Energy Healing
by Victoria Daniel

Jim came for an energy healing session because his medical doctors told him there was nothing else they could do for him. He had lost all circulation in his right leg, and the only option now was to amputate. Gangrene would soon set in, they said. Dressed in shorts and tee shirt, Jim rolled onto my massage table. This was to be his first experience with energy healing. “Trust the process,” I said. “Just relax.” For the next 45 minutes I worked in the biofield surrounding Jim’s body. brushing the field, clearing congested energy, and sending renewing energy into his system.

I always start a session by connecting with my client. I place my hands on his shoulders and hold. Then I assess the energy vortices (chakras) to determine if they are open, closed, or compromised. I also assess the biofield by running my hands along it to determine how it feels: smooth is good; bumpy, ruffly, hot or cold indicates something going on. Then I might clear the field using a “raking” motion with my fingers down the aura or by ruffling it with my hands. Various additional techniques can be used including sending energy deep into the body with the tips of the fingers by holding them lightly on an area or ultrasounding an area by pointing the thumb, forefinger, and middle finger over an area and moving in a circular motion. Sometimes I place the palms of my hands on two areas of the body and send energy pulsing between them to open up a blockage. A light touch is always used. Nothing is ever forced.

I no longer remember exactly what I did with Jim years ago, but when the session with him was complete, I paused and looked down into his eyes. Tears were streaming down Jim’s face. Through muffled sobs, he announced that the circulation had returned. I glanced over at the affected leg and saw that it had a reddish appearance. Jim said that it tingled slightly. The circulation had returned.

Jim never lost his leg. Over the next few months we did more energy sessions, and Jim followed up with detoxifying herbal baths. He returned to his outdoor activities, hunting and fishing, until he died many years later, at an advanced age.

What is energy healing? Unlike our modern medical model, energy healing tries to understand disease and healing from the perspective of the body’s life-force energy. Energy is universal. We are all creatures of “frozen light.” We energy healers believe the human being is created out of a complex set of subtle energy field channels and bodies. We believe that subtle energy is simply energy that cannot be accurately measured using current scientific methods, that even though they are imperceptible to the five senses, these energy layers of the body do exist. We could not see microorganisms before the invention of the microscope, but they killed people anyway. Similarly, though the subtle energies of the body cannot be seen or measured with modern-day devices, disruptions in their flow impede the health of the body. We are much more than biological machines with parts that break down and wear out.

The human body consists of subtle energy as well as manifested physical energy. The subtle energetic aspect of who we are actually precedes the physical aspect. In the womb we all start out as a subtle energy field or blueprint, which predates the appearance of physical tissue and carries within itself the programming for the physical structure. In other words a baby in the womb starts out as energy, before it becomes physical blood, bones, and tissue.

Today’s energy healer works with this subtle energy in any healing session. A person’s state of health is reflected in his/her energy field: every organ in our body has its own energy field, and when healthy, that field pulses with its own unique rhythm. When someone is ill, rhythms change, and health problems can be sensed intuitively in the bio-field. Thus, illness can be defined as an energetic imbalance or disturbance in the subtle channels; this imbalance actually precedes illness. An energy healer can “peer through” sinew, tissue, and skin and restore energetic balance before it materializes in the physical. Or, once disease has materialized, she can work on the energetic level to assist the body to rebalance and heal itself, a balancing that ultimately translates to the physical level.

The goal of modern Western medicine is to relieve the symptoms of disease—a process they call “a cure.” Curing, however, is very limited in the case of a chronic illness or a life-threatening one. How often do we hear from doctors, “we have done all we can”? Healing, however, utilizes emotional, mental, and spiritual balancing, approached energetically. Every healer trusts the innate healing ability of the individual. We are all born with this innate healing ability. What happens when we accidentally cut a thumb with a knife while slicing tomatoes? We assist the body in stopping the bleeding by applying pressure, perhaps wrap a bandaid around it, and then allow nature to take its course. The thumb proceeds to “heal” itself.

The course of nature does not stop at healing cut fingers. In most situations of dis-ease, the body’s innate healing wisdom can be called upon and, when not hindered in its efforts, but supported through energetic healing interventions, will do what it knows to do, to self-heal. These healing interventions promote a balancing of energy within the whole person. Focused caring and touch from the energy healer aid the client in relaxing, permitting the innate self-regulating and healing mechanisms of the body to emerge.

As Richard Gerber M.D. tells us, “the neuroelectrical and biochemical energy systems of the body are fairly well established in scientific circles, and in time the bio-electronic and bio-photonic, or light-based, energy systems of the body will be validated by further scientific research.” The fact that our bodies use other energy systems involving the flow of specific types of energy that have not yet been accepted by conventional or “scientific” medicine does not negate the fact that these “energies” do exist and that they are just as relevant to healing dis-ease states as any drug or surgical procedure that effects its cure by altering neuro-electrical and biochemical energies.

We are, after all, ENERGETIC BEINGS having a PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE.

Victoria Daniel is an energy healer practicing Healing Touch and Energetic Re-patterning. She also provides resonance testing with Hannah Kroeger’s vibrational and herbal remedies. Contact her at 917-693-0542 or through her website, victoriasenergyworks.com.