Legal Guidelines for Clients/Patients and Therapists

Part 1 Guidelines for Clients/Patients

Before going to the section of “Guidelines for the Therapist” I want to add here some “Guidelines for the Client”:
First I have never seen guidelines for clients on “How to make an informed health care choice”, I have seen only many cases where clients complained about the unsuccessful treatment they got, never even considering their part in the failure:

1. We live in a culture where doctors have been stylized with the aura of gods, which means entities that always know what is good for the people that ask for help from them. This has turned the majority of their patients into sheep that give up their natural right and ability to question the procedures that are done with them.
2. Its so easy to take a passive position, whereas it would take courage and effort to investigate and to attempt to see the different options rather than to blame afterwards if thing went not as expected.
3. Disease is not an error of nature as some assume, but it is an opportunity to grow not only in ones ability to endure hardship and pain but much more to raise above it and to make us of it to become more self-dependent. One aspect of this is to gather the courage to see that there is no external “FIX” that will do it, but only help and impulses from outside to assist the self healing…. This change of attitude is in many cases itself the necessary requirement if not even the cause for recovery.
4. Please understand that illness is a way of nature to tell you to look at your current life and see what has become stuck, what might have been appropriate in another phase of your life but which is no longer useful or even detrimental to your further ability to grow and to be alive.
5. Look at how your therapist (conventional or otherwise) is treating you, is he giving you time to explain yourself just apart from the symptoms, is he able to remember your last visit or maybe not even your name, is he more interested in what other specialists have told you about your condition than what you feel yourself ?
6. Is he giving you a remedy for your symptom or pain that is bothering you or is he looking for a remedy for the whole person that is you. Understand that in order to decide whether the practitioner you consult is in fact a holistic practitioner does not show simply from the tools he is using. Prescribing only natural herbs rather than artificial drugs does not make one holistic not does the use of biofeedback, Rife or other equipment. Every tool can be used just looking to fix the symptoms, which is certainly not holistic, or instead to find a way to resonate to your whole being in order to supply the appropriate impulse to facilitate self-healing.
7. Also be aware of practitioners who want to impress you with words….. be it via countless documents of certifications on the walls or the use of terminology that you cannot understand either to name the disease you should have or the methods or devices they are using. Be aware of terms that nobody can explain to you like Quantum, Xrroid, Consciousness Interface, Tachions, Scalar waves, Psi-field, Zero-energy field. Morphons, Teta or Orgon energy and so on.
8. Don’t give in to the temptation of being a sheep, that is depending on believe alone in a superior knowledge, get out of the co-dependency network of patients-doctors and lawyers and breath the fresh air of freedom that the United States particularly and every human being was originally intended to be “The land of the brave and the free.”
9. Check out our Information for Clients

Part 2 Guidelines for Therapists

HERE is how to answer some of the most common questions from your client:

General note: Many clients with medical issues are conditioned to ask dualistic questions that seem like they require 'yes or no' answers because that's how they've been conditioned to perceive what they 'have'. Responding with information or education vs giving them inaccurate 'dualistic yes or no' answers that don't apply to our services or scope, will help keep your services clear.

1. Can Biofeedback help my xyz condition or disease?
Addressing stress from multiple causes with biofeedback has helped of people manage their own internal energy levels better, including the body's ability to heal itself, despite that Inergetix CoRe does not 'treat disease' directly."

Many clients, NOT ALL, have 'reported' , have derived satisfaction and improved their own energy levels from biofeedback stress management (which they've probably heard from a friend or associate), which is not a promise to cure or help anything.

2. And remember : “The client decides if what you are doing is helping them or not, NOT YOU.”
Biofeedback specialists don't cure anything, but the body can repair itself. An accurate educational response might be: "biofeedback stress management, pain control, brain wave training and muscle re-education and operate under the medical 'cure' model, in that they are not considered treatments for disease. If anything, relaxation, biofeedback and stress management are more associated with wellness enhancement which is completely different. Reducing your stress can enhance your body's innate wellness maintenance abilities to heal itself, however stress is certainly involved in many cases of disease, but, I'm not a doctor and don't practice medicine; I offer biofeedback stress management, and reducing stress may help you heal yourself."

3. Are you a doctor?
No, I am a biofeedback specialist (along with any other titles you may legitimately hold).

We would not say this and the biofeedback specialist title is bogus, it has no merit or meaning. I would simply answer no. Gwen has a waiver that client's sign acknowledging that you are not a doctor and not trying to replace their medical care.

4. Does the conventional practice of 'medicine' recognize biofeedback as valid?
"There are medical doctors who have enthusiastically incorporated biofeedback into their practices for a number of reasons, but traditional medicine itself only recognizes what medical doctors exclusively have been trained to administer and 'stress management' and biofeedback are not recognized as a conventional western medical treatment." "Personal lifestyle factors and choices like quantum biofeedback can be considered as individual preference or personal responsibility, for maintaining wellbeing and are not believed to interfere with medical treatments, which you can always confirm with your doctor."

*** The main point is that you did not promise anything, you did not dissuade them from seeking medical attention and you did not portray yourself as a person with a medical or psychological license to treat diseases or conditions but stated the fact that there are MDs who use biofeedback in their offices, which might be the validation the person is looking for.

5. Should I do this (or see you) instead of seeing a doctor?
This question has ethical considerations:
The person does not necessarily have to make a choice between 2 different modalities:
again, it's advisable to avoid responding in the 'yes/no' nature that the question was asked and instead, explain that: "I would never suggest that anyone not seek standard medical attention; exploring all of your options on anything allows you to make the best decisions for yourself... however if you decide to do both, biofeedback is not believed to interfere with medical treatment with your doctor.”

*** We must never professionally dissuade a client from seeking medical opinion or treatment.

Biofeedback Specialists work with their client’s choices as well as educating them about managing stress and lifestyle choices.

6. Are there medical doctors that use biofeedback?
If your client has medical issues they choose to directly focus on and would still prefer to seek stress management through a medical doctor because of their beliefs and comfort levels, then you can and should help them find one who actually provides these additional services within the scope of their practice.

If complementary and alternative approaches to certain diseases and conditions are not your area of education and expertise, then you shouldn’t represent that they are and stay within the context of stress and pain management, muscle re-education and brain wave training for general self improvement and relaxation training.

*** Seize the opportunity to ask questions such as “how did you hear about biofeedback?”

7. Confirm the clients own examples
If they tell you that “somebody they know (perhaps one of your clients) had great results with it”, highlight that and explain (without acknowledging or affirming the actual name or identity of your client) that with biofeedback we usually ask for a number of sessions before the client evaluates whether it is assisting them or not. This is a program of training that helps the client build their own results and although we have seen clients create immediate, fast relief for some types of stress, pain and discomfort, we’ve also seen more steadily progressive results in others. Some clients do not make the lifestyle changes that support the potentially good results from biofeedback training and get little to no benefit. The clients who get the greatest level of satisfaction from biofeedback are pro-active in reducing their lifestyle stresses and partaking in healthier choices”

Some notes on Terminology:

Definition: License
Government granted permission to perform an activity such as practicing medicine. For many occupations, a license is mandatory before practicing in the occupation. Examples: medical doctor, psychotherapists, chiropractors, dentists, veterinarians, and in some states the following: naturopathic medical doctor, homeopathic medical doctor, licensed nurse practitioner

Definition: Certification
A certification is a statement or recognition granted from a private organization that one has completed a course of study, passed an examination or other criteria. It is not a license to practice. The purpose of certification is to set standards within a field, educate, and provide more information to the public.

Words to Avoid:
cure, diagnose, prescribe, treat, therapy, disease, specific condition or disease words, heal, patient.

Words to use with caution:
Always watching the context within which they are used:
restore, help, alleviate, improve, correct, balance, assess, check, determine, recommend, suggest, options, propose, handle, work with, imbalance.

Occupational Titles to Avoid (if you are unlicensed):
doctor, psychologist, therapist, etc.

Occupational Titles to be very careful with:
naturopath, nutritionist

Occupational Titles that may be safer:
consultant, coach, educator, healer