A look at the common reasons why people seek holistic energy healing can help you make a decision about it for yourself. However, in reality, only you can say when it’s an appropriate time for you to explore holistic energy healing.

Lets’s start by defining healing, holistic, and holistic energy healing. Once we create a common understanding of these terms, we can explore the reasons why others turned to this type of healing with an aim to help you clarify the decision for yourself.

Quick Definition of Terms

The Meaning of Healing

Standard definitions of healing have something to do with restoring health, physical healing, treatments to address conditions or illnesses, etc.

In contrast, energy healers take a more expansive view. Healing rebalances a person physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and/or energetically. In fact, many alternative practitioners adhere to the idea that the clients (patients) heal themselves, and ultimately all healing is self-healing (for more on how you heal yourself).

In addition, holistic practitioners help their clients address mental, emotional, spiritual, and energetic issues. This means intention can be related to the clarification of a vision or purpose, the release of blockages to desired behavior change, or an improvement of an important personal or professional relationship. It’s all healing.

The Meaning of Holistic

The term holistic can be described in two ways. First, a holistic modality treats the whole person as compared to conventional medicine which targets a particular condition or part of the body.

Second, holistic implies an essential element of synergy across one or more modalities. In other words, a holistic modality complements and can even reinforce other forms of healing, including but not limited to conventional medicine. Most forms of energy healing do both.

Holistic Energy Healing Modalities

Briefly, holistic energy healing can refer to a wide range of mind-body-spirit healing practices that focus on the body’s life force and subtle energy systems (e.g., chakras, meridians, aura), and how they relate to the human body, health, mental or emotional well-being, and spirituality.

Common forms of holistic energy healing include acupuncture, Qi Gong, and Reiki. We won’t go into different modalities here, but for more basic information and examples of modalities and applications that I offer, see my pages on Energy Healing, Reiki Energy Healing, Integrated Energy Therapy, ThetaHealing, Subtle Aromatherapy, and Shamanic Practices. A review of these pages will give you a clearer idea. All energy modalities work remotely (virtually) as well.

Reasons Why People Seek Energy Healing

People seek energy healing for many reasons. They’re grouped below into several broad categories for the sake of simplicity. Perhaps one or more of these reasons underpins your interest in exploring holistic energy healing.

• Their current treatments are not working, are too harsh, or are incomplete.
• They want to reduce their dependence on drugs.
• Their desire is to work on their whole self in an integrated way.
• There’s a sense that something is off, but neither they nor conventional medicine can determine what it is.
• They primarily want to clarify their aspirations, meaning, and personal visions, which may or may not be an underlying cause of their imbalance.
• They want to develop a connection and communicate with their bodies, embodied experiences, and subtle energy. The more a person works with subtle messages, the louder and clearer the messages become.
• Their intention is to be more in tune with themselves or their higher self.
• They desire to develop their spirituality.

So When Is It Time To Explore Holistic Energy Healing?

You need not wait until nothing else works to learn more about energy healing. This is because it “does no harm.” Energy healing combines well with and often reinforces other forms of healing, and can be added to any healing regimen. In fact, it’s not advised that you terminate other medical treatments without consulting your doctor. In sum, look into holistic energy healing whenever you have the urge or the interest to do so.

If you have additional questions or you’d like to try an energy-healing session or whole-person spiritual life coaching. The latter blends coaching with energy healing for deeper and more sustainable results.