What is Energy Medicine?
"ENERGY MEDICINE IS AN APPROACH that involves balancing and restoring your body’s natural energies for the purposes of increasing your vitality, strengthening your mental capacities, and optimizing your health.
ENERGY MEDICINE IS A NEW FIELD WITH ANCIENT ROOTS. It builds not only on what is known in Western science and medicine, but it also draws heavily from Eastern health practices and disciplines such as acupuncture, yoga, and qi gong.
IT IS BOTH A COMPLEMENT to other approaches to medical care AND A COMPLETE SYSTEM for self-care or self-help. It can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders, and can also promote high-level wellness and peak performance. By learning simple energy techniques, you can improve your health, sharpen your mind, and increase your joy and vitality.
ENERGY MEDICINE IS ALSO PREVENTIVE: By recognizing energy disruptions before symptoms appear, the energy problem can be corrected rather than allowed to progress until it erupts into physical illnesses.
ENERGY MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS ARE NOT PRACTICING MEDICINE. Although Energy Medicine uses the term “medicine”, it does not imply that Energy Medicine practitioners are practicing medicine. Energy Medicine is a term used by many training programs that teach people how to assess and correct for energy imbalances in the body. ENERGY MEDICINE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE for the diagnosis and/or treatment of medical or mental health conditions by a licensed health care professional. If you have a disorder that has been diagnosed by a licensed medical or mental health professional or a condition that should be evaluated by a licensed health professional, my services should be used only in conjunction with your obtaining that care. I DO NOT DIAGNOSE OR TREAT MEDICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS, nor am I trained or licensed to do so. Energy Medicine attempts to optimized the body’s overall health and vitality, but it is not to be used instead of appropriate care from a licensed professional." Innersource.net
ENERGY MEDICINE IS A NEW FIELD WITH ANCIENT ROOTS. It builds not only on what is known in Western science and medicine, but it also draws heavily from Eastern health practices and disciplines such as acupuncture, yoga, and qi gong.
IT IS BOTH A COMPLEMENT to other approaches to medical care AND A COMPLETE SYSTEM for self-care or self-help. It can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders, and can also promote high-level wellness and peak performance. By learning simple energy techniques, you can improve your health, sharpen your mind, and increase your joy and vitality.
ENERGY MEDICINE IS ALSO PREVENTIVE: By recognizing energy disruptions before symptoms appear, the energy problem can be corrected rather than allowed to progress until it erupts into physical illnesses.
ENERGY MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS ARE NOT PRACTICING MEDICINE. Although Energy Medicine uses the term “medicine”, it does not imply that Energy Medicine practitioners are practicing medicine. Energy Medicine is a term used by many training programs that teach people how to assess and correct for energy imbalances in the body. ENERGY MEDICINE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE for the diagnosis and/or treatment of medical or mental health conditions by a licensed health care professional. If you have a disorder that has been diagnosed by a licensed medical or mental health professional or a condition that should be evaluated by a licensed health professional, my services should be used only in conjunction with your obtaining that care. I DO NOT DIAGNOSE OR TREAT MEDICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS, nor am I trained or licensed to do so. Energy Medicine attempts to optimized the body’s overall health and vitality, but it is not to be used instead of appropriate care from a licensed professional." Innersource.net
The principles of energy medicine
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 restoring energies that have become weak, disturbed, or out of balance. Energy Medicine is both a complement to other medical care approaches and a complete system for self-care and self-help. It can help 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:
The essential principles of energy medicine include:
- Energies—both electromagnetic energies and more subtle energies—form the dynamic infrastructure of the physical body.
- The health of those energies—in terms of flow, balance, and harmony—is reflected in the health of the body.
- Conversely, when the body is not healthy, corresponding disturbances in its energies can be identified and balanced.
- To overcome illness and maintain vibrant health, the body needs its energies to:
- 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.
- Move in specific patterns — generally in harmony with the physical structures and functions that the energies animate and support. “Flow follows function.”
- at all levels, from the microlevel of the double helix of DNA, extending to the macrolevel where the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side to the left.
- 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.
- Flow, balance, and harmony can be non-invasively restored and maintained within an energy system by:
- tapping, massaging, pinching, twisting, or connecting specific energy points on the skin
- tracing or swirling the hand over the skin along specific energy pathways
- exercises or postures designed for specific energetic effects
- focused use of the mind to move specific energies
- surrounding an area with healing energies (one person’s energies impacts another’s)