More about the Methods used by Sjoerd:
Talking to the Subconscious
In these sessions Sjoerd connects with your subconscious (body memory) to find out what your body has to 'say' about the problem(s)/challenges/ or dis-balances you are experiencing in your life. We will explain bellow how he contacts to 'it', but first more about how we define the Subconscious body memory:
The subconscious body memory as we see it, is the 'storage' or memory resulting from experiences in our life. Dr. Bruce Lipton has compared the subconscious to a classic 'Tape recorder': From the beginning of your life, the subconscious has been constantly recording what came in through your senses. What you perceived through seeing, smelling, hearing. Even before you where born. These 'recordings' have been stored there. And some are constantly playing since certain childhood experiences you went trough. Like: "you are not good enough to...", or "One must work hard to be someone valuable.." Some of these recorded experiences have been 'paused' for years. But experiences later in life have triggered them, like someone pushed your 'button'. For example the breakup by your boyfriend or girlfriend at 16 years old, or by a teacher that you felt misunderstood and blamed you. Or even later in life, when you feel not taken seriously by a manager or friend.
We can even be unaware of this triggering in us, since we often push emotions away. Looking back, we see that pushed away emotions will result in physical and/or other emotional challenges later on in life. That is how many ancient traditional medicine philosophies see that disease can 'build up'. It can cause dis-balances in our bodies, make us more susceptible, weaken our emotional or physical coping mechanisms for a bacterial or viral attack. And if we observe our lives, we can understand how it also makes us more susceptible for an emotional attack by another person. We can see or feel the results in our behaviours, emotional reactions and/or physical bodies. But unseen, these also have effects on our energetic bodies, meaning our energetic or 'vibrational' pathways and processes in the body. These Energetic pathways and processes, still hardly recognised by Western Medicine and culture, were known in Traditional cultures world wide (also in old Europe). Like the old Chinese and Ajurvedic systems of Meridians (Energetic highways) and Chakras (Smaller and bigger wheels of Energy in the body).
The Traditional Chinese Meridans as 'Energetic highways'
More than 2.000 years ago writings in Traditional Chinese Medicine talk about meridians. Meridians as a kind of energetic highways in the bodies. They are connecting important centres in the body. Like the Bladder-meridian is running from the top of the head to the small toe in the foot and is called after the Bladder (organ) as its main energetic and physical center.
We can imagine that if a highway is partly blocked by a traffic congestion, traffic can't flow. In case we compare a major artery that is blocked, it can cause you to die in 5 minutes. On the other hand, small artery blockages can be dealt with by the body without we even realise it. In case of a meridians, blockages have also all kind of different consequences depending on how big the blockage is and on witch meridian (organ) its located. The Energy flowing through the meridians is called 'Chi'. If Chi is blocked it can have physical effects on the organs, but also more subtle emotional effects. People also call Emotions = "Energy in motion". If emotions can't flow, it causes problems in our energy pathways and lives. Often more energetic highways/meridians get involved, as more parts of a highway system in a country would if nothing is done about it.
Emotional and Physical problems (diseases, relationships, etc.)
As emotional problems are more subtle than physical problems, they are likely to show first. One does not have to experience a physical health problem with the bladder, while emotionally this person can have issues with self-confidence or territory (bladder meridian) already since many years. We as humans find ways to compromise if a meridian system is out of balance, but it means we have compromised our lives, and or bodies and relationships as well.
Simply said: if we do not express emotions and/or change something in our lives (or behaviour), or body and relationships will 'pay' for it. This can be all completely or partly unconscious, and we mostly consider it 'normal' or we say: "It is in the family, it is genetic". And it is, as long as it doesn't bother us to much and our life, health and relationships are further perceived as going well. It is mostly when we become upset, lose our job, feel stuck in life or lose a love relationship that we realise something has gotten out of hand. At that point we can still be unaware of our own (unconscious) role in it. Not to say, "it is our own fault". But rather we have had signs that we did not understand, or we simply neglected them for one or more reasons. We had no time, or no safe space for dealing with it. We were not able or not willing to see them, because we had other subconscious programs telling us: "work harder", or "you are not good enough". While in the mean time you were considered by others as 'a very good and hard working person'. It can even empower this (wrong) way of living.
Another person with similar kind of 'not coped with child experiences', may have been seen as behaving 'lazy'. So both you (working hard) and this other person (acting passively) can have similar unconscious programs and believes underlying these very different behaviours.
This case shows also why it is probably wise not to judge, not to judge the other and for sure not ourselves. Becoming more aware is not a judgement. When we recognise and become aware of our 'over working' (or not feeling motivated), we can still get stuck there. We can talk with our friends and ask help from our general practitioner (doctor), and maybe we get antidepressants. Maybe we will feel better for a while, but these medicine are not forever to be taken. And the underlying imbalances and patterns are still there...
Looking deeper & working layer by layer
The step we recommend is that we look deeper and deeper for 'Why' we worked to hard, or why we are not motivated.. What is underlying it? If we then check what Meridians are not flowing as they should, we can find where this problem is rooted. With certain questions, meditations and/or 'tests' we can find out what emotions these meridians are representing. And next, where this originates from, where it seemed to have started! Mostly we find that root-causes in early childhood. But as we peal of more layers, we also find origins before childhood, in our parents and the generations before our parents. We can also be lead sometimes back several of our lives.
Thus, by focusing on you, your problem/challenge, and asking the right questions, we can make a puzzle of your life. We are asking these questions to your subconscious body memory. It has it all stored there. These methods ore done with different techniques.
The method of communicating with the Subconscious: How we 'test'
Simply said it works like this:
Sjoerd (the tester or channeller) focuses on you (the client). He uses his body like an Antenna, to receive your body sending out information all the time.
With the focus on you, he asks your body-memory questions (without the need to speaking it out loud) about what in you needs most attention. In other words, what exactly is out of balance and what has priority?
By using different protocols to start with, and to go deeper step by step, he can first catch the topics, and then the details. In that way he is asking about hundreds of topics in a few minutes.
It is like going to the content-table of a book: scanning all chapters and paragraphs to see which ones need to be 'read' (/ tested/ or dived deeper into). Such a 'chapter' can represent a protocol about your diet and metabolism. With one or more 'paragraphs' representing a list of foods, or allergens, minerals. Or it is a 'Chapter' about your Chinese Meridians and their representing emotions and areas in your life.
In these chapters or protocols we ask which meridians and what emotions are out of balance. And in what life topics this plays a role.
After that we look where (in Time) this disbalance originates from, mostly in childhood. And what exactly happened or what kind of experience is memorised there.
Next to that, we may work with:
Basic Human Needs that you missed in that time (like the need to be 'Taken Care of', or to be 'Understood' by your parents)
Limiting Believes (like: "I am not worthy to earn money"),
Sabotaging mechanisms (like: 'a Sabotage on your Fatherhood' ) that you developed from that experience.
Sometimes a homeopathic remedy or a supplement 'shows up'. Many of them I can test for you from lists (I do not sell these products, it helps me to feel as neutral as I can be)
Also other specific recommendations can show up: like some people should detox by drinking water, or be more in the forest than others. Others are more built for dancing than for long distance spots (or vice versa). Some of us need to express by painting or singing, and others more by screaming at a certain time in life. We can look at these questions in more detail.
Hard to believe?
As having studied Biology and Health Sciences and having worked as an academic for several years I would like to say the following to those who have (a healthy) doubt about the explanations of the above mentioned practices and methods: "I felt for years that it is hard to believe that with our modern science and technology we can not find and prove these energetic pathways, especially when they can be so useful in healing all kind of mental and physical health conditions."
But, even when I was a student, there was scientific evidence that could not be explained by the knowledge of Western medicine. It was proven in scientific experiments where Western medicine and traditional medicine worked together. For example certain acupuncture techniques that could make open surgery possible without using anaesthetics (in other words: putting needles in certain points of the body, making the (conscious) person not feel the operation happening without tranquillisers or pain killers). But these studies where mentioned in course materials that were only important as some example for one chapter in one subject (like philosophy), so in my times they where absolutely not part of the core of the curriculum.
While I believe that in these kind of example studies probably lays the answer for more acceptance and proof. This cooperation with, openness for and exploration of traditional medicine happened way to little to my opinion. I learned that scientific experiments cost money, and universities and their departments and professors need funding, continuous funding to exist. So they are careful about what steps they make. They could (and some did) lose their careers. Whether it is because of people's blindness, or fear of losing their careers. Or that mighty pharmaceutic industries and financial institutes have for decades (or more) pushed the interest and attention in a different direction. A direction that could be patented and industrialised. And where careers could be build upon, for them in 'safe' ways.
That is how I learned, only at the end of my long student career and as a young academic researcher, that politics, human egos and science are intertwined. Science is not literally politics no, but science is conducted and managed by humans, that should say it all.
Besides of that, some people seem to forget that scientific methods themselves are not perfect: Every method has its limits, even double blinded randomised experiments have their limits. Quantum physics seem to have shown us that. And even meta studies, combining loads of studies to come to more proven results have their limits as the studies they are based on have their limits. So even very smart hard working well meaning scientists and doctors are not necessarily free of blind spots and dogma. The counter argument would be that there are colleagues in their own and other departments that read and sometimes even repeat their experiments. That can indeed create a growing solid base for proving a theory, luckily, but there are more forces at hand. The more one specialises and zooms in on specific problems, the more the career is build in one direction, the bigger the potential risk of dogma. (Of course also the bigger the opportunity for an eye opening learning from it.) Even if they can learn and change their views, still the higher the position they are in, the more power and the bigger the dogma they live in can potentially be.
If science was ideally independent and the financing institutes and governments had completely neutral agendas, then we would have a more transparent and realistic view on humans health and true nature. Of course politics and ego is part of human nature so in the end I can see it as all 'natural', yin and yang, with light and dark sides. Like we all have egos and interests ourselves. It represents the human nature on a bigger scale. This point is needed in my view, to understand and remind ourselves why 'science', 'evidence', 'knowledge' and/or our smartest scientists and doctors are not necessarily aware of what is important for us as individuals. What for us are the root causes and important ways of healing our health conditions and even social conditions...
I learned it is all about listening/looking deep within our bodies and making careful interpretations and try to work with them to see if it works. That is a holistic and individualised approach that looks at underlying causes to heal what can be healed, and it does not have to be continuous, complex or expensive at all.
