Energy Healing

ENERGY MEDICINE

By Lawrence Wilson, MD

If matter is nothing but condensed energy, then all healing is energy healing. This, of course, would also include drugs, surgery, herbs and most forms of healing.
However, energy healing techniques are usually defined as those in which the movement or balancing of subtle forms of energy is the primary intent and focus of the technique. This is a very general definition of a huge area of medicine. Below are just some of the most popular methods of energy healing or as it is sometimes called, energy medicine.

EXAMPLES OF ENERGY HEALING METHODS

There are thousands of energy healing methods. Space only permits a brief mention of a few of them. Some are household words, while others are less well known. While many are Eastern in origin, a surprising number developed in the West.

Acupuncture originated in India and is thousands of years old. It postulates the existence of energy channels in the body, called meridians, that control all bodily functions. The acupuncturist assesses these meridians and then uses needles, herbs and occasionally other methods to strengthen and balance the energy meridians.

Acupressure, jin shin jyutsu, foot reflexology and zone therapy. These and other methods are also based on channels of energy or chi flowing throughout the body. Instead of needles, the practitioner uses touch or pressure to affect the flow of energy in the meridian system.

Related methods include yoga, chanting, singing at times, Sufi dancing, tai chi, chi kung, Polarity, therapeutic touch, craniosacral work, Feldenkreis, rolfing, chakra balancing and shiatsu, some forms of meditation, imagery and visualization techniques. Others are prayer and the laying on of hands. These are the oldest of the energy healing methods and remain among the very best.

Machines. There are literally dozens of machines today that activate, strengthen and can at times balance energies in the body. Some are older than others but all do essentially the same thing to the degree that they can affect the body’s energies. Among these are Electro-acupuncture according to Voll (EAV), Vega, Cmputron, QXCI, foot baths and Vibe Machine. Others include diathermy, acuscope, multi-wave oscillators, Rife machines, Bioenergy Field Enhancement Units, Microdynameter and many others.

The patient holds electrodes or places his feet on metal pads or there is some other metehod to hook the patient up to the machine. These are the diagnostic wave of the future, in my view, as they can tell a lot very quickly at low cost and without invasive tests and procedures. However, they will never replace x-rays and other methods completely in all cases, especially for surgery.

Aromatherapy is the application of herb and flower essences for healing. It may be considered an energetic method. Indeed, the energetic qualities of the oils can be measured. The use of gem elixirs for healing, and the use of crystals worn on the body or placed in a home are other forms of energy balancing and healing. It is well known that different minerals have different vibrations. The Bach flower remedies and the Schussler cell salts are energetic uses of flower essences and tissue minerals.

Color, light and sound therapies are well-researched forms of vibrational healing. The body may be exposed to colored lights, or the patient drinks water from colored containers that have been left in the sun to acquire the frequency of that color.

Applied kinesiology is a method of testing muscle strength and is an energetic testing method. Geopathic sciences are concerned with the energies of the earth, and their relationship to our health. The science of sacred geometry is concerned with the energies of certain shapes, the placement and arrangements of objects such as pyramids, and the abilities of certain forms or shapes to concentrate, absorb or broadcast energies.

There are many more energy healing sciences, and there are many practitioners who do energy healing without giving it a name.

THEORY OF ENERGY MEDICINE

All energy healing methods postulate the existence of invisible fields of energy that permeate and create our bodies. These fields go by various names including the chakras, the aura, the acupuncture meridians, the vital force, chi, qi, the odic force, orgone energy and others. Enhancing, balancing, or otherwise altering these fields or frequencies of energy is the key to all energetic healing methods.
Most or all methods of energy medicine share certain principles:

· Subtle energies are real, and reflect and affect our health.

· Subtle energies actually create our physical bodies. Therefore, subtle energy treatments address the causes of illness at deep levels.

· The intensity, quality, and balance of the body's energies can be altered by human contact, machines, potentized remedies, movements, breathing, and even one's thoughts and attitudes.

· Another human being can be used to direct or balance energies, to absorb or broadcast energies, or to act as a "jumper cable" to connect energetic points on the body.

· Resonance, induction and entrainment are important in energetic healing. Resonance is a rapport or harmony that can be established between two energies, frequencies or individuals.

· Induction is the idea that a frequency or energy sent out by one person, remedy or machine can cause a similar pattern in another person or substance.

· Entrainment is the process of matching another’s vibration, and then altering your energy in order to effect change in the other.

· Distance is sometimes not a barrier for energetic healing, since the energies permeate all space. Treatments of certain kinds such as prayer may be done hands on, at a distance, mentally, or even using a surrogate to test remedies and to test frequencies. Some of the sciences use an object from the patient, such as a photograph, or sample of hair or blood.

· It is most helpful for the client to be receptive to the treatment. No healing takes place unless the client wishes it to be so, whether or not healer and client are aware of it.

· There are layers of energetic imbalances. While some energy medicine sciences suggest that one treatment is enough, most suggest a number of sessions to work through layers of imbalanced energies.

· Most energetic healing methods blend physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual healing together to some degree. Unlike conventional medical science that often tries to separate these, the energetic medical arts often see them as interdependent.

MOST ENERGY MEDICINE IS SYMPTOMATIC

This is the unfortunate part of most energy medicine techniques, though not all. This means that much of energy medicine is quite superficial in its effects. This is the main reason I don’t recommend it very highly. There are exceptions, however, and these are discussed in a separate article entitled Symptomatic Healing, What Is It?

MORE ON HOMEOPATHY AND RADIONICS

Many people ask about the value of and differences between energetic approaches to healing such as homeopathy and radionics, as compared with nutritional balancing science. This section will address concerns, especially about homeopathy. Let us begin with important definitions.

Homeopathy is a system of healing first proposed by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann over 150 years ago. Without going into detail, the practitioner uses very dilute, potentized dosages of all kinds of mineral, vegetable and animal substances to effect changes in the body.

Interestingly, homeopathic remedies are produced by a very specific process designed to bring out the energetic properties of the substance. By the time they are done with processing, there is little if any of the actual substance present in the remedy. It is a pure energetic product, in other words.

Homeopathy has two main branches of practitioners who often violently disagree with each other on the use of the remedies.

Classical homeopathy involves taking a specific type of lengthy case history that often requires several hours. Then the homeopath prescribes a remedy based on the constitution of the person. This is not an easy decision, as there are several thousand remedies to choose from.

If the correct remedy is given in the correct dosage and number of applications, often remarkable changes occur in the patient. Unfortunately, a lot of training is required and even then, prescribing is lengthy, costly and not all that accurate in most cases.

Modern European Homeopathy. Within the past two decades, another type of homeopathy has gained a lot of popularity. It is an expansion of the old classical style that does away with the constitutional remedy in most cases.

Instead, prescribing is based on symptoms in some instances. Also, some practitioners use electroacupuncture and other types of machines, kinesiology (muscle testing), radionic devicees (explained later) or other methods to assess the needs of the patient.

Another difference in the newer homeopathy is the use of more modern remedies of toxic chemicals and many other things.

Radionics is a science that depends on the concept that each germ, disease, organ, nutrient and even subtle body of a person is characterized by one or more specific electromagnetic frequencies.

This is a fabulous claim that is largely true. However, using this knowledge correctly is another thing.

Diagnostics. Radionic devices tune or pick up these frequencies from a person’s body. Thus it can be used for diagnostic purposes in amazing ways without the need for invasive and often costly tests. It is the diagnosis of the future without a doubt.

Treatment. The same machine can then be switched to actually add needed beneficial frequencies to the body such as those for more strength, courage, vitamins or minerals.

The devices can also usually be switched to a mode where it can help remove harmful frequencies that might, for example, correspond with a germ, parasite or particular type of cancer.

Radionics is a fascinating science that has endless possibilities and more and more machines are available using this basic technology. A few of the more popular ones are the Computron, QXCI, Ondomed and the older SE-5 and many, many others.

The science developed in the early 20th century. Usually the person to be helped holds electrodes or they are strapped to the body to create the interface with the machine and practitioner. However, an exciting feature of radiionics is that it can be done at a distance with only a sample of hair, a fingernail and some claim just the signature or an object belonging to the person to be worked on. When true, this saves a lot of time and money traveling to a practitioner, of course.

Newer machines link to computers to greatly enhance the speed at which one can search through thousands of frequencies to find the ones a person requires or those one needs to rid from the body.

Many newer machines offer an attachment whereby the practitioner can place the beneficial frequencies in a dropper bottle of water or even in a vitamin or other pill. The practitioner basically places the bottle of distilled water or other substance on a tray or copper plate and turns some switches to energize the water or other substance with the desired frequencies.

The idea is to allow the person undergoing healing to continue the treatment at home over an extended period of time. Otherwise the person must keep returning to the practitioner for future sessions.

Radionic machines can also check the frequencies of herbs, vitamins, drugs and any other substance by pl;acing the substance on a charging plate similar to the plate described in the paragraph above.

ADVANTAGES OF HOMEOPATHY AND RADIONICS

Energetic approaches have the followig advantages over all other healing approaches.

1. Low Cost. The remedies tend to be inexpensive and in many instances, the person to be treated can be sitting at home, saving transportation costs and more.

2. Often Effective, especially for some conditions. Many conditions respond to these machines in most cases. Not all cases will respond, as with all methods. However, many people feel better and this is the ultimate consideration for most people today.

3. Excellent for diagnosing and some prevention of disease states. This has been explained above. A radionic device can sort through thousands of conditions. It can sometimes detect a cancer far earlier than with conventional methods, for example.

It is also much faster, cheaper and less invasive than most medical methods, though it is not a complete substitute by any means. For example, an MRI can pinpoint a break or a tumor better than most energetic machines.

However, I believe energetic techniques will be used widely in the future. Diagnosis will resemble the devices on Star Trek and other science fiction shows.

In a strict sense, x-rays and scans such as MRI, PET and CAT are energetic medicine. However, they are costly and dangerous if they impart radiation to the body, unlike the energetic methods discussed in this article.

4. Energetic therapies are safe. That is, they are non-invasive and their remedies are nont-toxic most of the time. This is not entirely true, but compared with drugs and even vitamins, they are quite safe.

5. Easy on the patient. A final advantage from one perspective is that little is asked of the patient. No dietary, lifestyle, emotional or attitudinal changes are required in most cases, so compliance is good and it can be done on almost anyone, even on animals and plants.

6. Sometimes Easy to learn. Many radionic and electroacupunctrue devices and other energetic medicine systems such as applied kinesiology can be learned by anyone with a little practice.

However, classical and even European homeopathy and some energetic techniques require tremendous skill and years of experience to do well

PROBLEMS WITH HOMEOPATHY AND RADIONICS

Problems with energetic medicine include the following:

1. Classical homeopathy and some other energetic techniques are difficult to learn and practice effectively. Most honest homeopaths will admit this readily. One must find the correct remedy out of thousands. If the wrong one is picked, there will be no help and there could be adverse effects, though not life-threatening.

Modern European homeopathy is symptom-based and for this reason easier to learn and practice. Most people can be trained to use electroacupuncture and radionics machines, including many without medical training. This brings us to the next problem with energetic approaches.

2. Little understanding on the part of many practitioners. Many practitioners of energetic medicine lack medical knowledge to any significant degree. While some are “naturals” at it, this can be a problem because the application of the technique may not be done correctly and can lead to other problems.

3. Any symptomatic approach tends to mask underlying diseases and conditions. Getting rid of symptoms easily and quickly often invites people to believe they are in excellent health when they are not. However, they are taught the practitioners to just come back if another symptom arises. This may not be enough one day and, in the meantime, deeper illness has developed. At that point, the symptomatic approach just is ineffective.

4. Dependence on the practitioner. Many radionic machines, in particular, seem to depend a lot on the sckill and intuition of the operator. This is an advantage for the very good practitiones, but makes it hard for others to learn and apply the method.

5. By not requiring significant lifestyle changes, along with diet and nutritional supplements, the techniques do not produce much spiritual development. This is explained later I this article. This is the most important drawback of energetic medicine from my perspective.

In fairness, some energetic methods included lifestyle and diet and may even suggest nutritional supplements. However, in my experience with a number of practitioners, this is usually not the focus of the treatment.

In summary, energetic methods tend to be symptomatic in nature. This and the lack of participation of the person being healed are the most significant drawbacks.

ENERGETIC DIAGNOSIS IS EXCELLENT IN SOME CASES

What I do recommend is the use of energetic methods for assessment. They can often pick up problems faster and less expensively than medical diagnosis, though not always. They will never replace medical diagnosis, but can be an excellent alternative or addition to medical methods of diagnosis.

ENERGETIC METHODS CAN ENHANCE VITALITY TEMPORARILY IN MOST CASES, THOUGH NOT ALL

Another benefit of energetic healing methods is to enhance vitality in the body. Homeopathy, radionics and the many other energetic medicine techniques often do this to some extent. In fact, every healing system must do so in order to produce lasting results, which these systems can produce on occasion. However, too often the results are temporary or fleeting.

On most radionic machines, for example, there are frequencies to increase vitality that one should use first if the patient’s vitality is deemed to be low.

However, in my experience this is not the same as gaining vitality by eating well, sleeping a lot, taking the proper vitamins and minerals to rebuild the body and eliminating all the toxins from the body such as the metals and many hundreds or thousands of toxic chemicals. It is simply not the same, no matter what anyone claims.

I cannot prove this to anyone’s satisfaction who believes more in energy medicine. However, I have worked with literally thousands of people who have been to many energy medicine practitioners and there is something missing. That is the best I can say.

I believe that homeopathy and other energetic methods can temporarily increase the vitality. But that is all they can do. They can also destroy vitality if they approach the body symptomatically only. What I mean is they can miss important imbalances such as slow or fast oxidation, four low electrolyte pattern and others. In doing so, they make the person worse because they take away the symptom but not the underlying cause. This is my other problem with energy medicine.

In a word, they distract from the larger picture, which is the need for self-discipline, emotional detachment, purification, remineralization of the body through diet and lifestyle changes, and perfection of the body and mind on all levels.

This is a complex subject. For more information about the subject of Vitality, click on this link.

Resources

1) Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber, MD.

2) Space, Time and Medicine by Larry Dossey, MD

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