Many Are Coming To Rely On Energy Medicine

By Meeri Banks


There are many ways to assist your healing, besides drugs. One field of complementary or alternative medicine is a school described as energy medicine. This discipline of therapy is based on a belief that the patient can be cared for by a healer who can channel energies. Analysts endeavour to determine imbalances (bioelectrical, chemical, or structural) within the individual and to use healing energies to put right these imbalances.

The terms for this form of therapy, spiritual healing and energy healing came into common usage after the creation of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies back in the 1980s. Three distinct methods take the forms of hands-on, hands-off and distant healing. Distant healing occurs with the patient and the therapist in separate locations; it is also known as absent healing.

Reiki, biofield healing, therapeutic touch and contact healing are all brands of therapies. The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has categorized health-care techniques that engage scientifically identifiable energies as "Veritable Energies" care. These methods include magnet therapy, light therapy and colorpuncture.

Certified nursing organizations have acknowledged the results arising from therapeutic touch. Diagnosis involving disturbances to a patient's field was endorsed in 2005/6 by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. Canadian counsellors have registered the trademark "Therapeutic Touch"; a patient's field is manipulated by an analyst according to uniform and industry standard techniques.

Some instances of the utilization of electrical energies for healing include quicker healing of wounds. This is done by using electrical currents, the relief of deep-seated pain with a TENS machine and the healing of neurological concerns via deep brain stimulation. The management of pain through electrotherapy techniques has been acknowledged by the American Physical Therapy Association.

Incontinence, joint mobility and tissue repair can all improve via electrotherapy. The way in which pain messages are sent into the brain can be affected by the electrical impulses instigated by a TENS machine; these devices can be used instead of pharmaceuticals to tackle many types of pain without unwanted side-effects. Psychiatric therapists use bioenergetics in the analysis and treatment of depression, anxiety and muscular stress.

Bioenergetics is an active form of "body work'. It seeks to achieve emotional and physical wellbeing by therapeutic measures that allow energies to flow through the mind and body. Neuroscience research substantiates the effects of body work in psychotherapy.

The entire discipline sees the body's energies as vital to physical health, vitality and emotional wellbeing. It works with these energies to increase happiness and healthiness. Balance is restored non-invasively through massage of acupoints on the patient's body to create a harmonious whole.




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