Taking you on a journey into energy healing...
…so you don’t stop believing! For those of you who ‘get’ my play on words with the 1981 Journey song called “Don’t Stop Believing”, I hope you enjoyed my humour! For those of you who aren’t familiar with the song, I’ve embedded the video here for you to watch – it has a very catchy chorus 😉
So, why am I all excited about taking you on a Reiki journey into energy healing? Because with each day I live on this Earth, I learn something more amazing and new, which backs up the healing work I myself (and so many other beautiful healers) do everyday! And today is another day, so sit tight, things are about to get über exciting!
Energy is energy is energy.
I believe that energy is energy, so it doesn’t matter what the medium is, a trained healer can use energy to help others heal. To further explain what I mean, let’s compare the way people heal to the way people learn: everybody does it differently, and everybody processes it differently. Some people learn better visually, while others prefer kinesthetic learning and still others prefer auditory learning. Same for healing, some respond better to Reiki, while others may get more benefit from EFT (a.k.a. Emotional Freedom Technique) and some have great results just from meditation.
So, whether a healer uses Reiki, Pranic Healing, Shamanic Healing, or any other form of natural energy healing, what I feel – and what I teach to my students – is that the most important element in healing others is the intention. When a healer comes from a place of love, that intention is loaded with pure goodness, and goes straight to the recipient with great affect.
But does energy healing really work?
Yeeeuuuuus. But since I’m a healer myself, it makes sense to profess that energy healing works. However, I realize skeptics will roll their eyes and think me a quack, but don’t be hasty now! I am a natural Reiki Master healer, but I also love science (the science which is open minded in order to find truth), so I ask the fence-sitters and nay-sayers in the audience to stick with me for just a little while longer! I’m going to give you something to really think about shortly!
Firstly, let’s combine the scientific truth that we’re all energy with the fact the words you think or say to yourself and others affect us physically. Before I go any further, that right there is the basis of how one can use their own energy to change their physiology (or someone else’s) with mere words! But what about that intention thing I mentioned earlier?
Intention is in every healer's toolbox.
Enter, stage left: brilliant writer and leader in the health and spirituality field, Lynne McTaggart. Let me fill you in a bit, McTaggart isn’t a willy-nilly wordsmith, trying to desperately connect the dots between science and spirituality; she has interviewed, formed relationships, and conducted experiments with some of our world’s top and most respected scientists. And she’s come out with a doozy(!) in one of her books, and that’s: intention has the power to heal.
My ‘trump card’ for this post has been pulled from her amazing book The Intention Experiment where it’s revealed that trained healers do in fact generate a magnetic field which affects the person or thing their focused on, and that “with healing, distance appeared to be irrelevant.” So, energy healing does work, even at a distance!
Score! Natural Healers: 1, Naysayers: 0 (just kidding!)
Let me go into a little more detail to back this revelation up. McTaggart includes many studies in her book, including one from the Professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona, as well as the Director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (what a title!) Dr. Gary Schwartz and his post doctoral colleague Melinda Connor. Their studies focused on healing which included a group of Reiki practitioners as well as a ‘control group’ of untrained healers.
McTaggart reported that “They took measurements near each hand of all the healers during alternating periods while they were ‘running energy’ and then during times they were at rest, with their eyes closed.” They also took a group of Master Healers with a “substantial track record of successful, dramatic healings” and took measurements for them, too.
A series of tests were performed and once Schwartz and Connor analyzed their data from the healers “they discovered that both groups of healers demonstrated significant fluctuations in very low pulsations of a magnetic field, emanating from both hands.” As a Reiki Master Teacher myself, it was great to read that a “huge increase in oscillations” was measured in the healers’ magnetic fields when they were “running energy”, or what I would refer to as performing Reiki, with the most noticeable surge coming from their dominant hands.
The more you practice, the better you get.
Schwartz and Conner could not get the control group to demonstrate the same energetic effects as the trained healers. What’s more exciting is the enormous difference Schwartz saw when he reviewed the effects from the standard healing group to the Masters. “The master healers averaged close to a third more magnetic-field changes per minute than the Reiki healers.” So, what’s that saying? The more one practices, the stronger one’s healing energy becomes.
Through their barrage of testing, Schwartz and Connor confirmed they had “proof that directed intention manifests as both electrostatic and magnetic energy. But they also discovered that intention was like playing the piano; you need to learn how to do it, and some people do it better than others” and I know you improve with practice! [Melissa’s emphasis in this quote]
And here’s the cake-topper – distance does not matter to an energy healer! In a successful study of AIDS patients, they “improved through remote healing, the 40 healers involved in the study sent the healing to the San Francisco patients from all across America.”
For yourself or others, it doesn't matter. Just start healing!
Can you see why I was so excited to share this post with you today? Everybody (every body!) has the ability to heal themselves and others! Once you learn the techniques – be they through my own online Reiki 1, 2 and Master Certification course, or a Pranic Healing school, ThetaHealing, Crystal Healing – it doesn’t matter – you just need to get started and continue to practice! You will thrive when you uncover your innate goodness and build up that glorious loving energy to infuse it within yourself and intend it to others! Eeeek, this is just so exciting!
Am I quacking like a duck?
As my regular readers/listeners know, I always invite and encourage comments and feedback to my posts – and this is no different! I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on this topic, which is so close to my heart! Even if you’re not a believer and think I’m a quack, I value your insights and opinions, too! Until next time my friends, namaste! ❤
I’m so glad I took your course! I did it for me and to give something to other loved ones to help them heal.
Last year, my dad died and I’ve felt lost without him, (physically and emotionally) but we always talked about the energy between us and could physically feel it when close to each other. The preparation with this course has made me feel the universal energy so strong between my hands that in a very simple way, I understand that his energy is still a part of this universe and I feel close with him once more. ‘Healing’ can mean many things!
Thank you! Namaste xx
Thank you so much for stopping by Cinthia, and for your kind words! I’m glad you followed your heart – and that the course has allowed you to further open your heart, and that beautiful connection with your father – always! I’m so proud of you! Stay safe and big love!
I am so glad you shared this article. Upon taking your course, I have now begun offering Reiki to others, I have learned that I will at times be met with skepticism. It’s always tough when you’re trying to explain something they don’t see anyways. People really like facts and things that have some sort of “proof” of being real and working; this just makes it that much easier to help others realize the real affects of Reiki Healing! I’m ecstatic. Thank you for sharing this Melissa!
Thank you so much for stopping by Karla, and well done with practicing Reiki on others! Bless, I’m so proud of you! And I’m glad to hear you enjoyed this post, and that it’s helpful for you sweet friend! Keep shining your light! #biglove
I am very excited about this class, and even more excited bc you have my sing here for the same reasons i have it on my playlist. conformation is always great for someone who is learning, thank you.
Thank you so much for stopping by Kiara, I’m glad you enjoyed the post! Stay safe and keep shining sweet friend!
I’m so excited Science is starting to pay more attention to what we’ve known for many years. But I’m sure this is “shaking up” them up. Lol
Thank you so much for stopping by Robin and me, too! 🙂 Stay safe and big love to you!
I love learning… I love reiki and crystals… And can’t wait to start actually working with my animals for healing!! I’m so excited.
I appreciate your stopping by Sue, and I’m so glad you’re enjoying our journey together! Stay safe and big love to you!
Dear Melissa,
Thank you for this post. I love the Journey song 🙂
It is great that scientific experiments show how Reiki works. I think I’m going to read the Intention Experiment.
Thank you so much for stopping by Eriko, and I’m so glad you enjoyed this post (and like the Journey song, too!) Stay safe and big love to you!
I love having concrete evidence too. Although I am learning to trust my guides more with my psychic work.
I have been doing Reiki on a co worker and she can feel the energy from me moving the hairs on her face and she feel so much better afterwards. I am so happy that it is making her feel better.
Thank you so much for stopping by Robert, and I share your same feelings on the subject! And well done with your Reiki healing! Keep shining sweet friend! #biglove
This is a physical proof that spirituality always beat science. Thank you for this!
Thank you so much for stopping by sweet friend, I’m glad you enjoyed the post! #biglove
I didn’t hear any quacking. I believe you made some excellent points to show that energy healing is real.
Hi Loraine, thank you for stopping by and LOL! Thank you for not thinking I was just ‘quacking’ 🙂 Thank you again and big love to you! xo
Lately, a very religious friend began to question my ability to give energy healing. Once again, questions ran through my mind whether there is anything negative about it. Gradually, with the help of prayers, I regained my confidence in helping others feel better.
This post is just what I needed to read today. Thank you, Melissa.
Hi Carmen, thank you for checking out this blog — and I’m very glad you found this helpful and you’re getting more confident in what you’re doing! Well done sweet friend! #biglove xo
I plan on going to Sedona as part of my spiritual journey.
Sedona is meant to be a glorious place, enjoy your journey my friend! Namaste, xo
I have never done a Reiki class before, as a first timer should I start with Reiki 1 and 2 class?
Hi Light Energy, thank you for your message 🙂 It really depends on what feels right for you my friend 🙂 My course includes Level 1, 2 and Master; so you don’t need to take the classes separately with me. However, if you’re unsure and want to ask more questions, please send through a message here. Namaste my new friend! xo
Hello Trish: What a beautiful and informative website, and what a beautiful way of reaching out to others. These things that you share of energy in all its forms is something most special to me, and while time and space do not allow for detail, I will offer this much in hopes that it will provide “food for thought” among the skeptics reading and wondering… the latter of which I existed as for most of my life.
Consider the fact that we exist not merely as biological entities, but rather as spirits dwelling within bio-electric/bio-chemical frameworks for one. Consider the fact that these various energies are clearly measurable via a vast range of tests ranging from lab cultures to EEG’s, EKG’s, and more. Consider the fact that these bodies inwhich we dwell are comprised of tens of millions and billions of highly unique, individual cells all working together while vibrating at varying (electrical) frequencies 24/7. And this is only the tip of a very large and masterfully complicated “iceburg” the likes of which our brightest and boldest scientific minds have yet to replicate.
When pausing to consider matters from this perspective it really isn’t such a stretch to consider the actual validity of how energy healing could affect clinical level change in the life of another human being regardless of distance or other mitigating factors.
Namaste,
Robert
Thanks so much for your insights Robert, delicious ‘food for thought’ to be sure! I appreciate you taking the time to join this conversation with your viewpoint – and agree that we are spiritual beings having a ‘human’ experience! Namaste, Melissa xo
Loved your post and agree and have been advocating that healing is within us all as a natural ability and gift given to us from birth. I have lots of lovely students whom are getting amazing results from our energy healing and reiki courses. Thank you
Hi Trish, thank you so much for taking the time to leave your feedback! I’m sure your students are getting amazing results – you are an amazing woman! Big love to you my fellow healer! Namaste xo ❤