JOHN SALAT’S REASONS FOR BEING (PT.1 OF 5)

Kamala Appel: Hello everyone this is Kamala Appel A.K.A. “the Key” and KEA Productions. We are here with John Salat and we are going to be talking on how to live a healthy lifestyle. Which I would think all of us aspired to do, but hopefully in a manageable way which is what we are focusing on? So John please introduced yourself and tell people a little bit about your background.

John Salat: Oh. Thank you, Kamala. Yeah, well I am a book author and my experience is really working with energy work and energy medicine and energy balancing. And I just have taken it to different levels starting with the human potential level into transformational type of education and experiential education so, isolyser energy charge with everything so I’ve taken that to different levels and teaching classes and Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Reiki meditation energy movement dance classes and I’ve led classes to a lot of celebrities and people even people in the medical field and even work at a medical clinic for both physical therapist and psychologist and doctors and interfacing this work which is perhaps considered new to many people.

Kamala: Although I think it’s probably been around for probably thousands of years or so.

John S.: Yeah exactly, yeah it’s not new. Yeah it’s old as the hills as long as the energy is always been around us and it’s always accessible you don’t need tools or instruments and it’s about as natural as life is itself.

Kamala: So I’m wondering how the medical community has treated you: if they embraced you or if they kind of approached you with a level of cynicism. Sometimes it surprises me because I think if you’re a doctor you’d want your patience to be healthy, you would think, whatever it takes. But I have noticed that sometimes Western medicine pooh-poohs some holistic or Eastern medicine or alternative forms of healing. How has the medical community treated you?

John S.: You know it does feel challenging sometimes, I work at two different centers. One is where people are mentally health challenged, I use reiki and energy medicine there and then I also use moving awareness such as tai chi and alternate those classes there. And they’ve really look at results they don’t care about the means and the methods where the other place is a pain clinic center where people experiencing pain for more than a year. With insurances are just being dragged down because their on medications and pain killers and stuff so we’re like the last hope. They’re a little more conservative there and just want me to stick with the moving energy or moving kinesthetical work and not with the energy medicine because I was kind of reprimanded so I go ‘oh ouch’. You definitely fill that in and course you know I just have seem like it’s all integrative medicine sound like once better than the other and I really a team player but I just know that people just a have certain skepticism and it is out there you know, no doubt, it’s not like it’s always you know places people would share everything.