Energy Balancing

Energy Healing is an alternative medicine based on the principle that a subtle energy flows through our body (biofield). An illness is traduced by an imbalance of this energy.

The energy healing therapy can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders, and can also promote high-level wellness and peak performance. It is a therapy involving putative energy fields, that means that there are no reproducible methods to measure them.

The energy healers believe that by performing a series of hands movements(no contact) over the patient's body they are able to rebalance the patient’s energy field. Some of the patients report that they feel the practitioner’s hands and they can tell when the practitioner stops with their eyes closed. It is thought that the healing process is done by activating body’s own natural healing energies; restoring a high level of energy would reactivate certain areas of the patient’s brain and theoretically, by learning how to reactivate those areas, would give this the ability to heal by himself after a number of sessions. Some Energy healing therapies like the Chinese acupuncture, or Ayurvedic medicine are more descriptive and detail oriented, some other, like the Celtic healing take a more intuitive approach. There is, though a common factor in all of these branches, the believe that the human body contain an invisible energy field that is in direct relation with our physical mental and emotional health. This energy field, when at maximum potential, insures our body and brains a good functioning, when is depleted or partially blocked we are ill. A few small studies suggest that the Energy healing is efficient. Many patients witness the efficacy of it. Despite all of these, the Energy healing is considered the 21st century “Snake Oil”. That is because of the lack of objective means to measure and evaluate the practitioner’s skills and knowledge

The biofield has not been measured by conventional instruments. Some practitioners say that they are able to see the aura of a person and diagnose them based on the shape and color of this field.

Examples of practices involving putative energy fields include: Reiki and Johrei, both of Japanese origin – use the practitioner's hands as source of the energy radiation Qi gong, a Chinese practice meant to facilitate the flow and accumulation of Qi. Healing touch, in which the therapist identifies imbalances and correct an illness by passing the hands over the patient. Distance healing is a practice that uses the ability to transfer healing energy at distance to patient. Acupuncture a Chinese medical practice where the practitioner inserts needles along invisible energy channels,(meridians), with the purpose of re-establishing the balance of Qi.

If you want to know about my personal approach regarding Energy Therapy read this article: Energy Therapy as a Preventative Healing Method.