Energy Medicine
06/25/19 Filed in: Wellbeing
"In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy."
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
Daughter of a physician and a nurse educator, I grew up in a household where dinner table conversation often consisted of hospital talk. My father, an anesthesiologist, gave spinals to women in labor, a practice more commonly used in those days. Although he claimed he had given over 50,000 spinal injections, and while I'm sure he was there when some of the women gave birth, I don't ever recall him mentioning that wondrous miracle. Instead he spoke of all the things that had gone wrong at the hospital that day.
My father, a German Jew who had escaped Nazi Germany and whose own parents hadn't, was a highly cultured, intelligent man prone to guilt, overwork, dissatisfaction and complaint. Given his challenging history, it makes sense that he might focus on the negative, but I have to admit our dinner table conversations did little to inspire my confidence in hospitals or in allopathic medicine.
While there have been remarkable advances in the field of allopathic medicine, and I'm certainly glad to be living in an era where so many aliments people would have have previously died from are now manageable, treatable and often curable, I've always gravitated, perhaps based upon my personal bias, toward what I broadly refer to as Energy Medicine.
Although Western medicine rarely mentions it, Eastern medicine and a variety of forms of Energy Medicine, acknowledge the existence of what has been called chi, ki, or prana, the life force that flows through us and surrounds us. We are, in fact, swimming in this sea of energy. It pulses through us, animates us and is the very essence of our vitality and aliveness. Working with this flow can help to us regulate, improve and maintain our health, on all levels of body, mind and spirit.
Complementary modalities, which could be referred to as forms of Energy Medicine, include; Reiki, Healing Touch, Acupuncture, Pranic Healing, Quantum Touch, Polarity Therapy, Theta Healing, to name but a few. A wonderful, recently published book Energy Medicine: The Science and Mystery of Healing by Dr. Jill Blakeway is available on Amazon for those who want to know more.
Not long ago I had the honor of appearing on a beautiful website created by the talented Elizabeth Kendig, where I'm among a curated group of healers being showcased on the site. Along with being interviewed by her, I'm currently being featured as healer of the month.
When filling out my profile for the site, I was asked to name my favorite self - care ritual. I wrote that it was my daily morning yoga or Qigong practice, but I wish I'd also added Donna Eden's Daily Five Minute Energy Routine, which is something I never skip!
Donna Eden is an internationally known Energy Healer. Born with the ability to see and sense subtle energies, she cured herself of multiple, serious aliments and over time developed a her own system of Energy Medicine. She's created a very quick and easy routine that you can do in just a few minutes daily to build your immune system, gain energy, feel younger and relieve pain.
I'm adding a link below, and invite you to add a beautiful practice to your life that can truly make a difference!
Donna's Daily Energy Routine