Energy Medicine
Energy Medicine is an umbrella term for a wide variety of energy practices that modulate the human energy field for the purpose of well-being and spiritual awakening. Yes, we need to tend to our physical body with physical activity, healthy nutrition, stretching, massage and more, and we need to tend to our mind by learning new information and using our heads, but we also need to tend to our energetic and spiritual health by nurturing every other energy center that we have, an essential aspect of our health that is so neglected in our Western world. Below, we explore acupuncture, prayer, meditation, qigong, tai chi, crystals, reiki, integrated energy therapy, reconnective healing, and more. While energy medicine does not immediately heal all ailments in the short term, it has the potential to transform your life in positive ways, bringing you back into balance. Well-being is all about balance. The more you delve into different areas of energy medicine, the more you understand your own energy, other people’s energy, the energy of the Earth and beyond… basically, you being to understand energy through personal experience.
Thin and Gentle Acupuncture Needle Placement
Acupuncture
Acupuncture taps into the body’s natural Qi channels, or energy channels, thereby promoting circulation, decreasing pain, and increasing well-being. We are all energy beings, but those of us who live in a Western culture don’t often tend to our energy bodies in caring, loving ways. Acupuncture taps into the energy body and physical body, allowing for greater energy flow, so that the body can function properly.
Acupuncture also relaxes muscles and releases “feel good” hormones into the body, such as endorphins and dopamine, while at the same time decreasing harmful hormones such as cortisol. In the short term, cortisol can save your life, but in the long term, this hormone should be decreased.
Acupuncture is a form of energy medicine that can restore balance to the human body.
Acupuncture works, but only if you receive it.
Prayer is a great place to start… and continue…
Prayer
I recommend beginning and continuing with prayer throughout the day. Prayer helps to align our intentions with our higher selves, and if you believe in it, spiritual assistance and guidance. Prayer is a powerful form of energy medicine.
Prayer works, but it only works if you pray.
Meditation
Meditation
Meditation is the act of increasing awareness while quieting the mind. Meditating has a plethora of health benefits, and everyone would benefit from meditating. Many people say that meditating is too hard, so they don’t do it. What those people don’t realize is that they need it the most, and that they CAN do it.
Also, you don’t have to sit down to meditate. You can meditate when going for a walk. Take a moment to disconnect from stressful thoughts, and allow space for Love and peace to come into your life.
There is no peace in the mind, because it’s the mind’s job to calculate and keep score; So, don’t look for peace in the mind. Give thanks that your mind is able to calculate and then give it a rest.
Again, energetic well-being is all about balance. Find a balance between thinking and meditation.
Meditation works, but only if you meditate. I recommend meditating with specific crystals, depending upon what you are intending to achieve.
Zhineng Qigong
Qigong
Qigong, or Energy Practice, is probably the best way to maintain your well-being. Also called, Moving Meditation, there are many forms of Qigong. I recommend searching, and finding a form that resonates with you.
Zhineng Qigong, a.k.a. Wisdom Healing Qigong, is a wonderful form of qigong, created by Dr. Pang Ming. This balanced form of qigong has helped millions of people to build Qi, circulate Qi, and improve their overall well-being. There is a center in New Mexico which teaches this form of Qigong: www.chicenter.com.
Here is a book about Zhineng Qigong: 101 Miracles.
Qigong works, but it only works if you practice qigong.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi
Tai Chi is a form of Qigong, but unlike Qigong which is for personal health and energy development, Tai Chi was created for battle. Every movement in Tai Chi is correlated to an attack tactic. Tai Chi is a great way to build Qi, circulate Qi, calm the mind, improve balance, and in the process develop self-defense tactics. There are five major forms of tai chi: yang, hao, wu, chen and sun.
Tai Chi works, but it only works if you practice tai chi.
Flower of Life - Chakra Grid
Crystals
Crystals are my favorite because of the wonderful energy they share and lessons they teach. Since we, as humans, are energy beings made from the Earth, and crystals are also energy beings from the Earth, we are able to communicate with each other. Crystals, to me, are like a spiritual, energetic balm. They help to soothe the soul and uplift the spirit.
Vibrations from different types of crystals affect the human energy field in different ways. Some people are sensitive to this energy, and other people are not, but everyone has the ability to attune themselves to crystal energy.
Crystal energy is extraordinarily useful in helping to clear and activate the human energy field, and helping us to understand that what we feel is real. We are mind, body and spirit… not just the mind. Crystals help us to calm the mind while getting in touch with our body and spirit.
We have much to learn about crystal energy and how to utilize it in healing and evolution, but we are well on our way.
I love The Book of Stones, Stones of the New Consciousness, and The Alchemy of Stones by Robert Simmons. Robert Simmons is an incredibly loving guide to working with the stones. His company sells some wonderfully useful and beautiful crystals: Heaven and Earth Jewelry
If I had one piece of advice to offer everyone to improve their energy and their energetic connection with the Earth, then I would suggest meditating for at least 20-minutes a day with rosophia and azeztulite. This will open your Heart, and fill you with Divine Light. For more information about working with crystals to improve your energy field, visit my other website: www.Crystalchemy.com
Crystals work, but only if you spend quality time with them. Meditation with certain crystals is a powerful form of energy medicine. Love them, and they will love you.
Eva Simpson: Reiki and Integrated Energy Therapist
Reiki and Integrated Energy Therapy®
Reiki is a form of energy healing from Japan that incorporates the gentle laying on of hands, sometimes on, and sometimes above the human body. Treatments usually last around 45-minutes to an hour. A Reiki practitioner channels Universal energy for healing. Reiki calms the nervous system and allows people to get in touch with their true selves. Reiki is extremely relaxing, helps with processing unprocessed emotions, and frees people up from past trauma. When shared by someone as wonderful and Loving as Eva Simpson, you’re in for an energetic cleansing treat.
Integrated Energy Therapy® is a hands on gentle process that uses a channel of integration points and with careful administration releases the energy of emotions stored in the cellular memory of the body.
Eva treats patients at Balance Yoga and Wellness in Kingston/Forty Fort.
Balance Yoga and Wellness Center
Reiki and Integrated Energy Therapy
Reiki and Integrated Energy Therapy® work, but only if you receive them.
Reconnective Healing
Reconnective Healing
Dr. Eric Pearl ran a chiropractic practice in Los Angeles before discovering Reconnective Healing. One day, his patients began to report healings when he simply held his hands near them, without him physically touching them. So, he went in search of the universal wisdom behind what was happening. Unlike today’s known forms of Energy Healing, this work can be practiced without complex technique or elaborate ritual. Through Dr. Pearl’s journey of research and discovery, it became clear that the appropriate name for this work is “Reconnective Healing.”
Now recognized and supported by science, Reconnective Healing facilitates healings for people that are often instantaneous and can last a lifetime. Feeling compelled to teach others, Eric’s work has taken him to over 100 countries and has affected millions of people. Eric’s hope is that one day everyone will learn to access this natural ability and will use it to heal themselves and others.
In my personal experience with Reconnective Healing, I found profound inner peace through this type of energy work. Receiving Reconnective Healing made me feel Reconnected to the Source of All That Is. After becoming attuned to the frequencies in 2010, they began coming through to my acupuncture patients with visible “registers”. My patients would report feeling extremely relaxed during treatments, like they were “floating away on a cloud.” One patient said, “Where did you send me?” after her treatment. In my experience, Reconnective Healing is a frequency that helps people to experience profound inner peace. It’s like bathing in Love.
Reconnective Healing works, but only if you receive it. Reconnective Healing is conducted without any other energy modality, such as acupuncture, or crystals.
Amethyst Crystal
Zhineng Qigong Practice
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“Love Is The Answer.”
— Brian Snyder & Many Others
When talking about energy medicine, it’s of utmost importance to talk about Love, as well, because Love is the connection between Heaven and Earth inside of us. Without Love, all that’s left is the goal of power over others, and that is not the way to peace. In an evolved society it’s all about WE, it’s not all about me. I doubt there is true joy without an understanding of Oneness.
Energy medicine is all about opening and balancing all of the energy centers in the human body, so that the human can thrive on all levels and work well with other humans and the Universe. This is why I’m so interested in what I call, “Healing the Heart of Humanity.” The Heart is the key to everything that we truly want. “Power With” instead of “power over”… that is the goal. Stones of the New Consciousness by Robert Simmons explains the importance of opening the Heart for healing our world: Stones of the New Consciousness. The HeartMath Institute is also on a mission to open Hearts around the world: www.heartmath.org.
The goal of energy medicine, or all medicine for that matter, is to help you achieve balanced well-being, so that you feel good being you. All organ and energy systems must be held in balance, and it’s a constant dance, as illustrated by the living yin/yang symbol. The balance of yin and yang in the body and energetic balance is the constant when it comes to well-being.
You know you are doing well, energetically, when you can go for a walk and simply feel good. When you can sit on a park bench and feel at peace, just to be outside in nature, existing, with a calm, quiet mind. The goal is to feel balanced without any other energetic influences, even the energetic influences of our wonderful crystal friends. You simply want to be you, in your own energy, enjoying existing in this one moment in time.
With that being said, energy practices and spending time with our energetic crystal friends are ways to achieve a greater state of energetically balanced well-being. We practice these practices and spend time with these friends so that we can go for a walk without any other energetic influences, such as crystals, and still feel good.
There is a time and a place for everything, and we would all benefit by continually being aware of and tending to our energy. Tending to your energetic well-being is extremely important, and least understood in our Western culture. Many other cultures are more energetically aware than ours, which is why it’s important for us to learn what they have already figured out, and take it to the next level.
In China, around 4,500 years ago, they figured out that by slowing down and moving with increased awareness, a person was able to tap into Universal energy for increased well-being. They called it Qigong, or Energy Practice. Then, as humans often do, they found a way to weaponize it and they called that practice Tai Chi.
In India, over 5,000 years ago, they discovered that through the practice of meditation that they were able to tap into Universal energy and increase well-being. They called that practice Yoga, and they named the life-force energy “prana.”
Crystals have been utilized since the beginning of time. Ancient Egyptians used to mine crystals and make them into jewelry and use them in metaphysical practices. I would bet that crystals were also used in their healing rods.
Is it any accident that kings and queens bejewel themselves and their crowns? I believe that earlier cultures were more in tune with energy, and understood the energetic value of crystals in well-being.
People who are not in touch with their own energy, or crystal energy, argue that they are living in the “real world” and that people who are into energy are nuts. That’s fine. It’s their choice to not be in touch or in tune with their own energy, the energy of the planet, or other energies. That’s their path. My recommendation is that if you want to experience your interconnection with All That Is, understand yourself better, feel better, and learn that we are truly living in a magical world, then I recommend that you begin to explore your energetic connection with All That Is. You are, by design, an energy being. Clear your energy and you will clear yourself. Breathe the free air, my friend. You are ONE with All That Is.
-Brian