News - Energy Therapy to Treat Cancer
Monday 10 March, 2003
by Michelle McGinty from Edinburgh Evening News
CLAIMING to have enabled terminal cancer sufferers to cure themselves is a bold statement for any alternative therapist to make, even in this enlightened day and age.
But a therapist working in Edinburgh says she has done just that, and it’s all to do with quantum physics.
Zoe Alexander certainly does not claim to be a healer who can, as if by magic, rid someone of an illness, but she is a practitioner of bi-aura therapy, which claims that everyone’s body has the right ingredients to heal itself if it is working properly. And it says the way to ensure the body works properly is to use our natural electromagnetic fields to remove "blockages" and get ourselves "vibrating" at the correct rate.
Using this form of "energy medicine", she says she can put someone back on the road to health from a huge range of problems ranging from cancer to the stress we all feel during a working day.
Quantum physics isn’t something you necessarily expect to be discussing over the therapy bed at the new Holmes Place fitness centre in Edinburgh, but 30-year-old Zoe explains that this is at the heart of what she does.
"Our bodies are made up of more than three trillion cells. For every one of these cells to exist there has to be an electrical impulse which in turn creates energy. If you add all that up then you have a body with a very powerful electromagnetic field.
"What I do with bi-aura therapy is scan that energy and then use it to free up areas which I can feel are blocked to help the body reach its full potential, which then allows it to start curing itself.
"Once you have reached the right level of energy flow it is actually very difficult to get ill."
She adds: "Everything is a matter of energy vibrations. People who are sick or distressed are usually vibrating at a lower rate. By removing the blockages the energy flow increases and once that’s at a certain rate the body is correctly balanced and can start to renew itself efficiently."
It all sounds like a cross between a physics and biology class, but the way Zoe physically carries out this 5000-year-old therapy makes the whole process clearer. Standing in front of me, she waves her hands an awful lot, close to my body but not hitting me. Having told me to keep my eyes closed all I could feel was the draught as her hands sped past. But what Zoe says she could feel by "scanning" me with her hands was my energy field, and where blockages might be causing me problems. According to scientists, 30 per cent of our energy field is just outside the body, and it’s this Zoe is studying.
I have to say I was sceptical, but when she said she had felt a lot of energy leave my nose, of all places, and asked had I just got over a cold I had to agree. She also detected a blockage in my arm, and this time actually touched me. I began to feel my hand tingle as she said energy was beginning to flow out of it. The strangest thing for me though was how relaxing it was to stand while she worked - I could imagine almost falling asleep on my feet.
Bi-aura therapy has come to the UK from Yugoslavia but originates from an energy medicine which is centuries old and described as the pre-cursor to Tai Chi, as it uses the same philosophy of self-help. Those practising it now say it has helped people with everything from allergies to autism to depression, as well as those with cancer. It is aimed at all aspects of a person and can work to solve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual problems.
Zoe says: "I’ve had some amazing results. Some people see instant results while others take longer but there is nothing more fulfiling that helping someone allow their body to cure themselves of an illness and then to help them build up their self-esteem and so their all-round health, it’s incredible.
"Of course, there are sceptics and I refuse to treat someone if they don’t believe they can get better at the outset. Even my dad took six months to come round to what I was doing. He had golfer’s elbow and refused to let me near it. But eventually he relented and now he’s back on the golf course."
She adds: "Before I start to treat someone I try and find out as much as I can about what might be causing their symptoms. If that person then believes there is a possibility that these could be cured I start to treat them. But I keep a clear mind then, because often I will find blockages unrelated to what we were talking about but which need to be released before going any further."
Zoe herself comes from a scientific background having worked in the pharmaceutical industry before turning to alternative therapy.
"I have always been interested in the body’s ability to regenerate itself," she says. "And I don’t think that conflicts with science. Orthodox medicine uses our energy fields during MRI and CAT scans, all we do is extend that and use the field to help cure an illness, not just diagnose it."
One of the attractive elements of this treatment is its non-invasiveness. You don’t have to undress, you’re not covered in sticky oils and there’s no waiting for the bone-cracking bit which can spoil the experience of going to an osteopath, for instance. It’s also suitable for anyone from children to elderly people, and even animals can benefit.
Therapists also run workshops for corporate clients aimed at helping them increase the productivity of staff by improving self-confidence, reducing stress and its symptoms, and reducing sick leave by helping people with common ailments such as digestive problems, asthma, injuries or menstrual pain.
Whatever your views of alternative therapy and its ability to help cure serious illness, it is certainly thought provoking to wonder whether all those little cells quivering in your body are working properly.
If you’re curious to know then a trip to Zoe could be worth it.
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