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Energy Medicine
Energy Medicine is a general term which refers to the use of any of the various ways of looking at energy in the body to aid in healing. See below for more information. It is also the name of a book by Donna Eden, internationally recognized energy practitioner.
Many ancient traditions evolved ways of looking at the body energetically. Two of the better known examples would be the meridians of Chinese medicine and the chakras of Indian medicine. I have studied locally with Nanci DeLeo in Reiki and Lisa O’Shea in Qi Gong and nationally with Roger Jahnke, Lydia Wong, and others in Qi Gong, Donna Eden in Energy Medicine, Sandra Ingerman in Shamanism, and Arlene and Larry Green in Touch for Health so that I can bring another healing dimension into my practice.
I offer personal sessions of energy therapy, which combine aspects of Reiki, Qi Gong, Touch for Health, and Energy Medicine individualized to each patient’s needs. These sessions typically include light touch, and may include sound and light exercise both during the session and as homework. Their purpose is to improve energy flow through the body, to provide relaxation, and to initiate both short- and long-term healing responses. They can be particularly helpful in situations where high emotional stress is associated with a medical condition, such as before surgery and before and during chemotherapy.
The session charge is $100 per hour. The initial session of 1 1/2 hours is $150.
PRINCIPLES OF ENERGY MEDICINE (courtesy of David Feinstein, from Energy Psychology Interactive, available through www.innersource.net)
Energy medicine recognizes energy as a vital, living, moving force that determines much about health and happiness. In energy medicine, energy is the medicine, and energy is also the "patient." You heal the body by activating its natural healing energies; you also heal the body by working with energies that have become weak, disturbed, or out of balance. Energy medicine is both a complement to other approaches to medical care and a complete system for self-care and self-help. It can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders, and can also promote high-level wellness and peak performance. The essential principles of energy medicine include:
1. Energies—both electromagnetic energies and more subtle energies—form the dynamic infrastructure of the physical body.
2. The health of those energies–in terms of flow, balance, and harmony–is reflected in the health of the body.
3. Conversely, when the body is not healthy, the energies that produce illness can be shifted.
4. To overcome illness and maintain vibrant health, your body needs its energies to:
(a) Move and have space to continue to move—energies may become blocked due to toxins, muscular or other constriction, prolonged stress, or interference from other energies
(b) Move in specific patterns—generally in harmony with the physical structures and functions the energies animate and support. “Flow follows function.”
(c) Cross over—at all levels, from the microlevel of the double helix of DNA, and extending to the macrolevel of the left side of the brain connecting to the right side of the body and the right side to the left.
(d) Maintain a balance with other energies—the energies may lose their natural balance due to prolonged stress or other conditions that keep specific energy systems in a survival mode
5. Flow, balance, and harmony can be non-invasively restored and maintained within an energy system by:
(a) Tapping, massaging, pinching, twisting, or connecting specific energy points on the skin
(b) Tracing or swirling the hand over specific pathways over the skin
(c) Exercises or postures designed for specific energetic effects
(d) Focused use of the mind to move specific energies
(e) Surrounding an area with healing energies—one person’s energies can influence another’s
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