Energy Healing 101 | For Seekers & Skeptics - What You Need To Know

All about energy work. Learn about your electromagnetic, multidimensional self. Broad discussion for those with an exisiting interest but also equally useful for those healthy skeptics out there. For many of you with an existing holistic practice, energy healing is a practical next step if you're interested in subtle energy, extrasensory perception and depth work. I try and keep the lecture "light" - how appropriate - enjoy!

Transcript

Hello,

My name is Keith Parker and I'm a founder of Field Dynamics Energy Healing.

So in this talk,

We're going to go over what energy healing is,

A lot of the foundational things that are important to understand about it,

And we'll cover as much ground as we can kind of broad bit by bit.

Now it's understandable to have a healthy skepticism regarding energy,

Energy healing,

Things that are not easy to see,

Not easy to confirm.

Now in some cases,

Some of you listening will have had direct experiences or understand energy work through your own experience in such a way as that you don't really question it.

But there are many people who are kind of on the fence.

And those who are open minded have a healthy skepticism,

At least hopefully they have a healthy skepticism because I will thread through a number of different points,

Data points,

Ways of understanding that might paint a picture that broadens the ability for the healthy skeptic to become a little bit more,

I don't want to say convinced because it's not about convincing,

But rather the information available to us today kind of shows us how energy healing and subtle energy and kind of the mechanics of consciousness of mind of thought of intention of frequency.

These things are being understood in science now it's just the mainstream interpretation the conclusions being drawn by a lot of cutting edge scientific study doesn't include consciousness that don't know what to do with mind but energy work is very much rooted on how it is that mind and consciousness seems to be working.

So let's get going with specifically what do you need to know about energy healing or energy work or energy medicine?

What are the basics?

So firstly,

Let's define it.

Energy healing is also referred to as energy work or energy medicine and it's a holistic method in which higher consciousness and energy flow through the practitioner to clear blockage and support the physical body's natural regeneration.

So it's holistic.

It means that the mind,

The body,

And the spirit,

That's almost always what is referenced when holistic or holism is being spoken of,

All three of those components are being addressed in ourselves.

Now obviously we know what our body is to a great extent.

We have a sense maybe of what the mind is and then there's this thing called spirit.

It's mysterious.

It may be ill-defined.

It may be undefinable as Lao Tzu often is quoted as saying the Tao that can be spoken of is not the Tao.

So spirit is something more mysterious but the idea being that there is this threefold aspect to our beingness and energy healing is absolutely holistic.

It requires the integration and the use of a higher consciousness and higher consciousness is in a sense pointing towards what we're talking about as spirit.

So unlike Western allopathic medicine which generally treats symptoms,

It kind of works from the surface back in.

It works from things that are already problematic and often tries to either kill or cut off that thing.

Now I'm not saying that it's a purely negative thing but allopathic medicine has a particular orientation.

Holistic medicine of which energy healing is a part of is integrating all parts of our being and so it means it gets at the root of a problem.

It doesn't work with symptomology first.

It works with the foundation of where something is happening in the first place.

So that could mean that before any symptoms show themselves at the level of the physical we're addressing that through energy work,

Through energy healing and through holistic healing.

So energy works nothing new.

It's been around for thousands of years.

It's just a modern term.

So some people are familiar with shamanic practices.

Some people would be familiar with the word magic,

Magical practices.

In one way or another many ancient traditions,

Many spiritual practices so to speak,

Have integrated and at some times really feature what we're calling energy work now.

Energy work is just a contemporary terminology and luckily modern science is giving us new language and new concepts to understand how it is this is working because it has been practiced in various ways for thousands of years.

Now I mentioned the inclusion of higher consciousness.

So this is related to the spirit aspect of what is going on with energy work.

So what is higher consciousness?

It's part of our definition that higher consciousness is kind of flowing through the practitioner.

So if you want to get a sense of higher consciousness,

Think of Russian dolls.

This is an analogy.

And so the Russian dolls are set up so that there are shells or nested structures,

One inside of the other.

So higher consciousness would be the outer shells such that all the lower consciousness so to speak or the consciousness that is in the inner structure are included in the outer.

So this is essentially inclusivity or breadth of inclusion.

Now it's not meaning higher is better and lower is worse.

It really means inclusiveness.

So higher consciousness,

For instance,

Might be what's often called your higher self.

And it's often what is referred to as universal consciousness or source consciousness.

This is an aspect that we can identify and understand its function and that all other forms of consciousness are subsumed or nested within it.

Now as a working model for energy healing,

We use a field first model.

And that basically means that thoughts make things.

We don't think things make thoughts.

Now regardless of this being correct or incorrect from a scientific perspective,

A scientific model,

I'm not saying ultimately correct or not.

But regarding energy work,

To understand what's happening,

To understand the cause and effect and the phenomenology inherent in doing energy work,

It seems to make the most sense.

The most obvious explanation that you could suggest is actually directly perceivable is that the body maps onto an energy field,

That a thought makes a thing,

That a mind makes a body in a sense.

And so that the energy field is actually happening in causal relationship before the body.

And this isn't a strange idea.

We could easily understand that the physical body may very well simply be essentially mapped onto a kind of a blueprint,

An energetic blueprint.

So that somehow we have an informational component to the way in which our body is mapped and its way in which the physical reality is mapped and that the blueprint level or the information level is something that's happening in relationship to the energy field and that that comes before or is causal to the physical.

Now this explains the phenomenon energy healing where blockages are often arising in the energy field and then can manifest in the physical body if left unresolved.

And you can see this if you practice yourself or if you're doing work with others.

If you get enough data,

Then you can start to see that if something's left that has an energetic pattern,

An energetic imprint,

And then it's not worked through,

It is not processed,

It's not digested,

Metabolized or resolved,

Then the physical body may start having symptomology.

And again,

This is a working model.

Keep on your healthy skeptic hat.

So energy healing is practice for everyone.

Really important.

There's no hierarchy in energy healing regarding access to entry.

Anybody in the entire world can pick up an energy healing practice on day one and make use of it.

So it's great that it has this kind of intrinsic equality built into it and that anybody can do it.

And of course,

There are different practices and there is a large skill set in terms of developing that practice.

But just like anybody can start playing music on day one,

You can hand somebody a guitar or sit them down at a piano,

Anybody can start energy work and they will be doing healing work immediately.

So that is a really fantastic part.

And certainly with field dynamics in the model we're working with,

It is that you can develop this skill set quite extensively,

Quite broadly and get into levels of,

Dare I say,

Mastery.

But more,

There is a huge range of technique,

Skill and artistry that can go into energy work and healing work in general.

And it's a profound skill.

So as I've mentioned,

Energy work is foundationally related to what's going on with our electromagnetic self,

Our bioelectric self.

Now this electromagnetic field surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body.

Now the popular terms for this are the aura,

The energy field,

The light body,

The biofield is a more contemporary term.

In field dynamics,

We really like to use the multidimensional anatomy or multidimensional energy field because it is multidimensional.

Now that word might be strange,

Futuristic or woo-woo,

But indeed understanding the energy field at a more subtle level is that it has a multidimensional nature and that multidimensional nature is extremely important to understand because multidimensionality is how essentially information is embedded or encoded in space.

So it's like folding a piece of paper many,

Many times rather than just the dimensions we think of as length within height.

Multidimensionality in this regard has to do more with how information can be stored by folding and making use of many layers of membrane.

So this multidimensional anatomy is highly organized.

It is essentially multilayered information and made of light.

And on a more profound level,

On a really kind of eyes-open level,

Our multidimensional anatomy,

Our aura,

Our light body is the way in which we embody the whole universe in microcosm,

I.

E.

As above,

So below.

And this gets into fractals,

It gets into recursion,

It gets into self-similarity.

But in essence,

Every single part of the universe,

Every object you can find is a reflection or an echo of every other part and in some way,

And in some very important way,

Has an imprint of the whole and is a reflection of the whole.

And so that we can find at the level of our energy field.

Now the energy being referred to in energy healing,

As I mentioned,

Is electromagnetic,

But it's gone by different names and different cultures like prana or chi,

Subtle energy,

Life force,

Vital energy.

And you can learn to see and feel electromagnetic fields.

This goes under the general heading of extrasensory perception.

Now some people have an intrinsic skill.

It's fantastic.

Most people work through developing their sensory interface,

How it is that they take sense phenomena through the physical senses and then start to see how they can sublimate those or find what's happening on their higher senses.

Again,

Higher is not better,

It just means subtler.

There are things like inner vision,

Light vision,

All of the clairaudience,

Clairvoyance,

Clairsentience,

All those kinds of things.

These are learnable skills,

They're things that anybody has access to.

And some people are just a bit more inclined towards them than others.

But nonetheless,

They've been talked about for a very,

Very long time.

The yogis used to call these the cities,

The Buddhists called them the iddhis,

And they're talked about plenty in all traditions from around the world.

Now the healer doesn't heal.

This might sound strange.

If it's energy healing,

A person does energy work,

They're maybe an energy healer.

But we have to be really sensitive,

Really light when we talk about the healer.

What does a healer do?

Now,

That can be a very off-putting term.

Who are you to heal me?

Who are you to do healing?

Well,

The good thing is to understand is that the healer doesn't do the healing.

The healer is actually a facilitator,

That higher consciousness flows through the healer,

The energy flows through the healer.

So a healer at the level of looking at the person or considering the person that is identifying themselves as a healer,

Their personality,

They're not doing the healing.

There's really nothing about the personality that has the potency to do energy work in that in the sense we're talking about.

But rather,

It is the development of a person's emptiness,

Or spaciousness,

Or transparency.

It is the development of a person's ability to just get out of the way and to let the higher consciousness aspect in themselves and what it is that they're bringing through to move through them and to connect to that other person.

So an energy healer is actually a person who is a really good energy healer,

Someone who's become quite good at getting out of the way so as to allow things to move through them to connect to others.

So the most valuable skill for a healer is establishing a clear connection to this source consciousness,

To spirit consciousness.

And of course,

That just means in a sense,

Becoming more present,

Becoming more anchored in the here and the now because the present moment,

The quality of presence and the idea of nowness is actually an analog of what we mean when we say spirit.

It's infinite.

There is only a now and it is not graspable.

So being that the now is not something that is graspable as an object,

But rather it is a continuity,

It is a flow and it is eternal.

That aspect of becoming more present,

As we all understand,

Is the essence of spirituality.

All spirituality is coming more into the present moment.

Just be here now.

So an energy healer's greatest skill is developing this skill.

And we see here that there's this direct link between someone who is doing a regular or an archetypal journeying process,

Seeking process of coming into themselves,

Right?

Of saying,

What am I?

What is this?

I want to understand the nature of myself and consciousness.

I want to understand what it is that this thing is called spirit directly.

Now that is the tradition of spiritual seeking.

And then the tradition of healing is a bit different,

But in the sense that the healing seems to be a process of more of bringing to wholeness those things which are broken apart or are fragmented.

But nonetheless,

The actual core skill and the core journey for a healer and a seeker is to be present.

And so many seekers naturally start to develop an interest in healing.

And also the more depth one develops in their ability to be present,

The more healing potency they may be able to access to offer and connect to others with.

So energy healing brings about an accelerated process.

Now the reason this is happening is because of the fact that energy healing is a depth modality,

Meaning it works with the unconscious,

It works with the subconscious,

It works with what it is that you can't know clearly,

Transparently now,

But has a way of retrieving that information and working with that information for the purpose of transformation.

And energy healing really brings about an accelerated process when done well,

Because it's very powerful.

It can be incredibly dynamic and incredibly powerful,

And can really accelerate the healing and self-realization process.

Now I won't go much into the multi-dimensional anatomy,

But that in passing I mentioned that we have that anatomy.

And this is important to understand.

Obviously we have a lymphatic system and a nervous system and an endocrine system.

But we also have a chakra system and a meridian system and a nadi system.

And the overarching structure of the energy field is a tube torus.

So these are the aspects of the energy anatomy.

And more and more science is picking up on this.

And they're very important for our overall functioning,

Our mind-body functioning.

And as we well know,

If you have a lot of stagnation and a lack of vitality in your physical system,

That brings about poor health.

And so it is with the multi-dimensional anatomy.

The importance of maintaining it,

Of keeping it healthy,

Of balancing it is absolutely crucial and vital,

Especially for those who are seeking to optimize,

To get into the depth of themselves and what it is that health and wellness really is.

Subtle anatomy becomes increasingly important.

Now energy healing is very well known for kind of removing energy blocks.

You often hear this,

You know,

Energy,

I want to clear my blocks.

I want to remove my blockage.

So energy healing obviously clears and removes energy blocks.

Now they're often known as distortions or fragmentations.

Again,

All these different traditions have different titles for them,

But the block disrupts the flow and function of the energy system.

So if you imagine your energy system as flowing like a river and kind of your health and vitality is determined by the strength and balance of the current of the river,

The block is akin to a rock in the river and causes disruption and imbalance in that flow.

Now interestingly,

Blocks are actually made of unresolved psycho-emotional issues.

Surprise,

Surprise.

So when we say we're working with a repressed emotion,

A deeply limiting belief,

A buried memory,

Trauma,

These things are actually sitting.

They are the mental stuff that sits in the energy field and essentially lodges itself in the multidimensional anatomy.

So as I mentioned before,

These unresolved issues,

When understood from an energy healing perspective,

These unresolved issues in the energy field can eventually manifest as physical symptoms,

Illness,

And even disease if left untreated.

And in this way,

Energy healing can be understood as a form of preventative medicine as well.

So as mentioned,

There's the anatomy and then there's this content,

The blocks,

The content.

So in energy healing,

You can work anatomically,

But you can also work from an issue.

So you might say,

OK,

I'm going to work on my chakra system.

I'm going to work on strengthening my chakra system,

Balancing my chakra system.

That's great.

Now you also could say,

I want to work on my issues around anxiety.

I have this absolutely debilitating anxiety that comes up occasionally and I want to understand how to work with that.

And you can work with energy healing to target the anxiety quite directly,

Just as you could work to target the chakras.

And for instance,

In field dynamics as a modality,

We place equal emphasis on approaching anatomy versus issue,

Creating the facility to work with both.

Now it's important to understand working structurally means that we get to connect where everybody is the same in the sense that everybody has a chakra system.

Everybody has a meridian system.

Not everybody has the same type of anxiety issue.

So strengthening your ability to work in structure gives you universal access to working with all issues.

But it's really important for people to develop and understand their strengths,

Their talents,

Their inclinations towards working structurally first or issue first and what kind of mix between the two is appropriate for your practice.

So common causes of energy blocks.

Now remember,

Working holistically means that we get to the root of a problem.

So I'll mention a few common sources of energy blocks.

Now all of these sources can be potentially associated with trauma and or what's known as the shadow.

Trauma by definition is a severe disruption of body and mind functioning by leaving a significant imprint.

Trauma essentially is something that was strong enough that kind of is left quite unresolved.

And then there is often a physiological component to trauma.

So energy work can really help with that.

Now the shadow is something a little more subtle.

Shadow in a sense you might say is what we don't know we don't know about ourselves.

Now all deep healing,

Depth healing requires bringing over the unconscious or the subconscious aspects of ourselves into consciousness,

Into awareness.

So shadow is a very very deep aspect of what we don't know about ourselves and it's a very interesting topic.

But here are four common causes of energy blocks.

I'll quickly go over them.

Of course this is not a complete list.

One is the inner child.

Of course the inner child is the naturally curious,

Expressive and joyous aspects of ourselves.

The easiest way to understand the inner child is that a baby has kind of a perfect proportionality between stimulus and response.

And by that I mean if it feels happy,

If a baby is happy,

It laughs and screams and squeals in joy in a way that is just complete and total.

And if a baby is unhappy it cries and expresses and emotes and gyrates.

And the expression through the body,

Through the communication faculties available to it are very much a pass through from the stimulation.

It's just what is it feeling and it expresses that really really well.

Now in the development of our personality what we do is we kind of dampen down and reconstruct our kind of expressivity and the way in which we pass through joy and communication and emotion.

So inner child is a really really significant part of the healing process.

It is a lifelong process to a certain extent and it is what Western psychology generally focuses on.

And of course that's because it deals with the personal narrative of yourself as the individual personality with a first and last name that you know yourself as.

And that's fantastic.

Now we can go further than that though.

One step back would be ancestral healing.

Now we're learning a lot more about that in genetics and shamans and shamanic practices going back thousands of years have really focused on ancestral healing.

And this is a very rich and interesting place and of course a very common place we find that our energy blocks are originating from.

Then we have something we could call birth patterning.

Now there's a lot of interesting research on this.

I specialized for a while in craniosacral therapy as a side note.

And what I found astonishing and very critical is actually that the process of essentially of coming into a body or while the body is born during that embryological process in those nine months of gestation in the mother's womb all the way through actually coming out of the birth canal or being cut out through a cesarean section.

That process has a very strong imprint on our general psycho-emotional and particularly our somatic constitution.

And so it's a very interesting place,

It's a very deep place in ourselves.

And when you go into particular sectors particularly of the body in doing healing work we find that these imprints these birth patterning imprints are there.

The last one I'll mention is transpersonal.

Now this is a topic that people love to either get excited about or to be very skeptical about.

Transpersonal healing here is referring to what's normally known as past lives.

Now at certain depths of the psyche if you do a bunch of healing work it is very very likely at some point you are going to come across an experience,

A memory,

An identification as being somebody else in some other time.

Now it doesn't matter whether it's metaphorical like a dream language or it's literal that you were actually a particular person another time.

Those conceptual frameworks as to metaphor versus literal are secondary to the very important fact that when people work through this level of the psyche,

When they get to the healing process inherent in contacting these aspects of themselves,

Very significant insights and changes and transformation often come about.

So let me go over some benefits of energy healing.

Number one,

Energy healing promotes natural self-healing.

So simply put the body heals itself.

We all know that.

You get a cut and guess what?

It heals itself.

So natural regeneration is assisted by a number of factors such as environmental conditions,

Nutrition,

Etc.

And remember in our energy healing model the energy field comes first.

Thoughts make things.

So the energy field is the immediate environment of the body.

And when you have psycho-emotional blockage,

When there is tension in the energy field,

It can inhibit the physical body's ability to self-heal.

So when we clear the energy field,

We release this tension and we stimulate the physical body's innate ability to regenerate and heal itself.

Natural healing is a powerful method for transformation and self-realization.

Now self-realization is about connecting to one's true nature and their highest potential.

Now energy work provides unique and in many ways unparalleled access to the obstructions that inhibit the insight required to realize your deeper nature.

Now simply becoming aware of something is the foundation for change.

Management,

Insight,

And awareness is the foundation.

And energy healing excels at breaking down these perceptual barriers and enabling consciousness expansion and furthering the self-realization process.

A third important benefit of energy healing is to mention that for many people who are doing holistic work,

It simply might move you into the next level of your practice.

It might move you into a more subtle,

Energetic level of the practice.

So the skill set for energy healing combines the strengths of the meditator,

Of the yogi,

Of the shaman.

It's the next step for many holistic practitioners who are interested in subtle energy and developing extrasensory perception and intuition.

So if you're interested in deepening your current practice and working directly with the subtle anatomy,

Then energy healing is something that is really worth considering.

Energy healing is an empowered management of health and well-being.

So this means that through preventative self-care,

We can develop and strengthen our non-reliance on external factors for our health and well-being.

Now I mentioned,

Again,

That field first model tells us how unresolved blockage in the field can eventually turn into physical symptomology.

So if we can develop a practice that really prevents physical symptomology,

Then we're really doing a wonderful empowerment of the management of our own health and well-being.

Now is it a replacement for doctors and medicine?

No,

I'm not saying that.

But rather that the empowerment for oneself to be self-managing,

To be non-reliant on external sources is really important.

And the last thing I'll mention is energy healing increases or enhances one's present moment awareness to increased coherency.

Now I really want to get into this because this is a bit,

This is precise.

Coherency is a measure of a system's organization.

So the energy field is really complex.

It is a multi-dimensional light web,

A light matrix of information,

Of electromagnetic field tension.

And energy healing,

Because it works with the energy field,

What it does is over time,

As you keep developing your energy system,

Your field becomes better organized,

More organized,

More coherent.

And this coherency results in more electrical conductivity,

More radiance,

More vitality.

And the more radiance you have in your energy field,

The more your focus of attention can settle into the present moment.

So this feeds back into why it is that energy healing is so useful in the self-realization and enlightenment process,

Because it can really enhance present moment awareness.

Well,

Thank you so much for listening to this talk.

There's so many more things that I could get into around energy work and energy healing.

Of course,

I'm really involved in a modality that I've developed called the field dynamics.

And of course,

Check that out,

Please,

If you have any interest.

I will be planning on putting up quite a bit more information on energy healing in general.

And so I hope you've enjoyed this talk.

And thank you so much for your time.

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