The Mickel Therapy Clinic, Auckland, Mickel Therapy - Frequently Asked Questions
Mickel Therapy - Frequently Asked Questions
Questions clients often ask before and during treatment
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People who have been ill for months or years have often already tried many therapies. When progress is not being made, scepticism and doubt to trying 'yet another therapy' may set in. I know this well, having tried over 130 different therapies in my search for healing. My recommendation to you is NEVER GIVE UP, you will find the answers you are looking for. On this page you will find an array of commonly asked questions I hope they will help to answer your questions, before and during your treatment. See also FAQs answered by Dr David Mickel in his Newsletter 'Vibrations of Truth'.
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What is Mickel Therapy?
Mickel Therapy is an holistic treatment for the body-mind and is not a form of psychotherapy. It is a specialised treatment that requires no medication, dietary change or use of supplements. Mickel Therapy proceeds by interpreting the nature of the symptoms from a body-mind perspective and showing the client how to apply techniques to prevent the body from having to send symptoms anymore.
An understanding of how disease is created through the subtle activity of emotional energy on our Hypothalamus has led to the development of Mickel Therapy. The Mickel Therapy Practitioner is a skillful and mindful educator who through interactive one on one consultations, will provide the valuable series of tools necessary for a person to become an expert in their own emotional energy management. This allows an individual to take back control over their health and maintain it thereafter.
Each consultation is designed to unravel an individual’s symptoms to reveal the primary emotional energy in their life today that is maintaining their cellular dysfunction. They are then coached in our techniques to facilitate the constructive flow of emotional energy in any situation that then rewires the relevant cells back to a healthy state
Is Mickel Therapy a form of psychotherapy?
No. Mickel Therapy is a body-mind healing process. This means that we work with physical symptoms in order to clear the messages that are linked to them. Unlike psychotherapy, we do not investigate thoughts in order to treat the mind. This makes sense since CFS/ME and FMA are physical illnesses and not psychological. In contrast to most forms of physical therapy we do not try to remove symptoms through massage, diet or drugs that merely 'shoot' the messenger. The key to the work is to teach clients how to work with their innate body intelligence to the degree that it is then allowed to stop sending symptoms.
How can I be sure Mickel Therapy will work?
Mickel Therapy can work fully in every case. One reason for this certainty is that clients are taught to apply the principles behind Mickel Therapy to themselves, thus placing the solution in their own hands. If the Mickel Therapy tools are used, results will happen.
It is strongly recommended that clients read the book 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ME and Fibromyalgia – The Long Awaited Cure' by Dr David Mickel before starting treatment. It is a short book written specifically for people who may have difficulty reading, low concentration levels etc. Reading the book before starting treatment will make the Mickel Therapy process easier.
What does Mickel Therapy treatment involve?
Mickel Therapy is an holistic treatment for the body-mind and is not a form of psychotherapy. It is a specialised treatment that requires no medication, dietary change or use of supplements. Mickel Therapy proceeds by interpreting the nature of the symptoms from a body-mind perspective and showing the client how to apply techniques to prevent the body from having to send symptoms anymore.
Once the message the body has been sending via the symptoms has been revealed, clients are asked to keep short notes that record when, where and how often any symptoms occur, in order to elicit more information and to ensure the appropriate action is being taken to prevent the need for the body to send further symptoms. This also enables client and therapist to monitor a reduction in symptoms and identify the required next steps.
Sessions consist of one to one consultations which last an hour. Sessions are arranged with a variable interval between them, the average interval being 1-2 weeks. Treatment length varies but about 80 of cases will be complete after 6-8 sessions while the other 20% will take longer.
What can I expect in my first session?
In your first session we will:
- Explain why the body creates symptoms such as irritable bowel, stress, insomnia, anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia
- Take a detailed case history to ascertain why YOUR body is creating symptoms
- Reveal the message that your body has been trying to communicate to you via symtpoms
- Give you the first set of tools to start coaching yourself back to health
What can I expect in follow up sessions?
During follow up sessions we will:
- Monitor your progress and make sure you are using the Mickel Therapy tools properly so that they are having the expected outcome
- Give you additional tools with which to help yourself as and when you need them
- Help you to get your life back on track
What if cannot travel to the clinic?
Sessions are available by phone /skype and are equally effective. Please contact Kim for more details
How are the conditions of ME, Fibromyalgia etc produced?
Mickel Therapy assumes that the body-mind is supremely intelligent. This intelligence seeks to protect the individual from unhealthy interactions with the environment. It uses symptoms, often experienced as physical illness, to communicate different needs to the individual.
I get depression, IBS, can Mickel Therapy help me?
Although Mickel Therapy has been designed specifically to treat the conditions of CFS/ME and Fibromyalgia, it is also very successful in treating other conditions from a body-mind perspective. These include:
Depression
Anxiety
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Insomnia
Stress
Can I have a family member join me in the sessions?
This has been shown to impede the treatment process and therefore it is necessary for the sessions to only involve the client and therapist. However we encourage parent involvement and attendance in cases of young people.
What happens in the first Mickel Therapy consultation session and will I feel a difference?
The first session involves information gathering by therapist and if necessary the client. You will then be shown by the therapist how the condition of 'Hypothalamitis' creates the symptoms. However the downloadable video on this makes it unnecessary if clients have watched it. This then allows the rest of the treatment to move towards interpreting and translating the message behind the symptoms. In some cases a difference can be experienced after the first session but normally this may take 2 or more sessions. Each case progresses at its own rate - but the final goal is the same, namely, a 'cure'.
Does the severity or length of illness affect your ability to treat successfully?
The length of illness does not affect the outcome. That is to say that we have treated people who have had the condition for as long as 45 years and they have had the same rate of recovery as someone who has suffered for a short period of time. People who are unable to attend sessions are not catered for to Mickel Therapy's satisfaction and Dr Mickel is hopeful to get funding for a residential unit for such cases.
Will I have to make dramatic life changes
This is rarely, if ever necessary, as all Mickel Therapists are trained to help avoid this. The only dramatic change should be readjusting to not having symptoms.
What are Emotions according to Mickel Therapy?
Emotions or what we refer to as ‘e-motions’ (energy-in-motion), are unfortunately very misrepresented in our culture. They are approached as the effects of our thinking and anything associated with them is labelled as ‘psychosomatic’, stress related, ‘all in your head’ and basically non-physical. This is incorrect and until the world wakes up to the true nature of ‘e-motions’ much physical suffering will continue to plague our lives.
E-motions are viewed as the result of mental or psychological problems. This is wrong. E-motions are created spontaneously and subconsciously by the ‘body’. They concentrate in the solar plexus and because they are merely energy they have immediate physical effect upon our cells, glands, organs and tissues. In this way they are able to create physical conditions.
The sole role of psychological influence on this is to then distort the information that e-motions bring from the ‘body intelligence’. For example if the ‘body’ creates the e-motion of frustration the head can alter this into ENORMOUS FRUSTRATION by psychological means. Psychological treatments therefore deal with this effect but unfortunately often lead to an attempt to deny the original e-motion sent by the body and therefore do no address the cause. Mickel Therapy works with the ‘body intelligence’ and involves no psychological approaches. This of course would explain why clients who have undergone Mickel Therapy claim it is successful in treating the physical conditions such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, M.E, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) to name but a few.
More latterly Dr Mickel's work has evolved to view 'body-mind' as a metaphorical explanation. His new book to be released in 2007 will explain this in more detail as he describes quantum theory and vibrational medicine.
What is 'The Body' according to Mickel Therapy?
Those of you who have read the book “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, M.E and Fibromyalgia – 'The Long Awaited Cure'” by Dr David Mickel will have some idea about what is meant by ‘The Body’ from a Mickel Therapy perspective. The following is to further help educate those of you dealing with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, M.E, Fibromyalgia or any of the other illnesses discussed throughout Mickel Therapy website.
There are many difficulties in explaining the existence of the ‘body’ intelligence and its function. This is due to the fact that current medical researchers have not yet ventured into this exciting area to any real extent. There are of course exceptions and one of these is the work done by Professor Antonio Damasio. Professor Damasio is a Neurologist and his studies into the neurophysiology of body intelligence and e-motions are very exciting. His book “The Feeling of What Happens” is an excellent example of the potential of Medicine to embrace the otherwise taboo subject of body intelligence.
In short, the ‘body’ is an intelligent part of us all. It is this intelligence that produces emotions and not our cognitive faculties as mainstream understanding suggests. As science starts to study humans from an energetic perspective it will start to realise that we are made of basically several layers of energetic field. The ‘body’ is one of these and is closely linked to our physical body (itself an energy field). It appears to concentrate itself in the solar plexus area. If we pay attention to this area we will realise that this is where our e-motions begin before spreading throughout our cells. This is discussed in Dr Mickel’s book as vibration.
This alteration in vibration is the root cause of the cellular disturbance that creates many of our ‘dis-eases’. Unfortunately Medicine currently spends much time and effort looking into the effects of this at cell level and therefore misses the important root cause – ‘body e-motion or ‘energy-in-motion’.
Mickel Therapy is designed to work with the body intelligence and the effects it has on cellular function. The client is shown how to apply this to Chronic fatigue Syndrome, M.E, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, De-pression, Anxiety, and many other physical conditions.
More questions answered by Dr Mickel from his
monthly ENewsletter 'Vibrations of Truth'
Contact the Chronic Fatigue Clinic
Phone 09 833 6553 / 021 410 633
(10-5pm weekdays)
or email info "at" mickeltherapy.co.nz