Hands On Holistic Health

Coming Full Circle

How one TKM® student went from

working with death to working with life

For most people who encounter The KI Method®, their lives are changed by receiving help for anything from chronic disorders to life-threatening illnesses that the medical community or other alternative medicine modalities could not resolve. 

For Jana Carswell Smith, RN, CNOR, CRNFA, whose hands and story first appeared in the KIMA Journal’s Issue 1, her life changed when she used TKM® to help others.  After leaving surgical nursing in 2004, she now helps patients full time using TKM®. She shares her amazing experiences of her current practice with her husband, Roy.

I am very honored to be sharing my life’s journey with you, a journey that has brought me full circle. 

Some of my first childhood memories were playing in a room full of caskets and riding my tricycle in the chapel.  Not such odd memories for someone whose parents owned a funeral home. 

After graduating from high school, the most logical career choice for me was the funeral industry. I attended mortuary college and became the youngest person in Texas to receive a funeral director and embalmer’s license from the State Board.  My parents eventually sold the business and I then worked for a large corporation that owns the majority of funeral establishments in the U.S.  I became disillusioned with the dynamics of corporate-owned funeral homes and knew that one day I would have to make a career change.  

Going into Nursing

After several illnesses that required surgery, my thoughts turned to the possibility of becoming a nurse. I would think about it often, yet never made a move. The turning point came many years later when my brother had surgery. That evening I was by his bedside and he said, “You should be a nurse. You are really a comfort to people.” 

Three weeks later, he was murdered. 

Eight months after that, I started nursing school at Houston Community College. While attending school, I kept in touch with Dr. Henry G. Glass, the surgeon who operated on me, and expressed a desire to work for him after becoming a registered nurse. 

When I received my license, he already had a nurse, so I did a three-month orientation in surgery.  On the last day of my orientation, his nurse quit and I was offered her position. Was this fate?  He was the Chief of Surgery at Park Plaza Hospital in Houston, so I was concerned about being a new nurse with no experience. He assured me that he would teach me everything I needed to know and to always remember that I did not work for him, but with him. 

I felt so fortunate to be working with such an incredibly talented general, thoracic and vascular surgeon. He taught me so much and gave me the opportunity to develop advanced surgical skills. 

Introduction to Energy Work

After 10 years of assisting in surgery, I felt as though pieces of the puzzle were still missing. I felt fulfillment in being a nurse yet was searching for a healthier approach to illnesses. A chiropractor friend of mine introduced me to a form of “energy work” that had its successes but was very bizarre and hard to comprehend.  Healing was done on a subconscious level and this did not compute! 

I wanted to learn about the vibrations I was feeling in my hands and found information on The KI Method®. TKM® was more comprehensible to my Western medical mind because it is based on quantum physics. Most anyone with a medical background will be able to understand this method and become enthused with its potential results. 

Learning About The KI Method®

During my first TKM® class, Dr. Glenn King lectured on how horrible surgery was because it created scar tissue that interfered with energy pathways. I was tormented with that knowledge and was ready to quit surgery and dedicate myself to this alternative approach. 

But Dr. King suggested that I continue in surgery in order to plant seeds so that others might become interested in this phenomenal method. So, I spent my days in surgery and my evenings building my alternative medicine practice. 

Not long after my first TKM® class, Dr. Glass became intrigued with what I was doing and allowed me to introduce TKM®’s stop bleeding technique into our surgical practice. 

Our first procedure with this technique was the treatment of a liver laceration during a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal). Within four minutes, the bleeding stopped and the laceration closed. 

Many positive comments were expressed after observing the technique, however no minds were moved. Dr. King now uses a video in his classes that shows this technique being used during minor surgical procedures in Dr. Glass’ office. Dr. Glass understood how TKM® could work and how it could be an acceptable alternative because he always said, “You can’t chase pain with a knife.” 

There was a definite conflict between surgery and TKM®. I continued my TKM® studies and since Dr. Glass’ retirement in November 2004, I have devoted my energy to TKM® and the continued health of my patients.

A New Direction