Natalia Savelieve is an EEM Clinical Practitioner and Energy Medicine Authorized Teacher from Mallorca, Spain. When Natalia taught her adorable 3-year-old daughter how to do the DER years ago, she had no idea her little girl would love it as much as she did!  Today Alexia Wakefield or Lexi is a smart, incredibly accomplished 16-year-old. In this delightful mother-daughter interview, Lexi shares how the DER has helped her ace exams at school and at the conservatory where she studies music professionally and why she believes the DER just might be the solution to some of the world’s greatest problems!

Natalia Savelieve: Hi, Lexi! You practiced the Daily Energy Routine since the age of 3 and now you are 16. What is your first memory of it? 

Lexi: Yes, I have been practicing it for 13 years now, since you first taught me. And I remember you and I doing the routine together in the morning, when it was still dark outside, before leaving for preschool. I recall feeling annoyed with myself as I kept forgetting the exercises, but you were there every step of the way! I copied you and by the end of it I would feel much better.

NS:  From your experience now, if you were to explain to a little child what the DER is, what would you say? And to a friend of your own age?

L: DER is a set of exercises (as a little girl I used to call them “Lexi-cises, haha!) that helps strengthen your body, helps to keep you healthy and allows you to understand your feelings. When you understand how you feel, you can use a specific exercise to deal with it. For example, when you feel like everything is too much, you can do a Wayne Cook exercise and you will feel calmer and you will see that the situation is not as bad as you felt before. Or if you feel like crying, you can do a Hook Up and all of a sudden you don't want to cry any more! If I were to explain to a friend of my age, I would say that it helps you focus, helps you concentrate on your studies without feeling scattered or stressed out. Also, not to be affected that much by the pressure of exams, as well as to have clarity in complicated situations in relationships, and to manage your emotions so they don't lead you down the wrong path but empower you instead. 

NS: What major benefits do you feel practicing DER every morning for most of your life has brought to you? 

L: One of the major benefits I feel is that I can help myself without leaving my home and going to see a doctor or to take medication.  In fact, I do not recall taking any chemical pills, prescribed or otherwise, in my life, only supplements and vitamins, like Vitamin C or B12…. Of course, it's not only the DER, but you, Mummy, working on me with EEM protocols, when I do get sick. For example, when I had those really bad dust and pollen allergies, when we had to get rid of all my favorite soft toys, as I couldn't breathe and had very itchy eyes and face; you worked on me with that protocol (note: this was the Advanced Substance Testing protocol) and after a few sessions I got all my toys back in my room and I was fine! From my perspective now it was quite a miracle. I didn't have to take allergy medication and I could breathe!  Or another time, when it helped a terrible hair loss I was experiencing, when I was stressed after we moved houses and I changed schools, or that time when I had that persistent cough and you found that the solution was in working with the Wind Points (note: this is a protocol taught in the Eden Energy Medicine Certification Program) and the cough was finally gone for good! I remember how relieved I felt because this cough wouldn’t let me sleep and I was so frustrated. It also helps me to deal with my hormones now. But the foundation is always the DER!

NS: So I hear that physical health is a major benefit of practicing the DER. Is there any other benefit that is also important to you? 

L: Yes, of course. My emotional stability has improved amazingly over the last few years. Now I understand other people's actions better and feel less affected by them. At this age I am bombarded with exams in middle school and at the conservatory, where I study music professionally every day. So when I study for the exams, DER helps me to focus on the task at hand and to keep my head clear. Music wise, when I practice a particularly complicated piece and start feeling really angry at myself for not getting it right, I know that Blow Out, Hooking Up and Wayne Cook help me to accept the situation and to have trust in myself that it will come eventually – and it always does! 

NS: And what about when you are in the classroom during the exam? Are there techniques that help you there?

L: Yes, there are. If I begin to feel overwhelmed, and nothing makes sense on the exam sheet, my mind goes blank, I remember to pull my ears out, hold the forehead (note: the Central Neurovasculares) and sit in a pretzel of a Wayne Cook posture, and I feel as if the fog is lifting and I understand the questions and remember the answers! 

NS: Wow. I wish I knew these techniques when I was at school or University! What an advantage to know them from such a young age! 

L: I know! I am super grateful to you, Mummy, for teaching me the basic as well as advanced techniques. By now, I do the DER by myself, but you still ask me every morning, “Did you do your Energy Medicine Exercises?” 🙂 And the answer is always: “Yes!” And I am also very grateful to Donna, who taught you. I remember meeting her when I was 8- years-old, at your Certification Program graduation. I gave her a drawing of me and her doing the Connecting Heaven and Earth exercise together under a rainbow and showed her my Angel´s Kiss technique I saw in a dream. She was so loving and nice to me. I send her a lot of love. 

NS: Thank you, my dear, for all your illuminating answers. Is there anything else you would like to say at the end? 

L:  Yes, I wish that every person (children included) on our planet would know and practice at least the DER. We would have a nicer, more conscious and peaceful world then.