You, are more than just a physical Body.
That is the root of all the "woo woo" terms floating around these days (Chi, Ki, Prana, Chakra's, Aura's, Energy Work, Energy Therapy, Energy Healing, Vibrational Medicine, Hands of Light, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch ...)

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Let's Start With the Body
What is the communication mechanism of your nervous system? A system of sending and receiving electrical impulses.
What does an EEG machine measure? The electrical surface resistance in the brain.
And that EKG machine? It's measuring the electrical currents produced by your heart contractions.
Does the Doctor have to open your chest or your skull to put the electrodes directly onto the heart or brain? No.
Why not? In raw terms, you are an unshielded electrical cable these machines can "read".

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And Move to Your Mind
Where is your Mind? Is it in your brain only? Can thoughts be stored to the physical harddrive elsewhere?
What IS your brain anyway? The physical brain is the motherboard for the nervous system signals.

The brain receives input, evaluates the situation and decides on a response. Stress, for example.

Brain receives input, evaluates the situation, concludes that putting the nervous system in "fight / flight / protect" mode is the most appropriate response.

Where do you store your stress? In your brain? Perhaps you store it in your shoulders, or your low back.
Input + evaluated as Stressful = "tense up shoulders" response.

So is it possible you have stored a stressful thought in your shoulders?

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And Bring In Emotion
Where is Emotion? Is it in your brain? Can you feel it in your body? A sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach? Can you feel love in your heart? input + evaluation = physical response

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Body, Mind, Emotion
So it's all one interactive system working via electrical impulse. Right?

The amputee. The phantom arm pain. How come you can massage that non-existent arm and it feels better?

Obviously, there is more going on here, than Mind/Emotion traveling the physical nervous system to create physical response.
Brain-Mind still "thinks" that arm is there and continues to create physical sensation in that location which is now, technically, "outside" the physical body.

Wow. That's alot of power there. To create physical sensation outside of the body like that.

"More than just" a physical being.


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Energy Healing
So what is "energy" and what exactly are you "healing"?

The ancient philosophies refer to "energy" as "life force", "breath of life", "chi", "ki", "soul", "prana", "mana" and a myriad of terms describing the non-physical aspects of yourself that gives your body the "alive" state (vs no longer living).

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Energy Imbalance

So your electrical impulses are functioning perfectly. You are in perfect Health and your mental and emotional states are balanced and able to just "Be" 24/7. No? So you're human too? Cool.

Maybe the impulses are over-reactive. Maybe they are blocked. Maybe it's a complex chicken-egg combination of the 2.
You actually "are" in perfect balance. Your physical body demands it, to remain alive.
Homeostasis, is what the medical field calls it.
A pendulum swinging 1 foot to the left and to the right is just a balanced as one that swings one inch each direction.

So what am I "healing"? ... well, I can't speak for anyone else or their work, but when you are on <i>my<\i> table I am not "healing" anything. I am working with the over/under functioning parts to remind them of other states of functioning.

So back to your tense shoulder muscles that "forgot" how to relax. During your massage my goal is to remind those muscles of their fully relaxed state. I do the exact same work with the energy system. Reminding the blocked portions they can have flow. Reminding the over-reactive parts they have "chill" mode.

During the massage, you are free to override the work. Many people do so even during the massage. It feels so weird to be relaxed and structurally aligned that they unconsciously move around, tense up and the return to the familiar state of being uncomfortable. The same dynamic occurs with the energy system -- you are free to return to the previous state consciously and unconsciously.

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"Healing"

So yeh, I can't "fix" you.
Where does the healing come from then?
The Healing, comes from You.

Yeh you. The one with the power to override whatever work has been done.
You, the one making the conscious and unconscious choices to block, over-react, tense up, relax.

So how does that work?

I clear and set the space in the room.
I enter what I call the Sacred Healing Space. I don't know how to describe it, I just know how to enter it, and stay in it during your session.
When I'm in it ... hmmm ... I was massaging a friend of mine for the first time. A friend who has seen me in all sorts of "states" along the way. Her comment was after the massage was "wow, you're in a totally different place."

So, space is set, practitioner is ready.
You arrive.
If you like, we talk about your goals for the session.
It's pefectly ok to small talk through the transition time from daily life to healing work.
Or not talk at all.
Your "stuff" is none of my business. As long as it's in your field of awareness, that's all that's important.

You transition onto the table.
Clothed table massage, standard unclothed well-draped table massage, no massage -- we listen to your body, it knows what it needs.

Each session is totally unique to where you are in that moment. So describing further is difficult.
Sometimes the session is verbally interactive, sometimes completely silent.
Sometimes memories or visions come up for people.
Sometimes you're just off in your favorite place on earth, enjoying that now-space.

I am in the Sacred Healing Space. I am literally just following my hands. Your body knows what it needs, and when I am in that space it is able to guide me. So I am working with you on the memories and visions but I am unaware of what they are.

Recently, I have been asked to become aware, and describe what I see.
I can do this for you if it is useful to you. But unless asked my approach is always staying out of your business and just following my hands.

Sometimes I am led to say something. I never know "why" I am saying it, I only know that it will be appropriate and relevant to what you need in that moment.

I have mentioned unconscious resistance to staying in the new state. So sometimes we are working on that aspect.
You may become acutely aware of why you prefer the old comfortable state. And you may start to think up new ways to have that need met so you can stay in the new state.

This may happen on the table, or weeks after. You will heal in the way that is right for you.


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Energy Healing - The "Other" Answer

There are 2 distinct styles of Energy Work. Internal and External. Bear with me as I "make up" these terms.
The field itself has not settled on any of them, and many are trying to capitalize on their own unique term and way of working with Energy because, well, that's what tends to happen in here in America.

Internal Energy Healing
Internal Energy Healing is direct movement of the mana/chi systems. Examples:
Holding an acupressure point until the meridian's flow is restored.
Holding a chakra until the energy calms down.

External Energy Healing
External Energy Healing brings in outside energies to move the mana/chi system.
Some practitioners still use the ancient traditions of using their own energy to do this.
Other practitioners bring in higher vibrational energies such as Reiki through their body and into the client.

I use other methods.
Some of the methods are proprietary to my training and I am under NDA's to share them with you here.
Others I have developed along the way, but can't describe them well enough yet to type them out in a coherent fashion.
(The Sacred Healing Space is a very "right brain" place, and as you can see, my left brain prefers logical explainable things.)

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So ...

I hope I have shed some light on Energy Healing for you. Feel free to email me with questions or comments.
And definitely let me know if I have muddied things for you. If I see a pattern, I can look at rewriting sections to be more clear.

You can email me through biznik, through tribe, or through my personal website if you are so inclined.

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