“Conventional medicine, at it’s foundation, focuses on the biochemistry of cells, tissue, and organs. Energy Medicine, at it’s foundation, focuses on the energy fields of the body that organize and control the growth and repair of cells, tissue, and organs. Changing impaired energy patterns may be the most efficient, least invasive way to improve the vitality of organs, cells, and psyche.” – David Feinstein, Ph.D.
Energy Medicine: What It Is and What It Is Not
Energy Medicine Is:
Energy medicine is the art and science of assessing and harmonizing the body’s energies to maximize one’s own or another’s well-being.
The body’s energies include the electrical, electromagnetic, and electrochemical energies that are recognized by science as being involved in every bodily function, and they also include the more subtle energies (such as “chakras” and “meridians”) recognized by time-honored healing and spiritual traditions as providing the animating force of the physical body as well as its invisible infrastructure.
The term “energy medicine” uses the word “medicine” in the sense of “Laughter is good medicine”; “Love is good medicine”; “Exercise is good medicine”; “Gratifying work is good medicine”; “Vacations are good medicine.”
Keeping your energies in an optimal flow and harmony is good medicine. That is the way energy medicine achieves its purpose of enhancing well-being at the levels of body, mind, and spirit.
Energy Medicine Is Not:
Energy medicine is not a specific healing system, but rather an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of energy-oriented healing approaches, from Healing Touch to Eden Energy Medicine, a primary topic of this website.
Eden Energy Medicine does not diagnose or treat illnesses of body or mind, though it may be a complement to such practices.
While Eden Energy Medicine practitioners receive extensive training and supervised experience, neither energy medicine nor Eden Energy Medicine are currently regulated by any government agencies within the United States.
How is Energy Medicine Practiced?
Energy Medicine utilizes techniques from time-honored traditions such as acupuncture, yoga, kinesiology, and qi gong. Flow, balance, and harmony can be non-invasively restored and maintained within an energy system by tapping, massaging, pinching, twisting, or connecting specific energy points (acupoints) on the skin; by tracing or swirling the hand over the skin along specific energy pathways; through exercises or postures designed for specific energetic effects; by focused use of the mind to move specific energies; and/or by surrounding an area with healing energies.
© 2015 Innersource. Explanation copied with permission from www.LearnEnergyMedicine.com.
What Is Eden Energy Medicine?
Eden Energy Medicine is a powerful healing system that focuses on balancing the energy fields of the body to improve every aspect of our physical and emotional lives. Created by Donna Eden, (see below), from her clairvoyant ability to see the body’s energies, she has developed a system for teaching others, who do not have this gift, to work effectively with their own and other peoples’ energies.
While the costs and complexity of healthcare continue to skyrocket, Eden Energy Medicine offers simple and easy-to-learn techniques for keeping yourself healthy and vital. These hands-on tools for you, your family and friends unlock your body’s natural healing power, boost immunity, and increase joy!
About Donna Eden
Eden Energy Medicine was birthed by one of the most amazing, joyful, compassionate, clairvoyant and healing people I have ever had the pleasure to meet, Donna Eden. Her groundbreaking book, Energy Medicine, is the textbook in hundreds of healing classes.
Eden Energy Medicine was developed by Donna Eden and David Feinstein, PhD. Donna has always been able to see energy and, in order to heal herself from MS, tuberculosis and a heart attack in her 20s, she developed protocols and exercises to facilitate her own body’s healing. She could physically see how these protocols and exercises were helping her heal. Later, while in private practice, she found these same tools were successful with her clients. In 1998, she and husband David Feinstein wrote the bestselling book Energy Medicine. Donna and David have gone around the world teaching these practices. There was, and still is, so much demand to learn Eden Energy Medicine from Donna Eden that she and David created an Eden Energy Medicine Certification Program which recently graduated its 1,100 practitioner. I am so proud to be one of those practitioners!
To read more about Donna Eden, I encourage you to get her book, Energy Medicine, and check out more information on her company’s website at http://www.innersource.net/em/about/donna-eden.html
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How Is Having A Private Eden Energy Medicine Session Different from a Massage?
After a private Eden Energy Medicine session, a client feels relaxed as during a massage, but the client also leaves empowered with exercises and techniques given to them for their specific energy imbalances. If a client practices these techniques, over time, the client’s energy becomes trained to be in balance so that lasting change occurs. Massage and other relaxation techniques are great, but you have to keep returning for more to maintain results.
More than a practitioner/client relationship of continued sessions, the long-term goal for an Eden Energy Medicine client is to become empowered, to apply the techniques we teach to their own body’s energy, do specific exercises and homework particular for them and retrain their body’s energy to perform in complete homeostasis. The client actually takes an active role in their body’s own healing ability. If a client wants empowering wellness, then an Eden Energy Medicine session is the best choice.
Is Eden Energy Medicine Like Reiki?
Both Eden Energy Medicine and Reiki are Energy Medicine healing modalities.
The International Center for Reiki Training describes Reiki as, “… a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.”
The client’s role in a Reiki session is to be passive and receive the healing Reiki energy. In an Eden Energy Medicine Session, the client takes an active role during the session with energy testing and feedback.
I am certified in both Eden Energy Medicine and Reiki. In Eden Energy Medicine, a practitioner works with 9 Energy Systems, such as the Chakras, the Aura, the Meridians, the Electrics, etc. In a Reiki session, the practitioner works with 2 to 3 Energy Systems. Eden Energy Medicine is the most comprehensive and effective approach to healing work I have ever encountered. There are so many different tools that a practitioner and client can use for specific issues. This enables the client to be much more aware of what is happening to their energy in their body. More than a practitioner/client relationship of continued sessions, the long term goal is for an Eden Energy Medicine client to become empowered, to apply the techniques we teach to their own body’s energy, do specific exercises and homework particular for them and retrain their body’s energy to perform in complete homeostasis. The client becomes empowered by learning techniques that balance their energy and enhance their body’s innate healing abilities.
If you would like to learn simple techniques that you can do with your hands that will help prevent you from getting the flu, or help you with panic attacks without the use of drugs, or lessen the severity of an area of chronic pain, and so very many more, then you will love Eden Energy Medicine!