The Science of Energy Medicine

One of the reasons – if not the reason—meditation is so rejuvenating is that it helps us sink into an existing spiritual energy system that is designed for our wellbeing. It is the heavy energy of trauma and stress that normally separates us from this vibrancy. We also grapple with a culture that hasn’t included working with this energy system in our upbringing, to help clear it out.

Healers work in this same energy system. They help to remove emotional blockages and increase the flow of healing energy, of prana, or chi. Yoga, tai chi, qi gong, and other spiritual practices work with this as well. All of these provide degrees of spiritual healing by working with the energy system.

Signals from the Energy System

Just as our body has signals when it is hot or cold so it can adapt, so we have an energy system that can heal, bring calm, peace, and insight.

The Mystery Schools, ancient Egyptian alchemy, Shammanic and Eastern healing traditions, all work to master the auric, etheric energy body.

In many ways, spiritual healing is mechanical. Just as we have veins in our body, so we have channels where energy flows. It is often the search for self that leads us to these spiritual realms. That is where we have an intuitive understanding that it is in this energy system that we are cradled.

Those who have worked with me know that I focus a lot on which part of your energy body needs cleansing and rejuvenating at any given time. It is where we hold trauma that manifests in our everyday life. Strengthening the pranic tube is a priority, as is with the torus (the diagram at the top of this article.) Another priority is the Ida/Pingala (the two snaking energies you often see on wrapping around images of the chakras).

Mostly, though, to help our energy body flow we want to empty it of all our trauma and the programming of our personality. We need to empty. We need to build self-love. We need to activate our life channel. We need to heal and recharge.