chakra healing & light energy implantations: Adjunct to chakra & cellular memory healing. It involves energy activations to awaken clients to the teachings of chakras (energy centers) in their bodies.

(See also: Chakra healing & light energy implantations, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Chun Do Sun Bup Energy Healing: 6,000-year-old healing Art whose principle is that energy shortage or disruption is the cause of all diseases and pain.

(See also: Chun Do Sun Bup Energy Healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Energy Balancing: Healing technique that involves working in the body's energy field to promote mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual healing (also Energy Healing)

(See also: Energy Balancing, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

ENERGY FIELD WORK

Practitioners look for weaknesses in the energy field in and around the clients body and seek to restore its proper circulation and balance. Energy channeled through the practitioner is directed to strengthen the body’s natural defenses and help the client’s physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual state.

(See also: ENERGY FIELD WORK, Alternative Health, Healing, Body Mind and Soul)

Energy: Pranic Healing

Prana (pronounced PRAH-nah) is a Sanskrit word meaning "life-force," the invisible bio-energy or vital energy that keeps the body alive and maintains a state of good health.

As an art and science, Pranic Healing was widely practiced in the ancient civilizations of China, Egypt and India. One of today’s methods of Pranic Healing was founded by Mr. Choa Kok Sui, a chemical engineer, philanthropist and businessman. He compiled more than twenty years of research and experimentation on the wise use of subtle healing into over five books on Pranic Healing, which are translated into 24 languages. 

Pranic Healing is based on the theory that every person is surrounded and interpenetrated by a luminous energy body, called the bioplasmic body. The word bioplasmic comes from “bio” (life) and “plasma” (ionized gas with positive and negative charged particles). This is called the “energy body” and has been rediscovered with Kirlian photography. It is through the energy body that prana, or life energy, is absorbed and redistributed throughout the body.

In Pranic Healing, the therapists use crystals or their hands (in a "no touch" method) with specified methods for specific ailments to remove negative or disease energy from the patient's energy body and then transfer fresh prana to the affected areas to accomplish healing. Pranic Healing is based on the principle that the body has the ability to heal itself. To make this happen, it utilizes the life force as fuel to initiate the necessary biochemical changes. Pranic Healing has been found to prevent and heal a whole spectrum of physical, emotional and mental ailments.

(See also: Pranic Healing, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)

cosmic energy chi kung (Buddha palm, Cosmic Chi Kung, Cosmic Healing Chi Kung): Group of techniques that develops healing hands and the capacity for absent healing. It is a form of channeling, and its theory posits acupuncture meridians, Cosmic energy, and Universal energy.

(See also: Cosmic energy chi kung, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

energy balancing: means of facilitating the flow of bodily vital forces, rejuvenating the nervous system, and promoting internal relaxation. Its principle is that deep relaxation provides an opening for healing energy, and that permeation with healing energy results in the dissolution of layers of tension and the opportunity for self-acceptance.

(See also: Energy balancing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

ENERGY THERAPY

The evolution of scientific concepts and technological developments of the late 20th Century has created possibilities for studying subtle energies and their relationship to human systems. Understanding and facilitating the use of subtle energies, both for therapeutic purposes and for the study of human potential, may bring to consciousness a new awareness of the depths of the human psyche.

There are many terms applied to different techniques of energy therapy, see lthe following links: Pranic Healing, Therapeutic Touch, Reiki

(See also: ENERGY THERAPY, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Amplified Energy Therapy: Form of energy healing (see vibrational medicine) promoted by Richard Gordon. Its principle is that people can learn to maneuver their life-force energy toward following the body's innate intelligence.

(See also: Amplified Energy Therapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Taoist Energy Touch: Traditional healing art taught by Nan Lu (see Spring Dragon Qi Gong). It involves summoning and directing internal energy to alleviate common minor ailments.

(See also: Taoist Energy Touch, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Chakra Energy Massage: Blend of chakra healing and Foot Reflexology Massage. Its theory posits areas on the feet that correspond to chakras (subtle energy centers), such as the inner eye chakra.

(See also: Chakra Energy Massage, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

chakra healing (chakra balancing, chakra energy balancing, chakra therapy, chakra work): Subject of The ABCs of Chakra Therapy: A Workbook (Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1998). chakra healing is any means of energy clearing that focuses on or has been geared to chakras, including aromatherapy, hatha yoga, reflexology, and visualization (see creative visualization).

(See also: Chakra healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Energy Medicine:

Energetic medicine as defined within the mind/body/spirit model, involves therapies that affect energy fields that defy measurement. These therapies are based on the oncept that human beings are infused with a subtle form of energy. This vital energy or life force is known under different names in different cultures, such as qi in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), ki in the Japanese Kampo system, doshas in Ayurvedic medicine, and elsewhere as prana, etheric energy, fohat, orgone, odic force, mana, and homeopathic resonance. Vital energy is believed to flow throughout the material human body, but it has not been unequivocally measured by means of conventional instrumentation. Nonetheless, therapists claim that they can work with this subtle energy, see it with their own eyes, and use it to effect changes in the physical body and influence health.

Practitioners of energy medicine believe that illness results from disturbances of these subtle energies (the biofield). For example, more than 2,000 years ago, Asian practitioners postulated that the flow and balance of life energies are necessary for maintaining health and described tools to restore them. Herbal medicine, acupuncture, acupressure, moxibustion, and cupping, for example, are all believed to act by correcting imbalances in the internal biofield, such as by restoring the flow of qi through meridians to reinstate health. Some therapists are believed to emit or transmit the vital energy (external qi) to a recipient to restore health.

Examples of practices involving putative energy fields include:

• Reiki and Johrei, both of Japanese origin

• Qi gong, a Chinese practice

Healing touch, in which the therapist is purported to identify imbalances and correct a client’s energy by passing his or her hands over the patient

Prayer specifically for health purposes – such as intercessory prayer, in which a person intercedes through prayer on behalf of another.

(See also: Energy Medicine, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

BRETH (Breath Releasing Energy for Transformation and Happiness, Breath Releasing Energy for Transformation & Healing): Process founded by Kamala Hope Campbell, an Australian. It encompasses conscious breathing (see breathwork and rebirthing), High Touch, and spiritual healing.

(See also: BRETH, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

pranotherapy (energy healing): A form of the laying on of hands.

(See also: Pranotherapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

vibrational medicine (energetic medicine, energetics medicine, energy medicine, subtle-energy medicine, vibrational healing, vibrational therapies): Healing philosophy whose main tenet is that humans are dynamic energy systems (body/mind/spirit complexes) and reflect evolutionary patterns of soul growth.

Its principles include the following:

(a)   Health and illness originate in subtle energy systems.

(b)  These systems coordinate the life-force and the physical body.

(c)   Emotions, spirituality, and nutritional and environmental factors affect the subtle energy systems.

Vibrational medicine embraces acupuncture, aromatherapy, Bach flower therapy, chakra rebalancing, channeling, color breathing, color therapy, crystal healing, absent healing, Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV), etheric touch, flower essence therapy, homeopathy, Kirlian photography, laserpuncture, the laying on of hands, meridian therapy, mesmerism, moxibustion, orthomolecular medicine, Past-life Regression, Polarity Therapy, psychic healing, psychic surgery, radionics, the Simonton method, sonopuncture, Toning, Transcendental Meditation, and Therapeutic Touch.

The expressions energy healing, energy work, and energetic healing work appear synonymous with vibrational medicine.

(See also: Vibrational medicine, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

magnet therapy (biomagnetics, biomagnetic therapeutics, biomagnetic therapy, biomagnetism, Electro-Biomagnetics, electro-biomagnetics therapy, magnetic energy therapy, magnetic field therapy, magnetic healing, magnetics, magnetic therapies, magnetic therapy, magnetotherapy, magnotherapy): Variation of self-healing based on natural laws. Magnet therapy reestablishes order in the human energy system.

Its theory posits life energy and meridians and depicts magnets as sources of nature's healing energy. Some proponents equate magnetic energy, energy, life force, chi, and prana.

(See also: Magnet therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Vibrational Medicine/Energy Medicine:

Catalyst, harmonizer. Modalities of healing that facilitate the re-balancing of  imbalances in the energetic fields in the body.

(See also: Vibrational Medicine, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Polarity Therapy (Polarity, polarity balancing, Polarity Energy Balancing, Polarity Energy Balancing system, polarity energy healing, polarity healing, polarity system, Polarity techniques, Polarity Wellness): Eclectic natural health care system originated by Austrian-born Randolph Stone, D.C., D.O., N.D. (1890-1982), and based primarily on Ayurvedic principles.

It includes basic Polarity counseling, cranial balancing (see CranioSacral Therapy), guided imagery, hydrotherapy, Polarity bodywork, Polarity dream counseling, Polarity evaluation, Polarity nutrition, Polarity reflexology, Polarity Yoga, and spinal balancing.

Its principle is that balancing the flow of energy in the body is the foundation of health. According to its theory, the top and right side of the body have a positive charge, and the feet and the left side of the body have a negative charge. Thus, practitioners place their right hand on negatively charged parts of the client's body, and their left hand on positively charged parts. Polarity theory also posits a cleanable cellular memory.

(See also: Polarity Therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Do-In [dough-in] (Dao-In, Tao-In, Taoist Conducting and Attuning Energy Practice, Taoist yoga, Taoist hatha yoga, Tao Yin): Ancient system of stretching, bodily postures, and movements, comparable to hatha yoga. Michio Kushi (see macrobiotics) introduced Do-In in the United States in 1968. Its theory posits Chi energy flow and the energy meridians of acupuncture and shiatsu.

it also posits a human ability to absorb nutrition from the air and from surrounding energy. With each Do-In posture, one inhales ki (life source energy) and exhales jaki (harmful toxins). Although Do-In is a discipline of self-healing, its ultimate goal is spiritual harmony with the universe.

(See also: Do-In, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Energy: Therapeutic Touch

Therapeutic touch is a method that claims to assist the natural healing process by redirecting and rebalancing the energy fields within the body.

A practitioner places his or her hands on or close to the body of the patient and redistributes the patient's energy or transmits his or her own energy as appropriate. Stories of the use of touch as a healing method can be found in the Bible, in Greek mythology and Eastern philosophy, in Native American myths, and in the "royal touch" of the kings in medieval Europe. Therapeutic touch was developed and named in 1972 by Dolores Krieger, a nursing professor at New York University.

Therapeutic Touch (TT) is currently taught worldwide to anyone who is interested in learning the technique. As of 1998, an estimated 100,000 people around the world have been trained in Therapeutic Touch, 43,000 of those persons are health care professionals, many of whom use Therapeutic Touch in conjunction with traditional medicine, as well as osteopathic, chiropractic, naturopathic, and homeopathic therapies (The Gale Encyclopedia of Complementary Medicine). http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/g2603/0001/2603000124/p1/article.jhtml

(See also: Therapeutic Touch, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)