Energy Healing
Energy healing is sometimes called energy therapy or energy medicine and has been used for centuries by many different indigenous groups around the world. It is the umbrella term used for any therapy that manipulates the energy circuits in our physical and subtle bodies to regain balance and facilitate the body’s natural ability to heal. It is now considered as a complementary form of alternative medicine and has become a lot more well known in the western world.
Energy healing is recognized as a healing modality in western and eastern religions such as Christianity and Buddhism. Practitioners of energy medicine usually adopt traditional methods handed down from generations to rebalance the energy body in a person in the hope to overcome illness. The traditional belief in Asian countries is that people can only correct the imbalances of the physical body if the imbalances are first corrected in the energy circling within the body.
Aboriginal healing, Native American Healing and Japanese healing methods all adopt the idea that the etheric body needs to be healed before the physical body can. In Chinese medicine the energy is called (chi) energy. Energy medicine employs diverse methods to modify and manipulate the flow of energy around the body. The intent is to realign, replenish and stabilize the amount and quality of energy within the human body.
There are many types of energy therapies that use various skills and approaches to heal the body mind and spirit.
- Reiki
- Qigong
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
- Biofield energy
- Therapeutic Touch (TT)
- General Spiritual Healing – generally secular or at least non-denominational
- Faith Healing – tends to be Christian-based
- Acupuncture/acupressure
- Yoga
- Myotherapy
- Polarity Therapy
- Meditation – certain forms
- Visualization techniques
- Chakra balancing
- Crystal Healing
- Tai Chi
- Reflexology
- Traditional Native healing (American Indian, Aboriginal etc)
- Kinesiology
- Flower Vibrational Essence Healing
Depending on the practitioner and the specific energy healing technique they use energy healing can also be divided into two categories:
1. Hands-on healing method e.g. acupuncture, acupressure, Faith healing, Reiki, crystal healing, massage, myotherapy, aboriginal traditional healing, therapeutic touch and Qigong.
2. Hands off healing method e.g. meditation, Yoga, Biofield, Chakra balancing and Emotional Freedom techniques do not need touch to work, distance healing
How Does It Work
Energy work is based on believing that the human body is an energy system and imbalances manifest themselves into the physical body over time. Practitioners are channels of energy and tools enabling people to heal through the manipulation of subtle energy systems (Meridians, auric bodies, Chakras and Nadis) where the root cause of the disease is generally located.
Trauma, emotional stress, mental stress, compromised belief systems, physical trauma, environment stress and other blocks can often be released through energy healing. Repairing and rebalancing the energy in the body can lead to personal growth and better functioning of the mind and body. Energy therapy facilitates the healing process by clearing blocks in the energy fields, repairing and rebalancing the energy so that the body can be balanced and function at its optimal level and heal itself.
Energetic healing can sometimes help identify “issues” before they manifest in the physical body as pain or disease. It opens our conscious mind to areas we need to work on and heal in order to bring our lives into balance and maintain health, harmony and vitality.
Remember, each of us made ourselves from tiny little cells so why wouldn’t we have the power within us to heal ourselves.
