August 2004 | Choice Health: Practitioner Profile
Uncommon Healer
Naturopathic Doctor Victoria H. Matthews
Who: Victoria H. Matthews, N.D., or naturopathic doctor, grid healer, energy systems therapist, and herbalist, Barrington, Ill.
Quick Take: Matthews helps people redirect their Chi or life-force by working to mend the human grid, the deepest energy system upon which all other energy systems are based. She enables patients to better deal with mental and physical illness ranging from stress headaches to cancer. For Matthews, the key to unlocking the answers to all of our health problems is energy. Matthews said that treating her patients requires her to be a coach or teacher as much as a medical doctor. “People heal themselves,” she said. “If you can understand your energy systems, your body will do all the work.”
Old vs. New: Scientific and technological advancements in the years following the Industrial Revolution left little room for the development of alternative medicine, according to Matthews. “With the mechanization of health care we lost the spirit of healing and knowing the holistic human being,” she said. Still, Matthews has found that more and more mainstream doctors call on and consider alternative practitioners to complement pharmaceutical medicine. Matthews advocates using energy medicine as a complement to traditional approaches to medical care and a complete system for self-care and self-help. “I can help people balance their grid so that the body can fix itself, with and without conventional treatment.”
Knowing the Difference: Grid healing is graduate-level energy therapy, said Matthews. “The human energy grid is like piping that runs from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet,” she explained. “When the grid is broken the body and mind can become ill.” The grid will most commonly break in the face of severe emotional trauma, said Matthews. Before the grid can be accessed, Matthews must make sure that other energy systems are balanced. She works on the patients’ meridians using acupressure and cleanses the shakras.
Biggest Myth: While Matthews worked for years developing her skills as an energy healer and has helped hundreds of people understand their life-force, she conceded that everybody has the means to redirect their own energy. “People think it takes a special kind of person to do what I do,” Matthews said. “Realizing we all have the ability to heal ourselves is very empowering.” And no illness is too serious. “Most of my patients suffer from chronic illness or have been told that their condition has no cure,” Matthews said, eyes intent behind wire-framed eyeglasses. “But there is no such thing as an incurable disease.”
Case Study: According to Matthews, there are energy systems that cause you to gain weight when they are out of balance. Another part of the energy grid connects the right- and left-brain and is often responsible for dyslexia when the grid is broken. “I had a colon cancer patient who came to me for grid work while pursuing traditional medical treatment,” Matthews said. Energy medicine required that the holistic health of the patient be given priority, Matthews said. “We were able to fix the patient’s grid so that all other energies found it easier to stabilize.”
Personal File: Matthews trained under and now teaches with energy healer Donna Eden, who has treated more than 10,000 clients and taught hundreds of classes all over the world, according to her website www.inner source.com. Matthews and her husband moved to Chicago from Downstate Illinois in June and is opening a clinic near her home in Barrington. She is available at (847) 277-7850. Donna Eden and her husband, David Feinstein, will host “Keep Your Energies Humming,” a hands-on workshop in energy medicine in St. Charles, Ill., Oct. 15 to 17. To register call 800-999-3319.
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