Energy Medicine: History - Beliefs - Credibility
Why can energy medicine heal lots of disease that Chinese and western medicine cannot? Energy medicine is not a new science; it goes back to at least Galileo's time, although it is gaining more and more credibility as time goes by.
History Of Energy Medicine
There is a history of association or exploitation of scientific inventions by individuals claiming that newly discovered science could help people to heal: In the 19th century, electricity and magnetism were in the "borderlands" of science and electrical quackery was rife. These concepts continue to inspire writers in the New Age movement. In the early 20th century health claims for radio-active materials put lives at risk, and recently quantum mechanics and grand unification theory have provided similar opportunities for commercial exploitation.
Thousands of devices claiming to heal via putative or veritable energy are used worldwide. Many of them are illegal or dangerous and are marketed with false or unproven claims. Several of these devices have been banned. Reliance on spiritual and energetic healings is associated with serious harm or death when medical treatment is delayed or foregone.
Beliefs Of Energy Medicine
A Reiki practitioner
Energy healing relies on a belief in the ability of a practitioner to channel healing energy into the person seeking help by different methods: hands-on, hands-off, and distant (or absent) where the patient and healer are in different locations.
The Brockhampton Guide to Spiritual Healing describes contact healing in terms of "transfer of ... healing energy" and distant healing based on visualising the patient in perfect health. Practitioners say that this "healing energy" is sometimes perceived by the therapist as a feeling of heat.
There are various schools of energy healing, including biofield energy healing, spiritual healing, contact healing, distant healing, therapeutic touch, Reiki, Qigong, and many others.
Spiritual healing is largely non-denominational; traditional religious faith is not seen as a prerequisite for effecting a cure. Faith healing, by contrast, takes place within a religious context.
The Buddha is often quoted by practitioners of energy medicine, but he did not practise "hands on or off" healing.
Energy healing techniques such as Therapeutic touch have found recognition in the nursing profession. In 2005–2006, the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association approved the diagnosis of "energy field disturbance" in patients, reflective of what has been variously called a "postmodern" or "anti-scientific" approach to nursing care. This approach has been strongly criticised.
Believers in these techniques have proposed quantum mystical invocations of non-locality to try to explain distant healing. They have also proposed that healers act as a channel passing on a kind of bioelectromagnetism which shares similarities to vitalistic pseudosciences such as orgone or qi. Drew Leder remarked in a paper in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine that such ideas were attempts to "make sense of, interpret, and explore 'psi' and distant healing." and that "such physics-based models are not presented as explanatory but rather as suggestive."
Beverly Rubik, in an article in the same journal, justified her belief with references to biophysical systems theory, bioelectromagnetics, and chaos theory that provide her with a "...scientific foundation for the biofield..." Writing in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, James Oschman introduced the concept of healer-sourced electromagnetic fields which change in frequency. Oschman believes that "healing energy" derives from electromagnetic frequencies generated by a medical device, projected from the hands of the healer, or by electrons acting as antioxidants.
Physicists and sceptics roundly criticise these explanations as pseudophysics – a branch of pseudoscience which explains magical thinking by using irrelevant jargon from modern physics to exploit scientific illiteracy and to impress the unsophisticated. Indeed, even enthusiastic supporters of energy healing point out that "there are only very tenuous theoretical foundations underlying [spiritual] healing."
Why is Energy Medicine Gaining More and More Credibility?
Some people don't believe in energy medicine as they don't believe that there is any scientific background to it. But there are a lot of things we don't understand yet that doesn't mean they don't work. How do you explain patients being treated with placebos recovering from disease? How were they cured if they only received a sugar pill, and they were not really being treated with conventional medicine? Most probably, even though they were probably not aware of it, it was to do with how they focussed their energy and the power of their mind.
In the same way how do you explain those patients that are told they will never walk again but they do? Or those that modern medicine says can't have children yet these women go on to have a baby and often more than one. They may have gone to energy healers looking for help or they may have subconsciously tapped into their own energy field.
We are surrounded by energy. We are all energy as is everything around us. Energy medicine is the most natural and efficient healing system as it uses the diagnostic properties of energy. You probably already use a form of energy medicine in your life.
By being based on and using energy in some format, Acupuncture, osteopathy and Reiki all work on this principle. People like receiving energy medicine, you don't have to do anything or have any procedures and you do not have to take medication. Your energy field restoring it to full strength by an energy healer working on you. You will be recharged and as the days go by, the deep physical, mental or emotional blockages damaging your health will be released. This will help you return to full health very quickly.
The ancient medicines all knew of your energy field and called it Chi, prana and Baraka. You can build up your immune system, boost your stamina and vitality, combat pain and stress as well as sharpening your mind by using energy medicine.
Your body was designed to heal itself and Energy healers work with that knowledge. We believe that we need doctors and modern medicine for every ache and pain we suffer because our culture tells us that. You will have more control over your health, your vitality and your mind the more you work with the energy in your body.
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