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