How Energy Medicine Works
Mental, physical and emotional stress can cause us to experience things like pain, neurological and mood disorders, addictions, and chronic and tough-to-treat ailments like digestive issues, hormonal imbalances and autoimmune conditions. Toxins in our indoor and outdoor environments add to the burden.
While we may not be thriving while experiencing uncomfortable symptoms, the body is simply prioritizing vital operations like heart, lung and kidney functions to keep us going until it has more support and energy to deal with the less critical functions like ideal digestion and hormone production.
In addition to stressors, the body stores our life experiences, including what we experienced in utero. Our minds may not remember a traumatic experience (perceived or otherwise), but our physical and energetic bodies always do.
One person’s perceived traumas may manifest as physical symptoms like an autoimmune condition, whereas another’s may manifest as an emotional imbalance. Regardless of the symptoms, the vitality of the energetic body is always at play.
When we rely solely on medical interventions to alleviate symptoms or to alter feelings and behaviors, we are merely suppressing sensations. This can encourage the underlying issues to root in deeper and proliferate because we are cutting off the body’s intricately designed feedback and restoration loops.
Energy Medicine is a gentle and obtainable way to alchemize ill health. It can be done in tandem with conventional treatments, and can be very supportive to the body before and after surgery or during chemotherapy and radiation.
Rather than treating isolated symptoms, it provides clues to what areas of the body need to be freed and balanced. Balancing the body’s energies gives it the space it needs to perform optimally and for innate healing to occur.
The more well-known energetic systems we work with in Energy Medicine are the meridians, chakras and aura. The meridians are energetic pathways which govern our organs. They run throughout the body and contain the points that acupuncturists work with.
Chakras are energy centers located along the centerline of the body which hold our experiences. They influence our hormones and the organs and glands within the areas of the body they are located.
The aura is the energy field that surrounds us and acts as a filter for energies coming in and going out. The aura plays a vital role in how we process everything we experience.
One of my favorite things about Energy Medicine is we don’t need to know what’s causing symptoms to work with them; the body will tell us through muscle testing! You and your unique body do the communicating. I simply hold space and translate the messages.
Oftentimes when we balance one area or system, others will naturally come into balance. It’s beautiful and the results are tangible as we move through the sessions together.