| If you're seriously interested in knowing | | | | how energy impacts physical, emotional, and |
| about Energy Healing, you need to think | | | | spiritual well-being are some of the salient |
| beyond the basics. This informative article | | | | similarities of these three healing methods. |
| takes a closer look at things you need to | | | | |
| know about Energy Healing. | | | | Why Do People Turn to Energy Healing? |
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| You have probably come across exotic-sounding | | | | The best time to learn about Energy Healing |
| terms such as "chakra", "prana", "aura", and | | | | is before you're in the thick of things. Wise |
| "tantra" in your course of reading books on | | | | readers will keep reading to earn some |
| spirituality, sex, and healing in the New Age | | | | valuable Energy Healing experience while it's |
| literature section of the bookstore. But | | | | still free. |
| what's the real scoop behind these exotic | | | | |
| vocabularies? | | | | Pranic, Tantric, and Reiki are considered |
| | | | alternative methods of healing. In spite of |
| Are All Energy Healings the Same? | | | | the availability and relative accessibility |
| | | | of modern medicine, how come more and more |
| Chakra or energy center is a term used in | | | | people are being drawned to them? Here are |
| Pranic healing, an ancient Hindu system of | | | | some possible reasons: |
| energy healing. "Prana" means life energy. | | | | |
| "Aura" is another terminology traced to | | | | · Energy healing worked where modern |
| Pranic healing. Aura is a non-physical body | | | | medicine failed. |
| that consists of energy, which exists along | | | | |
| with our physical body. The aura that covers | | | | For several reasons both explainable and |
| our body is said to have seven layers | | | | unexplainable, modern medical treatment |
| pertaining to the physical, emotional, | | | | failed to heal ailments and conditions in |
| mental, and spiritual aspects of an | | | | several if not many persons. Research or data |
| individual as manifested by energy. Studying | | | | may not be able to support this statement. |
| the color and thickness of auras give ideas | | | | But for the families of the dying as well as |
| on the state of health of individuals. Six | | | | for the dying patient, they would take the |
| colors are associated with aura and | | | | risk of using alternative methods ranging |
| interpreted into six personalities. These | | | | from herbals and organics, faith healers, |
| colors are all present in an individual but | | | | witch doctors, and New Age healing techniques |
| one or two are more pronounced. | | | | just to be get well. |
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| Green - ambitious achiever | | | | · People perceive modern medicine to be |
| | | | isolating. |
| Blue - spiritual peacemaker | | | | |
| | | | Medical treatments are oftentimes focused on |
| White - unconventional chameleon | | | | the disease and its causative agent, which |
| | | | can make a patient feel isolated and treated |
| Red - activist | | | | like a mere host of the disease. Although |
| | | | recent developments in hospital practice are |
| Orange - creative communicator | | | | gradually promoting the holistic treatment of |
| | | | a patient, the perception still persists. |
| Violet - psychic | | | | Unlike in energy healing, since energy and |
| | | | spirituality are intimately linked, the |
| Although Tantra is popularly associated with | | | | patient feels that all aspects of his health |
| the peculiar practice of sex and | | | | are being attended to. |
| spirituality, it is another method of energy | | | | |
| healing. It comes from the word "tan" which | | | | · Energy healing is non-obtrusive and |
| means to spread or expand. The concept of | | | | natural thus it is safer. |
| connectedness is a recurring theme in Tantric | | | | |
| writings on sex and spirituality. As a method | | | | Repeated surgical procedures are physically |
| of healing, spirituality and sex figure | | | | and emotionally traumatic for most patients. |
| prominently. It is presupposed that the union | | | | It is but a logical and attractive option to |
| of man and woman can reach spiritual levels | | | | both patient and families to look for less |
| during orgasm, which removes the body and | | | | stressful health interventions. Moreover, |
| mind off collected impurities. These | | | | with the rising popularity of New Age |
| impurities being negative energies can in | | | | religions, going natural is the way to go. |
| turn manifest as physical illnesses. | | | | |
| | | | · Energy healing is a good way of |
| Unlike Pranic and Tantric healings, which | | | | relieving stress. |
| have Hindu origins, Reiki originated from | | | | |
| Japan. It is relatively younger than Pranic | | | | Meditation is part and parcel of energy |
| and Tantric healings having been rediscovered | | | | healing methods and this is an added come-on |
| in the early 1900's. Reiki stands for | | | | for highly stressed people. Moreover, |
| universal energy, an energy brought forth by | | | | sophisticated equipment is not required thus |
| higher intelligence. Students of Reiki are | | | | it becomes all the more convenient for |
| taught how to tap this energy to heal | | | | students and future students of energy |
| physical, emotional, and mental illnesses. | | | | healing. |
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| Although Pranic, Tantra, and Reiki are all | | | | The battle between alternative healing and |
| systems of energy healing, they differ in the | | | | mainstream medicine continues as both present |
| type of energy tapped for healing: life | | | | the benefits of their approach. But in the |
| energy, sexual energy, and universal energy | | | | final analysis, what matters is the |
| respectively. | | | | restoration of good health. |
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| The concepts of the connectedness of mind, | | | | Sometimes it's tough to sort out all the |
| body, and spirit; the connection of | | | | details related to this subject, but I'm |
| individuals to all living and nonliving | | | | positive you'll have no trouble making sense |
| things around them and to the universe; and | | | | of the information presented above. |