My Journey with Integrated Energy Therapy

Last weekend, I went to Richmond, Virginia to complete my Master-Instructor training with Karen Puglia in Integrated Energy Therapy (TM), a modality developed by Stevan Thayer. I can now teach six classes:

• IET Basic
• IET Intermediate
• IET Advanced
• IET for Pets
• IET for Kids
• Angels of the Energy Field

I started my journey with IET with Diane Shewmaker, my teacher for the Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Angels classes. IET restricts its Master-Instructors from offering its Master-Instructor course to a very few, only three at the moment worldwide, including the developer of the system.

IET is billed as a successor system to Reiki, but my reasons for taking it were mostly about the concept of the emotional connection to the physical and energetic body. In the IET system, various emotional points or cellular memory areas or maps, are held throughout the body, running from the head to the feet.

The crown center is said to hold the emotion of guilt.
The forehead center is said to hold the emotion of distrust.
The back of neck region is said to hold threat.
The shoulders are said to hold the "shoulds" from the men and women (starting with Dad and Mom) in our lives.
The heart center is said to hold heartache.
The throat and lungs are said to hold shame.
The upper abdomen is said to hold anger and resentment.
The lower abdomen is said to hold stress and powerlessness.
The lower back and legs are said to hold fear.

In IET, we ask a group of nine angels to assist us in imprinting new energies to replace the energies of the negative emotions above. We do this with hand positions somewhat similar to Western Reiki, but also with energy points on the back and pulling out negative energies through the auric field.

I continue to love learning new things, but I am finding some definite synergies between IET and Chinese Medicine in how they work with the body. I do think they vary a bit around the abdomen, however.

In Chinese Medicine,

The Liver meridian is about Anger.
The Heart meridian is about Joy.
The Spleen meridian is about Worry.
The Lung meridian is about Sadness.
The Kidney meridian is about Fear.

Most of these compare similarly to the IET with only the Spleen meridian varying. In IET, that area is said to hold resentment. If you think of it being more internal to external, then worry and resentment are both internal processes.

I will begin teaching IET classes starting in May 2009. Diane Shewmaker is offering the classes once again starting with the IET Basic on February 28, 2009. You can find out more information by clicking on the name of this article above or going to http://www.reikicenter.info/new.htm#iet.