Reimar Banis has
been an established general practitioner for 18 years, previously
studied to be a naturopath and is trained in various areas of
alternative medicine. In the 1990s, he developed an innovative
energy-medicine technique, then he and a physicist constructed a device
for subtle-body energy measurement, the REBA® test device.

Ulrike Banis is
a specialist in general medicine with emphasis on surgery and gynecology,
also trained in numerous naturopathic healing methods. She is further
specialized in geopathies, i.e. the morbific effects of geopathic stress
zones. For a number of years, Ulrike and Reimar Banis have dealt
intensively with Psychosomatic Energetics and train therapists in this
method both here and abroad.
Psychosomatic
Energetics proceeds from the assumption that energy system blocks are in
the background of many illnesses. The idea is to locate them precisely
with the REBA® test device and then permanently dissolve
them by means of specific homeopathic remedies administered in drop
form.
”The amazing thing about working with Psychosomatic Energetics is how
effortlessly most persons find their way back to a contented existence
as soon as they have resolved their conflicts. They then get, for free,
everything that they previously had tried to achieve via tedious
roundabout ways: joie de vivre,
the capacity to love, and the feeling that their life has meaning.” (Psychosomatic
Energetics – Manual for Therapists)
The
results are there for all to see: hundreds of documented cases (many of
them so-called “hopeless cases”) validate the effectiveness of this
innovative method.
Rébecca
Kunz met with the two doctors for a chat in their practice in Bregenz (
Austria
).
How
does the REBA® device work?
RB: The REBA®
test device was built according to my specifications by a physicist
friend of mine, and with it one can measure a person’s subtle-body
energy. The machine emits a mixture of different frequencies which
generate a kind of white noise. This noise signal is related to
brain-wave frequencies, which react with stress when the organism
receives too much of them.
You
therefore inflict more and more frequencies on a patient connected to
the machine until you get a physical stress reaction. This all happens
below the patient’s conscious awareness, i.e. the measurement does not
hurt, nor can the patient influence the measurement results.
The
more frequencies a person can take without a reaction, the healthier
that person is. Sick people quickly exhibit a stress reaction.
Does
health imply stress resistance, then?
RB: That’s right, the more frequencies you can endure, the healthier
you are.
Sensitive persons cannot take much stress, depending
– you often hear the argument: Oh, all these different vibrations in
the shopping mall at night, that’s not my thing.
UB: Those are two different things, although they are interrelated in
interesting ways: a person’s sensitivity is one thing; if sensitive
people have a good energy situation, they are better able to deal with
and regulate external stresses – but if their energy state is poor and
low, then many things will get on their nerves, i.e. bother them and
reduce their energy even more.
In
general: if one is in good shape energetically, one can better stay in
harmony and is less likely to lose one’s equilibrium.
That’s actually a very desirable combination:
sensitive and yet robust. According to your books, that is most likely
when we have mostly resolved our inner conflicts. That’s where the
REBA® device and the homeopathic treatment begin. What
specifically is the procedure? What kind of energy is measured here?
RB: Back
in ancient
India
, those who meditated noticed that people are surrounded by a
subtle-body field, the so-called Aura.
This force (or energy) field might be compared to computer software. Its
nature is informational and functional; it sees to it that the body
receives the right vibration and thereby the correct mode of operation.
The human Aura has four main levels associated with different functions
and qualities.
UB: From the body outward:
The
Vital Level has to do with how healthy one is in a physical sense, how
well one copes physically with everyday life, whether one feels in good
shape.
The
Emotional Level is connected with empathic/emotional vibrational
capability, i.e. in part with the ability to empathize with oneself and
others.
The
Mental Level says something about fitness for coping with everyday
routine, i.e. the ability to cross a street safely, to remember where
one put something, etc.
The
Causal Level has to do with higher vibrations, e.g. whether one listens
to the inner voice, or in fact hears it at all. In a wider sense, one
might say that the Causal Level reveals something about the ability to
get in contact with one’s
own
guardian angel.
And so now the energetic strength of these Aura levels
is measured – indirectly, via the stress tolerance of the various
brain waves?
RB: That’s right, and it’s kind of like an energetic “blood
pressure” measurement. So, for each patient, we measure these four
readings as percentages, and can then make an overview statement about
the state of health. These readings are closely related to specific
diseases, on both the physical and mental plane.
UB: There are seven primary energy centers, known as Chakras, that depend on these four Aura levels. With the aid of
small test ampoules containing homeopathic mixtures, we can now
ascertain in which body segment (Chakra) an energy block is situated.
This is a kind of preselection, since each Chakra is associated with
certain organs, hormonal glands and/or vegetative centers. One can then
refine the search and find out why this particular Chakra is not
functioning at this particular time. We usually find that an emotional
trauma is behind this kind of blockage and, using additional ampoules,
we can draw ever nearer to the conflict theme and ultimately identify
it.
So, a person with a ruptured ligament or a cough
wouldn’t come to your practice …
RB: No, the usual type of general-practice
patients no longer come to us. For years, we treated people with all
kinds of ailments, but now we specialize in chronic cases and vegetative
disorders – i.e. people come to us who have felt poorly for years and
for whom nobody has been able to find a cause. Or people with a specific
severe disease who want to do something extra for themselves; we also
keep getting children to be treated who have developmental disorders.
So
you’re the first choice for very few people ...
RB: … very often the last, in fact. Many of our patients already have
quite a medical history and are hoping to be healed.
That’s asking a lot of you – how do you cope with
it?
UB: If someone comes and says, make me healthy, I say: I have never made
anyone healthy. Every person carries a program for health within, and
the point is to rediscover it, so that the inner healer can then be
useful. I’m just a kind of “cleaning lady” who sweeps away certain
blockages. I might also put the right shovel in the patient’s hand, so
that the patient can then get moving on the healing process.
RB: It’s actually pretty simple: once the life energy is flowing well
again, one feels good and the metabolism once again functions properly.
A great many things can be healed in this manner.
UB: For me it’s quite exciting when someone comes and says: I don’t
feel well, but the regular doctors say there’s nothing wrong with me.
I know that these people really are suffering, because who could enjoy
going through life as a malingerer?
When
patients finally understand what’s wrong with them, then they already
have in their hands some of the tools for healing.
That all sounds rather fantastic … so, you take a
few tailor-made homeopathic drops, and these (sometimes ancient)
conflicts melt away just like that …
UB: It all depends, of course, on the individual: how far the patient is
prepared to go down this path and implant these new thoughts and new
behavior patterns. We can skip over a patient’s internal resistance in
only a very few cases. The final recourse as to whether healing is to
take place or not, is always the patient and the patient’s mind.
Near
the end of your book on Psychosomatic Energetics, it says: “After the
conflicts are dissolved, that’s when life truly begins – and working
on it only then gets started in earnest.”³
RB: If people are
energetically balanced, they can solve their problems with vigor and
from their center. So the point is not that I solve patients’ marital
problems, but rather that patients assume the responsibility for their
own actions – which is usually not as hard as they thought it would be.
UB: Also, the drops make dreams more vivid and easier to remember. Many
things that burden us then re-appear on the stage of our dreams and we
learn by example how to deal in a different manner with these issues.
This alters our inner attitude and makes it possible for our everyday
demeanor to be clearer, which in turn has a favorable effect, for
example, on our relationship. These successes then encourage us to fully
develop our potential and discover new avenues in a playful spirit.
We
are also more likely to remain healthy with this new attitude, because
we attack problems better and don’t put off dealing with them for so
long that we get sick again.
What are the limits of your possibilities?
RB: There are of course people so neurotic that they need psychotherapy
supplementally to our system. We do not replace all other therapies.
With the help of our system, energy can once again flow better, and thus
other adjuvant therapies can also be more effective.
UB: Naturally, there are definite limits: we certainly do not treat an
acute disease energetically; it would be presumptuous to try to treat a
heart attack, or cancer that needed surgical intervention, energetically.
But after the acute crisis has been overcome, we can ask what we might
also contribute, in order to break up energetic blocks and thereby best
promote healing.
Do you have a particular wish, a vision with respect
to your work?
UB: I hope that, in the not too distant future, children will receive
not only the mandatory school-doctor examination that they now do, but
that they’ll also all get an energy check as well.
RB: My desire is that the energetic laws get more attention in medicine
and that the order behind them is better recognized. Energy medicine
would accordingly get the position it is entitled to – namely as a
useful and necessary complement to today’s orthodox medicine.

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