A complementary approach

Alongside the conventional treatment prescribed by your own doctor, energy healing can above all help ease psycho-emotional suffering, and it invites you to welcome what is, so that you may come to peace with the organs that are unwell, particularly when the illness is a serious one.

Acceptance really is the unavoidable starting point of any journey towards healing. So, once the practitioner has supported you towards becoming aware of the emotions your unease has stirred up, they will call on Qi (TCM, Traditional Chinese Medicine) or Prana (Hinduism) to draw on the cosmo-telluric energies — those of Heaven and Earth — and harmonise the flow of energy through your different subtle bodies, among them the three bodies of the personality (energetic, emotional and mental) and the three spiritual bodies (causal, buddhic and atmic). They release the blockages made of stagnant, excess energy, and, the other way round, nourish the areas left empty of it.

An alternative approach

Energy healing looks at the person who is unwell and at the whole picture of their health, rather than at the illness and its symptoms alone. It can guide you towards a deeper understanding of where your illness or your symptoms come from, by exploring, with the practitioner alongside you, past events in your life (and even past lives, depending on what you believe) and the echoes they may still leave in the present moment.

Connecting a symptom with the organ or the part of the body concerned opens up an integrated understanding of the physical body and of what it is expressing. This speaking body is asking to be heard in full, so that it can find its way back towards the best possible healing: if that dimension is left unexplored, the illness — « mal-a-dit » in French, literally the ache has spoken — is likely to keep repeating itself until the body’s message is finally recognised and brought into awareness.

In traditional Ayurvedic medicine, which comes from India and is considered the oldest holistic medicine of all, the writer Vabghata describes six stages in the development of an illness: psychic, energetic, neuroendocrine, endotoxic, visible and finally terminal. According to this ancient Eastern practice, working on the energy level may therefore hope to address an imbalance early, before it shows up later, at the 3rd stage, in the physical body.

A doorway to the body’s own ability to regenerate

Our body naturally leans towards balance, and it carries a magnificent, age-old capacity to renew itself. Most of our organs are being renewed all the time: old or dead cells are cleared away and replaced with new ones, so that the organ stays in the best possible condition. That process has its limits, though, and they depend on the organ, on how damaged it is, on how a person lives, and also on their beliefs and on their wish to set out towards a healing that is sometimes the quest of a lifetime. For the brain to tell an organ to heal, it may first be necessary to resolve the biological conflict behind the symptoms, a conflict that sometimes goes back several generations.

By working on the cellular memory of the organs affected, energy healing may help reduce, or even settle, what is no longer working well, with the active involvement of the person and their own capacity for creative visualisation. Believing in yourself, and in yourself as an embodied creator, powerfully supports the body’s own ability to regenerate.

Trying things out is liberating, because it lets you act for yourself rather than against an illness.

An approach rooted in the Living

Honouring life in all its splendour, the energy approach puts each of us back at the centre of our own life and brings to light how closely we are bound to the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms.

Reconnecting with your deepest nature invites respect for all that lives, in a movement of inner ecology. For how could we work for ourselves alone, when we are part of a Whole? Taking an interest in your deeper self holds unexplored riches, bound up with nature, with our own nature, and encourages us to look on the Universe with kindness.

Turning your attention towards yourself makes you want to care for yourself and for others, in a way of living that respects every being, whether human, animal, plant or mineral.

A path that keeps unfolding

Making your way back towards yourself, towards your inner voice, frees you from the chatter of the lower ego, that is, of your personality, and opens you to the messages of that small quiet voice. This opening of the heart, which meditation above all makes possible, can, with steady practice, bring you back to inner peace, through a subtle process of unification between the physical and the non-physical, between the body and the dimensions of spirit and soul.

This return to unity supports the processes of change and healing, in the acceptance of Being in all its dimensions, Here and Now.

A doorway into the subtle worlds

Beyond the manifest, visible world, there is a timeless reality that we all knew as children, but the perceptions that reach it, the ones we call extra-sensory, were gradually locked away so that we could fit into material, physical reality alone.

Every one of us, at some point in life, has sensed another reality in a subtle way — a reality our mind was quick to make us dismiss, because it did not fit the norm. Yet that other reality, multi-dimensional and entirely subjective since it comes through your own channels of perception, lets you connect with everything that exists, visible and invisible. Through intention, you can reach other subtle worlds, the ones called magical, peopled with presences that are, at first, invisible to the naked eye.

All of us can learn to speak with these worlds by awakening our awareness, and set out to discover the best version of ourselves. Our personal growth then becomes an absorbing journey, one that lets us release, at every step, the wounds and limiting patterns held in our bodies.