S2E12: PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Jill Blakeway

In this Backstage Pass preview, we share a new Ask Me Anything episode, with Jill Blakeway who returns after her appearances in our Energy Medicine episodes from Season Two. Jill answers all of the questions you wrote in about energy healing, acupuncture, trauma stored in the body, chronic illness, fertility, and mental health. She also addresses scientific skepticism, explains where energy medicine can be helpful, and speaks candidly about its limits. To hear our episodes ad-free and access bonus content and all AMAs, subscribe to The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass at www.thetelepathytapes.supercast.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:30Ky Dickens?

  Today, we welcome back Jill Blakeway, the acupuncturist and energy healer featured in Episodes 8 and 9 of The Telepathy Tape, Season 2. Jill is excited to answer all the questions you submitted to her about her work, and acupuncture, and Chinese medicine, and so much more. Thank you so much to the Backstage Pass listeners for writing in, and thank you to Jill for taking the time to answer each of your questions with so much thoughtfulness and gratitude. Here's Jill.

• 0:52Speaker 02

  Hi, I'm Jill Blakeway. I'm an acupuncturist and author, and I was featured in the Energy Medicine episodes of The Telepathy Tapes. And I know people had a lot of questions, and I'm really happy to answer them. So we're going to take this time to answer some of the things that came up for you when you listened to those episodes. So our first question is, hi Jill, thank you for being on the podcast. What daily practice would you recommend for each of us to stay in coherence to promote our own health and healing? Daily practices, I don't have many. I adhere to that no dogma, have fun kind of way of seeing this. So I don't have a very rigid thing at all.

• 1:35Speaker 02

  What I do is, before I start clinic, I get into a flow. And I start by saying yes to the day, saying yes to anything in the day that is going to be a curve ball. Yes, yes, yes, there will be curve balls. I get a yes to my cup of coffee, a yes to the dogs, my husband, and the trees. And then I carry that yes with me, that kind of openness with me into the clinic. And then, before I start work, I ground myself. I very much feel my feet on the floor. Sometimes I even imagine putting a great big anchor chain down into the center of the earth. I get myself very in my body. And then I, after that, I just do my thing and have fun and I, I don't overthink

• 2:19Speaker 02

  it. So I don't, I don't think this is as complicated as people think it is. I think this is our birthright. I think we can all heal each other. I think that's what, you know, when, if, if you're a mum, you will remember your little one falling over, scraping their knee, and you kiss their knee and they're instantly much better. They stop crying. That's a form of energy medicine, I think. It's not a, it's not a very complicated one. We could all do it, but it is a form of energy medicine. It's a prompt to self-healing. And it, it may well be placebo, but as I said in the episode, placebo is also a form of energy medicine. It's a prompt to coherence. And so I don't overthink it. This person says, "In looking at the reviews of Jill's book, there are a number of reports

• 3:04Speaker 02

  of her citing scientific studies that have been debunked. A few examples, the EEG twin study, where separated twins could have their brainwaves altered simultaneously when only one was exposed to a stimuli, proving that there's a invisible unifying energy between twins that transcends space and time. Only two out of 13 groups had this effect, and even the scientists writing the study concluded the results should not be taken as conclusive evidence of anything. The Pair Institute study, showing people with positive attitude or intentions could have a very small effect on the outcome of what is essentially a coin-flipping computer, look up Pair Institute on Wikipedia and find that all of their studies

• 3:48Speaker 02

  have been heavily criticized for bad practices, lack of documentation, and results that could not be reproduced by other labs. I want to take her seriously, but can she respond to any of the responses to her claims? Thank you." Well, thank you, actually. Very good question. And I think it's very important to be skeptical. In fact, a sort of open skepticism is a very important thing.

• 4:12Ky Dickens?

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