Healing With

Energy

Does it really work?

The short answer is ... yes. Since I was an engineer most of my life, I understand the skepticism many have when talking about healing with energy. I’ve been there myself. But my experiences have shown me that one can indeed heal with energy. Setting pure Energetic Healing aside for a moment, let’s talk about another form of energy healing … acupuncture. Now, I’m not one to do acupuncture myself (I’m not a fan of needles and have an overly well developed set of nerves near the surface of my skin) but a few years ago we had an older dog with some pretty severe arthritis. She ended up needing surgery on one of her legs but we didn’t want to get the surgery for her until we could get the arthritis under control and my preference was to do so without additional pain medications or experimental treatments. I’d heard that acupuncture was somewhat effective in dogs, so we found a veterinarian trained in animal acupuncture and started taking our girl once a week. Within 5 or 6 weeks it was as if someone had turned the clock back at least 5 years. Our 13 year old arthritic dog was clearly feeling much better ... she was trotting around her yard and rolling around on her back! If she were human, I might not have been so impressed. Humans have the capacity to effect healing just by believing something will work (the placebo effect). But animals don’t have “logic” and our girl had no idea what we were doing so the results aren’t tainted by rationalization or other human brain processes. This episode, more than any other experience I’ve had, convinced me of how well energy can work to help us heal. It cannot cure us, but it can help us to heal ourselves. By keeping our energetic pathways clear, we minimize the effects of stress and maximize our body’s ability to function properly. And whether we keep things clear ourselves or seek help to clear those pathways isn’t important ... just that we do keep things moving. Internal stresses, excess electromagnetic energy, junk food, lack of sleep, and high emotional states can all contribute to blockages in our body’s energetic pathways. The practice of Energetic Healing is similar in theory to acupuncture … the energy a practitioner works with is used to clear blockages in the energetic body, maintaining the flow of energy and allowing the body a greater potential to heal itself. Energetic Healing practitioners do not supply the energy needed to clear blockages or replenish the body’s energy supply, we are just a conduit for the life energy in the Universe and have been trained to feel and direct that energy. Energetic healing modalities do not “cure” disease or heal the body directly, but they do help the body to use its ability to heal itself by helping to maintain an efficient energy flow. Energetic Healing is also a wonderful way to help manage stress in your life. Not only do you get a little help in keeping the energetic paths clear, each session is like a mini- retreat from the daily grind where you can just relax for a while.