hands can, and do, reflect deep inner states of consciousness.

Clinical Kinesiology

Alan Beardall, D.C., one of the original applied kinesiologists, made many great contributions to the collective knowledge of the subject. One of his many accomplishments was the development of the therapeutic system that he called “Clinical Kinesiology.”

Central to this integrative approach to natural healing was the use of hand mudras. He called them hand modes. He once observed a patient spontaneously make a specific hand sign that altered the response of the muscle he was testing. This led him to research different hand positions and their effect on the body. Dr. Beardall developed several hundred of these hand modes that represented all parts and functions of the body.

For instance, the hand mode for a subluxation (a misalignment of a vertebra in the spine) is placing the side of the thumb against the side of the little finger at the last joint. If a patient places this mudra in one hand and a strong muscle weakens upon testing, it indicates that there is a subluxation somewhere in the spine. It is then possible to continue muscle testing while touching down the spine to find which vertebra counteracts this weakness. This is the vertebra that needs correction. Touching the vertebra without the hand mode might not weaken a muscle and so not reveal the underlying problem.

The hand mode acts as a neurological filter or focus point for the body. This is like sorting a list of names by the first name or the last name or the city the people come from, depending on the filter you have chosen. Beardall’s hand modes enable the practitioner to get specific information from the nervous system. They help to give context to a dialog that you are having with the body. It is the difference between asking a general question and asking a specific one. This is a great tool for getting to deeper layers of distortion and imbalance in the body. With this technique, a doctor could literally “ask” the body where the problem lay, and if it needed acupuncture, nutrition, or spinal manipulation to correct it.

We communicate so much with our hands that harnessing this tool can be a way to enhance our conscious dialog with the body.

The Master Circuit

Many years ago, I realized that I could place the mudras in my hands and determine their effect on my body. I would spend some time each day doing very subtle balancing of my system as preparation for meditation.

In October 1983, at the end of a period of deep inner contemplation and work with some new modes that Beardall had just developed, I had a life transforming experience. My hands spontaneously went together in a hand sign that I had never seen before. I said to myself, “I wonder what this means.” There was an instantaneous reply. I heard a loud voice say, “This is the Master Circuit!” The voice came from all sides of me. I was stunned. Not one to hear voices, this was a memorable experience, because it was definitely not my little brain speaking to me.

Furthermore, the effect of the mudra lasted in me for hours. Without going into more detail, this hand sign worked in my system like nothing I had ever experienced. It took approximately 13 years before I fully understood this mudra.

This mudra, which was my key to the Master Circuit, was the first of many hand signs given to me in my inner contemplations over the years. The mudra was active over only certain areas of my body, and the design of the active areas was quite different from anything I had ever seen.

Soon after receiving the Master Circuit mudra, I recalled having purchased a book on the Kabbalah several years earlier. I did not think much of the book, or the Kabbalah, at that time, but I did remember the diagram of the Tree of Life.

I retrieved the book and found that the new mudra was active over the locations of the 10 Sefiroth, the major energy centers of the Tree of Life. This was the beginning of my research into the Kabbalah and how it is used to activate the spiritual patterns in the body. Since then, I have spent much time contemplating the mudras and the energies of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.

Early on, I had a limited number of mudras with which to work, but something was definitely happening with the ones I had. They were not enough, however, so I kept meditating, working on myself, and searching for new insights. Some mudras took over a decade to understand, some almost two decades. To this day, I continue to gain a deeper understanding of how it all fits together. I have no illusion that this system of healing is complete, as I frequently receive new insights about this work.

Often I would spend months seemingly bogged down in what I thought was futile, only to find that I was being shown a completely new perspective. It was like climbing a ladder backward. I could see where I had been, but not where I was going. I gradually gained confidence that there would always be another rung to climb. Slowly, but surely, an unseen force guided me to each new level. Each level is but a subset of a greater level, but all the levels look the same. The anatomy of the Tree of Life is always the same whether we are discussing quantum physics, the function of the liver, or the meaning of Genesis.

Spiritual masters or teachers use mudras to express the state of consciousness they are in or as a method of transferring that energy state to others. In our case, we will use the mudras as inputs to tune the body to the different frequencies. We will also use them to tune others to these frequencies.

The hands communicate to both the external world and the inner awareness. Our ability to observe the body’s response to a hand sign with muscle testing, will tell us where we can, and cannot, go with this work. This will keep us working in cooperation with the Inner Being, which is connected to our nervous system “until death do us part.”

Alternatives to the Hand Mudras

The hand mudras presented here are all fairly easy to make, although they will be easier for some people than for others. I hope that you will find them interesting and experiment with them to gain experience. This work grew out of using these hand signs and evaluating their effect on the body.

However, it is important to emphasize that it is not necessary to use the hand mudras to do the balancing procedures described in this book. There are several alternative methods for activating the Kabbalistic patterns in the body.

For instance, each hand mudra correlates with a specific Hebrew or Sanskrit word. Many of the mudras correlate with specific biochemical substances or places you can touch on the body. If you find the mudras confusing or difficult, do not despair. You do not need to be a finger contortionist to learn these methods.

Looking at the pictures of the hand signs works as well as placing them into the hands. If you have difficulty making a certain mudra and you are unsure of how to pronounce its corresponding word, then just look at the picture of it. This will have the same effect as if you had placed the mudra in your own hands.

What the Hand Signs Do

Although I initially learned the hand signs through research into my own system, I soon found that when they worked in me, they would also work in everyone else.

The hand signs presented here focus the nervous system on different energetic levels or states of awareness. Most of these levels are beyond normal waking consciousness, although the mudras themselves do not necessarily cause a conscious shift in consciousness.

They cause the body or nervous system to resonate, for a moment, to that level. If you have the sensitivity and are able to shift your state of awareness, then the mudras will take you there. For most of us, they just cause the physical system to resonate to that consciousness so that a healing process can occur.

You must understand that working with the hand signs and the balancing procedures will cause changes. You might feel spacey or suddenly hungry as you experiment with them. Do not be surprised if emotional issues begin to surface or if new insights come to you as the result of placing your fingers in different positions.

The mudras are powerful, especially when used with the proper visual focal and when used at the right time. Therefore, anyone with psychological or physical problems, or anyone using mind-altering drugs or psychoactive medications, must not use these methods without supervision by a qualified therapist.

The Human Form and the Tree of Life
by Dr. Dale Schusterman

The Tree of Life symbol encapsulates many principles of the Kabbalah. It consists of 10 Sefiroth, or spheres of energy and consciousness, which are connected by 22 gates or pathways. It is a tool of great significance, because it is a template for the structure and function of the soul. The body and mind are also built on this same template. The Sign Language of the Soul procedures enable you to activate, in the body, all of the pathways on the Tree of Life.

The following sections, excerpted from the book, show how the symbology of the Tree relates to the human form.

10

“There are Ten Intangible Sefiroth, the number of the ten fingers, five opposite.¹”

The 10 fingers (toes) represent the 10 Sefiroth, the energy centers of the Tree of Life. They also correlate with the 10 openings in the body. Seven are in the head (two eyes, two nostrils, two ears, and the mouth), plus the anus, the penis/vulva, and the umbilicus (closes at birth). The locations of the Sefiroth around the body are shown below.

22

The number 22 is a special number in the Kabbalah. Twenty-two pathways on the Tree of Life connect the various Sefiroth. These pathways correspond with the letters in the Hebrew alphabet. In the body, there are 22 individual bones in the skull. There are also 20 amino acids and 2 stop signals coded by the DNA and these also correlate with the Hebrew letters.

26

Five of the 33 embryonic spinal segments eventually fuse together to form the sacrum, and four segments fuse to become the coccyx. This leaves the spine with 26 individual bones:

• 7 cervical vertebrae
• 12 thoracic vertebrae
• 5 lumbar vertebrae
• Sacrum
• Coccyx

There are also 26 acupuncture meridians, when we include both sides and the midline meridians. The number 26 is one of the most important in the Kabbalah, as it is the numerical value of the Tetragrammaton, the four-letter name of God, YHVH (Y=10, H=5, V=6, H=5). In addition, it is the sum of the numbers of the four central Sefiroth of the Tree of Life (1+6+9+10=26). Therefore, the sum of the central column Sefiroth, which resides over the spine, equals the number of bones in the spine.

32

The 32 pathways on the Tree of Life consist of the 10 Sefiroth and the 22 gates or pathways that connect them. In the human body, there are 32 bones in each extremity. A special Tree exists in the mouth where there are 32 teeth (in the adult).

The Pattern of 64
by Dr. Dale Schusterman

DNA

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick developed the three-dimensional model of the genetic code (for which they received the Nobel Prize in 1962).  They found that genetic material is a biochemical code that created a double helix formation. This double helix is like a spiral staircase. The horizontal steps of the ladder carry the unique genetic material. The rungs on the helix ladder spell out the DNA code.

Four different nucleotide bases (A, T, G, or C) are found on the rungs of this ladder. Since the nucleotides code for 20 amino acids, a sequence of at least three bases is required. A double sequence would only provide 4x4, or 16, possibilities, which is not enough. A triple sequence provides 4x4x4, or 64, possibilities, which is more than enough. Therefore, there are 64 unique codes in DNA.

I Ching

The I Ching, the Chinese book of philosophy, describes the movements of the two basic members of polarity, yang and yin, as they develop and interact with each other in the formation of the world, consciousness, and human experience. 

It is a binary system just like a computer as it is possible to reduce any image on a computer to its basic yin/yang or 0/1 units. The I Ching is a philosophical computer, a psychological abacus. It starts with pure duality, a solid or dashed line, yang or yin. Then it adds another line of either polarity to show how the two basic forces can change into each other.

There are four basic states of yin and yang as they move and interact with each other. The I Ching studies 6 permutations of yang and yin, . which results in 2⁶ or 64 different arrangements of yang and yin

Kabbalah

Although the Kabbalah is clear that God cannot be named, the four-letter Name ascribed to Him/Her is YHVH. These four letters have great significance in describing the attributes of the Tree of Life. It is interesting that these four letters directly correlate with the four nucleotides of DNA and the four states of yang and yin.

These three different systems, two philosophical and one biochemical, exactly mirror each other. Furthermore, there are four hand signs that equate to these four basic building blocks of biology/consciousness. The mudras enable us to activate this universal pattern within the nervous system of the body.