Energy in the body can be understood in different ways. When looking at a living thing, we can think of the biological, chemical and physical properties of it. Biochemical, biophysical.

Energy is what animates us, allowing us to move and be alive.

Healing takes place on a physical level. Getting enough rest and nourishment allows our bodies, all of its cells, to heal, to repair itself and to grow. All our bodily processes require energy. Chemistry: The molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a chain of atoms combined together. These atoms are held together by bonds which hold energy in order to hold the atoms together. When the molecule ATP is broken up, the bonds are broken and energy is released. Glucose is required in this process of producing energy. Excess glucose is stored as glycogen in the liver and muscles and be converted back to glucose when needed.

The chemical actions of a cell creates an electromagnetic field (from the movement of the atoms, as mentioned above). With all this action in all 30-40 trillion cells combined, we generate an electromagnetic field, just from being alive. This electromagnetic field extends outwards and beyond our bodies for about a couple of feet. Some people have called this our “aura” or “visible life force energy”. Do they sound like the same thing, just different names? All connected?

Amazingly, all of this is guided by a ‘natural intelligence’.

Yes, the process is an observable one, in the sense that it can be studied. It is logical and scientific. Yet, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Energy Healing comes in different forms and modalities. Different convictions and varying levels of passion.

Here is what energy healing means to me:

Our bodies function based on complex systems. We have our digestive system, our nervous system, our circulatory system, our respiratory system, our integumentary system, our endocrine system. All our systems are connected.

Within the brain, our nervous system, our cognitive center, our mind, our consciousness… we have the left brain and the right brain.

From the moment we are born, we experience life through our body and our senses, our right brain. We are incapable of forming words, a left brain function, up until we are about two years old.

Here, and even beyond that leading back to being in our mother’s womb (and beyond for some), is where all of the rest of our lives begin. We are a culmination and reflection of all of our days. We cannot deny this. Every choice we make in this moment now, is of our own free will, but it is held within the parameters of everything we have possibly known. Even our imagination stems from a single point, branching out in creative iterations of what could be and could not be, all relational.

On this note, we experience emotions. We experience life through our senses. Couple this with a capacity to hold memory of these experiences, we form thoughts, self-talk, patterns to ensure we get through life safely. Yet the body experiences life as well. Any life event creates a wave of reactions within us mentally and physically. These two are tied together by our emotions. Whatever emotion we experience has a physical and mental effect (hormones are produced, muscles and fascia hold tension). Well, emotions are energy in motion. Over time, our life experiences get stored in our minds and our bodies.

Emotions that cannot be properly processed can become stored as blockages. These have to be resolved in order for its blockage to flow again.

When we experience a blockage of any kind, our cells also experience blockages. When cells are not able to function freely, its electromagnetic properties are weakened too. The result is a weakened life force and pain and dis-ease.

Healing on an energetic level helps release blockages.

A person’s electromagnetic field is able to influence another person’s electromagnetic field.

During an energy healing session, healers go about it in their own unique ways, unique to their own experiences, bodies and training. However, I have realised that the core of it is the same. It is all emotional energy and its frequencies.

Whatever you focus on, grows. You can amplify energy.

In my healing sessions, I get into a meditative state. This takes my brain into different headspace and frequency. In a meditative state, different parts of the brain are more activated than others, usually benefiting the person in meditation. But aside from that, I find that a person moves into a different frequency/channel, akin to a different radio channel. So the person becomes more attuned to certain things. This channel, depends highly on the emotional state the person is in.

Emotions from focusing on positive things — love, light — can come from various sources. Focusing purely on love helps, but is not so clear. Perhaps some imagery or directed thought is helpful. Focusing on happy memories or visualizing beautiful images and experiencing them in the body, focusing on your breath and your heart center, focusing on God, angels, your loved ones in spirit, anything to generate elevated feelings of love in the heart and body, is helpful, if you are able to focus on it without the distraction of fear. This creates a beautiful frequency and electromagnetic field. One of coherence instead of distorted energy.

Yet one other thing happens as well. When we experience love, brightness, bliss, safety in our bodies… we fall into a place of trust. This safety, trust and peace is so important because it awakens our inner instinct. Our animal instinct and intuition. From this place, healing becomes even more powerful in a place so pure as we were created to be.

Sound frequencies have their role in healing too, with a more direct effect upon cells and taking us to a different resonance very quickly.

If you are interested, here are some areas and books to explore:

“The Body Keeps the Score”

“The Golden Seven Plus One”

HeartMath Institute (heart coherence)

Somatic breath work

Neuroaffective Touch