Energy healing therapies focus on using subtle energies to heal both body and mind. By engaging these techniques consciously, they aim to use this subtle energy flow for self-healing purposes.
Most energy healing methods that employ chi-based energy medicine focus on your aura, or energetic field that encompasses four feet around you, and seek to pinpoint any distortions within it that could lead to pain, chronic illness or early signs of aging.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an energy healing therapy that uses needles to stimulate the body’s energy field, with proven benefits that include relieving pain, decreasing stress and improving sleep. Studies have also revealed how acupuncture may be helpful for PMS symptoms such as anxiety and moodiness.
Practitioners of energy healing believe that illness, ailments and symptoms result from misaligning or blocked energies. By channeling, boosting, or realigning the natural energy flows that run through all things in our universe – from trees to our cells – practitioners believe they can treat and even cure disease.
Reiki practitioners utilise hands to manipulate energy while bioresonance therapy uses machines that measure and transmit electrical current into cells of the body.
If you are interested in receiving energy healing treatments, it’s essential that you seek out trained professionals licensed in alternative medicine. Check their credentials, such as completion of a rigorous training program or licensing from their state board, when selecting a practitioner with whom you wish to partner for such treatments. Experience and a proven track record are both key when selecting practitioners; energy healing should not replace conventional medical care; rather it serves as a great supplement. Indeed, researchers are currently researching its effects among cancer patients to see whether energy healing could enhance quality of life or decrease side effects associated with their disease.
Reflexology
Reflexology is an energy healing technique practiced on the feet and hands. Reflexologists utilize special walking and pressure techniques on certain reflex areas on these reflexes in order to balance out energy flow in the body and encourage its healing processes.
Energy healing operates under the assumption that diseases, ailments and symptoms result from misalignments in energies within our bodies. By channelling, boosting or realigning these energies to bring balance back into balance within their respective channels of health and healing in turn promoting relaxation while relieving stress.
Energy healing encompasses various practices that can complement traditional medicine. Most are noninvasive and no touch, such as acupuncture and reiki which use the human biofield, while cranial sacral therapy and qigong which work by altering body movement through subtle variations.
Many modalities have been touted to help with various ailments and conditions, with claims often supported by anecdotal evidence and no scientific research backing up these claims. It’s important to keep in mind, though, that science still doesn’t understand much about how our bodies operate.
Massage
Massage is an energy healing modality widely utilized, as it can unclog vital life force from being blocked off from its full expression. Massage techniques typically involve massaging, pinching, tracing or twisting specific points on the body in order to reestablish energetic balance and restore vital life force flow.
Although many medical practitioners regard such methods as pseudoscience, basic and laboratory research has confirmed their efficacy in certain instances. For instance, Thomaz de Souza’s animal studies proved Therapeutic Touch can facilitate wound-healing through activating fibroblasts.
Reiki is one of the world’s best-known forms of energy healing, with practitioners believing that an unseen universal life force (chi, qi or ki) resides both inside their bodies and the universe, supporting its natural healing processes.
Applied Kinesiology is another energy therapy which utilizes muscle testing, using both ancient Eastern medicine and modern Western understandings of neuroscience and anatomy-physiology to “read” your body’s energy and detect any undiagnosed imbalances or conditions. Practitioners can “read” your energy in order to detect imbalances or conditions unknowingly present within yourself.
There are also energy healing modalities that don’t involve physical contact at all, like PEMF knee devices and sound healing, which use magnetic pulses to deliver healing vibrations to promote healthy knees. Prayer and meditation can have a positive effect on health by helping create peace in life and decreasing stress hormone levels.
Quantum Touch
Mary Ellen offers Quantum Touch energy healing techniques based on Richard Gordon’s Your Healing Hands – The Polarity Experience work. This energy based system allows both lay people and healers to direct life force energy (also referred to as chi, qi or prana) toward correcting health issues through breathing and body awareness techniques which raise vibration levels so life force energy can be transmitted at its natural vibrational rate to others at their level and accelerate healing processes for all parties involved.
Mary uses energy healing techniques to assist clients who are ready to take responsibility for their own healing. She assists clients in clearing away blockages that obstruct electrical impulses between their brain and body – something which often causes physical discomfort as well as feelings of disconnection and dissatisfaction. Furthermore, Mary helps clients raise their own vibration through breath awareness exercises in order to alleviate emotional stress, which often plays a part in contributing to disease.
Mary Ellen often witnesses remarkable miracles of how our bodies can heal themselves with just a touch or intention, especially how this energy can move bones back into place after one session of Quantum Touch. She has seen x-rays showing this remarkable process at work.
Reiki
All bodywork has an effect on your energy field (also known as an aura) but there are specific methods designed to specifically focus on this aspect. Examples include Reiki, healing touch, cranio-sacral therapy and polarity therapy.
These methods utilize a practitioner’s hands to clear, energize, and balance your energy fields. This work is noninvasive and often no-touch; however some techniques involve dowsing within your biofield (near your body but without touching) or direct touch on certain points on your body.
Reiki is one of the most frequently practiced forms of energy healing. Practitioners believe it channels universal energy known as qi in China or prana in India that pervades all living things – the same energy used during tai chi exercise to connect to your higher self and aid relaxation, support body’s natural healing processes and increase emotional mental and spiritual well-being.
A small study published in 2018 suggested that Reiki can be effective at relieving herniated disk pain and decreasing depression, though larger, in-depth studies need to be completed in order to confirm these results. Although energy healing should not be used as a replacement for traditional medical treatments such as consulting your physician or therapist directly. Furthermore, most health insurance policies don’t cover reiki sessions but some therapists offer low cost or free sessions for the local community.
Shamanic Work
Shamanic healing works to address the fundamental cause of mental, emotional, and physical illness: disharmony, fear, or soul loss. Whether this issue stems from lack of life purpose, spiritual connection issues, unprocessed trauma or anything else affecting energy flow in your body – they all erode away personal power and energy that are essential components for overall well-being.
Through shamanic journeying, shamans journey into non-ordinary reality in an altered state of consciousness to meet spirit helpers and deliver sacred messages from non-ordinary realities. These helpers could take the form of humanoid spirits or they may take shape as animal spirits, plant spirits or insect spirits; in addition to helping heal earth itself and all its inhabitants and creatures.
Shamans often perform various healing ceremonies during an energy healing session, including soul retrieval (retrieving lost parts of an individual), power animal retrieval (restoring one’s spiritual guardian), extraction (removing blockages in energy systems), and extraction.
Note: Shamanic work should never replace medical or behavioral health treatment provided by qualified professionals. A shaman’s intention is to offer spiritual guidance and support on your path toward healing; they may suggest dietary changes, herbal remedies, or other healing methods as part of their plan; during the healing process clients often experience shifts and transformations within themselves and their lives.
