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How Does Energy Healing Work?

In energy medicine, energy IS the medicine. It is not a healer that heals the patient, but rather the healer that “facilitates” healing. The higher vibration provided by the energy healer and the patient's body responding with its own innate intelligence are what actually cause healing. The body of the patient intuitively responds to the channeled energy flow from the healer. This stimulates the energy within the patient's body to flow and rebalance where it is needed. The channeling of the higher energy vibration affects the cells, nerves, muscles, tissues, and skeletal structure of the patient's entire body at a quantum level. All of the individual systems and organs within the patient’s body possess their own rate of vibration, effortlessly and intuitively responding to the higher frequency. This is what causes the healing to occur.

Common to all energy healers is the ability to affect the vital energy of their patients. There are many different methods used by energy healers to stimulate and rebalance energy. Some energy practitioners can “sense” energetic congestion (lower/unsteady vibrations) within areas of the body, either by holding their hands on or above the body, viewing the aura, or using specialized techniques. Others simply channel a higher energetic frequency into the body of the patient, knowing the energy will naturally and spontaneously disperse to where it is needed.

Learning how to rebalance your own energy is not dependent on any specialized skill set, intellectual capacity, or spiritual development.  Some techniques are easy to learn and can be accomplished by anyone.  Others, however, require education to master principles and methodologies (e.g. techniques which may be governed by licensure and/or local governance such as acupuncture). 

There are two very simple ways to raise the vibration of your body:

1.	Focus on high-vibration thoughts and emotions (love, health, vitality, strength, gratitude, kindness, compassion, trust). Feel these emotions infusing your body, filling your entire being. Visualize experiences filled with positive emotions and feel the impact they have on your body. Take time throughout the day to focus on high vibration thoughts - especially when experiencing stress, anger, frustration, or other fear-based emotions. Counterbalance them with higher vibration thoughts as soon as they occur. In a short amount of time, you will retrain your mind to predominantly focus on positive emotions. This, in turn, will steadily raise the overall vibration of your body.
2.	Find a place where you can spend a few moments alone to relax. Calm your body and begin to breathe deeply and rhythmically. When you have reached a state of peaceful calmness, on each inhalation, visualize a beautiful, golden white light flowing into your body from above your head. As you exhale, visualize this light beginning to infuse your entire being. Continue inhaling this light into your body, and exhaling it throughout your body. If there is an area of your body experiencing pain or discomfort, focus the light infusion within this region. Maintain this flow of energy breathing for at least 10 to 15 mins daily, or until you feel the need to stop. You may find certain fear-based emotions come to the surface, perhaps a past frustration, feelings of inadequacy, guilt, or abandonment. It is important to never deny any fear-based emotions you have, but rather accept them for what they are. Look at them from a "third party" perspective, as a therapist does when talking to their patient. After accepting these emotions, work on transmuting (transforming) them to feelings of love and healing. For example, if you are experiencing feelings of abandonment, replace them with the knowledge that you are are whole and perfect as you are, and that the moment you open yourself up to lovingly accepting yourself, and believing in your ability to freely receive and give love to others, then energetically you will attract the energy of such circumstances in your life. The energy of abandonment will no longer exist within your energy field.

Different Types of Energy Healing

The terms “energy healing,” “energy medicine,” and “vibrational medicine” are used to describe a wide variety of healing therapies used to balance the vital energy flow of the body.

Therapies involving the physical touching of the body or “hovering” of hands over the body include:

  1. Reiki
  2. Quantum Touch
  3. Shiatsu, and other similar massage techniques
  4. Acupressure
  5. Reflexology

Therapies involving the use of flowers, plants, and trees:

  1. Herbal Medicine
  2. Homeopathy
  3. Bach Flower Remedies
  4. Chinese Herbalism (a branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine)
  5. Ayurvedic Herbs (a branch of Ayurvedic Medicine)

Other therapies include:
  1. Chromatherapy
  2. Crystals
  3. Sound and music
  4. Breathing / Visualization / Meditation

Naturopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Ayurvedic Medicine are complete systems of healthcare which address energetic imbalances from a holistic perspective by using a variety of techniques.

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