What is Energy Healing?
Energy Healing (also sometimes referred to as Energy Work, Bodywork, or Spiritual Healing) is a collection of practices and beliefs that assist the mind, body, and emotions to harmonize as an integral whole. Energy Healing is about boosting the wellbeing of the whole system. It’s about experiencing expanded states of excellent physical health, robust mental clarity, and peaceful emotions.
As it turns out, the science textbooks of childhood were inaccurate: The basic building block of this Universe is not atoms and not matter. Rather, the smallest unit, the basic force that underlies everything is energy. (Albert Einstein made this discovery over 100 years ago. Due to complex social and economic forces, however, it often takes a while for radical new truths to replace comfortable old truths. Cultural evolution takes time.)
Ultimately, energy — also known as prana, reiki, chi, or ki, depending upon the culture in which you live — is the malleable stuff out of which all of life is made. Energy is the foundation of life itself.
This is not a matter of faith. Energy can be sensed and measured. As you playfully experiment with Energy Healing practices, you will learn to sense the presence and movement of energy and understand how these movements relate to your wellbeing.
The more that energy is able to flow freely within the body, the more that you will be able to serve your fellow humans, feel fulfilled, and smile peacefully at the challenges of life.
Try the following experiment. Shake your hands vigorously over the top of your head for sixty seconds. Then, rest your hands still upon your lap and feel the sensations in your hands. The tingling sensation you feel is energy.
Here’s another experiment. Sit quietly and close your eyes. Focus all your attention on your left thumb. Don’t move your thumb, simply try to feel your left thumb internally. Notice all the physical sensations in the left thumb. After a while, you’ll begin to feel vibration, heat, pulsing, and/or tingling sensations. What you feel is energy.
Try one more. Hold your hand in front of a white wall. Softly gaze, with unfocused eyes, in the general direction of your hand. Be patient. What do you see? After a while, you’ll begin to notice hazy, glittering, softly glowing ribbons of light flowing from the edges of your fingertips. These may appear as a variety of colors, or simply as grey or silver. What you see is energy moving! (Note: If you don’t see anything, try placing your hand in front of a solid black surface.)
Physical activity such as yoga and exercise make humans feel good. But why? The answer is energy. Moving our physical form allows the energy to flow more freely throughout the body, which invites more creativity and intuition while simultaneously reducing anxiety and toxic emotions.
While there are many well-known practices that encourage the free-flow of energy in the body — such as exercise, healthy diet, and positive thinking — there is also the exciting world of Energy Healing, which is a direct method of energy transformation.
Energy Healing can be learned by anyone. We live in an exciting time on the planet! Practices that used to be esoteric and difficult to understand are now freely shared and understood.
To heal means “to make whole.” To practice Energy Healing is to restore wholeness to all that is seems fragmented, isolated, and separated. It is about coming into holy unity. Energy Healing also teaches trust in the principle of abundance: the recognition that if humans act in concert as connected, caring community, there will be plenty of resources for all. Poverty, deprivation, loneliness, lack, and starvation (and the inherent violence that comes along with these) are slowly morphing into past tense on this planet, as more and more of us wake up to the powers of Energy Healing.
As Energy Healing Practitioners, we learn a different view of health care. We learn that the body’s symptoms and illnesses are not a mistake, not an error. In fact, the body is a friend who is trying to communicate with us. Even physical “accidents” (falls, crashes, etc.) are here to reveal to us a deeper truth. The practice of Energy Healing is a way to intuitively tune into the body’s wise messages. Everything that manifests physically, whether through disease or through an outward event, is specifically designed to bring us closer to a sense of wholeness.
This Universe is benevolent and perfect. The more we practice Energy Healing, the more this truth reveals itself in our heart and we feel a deep peace within.
Happy Practice!
