Throughout my career, I assisted families and children who came from unfortunate, abusive and neglectful situations. I helped them find more suitable circumstances to relieve them from violence, neglect and stress. I would help them break the harmful cycles they would find themselves in. After receiving my master’s degree in rehab counseling, I began work for the Vocational Rehabilitation Office to assist those with disabilities to find ways to improve their living, education and employment situations. For most clients in public agencies, there is a protocol regiment of Medication Management and Mandatory Counseling. As I reflected on this regiment for my clients over the past 25 years, I was disillusioned and frustrated that this was the only source of treatment or help for those individuals in need. In most cases, this treatment plan did not fix the problems and the protocol seemed to last for years in order to make any kind of difference. Clients had to be vigilant and determined for many years in order to make changes in their lives and circumstances. Unfortunately, within the counseling and medication centers the employee turnover was very high. The consistency of treatment/services were always being interrupted and the client would have to start from the beginning of their story each time. Sometimes retelling of the “story” was so traumatic that it seemed that the client would get stuck in the trauma and never move past it. I have a firm belief that people want to do well in their lives and they do the best they can. I also believe traumatic or stressful events in our lives causes us to get stuck to some extent, not allowing us to live to our full potential. One day a few of my co-workers were gathered at the water cooler talking. Katie was telling them about a treatment program she had found to help her son. Katie adopted a special needs child, Ethan. Ethan was diagnosed with Autism. He would have loud out-bursts (he did not have a volume dial), he was clumsy, forgetful, socially awkward, and had learning problems. But he is also a joy to be around, and a happy young man who loves to be teased. Ethan attended the middle school across the street from our office and each day after school he would come to the office so his mother could take him to the baby sitter. We all knew when it was 3:30 p.m. because Ethan would come blasting into the building, with his arms full of school work, losing papers as he went and banging into walls, furniture and people as he progressed down the hall to his mother’s office. If his physical presence was not noticed, you would definitely hear his booming voice. It was a daily spectacle. Katie was worried about Ethan at school because he was struggling with his education and getting into trouble because he would not stay on task. I joined the group at the water cooler and learned that the middle school recommended that Ethan start taking medication to settle him down. Katie did not want to put Ethan on medication so she began a search for a drug free solution to treat Autism. She came across the Crossinology Brain Integration website and was impressed with it. She called many of the practitioners listed on the website and ask them questions about the process, treatment and outcomes. She was convinced this was what Ethan needed. Ethan had an appointment that Friday. The next Monday, Ethan came to the office promptly at 3:30. What an amazing difference!!! He quietly entered the room, greeted each adult in a polite, quite manner. He walked quietly to his mother’s office and began telling her about his day. He had his homework neatly packed away in his backpack and pulled it out to show her what was expected. He was easier to have a conversation with. I asked him a few questions about his day, the brain integration, and what he was planning for the next weekend. He was able to answer these simple questions without hesitation (something he had never done). I wanted to know more. Katie gave me the website and phone number to the practitioner that she went through. I dove into the information, and I read every word on the website but still wanted to know more. I ordered the books Susan McCrossin recommended for her practitioners, but I wanted to find out more. Katie said it had made such a difference in Ethan that she was going to get the treatment herself and invited me to go see what the process was like. At this point I wanted to experience this for myself, so I called her practitioner to see if he could fit me in and I booked the opening he had. I struggled in school. Even though I was able to maintain a strong B average throughout school and obtain a Master’s degree, I had to work three times as hard as other students. I was lacking in my memory, and I also had processing difficulties. I knew the information in my head but I was not able to get them out of my mouth when asked a question or when I would do a presentation. I did not dwell on these issues, and I thought it was just the way I was. At the time I talked to Katie about brain integration, I was struggling at work with high caseloads, deadlines, paperwork, shortage of staff, and my own expectations of doing a good job. I was feeling overwhelmed with work and its expectations. I was working about 60-70 hours a week, trying to keep up and I still felt like I was drowning. From the time I was born I have had Asthma and during this time period I could not keep it under control with medication. I had two trips to the hospital for treatments and was taking medication regularly to help me breath. I met with the practitioner, Trevor Olsen, in January 2014. He explained that when we are five-years-old or younger and we experience stress, the brain does not know what to do with the stress. Our young brains send it to the subconscious and from there it is stuffed in an unused (at the time) part of the brain, just to get it out of the way where we don’t have to think about it anymore. But what it really does is cause a blockage in that part of the brain and then when a child starts to learn in school, this part of the brain passage way is inaccessible to transport and process information. Learning has to take alternate routes to get to the processing center, and if there are significant blockages the information takes longer to get where it needs to go and it takes time to move to the conscious mind where it can be used. These blockages can delay, confuse, or bounce around in the head. Therefore, a person with blockages can appear to be less intelligent than other students. Trevor also said that stressors that happen after the age of five are also stored, but they are stored in other body parts and they appear as migraines, back pain, asthma, and a whole variety of ailments. I asked him what role genetics play in ailments because usually families will have the same tendency towards a certain ailment. Trevor indicated that there was a genetic component, that we are predisposed to put the stress in the same area’s as the family in our history, but all ailments/disease have an emotional grounding. This information was consistent with what I learned from the Crossinology.com web page and Susan McCrossin’s literature. A study of Eastern medicine, where Crossinology was born, focuses on the person as a whole with the universe and keeping in balance with the energy around us. When a person is out of balance, caused by stress/trauma, that person will develop illness, ailments or diseases. When the blockages are cleared through the body’s natural electrical pulse, it allows for healing and a return to balance. In the case of learning difficulties, the balance allows the opening of brain passages that already existed but were blocked by stress/trauma. A person can then begin to use those parts of the brain that were previously not available. The learning disabilities disappear! Western medicine focused on using drugs or surgery to treat ailments and in today’s society they are a well-accepted way to take care of health issues. Drug companies, pharmacies and surgical clinics are multi-million dollar companies who control insurance companies, political policy and advertising in order to continue their services. What if there was a better, holistic way to be healthy, without the dependence on substances? Western medicine has its place, but I believe we are overly dependent on it. Getting back to my balance with Trevor. He used the Chinese meridian points (these are the same points an Acupuncturist places the needles in Acupuncture) by touching them in a specific order with his fingers. He used hand signals or Mudra’s from Japanese culture to communicate to the body what area of the brain he was working on. He then he used muscle testing from Kinesiology to find out areas of my brain that had blockages. When he discovered a blocked pathway, he would put two fingers and a thumb on my forehead and his other hand on the back of my head and wait till he could feel a pulse. The pulse indicated that his natural electrical pulse had been projected to my brain where the blockage existed, but was now cleared. After he cleared the blockages in my brain, he did a balance on my emotions by using the same process. He discovered that three months before I was born, my grandmother died. It was a great sorrow to my mother, and to me the unborn baby. As a result, I was born with Asthma. Trevor balanced that stress for me, as well as the stress with work. I started noticing changes in my brain function right away. I was able to remember things after—I read them only once. I had to take my written driving test and I planned a three-day weekend to study for the test because I was used to working that hard for an exam. To my surprise, I read through the material once and knew the information.
