The Concept of Healing Energy

The concept of healing energy is common to most alternative medicines particularly those with origins in China and India. These methods today are being tried and tested in the west. Basically, this means that there are energy patterns that make our body "sick" or "well". These energy patterns are stored in definite meridian points (sometimes also called chakras). To understand this, we have to be able to view the human body as connected with the human psyche. The concept of healing energy maintains that a healthy psyche means a healthy body. They emphasize the body-mind connection as an integral part of healing.

Stored in our chakras (or meridian points) are traumatic and bad memories. For instance it is believed that even those traumatic memories buried in our subconscious can be "remembered' by our bodies, particularly in our chakras where they cause negativity. Negativity is not a "good" energy and thus may cause imbalance in our chakras or meridian points. Thus, this imbalance within our chakras may be the main cause of disease and sickness.

Now, much as negative energy can cause an imbalance, positive energy and "good feelings" may cause the chakras to heal. These good feelings are likewise stored in the same meridian points in the human body and may be emphasized or balance the body energies.

Balancing the body energy can be achieved by being positive, meditating on the good instead of worrying and stressing. Feeling fulfilled because of doing productive work for yourself and others may also be a way to balance your energy patterns. Some believe that even eating the right combination of food taste can do be positive or negative to your meridian balance.

There are several alternative healing methods which emphasize the concept of healing energy. There is the EFT (Emotional Freedom technique) which believes, very much like acupuncture, that tapping these meridian points and will help let loose of the negative energies which are detrimental to the balanced flow of the energy patterns. There is Reiki which is a Japanese type of passive "healing energy" which uses the positive healing flow when you lay your hands on an affected area. Reiki is a form of alternative medicine that is passive. While other alternative healings that use laying of the hands claim that they "deplete the energy of the healer", Reiki simply uses positive affirmations as one thinks, visualizes and lays the hand of the sick area.

Like most Zen-types of healing, Reiki claims that even positive thoughts can heal those who are sick.In fact Reiki believes that long-distance healing is possible.

There are other healing energy treatments also like acupuncture, ayurveda, crystal healings, massages and the like but most of them believe in the same basic premise : that there can be no healthy body without a healthy mind. The mind (psyche) energy therefore should attain a balance with that of the body where these meridian points store both the positive and negative energies.

A healthy attitude, a still uncluttered mind and a "suitable" diet is recommended to help energy healing work and heal those who are diseased.