Energy Healing for Better Health

Whether you realize it or not, you have energy that flows through you and extends to fields all around you. These forces are measurable and intimately connected to all aspects of your well-being—a truth that is the foundation of energy healing. Practitioners can sense this energy and may feel or see your energy fields. With this awareness, they work to manipulate your energy—using one of several techniques—to encourage overall wellness. Many who have received these treatments speak to the very real impact they’ve experienced.

Your energy field, or biofield, is usually egg-shaped and emanates a couple of feet around you. It interconnects with meridians, energy channels in the body, as well as energy centers (chakras), which are located in all organs, joints, and areas where many nerves come together. All play a role in your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being, and any presence of energy disturbance may relate to a variety of issues such as pain, sadness, and more. Energy healing therapies can adjust, unblock, or rebalance your energy flow to help soothe and heal you in all of these facets of wellness.

Thousands of years of anecdotal evidence—some of which you may have heard firsthand—speak to energy healing’s effects. Research has also shown positive effects of energy modalities such as Healing Touch, Reiki and others, although the exact mechanism at play is not clearly understood. Some energy therapies are being incorporated into medical treatment settings, and quantum physicists continue to research this area.