Energy ‘medicine’ and energy healing makes use of several different modalities to heal the whole body for example the use of herbs or crystals to change the body’s energy vibration.
But does energy healing really work? The practice of healing the energy centers in the body has many critics, many of whom are from the scientific and medical community. Skepticism, however, does not necessarily make a practice invalid or nonsensical and neither does and apparent lack of evidence to support many energetic systems of healing.
Most practitioners who are involved in the field of energy healing are satisfied by their own belief in the system and the anecdotal evidence from the many people who have been helped by energy healing modalities. To energy healers seeing is not, necessarily, believing and they choose, instead, to concentrate on what their patients say about the treatment they are receiving.
The one thing these two camps do agree on however is that everything is made up of energy. This is scientifically proven. This means that even solid objects like a table or chair are really made up of vibrating molecules. So energy healing might not be as far-fetched as you might think.
Of course to explore the concept of energy healing on a wider scale will require a paradigm shift to a completely different view of modern methods of healing to a more ancient (if scientific) approach.
Today more and more branches of energy healing are being developed to complement the ones that already exist. Healing therapies are as diverse as the people who practice them. There are energy healing systems which have been created by people with a conventional medicine background and those which have very little basis in either science or medicine (at least on the surface). This means that a person in need of healing can choose from a wide range of therapies.
Many techniques involve the use of the hands in healing. These are probably the most readily recognized and accepted. Reiki is a commonly practiced energy healing therapy that uses the practitioners openness to healing energy, connection with the ‘universal mind’ and in so doing make the action of touching the body more powerful.
Reiki makes use of ‘universal life energy’ to heal the body and mind. This means that healing increases the flow and amount of energy available to the body. This is probably a rather simplistic explanation as energy healing is far more complex and involves the interaction of the person being treated.
Energy healing might work any of the following systems:
* Meridians
* Chakras
* Chakras ("newly emerging")
* "Etheric" (the ‘first layer’ of the energy field, or an ‘energetic blueprint’)
* Emotional energy body
* Mental energy body
* Astral layer Causal body
* Spiritual layers of energy field -- specifically the following 3 named by Barbara Brennan in Hands of Light:
- 5th layer - "etheric template"
- 6th layer - "celestial"
- 7th layer - "ketheric template"
* Lightbody and vibrational energy healing
* Universal calibration lattice
Whether you accept the idea of energy healing or not, one thing is certain - some sort of healing is vital in today’s world and one that is free from harm and side effects can’t really be a bad thing. So why not sign up for a session or two and decide for yourself? You might be pleasantly surprised. My wish for you is one of healing and peace.
