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Subject: Article On Testimony To White House Commission
This is the link to the article I feel is best.
Barbara York
Subject: Testimony To White House Commission
This is the material I gave to the White House Commission on Friday, 3/16/01. It was a long day, 75 speakers with testimonies exactly three minutes long! You may read two articles from the StarTrib that are posted on this web site: http://www.startribune.com/ Search: alternative medicine
PLEASE note how I was quoted in the Statewire article and compare with the copy of what I ACTUALLY said.
Following is a copy of the material I handed in, because of length I did not include the information on Jin Shin Jyutsu. It is available on request or may be seen at the Jin Shin Jyutsu site which is: http://www.jinshinjyutsu.com/.
A hard copy of my testimony is available to all MTMN full members, (it is fourteen pages long.)
In about two weeks everything that was said on Friday will be in transcript on the White House site. It will have all testimony, questions and answers of all the speakers. The chair was very good about making sure that people were being heard on the microphone so that the tape would pick it up. Otherwise the transcript would read "inaudible".
Anyone is welcome to e-mail their testimony to the White House Commission regarding the questions that are on the commission's web site. They are looking for "solutions, recommendations" not anecdotes. For more information or to track the commission go to this site: http://www.whccamp.hhs.gov
Their e-mail is: [email protected]
Following is the material (without the JSJ portion).
White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, Cowles Auditorium Minneapolis, Minnesota March 16, 2001
Education of CAM Providers Panel
Barbara York
President, MTMN-Minnesota Touch Movement Network
Board Member, MN Natural Health Legal Reform Project
Chair, IMA Network of Minnesota
Jin Shin Jyutsu® Practitioner
Massage Practitioner
Member NCBTMB
Member UMC
I believe that the best practitioners of Complementary and Alternative Medicine are those who realize that this work is best met with experience, personal study and the time to know their client. Because of the variety of practices, I do not believe that uniform standards can be applied in this field. It has been said (2,500 years ago by Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher) that you cannot put your foot into the same river twice. By the same token, every session with a client is a new experience for both parties no matter how exacting the technique may be. We must remember that our work is uniquely subjective.
Though I have practiced for over eighteen years and personally chose to pursue a thousand hour accreditation course and passed a national exam for massage therapists, I still believe the best lessons come in hands-on experience, whether as an apprentice or a seasoned practitioner of even 30 years. Essentially learning is never finished, regardless of certificates and testings. The true lesson is with the client. Without respect for that, any education is worthless.
As a Jin Shin Jyutsu® practitioner, I participate in an ancient art that was passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth as are many practices. Jin Shin Jyutsu is a Japanese phrase which means the "art of the Creator through compassionate man". The study of Jin Shin Jyutsu is a way to expand awareness and understanding. The practice is considered a demonstration of the art. The responsibility for usage of knowledge received, is within each practitioner. I believe each person in this room is equally wonderful at Jin Shin Jyutsu, the only difference between us is in awareness.
In similar fashion, I have a book called Primitive Remedies which was collected by John Wesley the founder of the Methodist church. It was a record of parishioners remedies which he collected and shared as he traveled his church circuit. He did not present himself as a trained healer. Many of these remedies are practical and based on principles recognized by contemporary healers.
I would like to quote from the introduction to Primitive Remedies-"Wesley's concern was for the common people and it was his purpose to give them 'a plain and easy way of curing most diseases'; 'to set down cheap, safe, and easy medicines; easy to be known, easy to be procured, and easy to be applied by plain, unlettered men.'
The field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine remains this simple. It is safe, it is accessible to the consumer. It is uncomplicated, despite the sometimes confusing emphasis on technique. The Minnesota Complementary and Alternative Health Care Freedom of Access Act of 2000 provides a legal environment in which CAM practitioners can practice regardless of their education and training as long as they practice within reasonable conduct guidelines.
I encourage the commission to consider this simple, profound approach of honoring both the consumer and the practitioner.
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Further Points:
* Safe and easy remedies become packaged and sold as privately held techniques.
One of the simple and common ideas of John Wesley's, is recommended in his "Plain Easy Rules" "(9) The flesh brush is a most useful exercise, especially to strengthen any part that is weak." [1], which now, in our time, is rediscovered and trademarked as a technique called "Vital Chi Skin-Brushing System™" which is being sold by a Bruce Berkowsky, N.M.D. [2]
* Even children are capable of providing CAM.
The founder of shiatsu, Tokujir Namikoshi, who recently died at the age of 94, developed his approach starting at seven years of age massaging his own mother who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis. [6]
*Educational standards can become an obstruction for the consumer to find their appropriate provider.
Jin Shin Jyutsu® is considered modality training. Many CAM providers take specialized, extensive and expensive training in fields such as; Ortho-Bionomy™, the Rosen Method of Bodywork and Movement™, Reflexology, and NeuroMuscular Therapy. [5] Dawn Nelson, though a nurse, found her most profound connection and effectiveness with patients was in simple holding. [3] Many providers have created simple ways of being with people. They have found that the CAM client is a very subjective healing relationship. It is not based on outcome but support and understanding of the patients belief system. Though many long time providers are also teachers, they would not qualify for many regulation requirements. [4]
*Lack of harm in CAM providers.
With the number of practitioners, modalities and contact hours incidents of harm would be headlines. Yet professional liability insurance providers know that the true issues of concern are standard "trip and fall"hazards. One company allows membership with full benefits based upon experience. [7]
*Delayed care concerns
John Wesley [1] recommended "In uncommon or persistent cases, he advised `every man without delay to apply to a Physician that fears God.' "Many consumers come to CAM providers after they have exhausted traditional medicine or while they wait to see their primary care provider or specialist who may not be able to see them for weeks.
RESOURCES:
1-Primitive Remedies, John Wesley, Woodbridge Press Publishing Company, Santa Barbara, California, 1973.
2-Massage & Bodywork, Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals, Inc., Evergreen, CO, Vol.#XV, Issue #5, October/November 2000, pg.13-20.
3-Compassionate Touch, Dawn Nelson. Station Hill Press, Inc., Barrytown, NY, 1984
4-Healers On Healing, Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, Jeremy P. Tharcher, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, 1989.
5- The Encyclopedia Of Bodywork, Elaine Stillerman, Facts On File, Inc., NY, NY, 1996.
6- Massage Magazine, Massage Magazine Inc.,Spokane, WA, Issue 90, March/April, 2001, pg. 31
7-The IMA-International Massage Association, P.O. Drawer 421, Warrenton, VA 20188-0421* (540) 351-0800 * [email protected] * http://www.imagroup.com/
Keep In Touch,
Barbara York
Subject:
Request to Call: MN
House Health Subcommittee -
February 22, 2001
CONTACT NOW!!!!!! PHONE CALLS, VOICEMAIL MESSAGES AND LETTERS ARE BEST.
EMAILS ARE LOST IN THE MASSES.
The MN House Health Subcommittee that will be the first to hear the bill HF401 is comprised of the following representatives;
Keep In Touch,
Barbara York
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Subject:
Introduction Of Senate Massage Bill - February 8, 2001
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Subject: NEW HOUSE MASSAGE BILL February 1, 2001
House File 401 has been sent to the Health and
Human Services Policy Committee. It will be reviewed in the Subcommittee.
Tim Wilkin is the new chair of the subcommittee.
There is no information about any meetings at this time.
Keep In Touch,
Barbara York
Health and Human Services Policy Committee Membership
Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:15 a.m. in Room 10 of the State Office Building.
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Subject: Introduction HOUSE MASSAGE BILL HouseJanuary 30, 2001
Dear Members & Friends,
A new massage registration bill has been registered with the revisors office through the House of Representatives. HF 0401
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Introduction and first reading, referred to Crime Prevention 01/29/2001.
PLEASE READ THE BILL HF0401 FIRST ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND
COMPARE IT WITH THE COMPLIMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH FREEDOM OF ACCESS ACT,
MN STATUTE 146A , Chapter 460.
(Effective July 1, 2001) THAT WAS PASSED LAST YEAR BEFORE YOU CALL OR
CONTACT ANY REPRESENTATIVE.
More information soon.
Keep In Touch,
Barbara York