As an integrated life coach and energy healer, I get a lot of prospective clients asking what is energy healing, what are the benefits of energy healing, and how the addition of energy work affects the coaching process. These are all good basic questions about this form of healing and I’ll answer them here.
First, What is Energy Healing
The term energy healing includes a wide range of modalities that channel a life-force frequency (vibration), typically but not exclusively through the hands, to improve balance and well-being.
Some refer to it as vibrational healing or energy work. In fact, the latter term is particularly common when music or sound therapy such as singing bowls, tuning forks, humming, toning, and singing.
What Is Life-Force Energy
This life force is the energy that animates and gives life to people, animals, plants, and other living beings. Life Force is also called prana or chi.
Life force is not the same measurable energy monitored with a fitness device.
Common Healing Modalities
Some examples of these modalities are:
- Acupuncture
- Acupressure
- Reflexology
- Chakra Therapy
- Reiki
- Integrated Energy Therapy
- Theta Healing
- Quantum-Touch
- Healing Touch
- Shamanic Healing
- Energy Clearing
- Sound Healing
- Plant and Crystal Subtle or Vibrational Healing
- Breathwork
What these modalities have in common is that they:
- Utilize life force and or vibrational energy to promote balance and well-being.
- Acknowledge the power and centrality of self-healing.
- Embody the “do no harm” principle.
- Work holistically on the mind, body, and spirit and their interconnection and synergies.
- Have routes in ancient healing and spiritual knowledge and practice.
A Note On Energy and Holistic Medicine
Increasingly, conventional medicine employs the terms energy medicine and holistic, but often to refer to something quite different – something that does not include most or all of these commonalities.
For example, taking a patient’s emotional or personal issues into account for treatment planning purposes or assessing environmental factors in a diagnosis may improve conventional medical services and, as such, are a welcome change. But, these piecemeal steps don’t represent true holistic healing.
Second, What Are the Benefits of Energy Healing
The list of potential healing outcomes is essentially limitless, but some common and general healing results are as follows.
Potential Healing Outcomes
- Reduced physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual stress and worry;
- Relief of physical pain, stiffness, and tension;
- Enhanced healing when used as a complement to other health and wellness treatments;
- A lessening of the discomfort experienced with more invasive or harsh treatments such as chemotherapy;
- Improved sleep;
- Release of blocks and the experience of being stuck without solutions;
- Improved concentration and mental clarity;
- Greater self-awareness and self-empowerment;
- Greater understanding of the interconnectedness of thoughts, perspectives, behaviors, and self-imposed limitations;
- The severing or lessening of unhealthy or dysfunctional embodied entanglements such as chronic muscle pain and intestinal dysfunction resulting from fear, worry, limiting beliefs, and habitual responses;
- Release of unwanted recurrent or chronic mental, emotional, or behavioral patterns;
- Successful adoption of desired outlooks and behaviors;
- Release of ancestral, familial, and historic traumas and nonbeneficial patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving;
- Clarification of spiritual, personal, and professional goals and aspirations;
- Improved relationships and interpersonal communication;
- Cleansing and clearing the self and unpleasant environments; and
- Achievement and maintenance of balance, integration, and wholeness
Benefits of Distance Healing
Another benefit of many but not all energy healing modalities is the ability to send healing through time and space. Just like sound and light, life-force energy can travel through space. Not only can permanently or temporally disabled clients receive healing without traveling, but also those with limited time or access to transport.
In addition, it’s possible to request a session for a distant loved one or arrange treatment for a troubled personal or professional relationship.
Distance healing can be sent to anyone or anything anywhere in the world.
Hands-Free Healing
Finally, because healing can be completely hand-free or without touch, people who can’t be touched (a burn patient) or feel too vulnerable.
Lastly, How Does Energy Work Affect the Coaching Process
The long list of potential beneficial outcomes of energy healing presents some obvious contributions to coaching. For example, people often seek the assistance of a coach when they feel overwhelmed; unable to make complex or difficult decisions; or face intractable personal and professional relationships just to mention a few common complaints.
Oftentimes, clients are not consciously unaware of or resistant to recognizing underlying patterns. But their subconscious is aware and receptive. In fact, sometimes the body and subconscious are crying out to be heard. Since energy healing can work deeply and on the subconscious level, it can bring about clearing and/or an important shift. Clients can be completely surprised by the changes they experience. It can seem as though it came out of nowhere.
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