After publishing my previous piece on working with 
rheumatoid arthritis, I realized that it was missing a 
crucial piece. Because I left out this crucial piece the 
first time I used the TH & SP sedating and strengthening 
points, what at first seemed like a spectacular success 
fizzled out into a bewildering failure.  
 
Tom (pseudonym, of course!) was a prosperous semi-retired 
business owner who looked to be in his mid-sixties. He 
suffered constant pain from a rare form of rheumatoid 
arthritis. He came to me because he wanted some relief from 
the pain. He was on a very powerful pain medication; he 
explained that it was so toxic that once a year he had to 
travel to Johns Hopkins University to have his liver tested 
to make sure the medication wasn't inflicting too much 
damage on it. (I noticed the peculiar sense of pride in his 
tone when he said this, but let my attention slide over 
it.) 
 
After our first session together, a mix of Jin Shin Jyutsu® 
and shiatsu, Tom commented that he had seen beautiful 
colors and felt absolutely blissful. However, as he got up, 
he was obviously still in tremendous pain. I asked him 
whether he felt any lessening of his pain at all; he said 
he did not, but that it had nevertheless been a wonderful 
session and he was looking forward to another appointment. 
 
People often won't feel the effects for a day or so, so the 
following week I asked him if he'd felt any better during 
the week. He hadn't. Once again he'd experienced another 
blissful session – but no cessation of pain. He made 
another appointment. Continuing pain or no, he was content 
with his hour of bliss – BUT I WAS NOT!  
 
When I got home, I started poring through my books, trying 
to figure out something to try that I hadn't thought of 
yet. I had recently bought Donna Eden's "Energy Medicine," 
and for the first time read her ideas about using Triple 
Heater and Spleen points in autoimmune disorders. I was 
eager to try out her ideas during my next session with Tom. 
 
I used the new technique the next time I saw him. In 
addition to his usual sense of bliss, he reported that he 
did seem to feel somewhat less pain. I was quite excited to 
notice that he got off the table with significantly more 
ease.  
 
When he came in for his fourth session incorporating the 
new technique, he said that he felt pain-free for the first 
time in five years. I was thrilled! He told me he was going 
to have to skip his next session because it was time for 
his yearly pilgrimage to Johns Hopkins to have his liver 
examined. When he returned a couple of weeks later, we 
resumed. 
 
Later that week, he called me to confess that he'd secretly 
suspected that the reason his pain had vanished was because 
the medication he was taking had finally kicked in. But not 
having been able to come for a couple of weeks, the pain 
had returned. After getting a session upon his return, the 
pain had vanished once again, so now he knew for sure that 
it was the energywork that was doing the trick. 
 
Now is where it gets really interesting. The following 
week, he was a no-show. Very unusual behavior for Tom! When 
I called to reschedule, he apologized, saying he'd just 
gotten too busy, and maybe he could come the following 
week. He would call me - he was just too busy this week. It 
turned out he was just too busy the next week, too. He 
would call me when he had some time. Several weeks later, I 
gave him a call, saying I hoped that the reason he wasn't 
coming any longer was because he was still pain-free. No, 
he said, he was in bad pain again, but he was just soooo 
busy!  
 
I reminded him that I'd written directions for doing the 
sedating and strengthening points so his wife could hold 
them for him, and that might be sufficient to keep the pain 
at bay. Well, actually, she was pretty busy, too. No, she 
really didn't have time for all that. He'd give me a call.  
 
 
I never heard from him again. 
 
To put this in context: being wealthy and semi-retired, he 
could easily afford the sessions, and for nearly two months 
had seemed to have all the time in the world. His wife did 
not work at all. It struck me that when my efforts had been 
making no impact on his pain whatsoever, he happily made 
time to see me. Once he knew definitively that the work I 
was doing really could get rid of the pain, he suddenly 
could not find the time to come, and he and his wife could 
not find the time to work on his pain 25 minutes a day once 
or twice a week. 
 
I was bewildered. At the time, I eventually just chalked it 
up to his not wanting to give up the special status he felt 
– hey! Tom had to make a yearly Pilgrimage to the 
prestigious Johns Hopkins to get his liver checked out 
because of his thrillingly toxic experimental pain 
medication that didn't work!  
 
But looking back, I realize it may very well have been 
because our work was incomplete. I know now that rheumatoid 
arthritis is often involved with great stress of some kind. 
I now consider an essential aspect of working with a person 
with this sort of challenge to be the question, "Right 
here, right now, where in your body are you feeling 
stress?"* And I then proceed to run energy into that area. 
The last time I worked with a person with rheumatoid 
arthritis, I found that some of the biggest releases of 
blocked energy occurred at this point in the session. 
 
I wonder now – if I had asked this question of Tom, might 
the blocked emotional energy involved have begun moving to 
the surface?  
 
Who knows? Maybe he just couldn't give up his yearly 
pilgrimage to Johns Hopkins to monitor the toxicity of the 
apparently useless pain medication he was taking. The 
desire to get better is not always as straightforward as we 
might like it to be.  
 
But perhaps it was just a matter of going a little deeper. 
Perhaps if I'd known to ask him a simple question - "Where 
in your body do you feel the stress?" – and run some energy 
there, we could have stirred up the stuck energy a little 
more thoroughly. Maybe some of his conflicting "negative 
intentions" could have come to consciousness and be let go. 
And maybe he could have truly let go of his pain.  
 
I'll never know for sure. I'll just have to keep asking 
that question of my clients. And running energy. And paying 
attention to what happens. I'll let you know what I find 
out over time.  
 
And let me know what you find out, too! 

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*This wonderfully concise and powerful little question was 
provided by Jane Rees (a/k/a creativejani) through the Q-T 
message board. 
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