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What is energy medicine? Have you ever
wondered? I have pondered this question many times. I have
taken many energy healing classes and have learned wonderful
things from each of them. I like Reiki, Polarity,
Cranial-Sacral, Touch for Health, Emotional Freedom
Technique, and Zero Balancing just to name a few. To a
newcomer to energy medicine, these types of disciplines can
seem overwhelming and confusing. Being an instructor with
over 1600 classroom instructor hours, I have earnestly tried
to improve upon the beginning student’s comprehension of
energy medicine. What follows is what I have learned due to
this effort.
What Energy Is
Energy is movement and vibration. Energy to the ancients was
sound, all sound, both sacred and profane. In the Western
scriptures, the universe is created by the Word or Logos. In
India the universe is created by Vach, a Sanskrit term
representing the Voice or Word of Brahma. In India the Vach
is feminine, and in the West the Greek Logos is masculine.
By the process of entrainment, the Buddhist may meditate on
Mantra or sacred sound to put them in unison with a higher
level of consciousness. Thus, for the ancients, the concept
of sound incorporated all forms of energy movement and
vibration.
For us contemporaries as well, due to the findings of modern
physics, everything is vibration, movement, or sound. Every
subatomic particle up to our solar system on up to all the
galaxies of our infinite universe is in endless movement.
However, when we say that everything is energy, which it is,
it can be difficult to have a discussion about energy
medicine. Thus, it is easier to divide energy into two
forms: physical and invisible.
Physical Energy
Physical energy is the energy that we can touch, see, and
measure with our five basic senses or by sensory extensions
through our modern machines and computers. Physical energy
can be atomic energy, lightning, sound, electricity, the
chemical energy in our muscles, or calories in our
foodstuffs. We see a lot of this type of physical energy
used in therapy today. We call these therapies radiation
therapy, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS),
ultrasound, nutrition or metabolism.
Physical energy is also part of energy medicine. However,
the invisible energy that we are not able to measure right
now is what most people mean by energy medicine proper.
Thus, invisible energy refers to the energy we cannot
measure and is beyond our basic five physical senses and our
modern machines’ abilities to perceive.
Invisible Energy
Invisible energy is also based on models of invisible
anatomy. We have two basic models of invisible anatomy from
the ancient East and Far East. From India we have the seven
major spinal Chakras (vortices or wheels) system with its
72,000 nadis (energy conduits). From China we have the
fourteen major energy meridians (energy conduits),
consisting of about 660 major acupuncture points or energy
centers. Nearly all other forms of invisible energy medicine
are built upon theses models of spiritual or invisible
anatomy.
Just as physical organs need physical energy, invisible
organs of anatomy need invisible energy as well. Universal
life force or invisible energy is called Prana by India, and
the same invisible energy is call Chi or Qi by China or
Japan. Prana or Chi is the foundation of all physical
health. It is believed that an imbalance in energy in any of
our Chakras or Meridians will eventually manifest itself as
physical disease. In fact, many practitioners believe that a
disease can be diagnosed in the invisible anatomy months or
years before it manifest in the physical body. All forms of
energy medicine seek to balance this energy, to either heal
or prevent disease.
Physical Energy + Invisible Energy = Energy Medicine
There are collaborative relationships between the physical
and the invisible forms of energy. In reality they are both
divisions of the one same universal energy of which our
modern science as of yet can only speculate on. For each of
the seven Chakras there is a physical endocrine gland that
secretes hormones in order to balance out our sympathetic
and parasympathetic nervous systems. The health of our
Chakras can influence our endocrine system directly as
invisible energy or Prana becomes physical energy.
Twelve of the Chinese meridians are related to our organs or
physical processes and can influence their health and
functionality directly by the input of Chi into our bodies.
By pressing certain acupressure points with fingers or
needles we can release the blocked flow of Chi in our
client’s body thus restoring the ability for health to
manifest.
The Energy Medicine Practitioner
As practitioners of energy medicine, we become the conduits
of Chi or Prana for our clients. Just like a pair of jumper
cables on your car’s battery, your two hands can polarize
and balance blocked energy patterns in your client’s energy
fields. You may also breathe in Prana directly from the
surrounding universe and send it directly through your arms
into your client’s energy field. This is kind of like
filling up their energy gas tank at the gas station. We
should never use our own Chi as this would deplete us.
No matter what form of Energy Medicine you use, I have found
that there are universals that invisible energy always
responds to. I have found that invisible energy follows
thought, and that thought follows belief, belief follows
intention, intention follows will, will follows
consciousness, and consciousness follows BEING. Simply put,
what you think energy should do, it will usually do. If you
think energy flows from your right hand into your left, then
it will. However, if you suspend your preconceptions, you
may find that you can be an instrument to wisdom greater
than your own. Let your lower ego remain still and let the
energy flow. No matter what discipline you choose to use, by
doing this, you will always be a blessing to us all.
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