Energy therapies is a collective term used to refer to a variety of alternative and complementary treatments based on the use, modification, or manipulation of energy fields.
In 2007 Dr. Mehmet Oz stated “the next big frontier in medicine is energy medicine”, on the Oprah show. He is not alone, many others are joining the collective voice of supporters of this ancient knowledge. According to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel laureate in Medicine: “In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.”
The language of energy is one your body already speaks and understands. Energy can be managed to more effectively deal with stress, reduce anxiety and free yourself of many ailments.
Using energy you can optimize the body’s natural capacities to heal itself and to stay healthy. Energy therapy is a return to personal responsibility for health care, harmonizing with the forces of nature and returning to practices that are natural, non-invasive and familiar to the body, mind and spirit.
Symptoms of Low Energy:
- Unusual tiredness, even after 8 or 9 hours sleep
- Inability to summon enthusiasm
- Lack of interest in sex
- Poor concentration
- Apathy
All people can enhance the health of the body’s energies. Just as eveyone has a different physical structure, everyone has a different energy anatomy. The most important participant in energy medicine is the one who inhabits the body being worked on.
A typical energy session will start off with a brief conversation, allowing the client tell the practitioner why he or she is there, what is going on in his/her life, and what he or she is hoping to get out of the session(s). Almost all energy therapies are performed on fully clothed clients who are either lying down on a flat surface or sitting up in a chair.
The practitioner simply allows the energy to channel into the client. There is no physical manipulation; everything is done on a purely energetic level. Once the energy session is completed the practitioner “grounds” the client back to the planet. This is often done by moving to the feet and channeling the energy into the soles of the feet. This works to open the chakras on the bottoms of the feet, which connect us to the planet.
The purpose of energy healing is to help identify and move stuck energy to allow us to rediscover the lightness of life and the joy of being alive. An open heart, a set of hands and a willing spirit is all that is needed.
