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healer are involved to varying degrees, depending on the particular school of healing. The experienced healer-teacher may transfer healing abilities and/or energies to the student, which theoretically open the energy centers and "raise the vibration level" of the student. These students are then able to channel greater amounts of the universal life energy to another person to facilitate healing. |
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The concept of an invisible life force that permeates and activates all living systems, including the earth and the universe, is central to energy healing modalities. This vitalizing life force, variously called bioplasma, chi, qi, mana, prana, or subtle energy "is impossible to grasp, measure, quantify, or isolate . . . [and is] known only by its effects," according to Beinfield and Korngold, authors of Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine.
9 Subtle energy healing techniques are based on the belief that this life force flows along nonphysical channels or meridians (called nadis in Sanskrit) in the body. |
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Theoretically, we are born with a certain amount of innate life energy or chi, and throughout life we continue to replenish it by absorbing varying amounts from the earth, sunlight, the air, food and drink, and through positive interactions with other living creatures. Conversely, we can become drained of our prana or chi by excessive muscular activity or improper breathing, as well as by our undisciplined thoughts and intentions. |
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According to energy healing theory, our life force can become blocked in various parts of our bodies when we experience physical, mental, or emotional trauma, or when we either consciously or unconsciously withhold our emotional expression associated with trauma. Being surrounded by crowds of people or being in the company of depressed, ill, angry, or fearful people is said to deplete our supply of essential life energy as well. On the other hand, nutrition and herbs, physical training and breathing exercises, touch and massage, acupuncture, rest, meditation, and manipulation or restoration of the energy field by a healer are all thought to have restorative effects on the flow and supply of our body's vital life force. |
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Both energy healers and spiritual healers conceive that imbalances, depletion, or blockages in the flow of our life force (or consciousness) |
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