Some doctors perform needed energy healing themselves. Robert Jaffe, M.D., of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, says that he began to see auras and energy fields when he was in medical school. "I was in my third year and a teacher asked us to diagnose patients after giving us only a few hints about their conditions," says Dr. Jaffe. "I looked at a patient and heard the word, 'pancreatitis.' I told my teacher and his mouth dropped open."
Today, at his School of Energy Mastery, headquartered in Sedona, Arizona, Dr. Jaffe, his wife, Birgitta, a hypnotherapist, and his staff teach skills such as energy healing, self-healing, and clairvoyant diagnosis, where a practitioner intuits a patient's illness without prior information or diagnostic tests to help. "The fundamental teaching is that disease comes as a friend and teacher," says Jaffe. "You can cut it out, burn it out, medicate it, palliate it, but it will still be there in some form, until you get the teaching within the disease." One former student, now on Dr. Jaffe's faculty, is John Laird, M.D. "My world view was shattered every day for the first six weeks of training," says Dr. Laird. "We were being taught to tap into parts of ourselves that knew things we just couldn't explain rationally." Now Dr. Laird has added clairvoyant diagnosis and energy healing to his blend of conventional and alternative treatments. One of Dr. Laird's more remarkable experiences occurred during Dr. Jaffe's class in Italy. A student who was a Viennese holistic physician decided to give birth in front of the class, attended by Drs. Laird and Jaffe and a midwife. "At one point as she was progressing in her labor she experienced sharp pain in a scar from a previous cesarean section." says Dr. Laird. "I looked energetically at the scar, and discovered that she was carrying resentment toward her husband from a previous birth. Initially, he'd been given the baby to hold, and she'd wanted to hold her newborn. She felt ignored. I asked her to forgive her husband, to release the resentment. She did and the pain vanished and her labor progressed."
