A Healing Energy

An old healing modality has made its way back into the mainstream media and the lives of the public.

People are learning to utilize energy therapy as a means of enhancing their lives.

They are learning to sense energy, breathe deeply, move their energy, and practice a daily routine of intuitively knowing how their energy body is affecting their physical, emotional, and spiritual body.

While each client is unique, every client must become receptive to change in behavior, thought, and attitude if a renewed and balanced energy body is to be realized.

The first sign of an unhealthy energy body is usually revealed by visually scanning a client's physical body. Posture is also a huge indicator of the vivaciousness of the physical body. Upon closer intuitive examination, a client who feels fatigued, anxious, sad, or ill often radiates an energy that can be detected by the human hand. While human subtle energy is usually warm and calm, when ill it often takes on a feeling of muddiness, a thick and stagnant feeling. This mucky feeling is symptomatic of distraught attitudes and limited belief systems, as well as unpleasant memories and illness. While this unhealthy energy first remains within the energy body, over time it begins to change the physical body, causing poor posture or a washed-out appearance. As a professional intuitive, I have learned to see and guide my clients toward a process of healing that both uplifts as well as removes masses of stagnant energy from their body.

While taking an inventory of the energy body, an experienced and intuitive energy therapist will usually move his or her hands over the body, feeling for warmth or coldness, electrical sensations or static. Next, therapists will warm the energy body with their own hands or other natural objects like herbs or crystals. And afterwards, the energy therapist will offer interpretations and advice, and attempt to circulate the energy body to its natural flow. Once an energy session is complete and negative energy has been cleared away from the body, the client should feel relaxed and refreshed, and prepared to practice new behaviors that will lead to an enhanced and healthier life.

When a client chooses to work with me, we arrange approximately four hands-on sessions, beginning with at least one intuitive energy reading. During the intuitive reading, the client is given an energy diagnosis, and a daily recovery plan is devised. A daily routine is helpful in creating a positive attitude combined with new and health-provoking behaviors. Next, while experiencing hands-on energy treatments, the client will learn to independently tap into source energy and recognize his own body's energy. Although it is difficult to scientifically prove the existence of the energy body, studies suggest that there are spinning vortexes of energy within the human body. As blood from the heart is pushed into the circulatory system, it creates a whirlpool-like force. Skilled energy workers have discovered several locations within the body where this energy force is most noticeable and concentrated. As a trained intuitive, my eyes can often see wavy colors of mist-like energy floating, exhaling, or spiraling from these energy vortexes. And by inspection of this energy, I attempt to determine a means to spiritual and physical health. When I work with a client, I guide him to imagine this energy as it moves within and around his body. Next, I guide him to feel this energy with his physical hands. As he moves his hands around his own or another's body, he can feel the presence of a variety of subtle energies. Finally in this learning process, I guide my clients to focus upon this energy as it exists at certain points of the body and attempt to move it toward other parts of his body. Once my client has learned to sense and work with his own energy, I help him to recognize the characteristics of a healthy energy body.

Upon inspection of a healthy energy body, you should see a calm yet strong energy being released from the base of the spine. Warmth should expand into a space of approximately 24 inches around the body. This energy, appearing as maroon-colored waves, should vibrate evenly around the entire base of the spine and slightly below, then run through the legs and out into the atmosphere around the body. Because energy functions more effectively when combined with an attitude of serenity and a physical sensation of relaxation, a relaxed physical body is better equipped to blend with the subtle energy body, naturally allowing energy to move through and around it.

When a client's physical body is not in a relaxed state, disease begins to grow in the energy body. Stress, tight muscles, anxious thoughts and illness trap subtle-body energies, forcing them to become stagnant in a static field of energy that extends approximately one to three inches from the physical body. This static field of energy is much like the static we feel when pant legs or skirt bottoms cling to our legs on a cold winter morning. In ancient times and now again in modern days, many alternative practitioners have learned to "tune into" this static body of energy in an attempt to clear away any unwanted debris. It seems that this particular energy carries elements of our past, present, and even the future, and contributes to the way a person emotionally feels. When one learns to recognize the signals of this energy, it is possible to work toward a continuation of relaxation and maintain emotional as well as physical health.

As part of a daily plan, most clients will learn to relax and listen to the static-energy body. Using breathing as a means of creating a peaceful mind and a relaxed physical body, the client first will begin to tap into *Universal-source energy. Next, the client will begin to sense his own static-energy body. With intuitive insight, he will begin to recognize when his body is stiff, sore, tired, or emotionally drained. Often these symptoms signal an energy body that is overtaxed and in need of healing attention. Whenever the static-energy body grows cold to the touch, the client will learn to meditate and pull energy upward, from his feet and toward his head. Often, as the static energy is directed toward the upper body, the energy will naturally begin to flow, warming the solar plexus (stomach) and heart with a feeling of serenity.

Other symptoms associated with the static-energy body are rapid heartbeat, shallow breathing, headache, and general anxiety. It is advisable to focus on level breaths while visualizing the energy body moving from the chest, head, and neck into the area of the pelvis and lower spine. Clients who overexert their mental abilities often benefit when asked to focus attention upon lower extremities. As clients practice sensing and moving their own energy body, an occasional visit (two to three times a year) to a professional energy therapist is helpful in maintaining proper circulation to all subtle energy bodies. Circulating the energy body over and through the physical body enables the physical body to recondition and refresh itself, distributing energy in proper areas within and around it. And, as proper distribution of subtle energy is professionally maintained, the client can more easily practice his own energy routine.

As an intuitive, I began intuitively reading the energy of individuals when I was quite young, and after much study and practice I found that each individual carries a secret book of emotions and intentions within the energy that floats outside and near his body. Thoughts and memories are often stored within the energy body, contributing to quality of life. While emotions are natural reflections of life, they are also affected by the health of our energy body. Emotions, either light or heavy, vibrate just inches beyond the physical body. When they become too heavy for the static body, the entire energy body seems to slow down, causing difficulties for the physical body.

There are as many ways to heal the energy body as there are tonic results that occur when the energy body is healed. Personal touch, heat from another person's healthy body, laughter, joy, and interaction with natural objects can make a difference in the density of the energy body. Laughter can lighten and quicken the flow of static energy flowing around the body, while human touch warms and smoothes the vibrations of this energy. And, crystals act like magnets, attracting to the physical body a vortex of spiraling energy that leaves a client feeling clear and refreshed. In addition, energy healing often provides, along with an enhanced attitude of well-being, a greater sense of spiritual development.

Eventually, with the understanding of energy, more humans will develop amazing intuitive abilities, sensing and seeing auras and waves of energies vibrating within the atmosphere. More deeply attuned to their spirituality, they'll experience joy as never before. As a professional intuitive and trained energy therapist, my expectations of energy therapy are complex. I expect to see positive changes in all my clients. And, although each client grows at a unique rate, I am always hopeful that lives will be transformed quickly and with ease. I know that each person is a wellspring of delicious and lively experiences, and that by accessing their natural healing energy, these experiences can be realized.

In 2001 I wrote Living Your Intuitive Dreams in the hope of helping others take a first step toward changing their lives and creating joy and health. Since that time, I have worked with thousands of individuals, encouraging, guiding and nurturing their needs. I am happy to see so many of my clients and friends grow and make life a wonderful experience. Through this unique method of healing, energy therapy, lives can and do become enhanced. I am delighted to be a part of this movement.

If you desire to enhance your connection with source energy, begin practicing the following exercises.

1. Take time each day to sit quietly, without the disturbance of radio or television.
2. Focus your attention on your breath as you quiet your mind.
3. Practice a relaxation technique in which you relax each part of your body.
4. Attempt to maintain an erect posture while walking, standing, or sitting.
5. Practice a positive way of thinking; keep gratitude in your mind.
6. Attempt to listen to your physical body as it relates feelings to you.
7. Allow time for a minimum or six hours sleep each night.
8. Rest your physical body when it tells you it needs rest.
9. Move your physical body when it tells you it needs stimulation.
10. Trust your inner voice to express truth and wisdom.

*Universal Energy Source is the scientifically improvable flowing energy that creates and is all life.

By Sherry Healy