hands Of Life

Hands that give life.

Julie Motz is the first healer to work in the operating room during surgery. She helped calm patients before surgery, explained how she works with energy, and was usually nearby during surgery, delivering energy whenever and wherever it was needed. It sounds unusual, but the results were undeniable. The patients Motz worked with suffered less pain, had fewer post-operative complications, and transplant patients had fewer cases of organ rejection and post-operative depression. in an interview, she tells:

In your book, you describe how you first started feeling certain things in other people's bodies, and then, over time, you were able to discern information - what that feeling meant.

Motz: The truth was that the more I devoted myself to this work, the more and stronger the information I was able to perceive. For example, I would have an image of someone at a certain age, or a number that indicated that age would appear to me – and that was the key that determined at what age something traumatic had happened in the patient’s life. Later, I would even see in my mind what had happened. So I had information about a certain accident as a counterpoint to information about what was happening in the body I was working with. Knowing what was currently happening in the patient’s body is, of course, very important to my work. When I started working in this way, I often received information that related to the prenatal period of patients, but because I knew nothing at the time about prenatal development or what a fetus looks like at certain stages, I didn’t realize what it was. But once I studied everything and created a map for certain stages of human development, I began to understand these signals. This is the essence of my work in the operating room. The more I know about the anatomy of the human body, the better I am able to interpret the information that the body sends me. I know that it is not a leg, but a certain vein in the leg. The more information a person has about the body and its development, the better he can interpret the body's information.

Traditional healing systems – almost all of them – refer to a very subtle body energy. The Chinese call it chi, and in Indian Ayurveda it is called prana.

How would you describe this energy?

Motz: I think about it in terms of four fundamental physical energies: electromagnetic energy, gravitational energy, nuclear energy, and weak nuclear energy. These four types of force shape the universe. And because we are also part of the universe, our bodies are also composed of these four fields of energy.

How do you perceive these energies?

Motz: I think that we humans perceive them through our emotions. That's why I write in the book that when a person feels fear, their electromagnetic field is very intense. When they feel anger, the intensity of their gravitational energy increases, when they feel pain, the nuclear energy field increases, and when you feel love, the intensity of the weak nuclear energy field increases.

What is its relationship to diseases?

Motz: When I started working in hospitals, I thought that healing energy could help the body heal faster. But once I realized how deeply energy is tied to the patient's emotional past, it was easy to realize that it is precisely that emotional past that weakens the body and allows the disease to prevail. Many patients have experienced painful childhoods with many forms of abuse. These emotional blocks then came to light during the surgeries when the doctors began to touch their hearts. I perceived images of these situations in their lives that caused these traumatic memories and I tried to work with them during the surgery. I usually don't talk about them after the surgery because patients don't want to talk about it. If they bring it up, of course we talk about it. Sometimes I try to start a discussion by indicating what I saw of a certain situation. But I never say, “Oh, I think you had a really bad relationship with your father and something happened when you were two.” That wouldn’t be healing at all, that would just be showing how much I know about them. That wouldn’t help them.

Why does energy remain blocked in certain parts of the body and not in others?

Motz: There are two possibilities. One is childhood trauma. If your mother hits you on the left cheek, twenty years later you find out that you have chronic problems with your left ear. Another possibility is that there are certain prenatal patterns. In this scenario, there was an initial weakening because that part of the body was under some stress while it was being formed in the womb. I think the initial pattern that is then repeated is already formed in the prenatal period. Once a certain part of the body is disrupted in this way, other problems are then stored in that place. The longer I work as a healer, the more often I have to go to these early stages of a patient's life. It is not always possible to start directly in the past like this, sometimes you have to discover later things and work your way back through history. Then I have to work with what happened when the person was thirteen years old before I get to work with what happened when they were thirteen days old.

How did you come to realize that the prenatal stages of our lives are so important?

Motz: Mainly by working on myself. I learned to know my own prenatal life. Once I mastered it, I began to be aware of the importance of this phase of our lives, and while working in surgery, I encountered it constantly. I discovered that most heart diseases actually arose in the early stages of heart development. For example, heart valve disorders. In the prenatal stage of fetal development, blood flows first in one direction and then in the opposite direction again, before the valves develop. If a person has problems with the valves, it is because the heart somehow returns to its prenatal embryological state. I am convinced that embryology is a very important and still unexplored area in terms of later diseases. We think that many diseases have a genetic origin, but we only know for sure that they are congenital. They came with birth – but that does not mean that they arose at the moment of conception.

So are you saying that if we transfer consciousness to an area that has ever been affected by some kind of trauma, whether in childhood or prenatally, it will help unblock this energy block?

Motz: Yes. I believe that. It then allows the body to relax. In other words, if you say to the body, “I am interested in this and that information ,” the body usually responds, “Okay, here it is.”

But for some people, it can mean very traumatic memories and emotions.

Motz: I believe that the moment people confide in, even to a therapist, something is released. Having someone you trust, ideally someone who loves you, is very, very important.

What advice would you give to people who are going through a difficult time in their lives with strong emotions? What should they avoid?

Motz: It is important to actively work with emotions. Don't just keep it to yourself. Talk about it with a friend, someone you trust and are not ashamed of. Sharing is important. When someone disappoints me, I try to trace in which part of my body the emotion is located and what physical feeling it is associated with. Then I transfer my consciousness there and ask: "How old am I in this part of my body?" Usually the answer is in the form of a number that is lower than my actual age, and I try to remember what happened to me at such and such an age. I almost always got an answer. After that I started to feel better. The emotion was no longer as intense. It may have hurt, but it was not as destructive. I could say to myself "Oh, I feel so heavy because it reminds me of that thing that happened to me and now it's probably time for me to deal with it." Going inside and feeling the pain is completely natural for me today.

But what should people who are going through too intense crises, such as divorce, do?

Motz: Nature has given us a wonderful opportunity in emotions, to be in our bodies and to follow the emotional currents that flow almost like rivers. We are quite well equipped to deal with our emotions – unless we start suppressing them or putting them away. I'm not saying that life is a breeze, but no matter how difficult the circumstances are, it's always easier to try to identify with that previous pain that reminds you.

In the book you write: “people who suffer from serious illnesses have actually become alienated from their love, they do not pay attention to their bodies, and illness is a kind of call from the body to pay more attention to it. This conscious attention to the body will then help to discover the hitherto hidden history of wounds that the body has so mercifully hidden until now.” That is nicely put. In other words, are you advising us not to perceive illness as something bad, but rather as a path to transformation?

Motz: Of course. The body is constantly taking care of us, constantly loving us, constantly educating us. I think one of the saddest things about illness is that people think that the body has betrayed them. But that is not the case at all. The reason for illness is that we have betrayed our bodies by not paying attention to them, by not being present in them. Illness is the body's attempt to save you. When you observe the symptoms of illness, such as inflammation, you see that the body is really fighting. Every symptom of illness is the body's attempt to save your life. It is important to refrain from any judgment, whether you say that the illness is bad or that because I have the illness, I am bad. We choose our wounds and our illnesses so that we can turn our attention and heal old wounds.