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If you are considering integrating energy healing or other complementary therapies into your health routine, it's important to communicate openly with your healthcare providers and to ensure that all aspects of your treatment plan work together cohesively.

Energy Medicine is based upon the pseudo-scientific premise that the human body encompasses an energetic “life force” and energy centers called Chakras that keep the body’s cells healthy, functioning and alive.

Energy healing is a holistic practice where healers channel universal life force (or healing energy) into a patient to help balance, heal and remove blockages from the body. Flow, balance, harmony and vitality within the body can be restored and maintained during a treatment. Energy Medicine includes a variety of holistic healing modalities like: Reiki Energy Healing, Light Therapy, Acupuncture, Reflexology, Thai Massage, Tapping, and more.

Your energetic body has a crucial role to play towards your wellbeing journey. Here are 5 things everyone needs to know about Energy Healing:

1. Energy Healing is Based on Scientific Fact
Almost everything in our known universe is composed of molecules that are vibrating at various frequencies. The concept of vibrational frequencies and how they may relate to our health and well-being is often associated with alternative or holistic approaches to health and healing. Many people find value in practices that aim to balance and harmonize the body's energies, such as certain forms of energy healing, meditation, yoga, and other holistic approaches. These practices may complement conventional medical treatments and help promote overall well-being.

2. Energy Medicine Can Help Heal Physical and Emotional Traumas

Our energetic bodies are intertwined with our physical bodies. All the traumas we carry physically, emotionally and psychologically impact the functionality of our energy systems (chakras) and vice versa. To maintain vibrant health, the body needs its energies to have energetic space to flow freely throughout the body. When energies become blocked because of traumas, toxins, prolonged stress and muscular constrictions, it creates disturbances in the energy flow in our bodies, which over time contributes to mental, emotional issues and/or ailments and physical disease.

3. Energy Healing is Available to Everyone

There is often a misconception that you need to be spiritual to be open and receptive to energy healing. Energy healing is readily available to everyone who is interested and willing to receive it. You don’t need to be spiritual or hypersensitive to energies to benefit from an energy-healing treatment. As humans (just like every living being), we all have an energetic body that needs to be balanced and taken care of regularly. Some energy medicine modalities, like reiki treatments, transcend time and space. Therefore, you don’t have to be located in the same room, city or even country as your energy healer to receive and benefit from energy healing treatment.

4. Energy Medicine is Painless and has no Negative Side Effects

It's not uncommon for individuals to feel a sense of emotional release or physical sensations during or after an energy healing session. This can be attributed to the release of energetic blockages or the balancing of chakras, as you mentioned. During an energy healing session, individuals may also experience a range of sensations or emotions as the practitioner works to balance the body's energies and release energetic blockages. These experiences can vary from person to person and may include feelings of relaxation, warmth, tingling, emotional release, or shifts in perception.

5. Energy Medicine Works with Almost Every Other Type of Healing

Energy healing therapies, such as Reiki, can be used to complement conventional health treatments and therapies. Many individuals find that combining holistic approaches with Western medicine can provide a more comprehensive and integrative approach to health and well-being.