healingways Energy Healing
Comes of Age A Historic Milestone in Complementary Medicine
by Linda Sechrist
The energy medicine practiced
by acupuncturists and other health practitioners that offer any one of the 60-plus hands-on and hands- off modalities described in The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine, by Linnie Thomas, operates on the belief that changes in the body’s life force can affect health and healing. The therapeutic use of any of them begins with an assessment of the body’s electromagnetic field. Then, a treatment specifically designed to correct energy disturbances helps recreate a healthy balance in its multilayered energy field, comprised of pathways, known as meridians, and energy centers (chakras) that correspond to related nerve centers, endocrine glands, internal organ systems and the circulatory system. The objective for energy medicine
practitioners is to uncover the root causes of imbalances—often from emotional stress or physical trauma— and harmonize them at a bioenergetic level before aberrations completely solidify and manifest as illness.
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s recently as 2010, it would have been unimaginable for an annual medical conference
including allopathic physicians to hold a meeting themed Illuminating the Energy Spectrum. Yet it happened at the sold- out Institute of Functional Medicine 2013 annual international conference. Workshop topics ranged from bodily
energy regulation to presentations by Grand Qigong Master Ou, Wen Wei, the originator of Pangu Shengong, and Medical Anthropologist and Psychologist Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., whose Four Winds Light Body School offers a two- year program on the luminous light body, also known as a local energy field, aura, life force, qi/chi or prana.
Clinical Support James Oschman, Ph.D., an academic scientist and international authority in Dover, New Hampshire, has conducted decades of research into the science of bioenergetics—the flow and transformation of energy between living organisms and their environment. He explores the basis of the energetic exchanges that manifest via complementary and alternative therapies in his book, Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis. According to Oschman, there
is now enough high-quality research in leading peer-reviewed biomedical journals to provide energy medicine the credence to transform from a little-known, alternative healthcare modality into a conventional form of medicine. The progression to more widespread acceptance is similar to that experienced by acupuncture and massage.
Evolving Platform For more than 35 years, pioneers of energy medicine like Barbara Ann Brennan, founder of the Barbara
18 Natural Awakenings San Antonio
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