Integrative Energy Medicine and Biofeedback
Energy healing modalities take a holistic approach and seek to balance these energies that run throughout our bodies’ pathways, known as meridians. Energy medicine attempts to restore these equilibriums.
Scientific evidence confirms that we all possess an energetic system which is closely tied to the physical body, emotions and spiritual components of ourselves. Energy healing techniques have become more popular within modern healthcare environments and resulted in positive client outcomes.
Integrative Energy Medicine (IEM)
Integrative energy medicine (IEM) is a type of healing that combines ancient healing practices with scientific understandings of bodily systems and processes, known as integrative energy healing (IEF). Practitioners of this form of energy healing, known as energy healers, often work alongside traditional health care professionals. Energy healers believe that imbalances in our energy fields can negatively impact physical, mental and emotional well-being and contribute to anxiety, stress or pain conditions. As well as providing holistic energy healing treatments these practitioners educate clients on lifestyle practices which promote physical and emotional well being.
One of the most well-known energy healing modalities is Reiki. Reiki involves channeling energy from practitioner’s hands directly to recipient via specific hand placement patterns that correspond with chakras and meridians in the body, while some practitioners also incorporate sounds, such as singing bowls or chimes, into the practice to enhance experience.
Qi Gong is another energy healing practice. This ancient mind, body and spirit exercise has long been utilized to boost immunity as well as increase balance, flexibility, strength and endurance. Furthermore, Qi Gong may help alleviate back pain, ease arthritis symptoms and lessen fibromyalgia flare-ups while decreasing depression anxiety and mood swings.
IEM offers an intensive two-year training course designed to prepare students to become energy healers. This program combines scientific knowledge of anatomy, neurology, kinesiology and physiology with energy psychology and meditation practice; students also learn Native American and Shamanic healing modalities for managing imbalances within their bodies.
An IEM session involves working to alleviate both physical and emotional discomfort or trauma at once, providing both physical and emotional healing strategies simultaneously. By working through both approaches simultaneously, energy healers open pathways for non-lingual healing processes that go beyond spoken words to be effective healing agents. Sessions frequently feature visions, sensations of warmth or coolness and the sensations of movement within bodies during sessions.
Energy healing has proven itself an effective treatment option for various conditions, such as anxiety and depression, sleeplessness and chronic illness. Research and individual case histories demonstrate its efficacy by decreasing stress levels, lowering blood pressure, relieving pain and improving quality of sleep.
Healing Touch
Alison specializes in Energy Medicine, Radical Forgiveness Coaching and Shamanic Energy Medicine Soul Journey Healing. With over 25 years of holistic health experience in treating autoimmune disease, digestive issues and Autism issues for her clients; Alison holds great respect for the body’s natural ability to heal. As well as being a Naturopathic Doctor and Certified Radical Forgiveness Coach she also holds an apprenticeship with a Peruvian Shaman for two years as well as having completed two-year program for Ceremony Practice – she lives happily ever after with her husband and adorable office dog Levi.
Energy medicine encompasses various modalities such as Healing Touch, Reiki, reflexology, craniosacral therapy and qigong. All these practices – and many more not mentioned here – are founded upon the concept that living beings have an energy field which affects their physical and emotional states; when this field becomes disrupted it may result in illness and disease; energy medicine works to balance and restore this flow, thus supporting optimal bodily function.
Though the exact mechanisms by which these modalities operate remain obscure, they do appear to produce tangible results in some patients. A 2021 study conducted with 120 women with osteoarthritis showed that those receiving healing-touch therapies experienced significant reduction in pain relief; similarly, cancer patients have seen their tumor spread decrease when treated using these therapies.
As well as alleviating symptoms, these practices are believed to help restore balance between mind, body and spirit. Some practitioners argue that holistic healing practices must restore equilibrium lost through conventional medical treatments.
Reiki
Reiki is an energy healing practice that works to balance and align your body’s natural energies, without religion or belief being an issue. Reiki sessions involve you remaining fully clothed while your practitioner gently places their hands over specific parts of your body – this induces deep relaxation while relieving stress, anxiety, strengthening immunity systems and providing emotional stability.
Reiki’s origins remain obscure, though its founding figure, Mikao Usui is thought to be responsible. Usui rediscovered its root system during a fast in the 19th century and passed on its techniques through several grandmasters. After experiencing spiritual awakening due to this encounter with an immense light above him during fasting, he developed the ability to use energy healing on himself and others alike.
Reiki is composed of two Japanese words, “rei” meaning universal and “ki” for life force energy. According to tradition, all humans possess the ability to connect with this universal life force energy which is then used to treat physical, emotional and mental ailments. Also referred to as prana in yoga or “chi” in Chinese culture – it encompasses all vitality within both your body and universe.
Karla Trueba is an enthusiastic Reiki Master with a deep-seated passion for holistic healing. After 25 years in media, Karla found her true calling of helping others attain equilibrium in their energetic states through Chakra Therapy and Meditation practices. Karla strives to guide her clients along their paths toward wellbeing and inner peace.
Addiction recovery requires constant effort, but negative energy and emotional blockages can contribute to feelings of restlessness, irritability, and anxiety, making sobriety challenging. Energy healing modalities like Reiki can be an invaluable aid to counseling or evidence-based practices in creating a sense of grounding and reconnecting body and spirit – something our addiction treatment programs incorporate by offering Reiki sessions that focus on physical and emotional wellbeing so you can remain committed to recovery.
Biofeedback
Biofeedback sessions utilize sensors on different parts of the body to monitor physiological responses and relay this data back to patients via auditory (hearing) and visual cues, helping them learn to regulate responses, such as muscle tension during stress headaches. Biofeedback provides feedback via auditory (hearing) and visual cues which allow patients to learn control their response as well as manage symptoms like muscle tensing.
Biofeedback uses techniques like breathing exercises and visualization to enable people to take charge of bodily functions that would normally remain unconscious, giving patients control of bodily processes that otherwise remain involuntary. By helping patients learn to control bodily processes on their own, biofeedback teaches patients how to effectively manage pain without the side effects associated with medication, often used for high blood pressure, migraine headache, TMJ dysfunction and chronic pain relief. It has proven particularly successful at treating high blood pressure, migraine headache, TMJ disorder and chronic pain relief.
A therapist will teach you how to use real-time feedback to optimize the functioning of your body’s nervous system. Sensors attached to the body monitor heart rate, skin temperature and brain waves or combination thereof as physiological markers; then the therapist explains what these measurements indicate about mental state – such as feeling more or less stressed – then provides techniques to regulate such physical or psychological parameters.
If you are having difficulty sleeping due to anxiety or other stressors, your therapist may recommend relaxation techniques like meditation and guided imagery as ways to lower stress levels and promote sound sleep. Studies have proven the efficacy of such approaches for helping individuals.
Biofeedback not only reduces stress, but it can also assist patients in managing other chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and migraine headaches. Research on these issues has demonstrated how biofeedback may decrease medication usage to manage symptoms.
Biofeedback therapy is a drug-free and noninvasive solution to various medical conditions, as proven by several large clinical trials as well as numerous smaller ones. Its success has been validated in clinical studies with patients suffering from high blood pressure, asthma, migraine headaches, TMD joints pain and urinary incontinence among others. Open communication among interprofessional healthcare teams comprising primary care physicians, pain specialists, neurologists and psychiatric health nurses can significantly enhance its effectiveness while providing real-time feedback to patients can enable them to manage their conditions more independently and effectively.



