Ive been resisting doing energy work, lately, preferring to focus on simply being present with myself in life. Not doing for others. Not serving which feels to me like a laden word and concept these days. So I was surprised the other day when I felt compelled to do energy work with a woman who was a participant in a class I was teaching. I had been asked to teach a workshop for cancer patients who are experiencing chronic pain, helping them deal with their situation in ways other than by taking medication to numb it all. At the end of the workshop, a woman approached me asking for information on a personal level. Begging me, really. She was so distraught under her impeccable makeup and professional dress. Her situation was that, following surgery to remove a brain tumor, she had lost all sensation from one half of her face. Except for, as she described it, a relentless, stabbing pain nested right behind her eye. Relentless. Her face revealed the agony behind that simple word. I felt the familiar electric current in my spine alerting me to be there…