What is energy healing? Do we need it and does it really work? All human beings are made up of energy. Most of us understand energy in terms of the capacity to do work or (as in so often the case in the western world today) the lack thereof!
But energy forms a part of everything around us. Plants, animals, air and water - energy drives them all, but what if this energy becomes unbalanced? In short the system stops functioning properly resulting in ill-health within the organisms or systems that need energy to survive and thrive. Energy healing can help keep these systems in balance by healing the whole person.
When we have enough of the right kind of energy our lives feel better and we are more able to do what needs doing for the good of ourselves and those around us. Most of us are keenly aware of the times when our energy seems heavy and unresponsive and it is at these times that we can make use of energy healing to restore balance.
Orthodox medicine has in many ways caused us to lose touch with the importance of our own energy. There is a tendency to lean toward the alleviation of symptoms rather than addressing the root causes of our illness and disease. The theory goes that human beings experience illness because there is some aspect of their inner world that is being ignored. Energy healing gets right to the heart of those issues.
This means that change is important and necessary to restore the balance so that they might feel better and be healed holistically. To do this we need to look at not only the physical body but also the emotional and mental parts of ourselves. Healing the body without healing the ‘whole person’ will only result in a temporary cure and the problem is likely to recur. So energy healing seeks to heal a person’s ‘chi’ or life force - the energy channels within the body that keep our bodies and minds healthy.
When a person experiences trauma - whether emotionally or physically, the normal, healthy flow of energy within the body becomes disrupted and might lead to ill health in one or more of the body’s systems. The more serious the illness the more attention we need to pay to its underlying cause. It is where other methods might have failed that energy healing comes into its own.
Practitioners of energy healing like reiki, aura balancing, faith healing and kinesiology believe that it is possible to unblock energy channels and in so doing move it around the body into a more balanced state. This energy channeling helps the body to heal itself.
