Energy Healing

   Energy healing promotes healing by enhancing energy flow and correcting blocks in the human energy field or aura which permeates and surrounds the body.  Improving the flow of energy in the energy field supports the self-healing capacity of the body. 

    Currently, energy healing is witnessing gains in popularity.  Laying on of hands, which appeared in many ages and cultures in history, is being rediscovered. There are also more people who are becoming sensitive to the energy able to perceive it.

What is Energy Healing?
   
     Since everything is energy, all healing ultimately involves energy.  Most energy healing methods are focused on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels of life, without recognition of the energetic underpinnings of the interventions. Energy healing works purely with the energetic level of our being.  Since everything is made up of patterns of energy, working directly with energy influences the physical, mental and emotional, as well as the spiritual level.  If there is an illness or disturbance in the body, mind or emotions, Reiki can address those levels.  Energy healing complements and supports other methods of healing, because it uses the energy of which the body, mind and emotions are composed.   

 Energy Healing as Part of Energy Medicine

Energy healing is part of the larger field of Energy Medicine.  Use of herbs, crystals or sound are examples of energy medicine that contain vibrational patterns that influence the energetic patterns at work in the body. Energy healing is a unique part of energy medicine in that it involves the intended use of the energy field of the healer to affect the energy field of the recipient.  Some energy healers may use crystals or other tools, but more often it is simply the intent of healer and recipient that directs the energy healing.

The Human Energy Field

Just as we have a physical body, we have also have an energy body.  The human energy field  or aura surrounds and permeates the physical body.  The physical body could be thought of as only one of a number of bodies which we have in our energy field.  There are many descriptions of the energy field from both ancient and modern sources.  Many of these sources describe the aura as being in layers. They will also describe the chakras which are "energy centers" where important exchanges of energy take place.  Energy healing effects change by positively influencing the energy field. 

 

 

 

 

Western scientific views and energy healing

Western civilization has developed the scientific model as a means of describing our physical world, and many believe that it is the only means that can be trusted as reliable and accurate. How we learned to think and many of our thoughts about ourself and others are based on this scientific model. If it can't be proven by experiment this means another explanation (Theory) will have to be found to explain the experiment. 

There are other ways of gaining knowledge which would be equally valid to some.  With regard to the human energy field, there are those who are able to sense it through higher sense perception. Even though they have no doubt of what they sense a Western scientist would refute its existence until it were actually detected through some sort of provable experiment performed using their scientific methods. It is easier to believe in something when everyone is able to see the same thing, not everyone is able to sense the energy, this takes practice. 

We know from scientific understanding that everything is composed of energy, and yet the presence of this energetic aspect of ourselves and our surroundings is usually not acknowledged in our culture.  Solid objects like a table appear to be solid due to the meaning we make of it, we see things the way we want to see them.  

Modern science has made discoveries about the nature of reality that are consistent with the existence of the human energy field and the ability to influence healing through manipulation of energy.  These discoveries have radical implications on how we view and experience our day to day reality.  It takes time for new understandings to be absorbed and integrated into our understanding of reality.  There has been research, however, which indicates that energy healing does have an effect.  The following references are recommended in investigating the question of how energy healing has been studied, understood and viewed in terms of Western science:

Light Emerging by Barbara Brennan-    Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan
Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber
Spiritual Healing  Daniel Benor 

ALL ENERGY HEALING COMES FROM SPIRIT

Energy healers are channels for divine healing energy. All energy healing originates from Father/Mother God and the soul of the client. Energy healers help their clients to co-create an energetic space that is conductive to healing. Energy healers are not as attached to the underlying disease and pain as the client is - it is easier for them to facilitate the energy healing process. Each person is really responsible on the soul level for their own healing and if their souls are not ready to heal themselves, usually a permanent healing will not occur. Often there are many energetic causes and weaknesses associated with an illness or disease and so it is not uncommon for someone to heal and clear a lot but they may not feel totally well because they are not ready to release the next level or layer of the pattern. It often takes time to heal and clear old energetic imbalances that were created over many years.

Immediately after we are born, we begin to absorb the negative beliefs of our family and society which blocks the natural flow of emotions through our consciousness. This creates an imbalance in our energy fields and aura and their frequency or vibration level drops and eventually this creates physical problems, disease, stress and discomfort. While most of Western science focuses on the symptoms or effects of energetic imbalances, energy healing addresses the root cause of disease. Energy healers act as facilitators to assist people to upgrade the frequencies of their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy fields back to the original level of unconditional love so that imbalances can be released. Often it can be quicker to clear things with alternative energy healing than through more traditional healing treatments and drugs.

There are many healing modalities in the world today. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is a title used to refer to a diverse group of health-related therapies and disciplines which are not considered to be a part of mainstream medical care. Other terms sometimes used to describe them include 'natural medicine', 'non-conventional medicine' and 'holistic medicine'. Here are a few: (this does not cover in totality all the modalities available).

Reiki 

Reiki is a form of energy healing, which uses a simple hands-on healing technique. Reiki is one of the most common forms of alternative energy healing in the world right now. There are many forms of Reiki with Usui being the most common form.

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy has been practiced for thousands of years. The ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians had recognized the healing properties of essential oils. The Indians and the Chinese have also been aware of the therapeutic benefits of essential oils for centuries. Aromatherapy is the skilled and controlled use of essential oils for emotional and physical health and well-being. The essential oils are taken from plants and used in Aromatherapy.

Feng Shui

Feng Shui is the Chinese art of design and placement of objects. Chinese believe that everything in the universe including living beings is made of energy called “chi�? A basic understanding of this energy is essential to bring in harmony and prosperity in our lives.

Crystal Therapy

Practitioners of this therapy believe that gemstones carry certain vibrations which when placed within a person's aura, has the effect of changing it.

Meditation

Meditation was a '90's buzzword, "mind/body connection." Meditation has been known through the centuries in many forms: prayer, chanting, hypnosis,  visualization,  "bio-feedback" devices, breath control; all of these are just a brief listing of the ways mankind has used to quiet the racket of the conscious and allow thought to do its perfect work.

Yoga

The word "yoga" means "union"; the conscious integration of body, mind and spirit with the awareness of the One. Stretching without involving the mind is ... stretching. Actively connecting with the body through thought and conscious breathing, while remaining aware of spirit, comes closer to the idea of what yoga advances.

Homopathy

Homeopathy uses medicines in a way totally different than conventional therapy. Homeopathy sees the body as a whole system. It treats people, not disease, and the whole person includes mental, physical and emotional. This idea makes, homeopathy holistic in nature. Homeopathy does not treat symptoms but sees symptoms only as the outward manifestation of a deeper-level imbalance. 

Hypnosis

Hypnosis is really nothing other than relaxing the conscious mind and therefore making the subconscious available for positive and beneficial suggestions. The effectiveness of these suggestions is relative to the way they are phrased, formulated and delivered.

Therapeutic Touch

Therapeutic Touch  uses the knowledge that illness is the result of the body's energy field becoming unbalanced. Dr. Krieger surmised that the touch worker, by interfacing their energy field with the field of the sick person, would influence the patient's energy. This interface, when properly established, would then change imbalances in that field and allow the energy flow to proceed uninterrupted. The natural, healthy state is thereby restored. 

Reflexology

Reflexology is a energy therapy that puts pressure to reflex areas, formed by nerve endings in each hand and foot, that results in  improved communication to each and every single gland, organ and part of the body, thus encouraging the body to come into balance.

 

 

 

          Universal Energy

 

Common Points of Alternative Energy Healing:

• Everything is energy.

• Energy follows thought.

• Universal life energy can be directed through the hands to facilitate healing.

• Our focused attention is a ray of energy and can affect whatever it is focused on 

• We have an energy body just as we have a physical body.

• Changes in the human energy field are expressed in the body over time, these changes can be positive or negative depending on how we are living our life.

• Greater flow and balance of energy in the human energy field facilitate healing.

• Free flow of energy is essential to health and well-being, blocks in energy will cause negative changes which may be healed with energy.

• The healer can influence the energy field of the recipient through the use of the hands, focus of thought.  A kind of joining takes place between the two fields, started by the mutual intention for healing to take place.

• Various healing alternatives show the energy field as being in layers, which include the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual layers of life.