I'm often asked what is “energy healing” or “vibrational energy work.” Actually the question usually is more like, “Just what is it that you are doing?” Well, it's a big subject, so I will try to provide a somewhat simple answer!
My definition of energy work, or energy healing, is: the act of re-organizing energy or energetic information. Energy and information go hand in hand. Energy is information. There is a consciousness or intelligence to it. And by looking at the energy of things we can understand something about what we are seeing or feeling.
If you didn't get a degree in quantum physics, no worries—here's a breakdown of the ideas both science and spirituality are grappling with.
- Everything is energy. It all boils down to atoms and sub-atomic particles...maybe things even smaller than that!
- Subatomic particles sometimes behave as matter particles – very small balls zooming around inside the atom – and sometimes they behave as flowing energy waves.
- Many of us believe there is something beyond the material universe (what our biological minds can see right now). This might be called a realm of probability, a quantum field or a different dimension. Whatever it's called, its a realm of higher vibrations in which there is only pure energy. As the vibrational properties of these pure energy particles or waves are lowered, they manifest as subatomic particles (which then form the building blocks of all matter) or physical energy waves such as light.
- There is no barrier between pure energy and matter—energy just flows.
- The process whereby energy takes on material form seems inescapably linked to some form of consciousness. Quantum physicists have discovered that no matter could be created without the involvement of a conscious mind.
- When energy becomes matter, or takes on form, it holds a unique intelligence. The atoms that make up an eye are the same atoms that make up my desk, but each holds different information. The energy that is fear is the same as joy...it's all energy, just different information is held within it's “intelligence.”
- There is a Universal Energy Field and, for this discussion, a Human Energy Field. Although everything is energy so everything has a field.
- The human energy field is affected by emotions, biological structures, energetic structures, thoughts as well as energy or information moving through our field. (These are the basic affecting factors.)
- Emotions are “directed energy” aka a very directed flow of information. Emotions give instructions to our biological structures. This “instruction” goes to tissues, organs and systems. It's a two way street however, so if tissue or organs are holding a distorted energy, it can affect us emotionally.
So what does this mean for energy healing? Well, when organized energy becomes dis-organized or distorted, we run into problems. How does energy become dis–organized? My belief is when energy gets distorted from it's natural state (when pure energy moves into matter) OR to the vibrational level that we each can uniquely hold, it becomes distorted.
We each have the ability to hold our own unique levels of information or energy, and this is part of our spiritual evolution; evolving through the ability to hold higher and higher levels of vibrational information. So, if the distortion in our energy is too great, we feel it. And if these distortions pull us out of alignment with what our energy intelligence or Soul is to hold, we really feel it. These “distortions” may be a result of our holding an energy frequency that is too low for us (we may be stuck in an old pattern or in fear of holding the higher vibration) and thus we are needing to shift that vibration to a higher level. Or, the “distortion” may be a temporary glitch so to speak...our bodies processing information or emotions which cause a vibrational disorganization.
