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Energy Therapy


Overview

Let's Talk About Vibration (page 1)
Vital Energy (page 2)
The Energy Meridians (page 2)
The Chakras (page 2)
The Aura (page 3)
What Causes Energy Imbalances? (page 3)
How Does Energy Healing Work? (page 4)
Different Types of Energy Healing Therapies (page 4)

The Aura
The aura is the energy field (also known as the energy body) which extends from all living things, and which is constantly interacting with the surrounding energies in our environment. Many people consciously perceive this energy field. Others perceive it unconsciously (for example, when you feel anger or tension emanating from someone, or you have a vague sense of their personality, or feel a sense of peace and comfort around them).

The aura protects the body from harmful energies by filtering out unhealthy energies and energies it does not resonate with, and absorbing energies that are needed and which it does resonate with. When we feel excited, happy, optimistic, and self-assured, our aura emanates frequencies matching this emotion, and attracts to us other people and situations matching this frequency. Likewise, when we feel depressed, unhappy, pessimistic, angry, or frustrated, people and situations which resonate to these frequencies will be attracted to us.

The visual state of this energy field provides important information on the health and well-being of the body. The aura can be multi-colored or may have one or two colors which predominate. These colors relate to health of the chakras and meridians throughout the body. Auras which are clear and which have bright colors indicate a healthy energetic system. Dark, “muddy” auras, or areas of the aura that are blotchy, can indicate emotional, psychological, or physical issues which have been "frozen" within the energy field.

With a little bit of practice, everyone can learn to consciously see the aura with their naked eye, although some individuals are able to naturally see the aura without any practice or training. These individuals have naturally expanded their sensory perception beyond the five physical senses and are often clairvoyant (able to see things others cannot), clairaudient (able to hear things others cannot), and clairsentient (able to feel things others cannot). When we learn to physically see the aura, we then begin the process of expanding our sensory perception and awareness of other dimensions of consciousness. The subtle information which the brain normally filters out will then become fully accessible to us.

The “glow” of the aura can also be photographed using a special type of photography called Kirilan photography. If we focus on a specific thought forms or color, these thoughtforms will be energetically displayed as color swirls and patterns in a Kirlian photograph, as will a haze of whichever color was focused on. Kirlian photography shows us that we can interact with the human energy field and regulate it simply by using our intent. Our thoughts are energy, and energy has a direct impact on our bodies and our surroundings.

Learning how to see your aura and the aura of those around you is not at all difficult. It can be learned by anyone within a very short period of time. Visit our learning center to learn how to see auras. As you learn to see auras, you will feel a great sense of excitement as a whole new world of perception opens up to you!

What Causes Energy Imbalances?

We are in constant contact with vibrations which can influence our energetic health and well-being. A healthy individual will have a higher rate of vibration than an unhealthy individual. As the rate of vibration lowers, an individual becomes more susceptible to other lower energies around them and begin to resonate to this lower vibration. The cycle becomes self-perpetuating as the lower the vibration falls, the more susceptible to surrounding lower vibrations the body becomes.

Life today is very different from life 100 years ago, which is very different from life 500 and 1,000 years ago. Many new, external factors affect the vibration of the human body. Today, we are exposed to toxins, chemicals, preservatives, environmental pollutants (e.g. pesticides, petroleum-based products, and dangerous metals), parasites, and viruses that did not exist years ago. As the world expands, many foods are filled with preservatives to enable them to be stored longer. Water is polluted as a by-product of manufacturing. We live in areas where the air we breathe is polluted from vehicle and manufacturing smog. People are traveling to locations they have never been to before and where they are exposed to an environment to which they do not possess immunity. The rate at which the body has to fight to detoxify and cleanse itself is becoming greater and greater, as more toxins accumulate within our bodies. The body becomes overwhelmed and unable to maintain equilibrium, resulting in disease.

Our energy is affected by prolonged states of stress and anxiety, the energies from other individuals, and from energy interference from household appliances (e.g. microwaves, televisions, and cell phones). The earth is also surrounded by electromagnetic grids which affect us energetically.

Just as a variety of different foods provides us with balanced nutrition, our physical senses perceive a variety of colors, scents, sounds, touch, and sights which provide us with a different kind of nutrition. For example, the lack of loving touch, either from people or from animals, can stimulate feelings of loneliness and isolation. The scent of a flower, fruit, or substances from the natural world can stimulate very different types of emotions than scents which are composed of synthetic ingredients. If we are in an atmosphere where we are continually yelled at or berated, this can have a profound impact on our emotional well-being. Each color possesses its own individual vibration and, based on our past experiences and perception of different colors, each color affects us all in a different way.

Repressed feelings of pain, fear, and anguish from earlier points in our lives can become "frozen" within the energy field and cause a change in our our belief system which mirrors the frozen energy. For example, a child which has been repeatedly punished for expressing creativity will believe "if I am creative, I will be punished." As time goes by, the child will be unaware that this belief has been accepted and is affecting other experiences in his life. This blocked energy contains a energetic pattern/vibration which causes similar experiences to then continually be drawn into the child's life. The different types of emotional blockages affect specific energetic meridians of the body, which are in turn related to organs and systems. The blocked energy will eventually, if not cleared, result in physical illnesses in the area of the body related to that energy meridian.

Finding our energy blockages and releasing them is the key to transforming ourselves to a state of balance, health, and happiness. As we transform these blockages, we often find that other blockages which originated and are dependent on the original blockage, then simply begin dissolving. For example, the child who accepted the belief that his creativity would be punished, may have chosen a career focused on emotionally unfulfilling academic subjects and hobbies which caused career dissatisfaction. As this comes to light, he may then begin focusing on more creative endeavors.

From birth, our energy vibration is naturally very high as we maintain an open connection to our higher spiritual selves. As we grow, voices of authority such as our parents, teachers, and employers present their viewpoints and beliefs of love and hate, right and wrong, good and bad, which we either accept or reject. The beliefs we choose to accept and take on as our own, in turn changes the vibration of our energetic bodies. As we struggle to define who we are in our early years, we often try on various beliefs, and release old ones which no longer serve us. Beliefs which are limiting may cause us to continually feel lower vibrations of energy such as fear, rejection, and abandonment. This energy attracts to our lives circumstances and people which match the same low frequency.

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