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Energy Therapies Current energy therapies comprise a broad range of hands-on healing modalities, ranging from Reiki, Heal- ing Touch and Emotional Freedom Techniques (tapping), to an increasing array of hybrids. The Energy Medicine Institute (EnergyMed.org), in Ashland, Oregon, notes that energy medicine can employ a variety of non-invasive methods intended to trigger the body’s natural healing powers, working to acti- vate energies that have become weak- ened, disturbed or unbalanced. According to the


institute, flow, bal- ance and harmony can be restored and maintained within an energy system by tap- ping, massaging, pinching, twisting or con- necting specific energy points (known as acupoints) 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 alter specific energies; and/or surrounding an area with healing energies (one person’s energies impact another’s). Nicolas Ortner, founder of The


Tapping Solution, calls this Emotional Freedom Techniques-based energy modality, “…a combination of ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology.” By tapping on meridian points of the body while repeating cer- tain helpful affirmations about health or emotional situations, energetic blockages can be removed, allow-


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ing profound physical and emotional changes to take place. Ortner is excited about the grow-


ing awareness of self-guided healing through energy modalities, including his technique. “We had 350,000 people at our online Tapping World Summit last year,” he says. “That says something about the need that we are fulfilling.”


Herbalism Herbalism is widely practiced world- wide to heal body and mind, and herbs and other plants are sometimes used in spiritual healing. Herbs are commonly prescribed by conventional physicians in Europe. In 1978, the Ger- man Commission E published a list of more than 300 herbs, noting research attesting to their safety and effective- ness, as well as possible side effects and drug interactions. The United States has lagged in


its acceptance of herbal interventions. Still, Susun Weed, founder of the Wise Woman Center, in Woodstock, New York, and author of four herbal books, includ- ing Healing Wise, points out that drug


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nies have been quick to


isolate various herbal medi- cine compo-


nents and market them as prescription drugs. “In the ’60s, I discovered that


the weeds in my garden were bet- ter medicinal plants than the ones I intentionally planted,” recalls Weed. “Back then, there was a general belief that these alternative systems weren’t ‘real’ medicine.” But it’s more a matter of the Western world catching up with the rest of the world, she notes. “The World Health Organization says that 90 percent of the health care given on this planet is given by women in their own homes, using local plants.” Weed reports that across the


United States, attendance at herbal con- ferences has soared. Herbalism is a big idea whose time has come again, and is


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