Energy Touch Healing
In as recent as the early Baby Boomer's generation, deliberate energy healing was practiced almost exclusively as a religious or spiritual practice. Contemporary science has shifted the intentional use of energy for healing beyond the world of mysticism, and into the universal world of the healing arts. Now energy practices like Healing Touch and Reiki are billable medical services in Western medicine.
Modern science explains that all things in our universe from stones to trees, humans to thoughts, even our emotions and ideas exist because they are a collection of quantum material that vibrates at a frequency that allows a formation to occur. Remember having your mind blown in elementary school when you were told that a chair is not really a solid thing? That it is made up of mostly empty space?! I remember that moment: Mind. Blown. The generous Mr. Venema stayed well into his lunch break to explain this wonderment more fully. He was also the first to explain to me that the particles within the atoms are actually filled with smaller and smaller particles that both respond to, and impact the environment of the atoms. Quantum Physicists tell us that an environment includes attention, intention and will. This quantum view of the environment of both health and disease within the body is the foundation of all energy work.
Is energy work still effective even if I’m not a quantum physicist who understands how energy works?
Or, more simply asked, “Does understanding or belief play a role in whether or not this stuff actually works?” Well, of course it does! Pause for a moment to let that sink in. Every part of daily living is impacted by belief, including medicine. When we have a belief in something, that something thrives whether it is a fear, hope, conversation, or alternative therapy. In fact, within Traditional Thai herbal medicine practitioners take this into account, sometimes adding an ingredient that tingles the skin just so that the mind can have more awareness of the medical benefit of the balm or liniment. What is worth noting, however, is that energy practices like Reiki and Healing Touch have shown improvement in the wellness of babies, who are not yet old enough to have beliefs. This is a great way to gage the placebo effect and a fabulous reminder to keep an open mind.
In as recent as the early Baby Boomer's generation, deliberate energy healing was practiced almost exclusively as a religious or spiritual practice. Contemporary science has shifted the intentional use of energy for healing beyond the world of mysticism, and into the universal world of the healing arts. Now energy practices like Healing Touch and Reiki are billable medical services in Western medicine.
Modern science explains that all things in our universe from stones to trees, humans to thoughts, even our emotions and ideas exist because they are a collection of quantum material that vibrates at a frequency that allows a formation to occur. Remember having your mind blown in elementary school when you were told that a chair is not really a solid thing? That it is made up of mostly empty space?! I remember that moment: Mind. Blown. The generous Mr. Venema stayed well into his lunch break to explain this wonderment more fully. He was also the first to explain to me that the particles within the atoms are actually filled with smaller and smaller particles that both respond to, and impact the environment of the atoms. Quantum Physicists tell us that an environment includes attention, intention and will. This quantum view of the environment of both health and disease within the body is the foundation of all energy work.
Is energy work still effective even if I’m not a quantum physicist who understands how energy works?
Or, more simply asked, “Does understanding or belief play a role in whether or not this stuff actually works?” Well, of course it does! Pause for a moment to let that sink in. Every part of daily living is impacted by belief, including medicine. When we have a belief in something, that something thrives whether it is a fear, hope, conversation, or alternative therapy. In fact, within Traditional Thai herbal medicine practitioners take this into account, sometimes adding an ingredient that tingles the skin just so that the mind can have more awareness of the medical benefit of the balm or liniment. What is worth noting, however, is that energy practices like Reiki and Healing Touch have shown improvement in the wellness of babies, who are not yet old enough to have beliefs. This is a great way to gage the placebo effect and a fabulous reminder to keep an open mind.
