ENERGY HEALING

As I write this I am in my sitting room gazing through the window at the fields stretching down to the River Severn a mile or so away to the East. It is a misty, early Spring morning. The sun is trying hard to break through the veil of low cloud and the whole countryside seems to have a buzz of excitement with a build up of energy waiting to fuel the profusion of new growth that bides its time as it stirs slowly from a winter slumber. The snow drops have already been and gone but have been followed by primroses and daffodils growing not only in gardens and tubs but in the hedgerows, grass verges and dingles throughout the landscape. One of our resident pheasants potters across the lawn while above a few seagulls soar looking for easy pickings in the newly ploughed fields beneath them. It is peaceful yet vibrant. A perfect blend of yin and yang.

Next to me is an old, oak, glass fronted cabinet and, as I touch it, I feel a connection to its previous owner. The cabinet was given to me many years ago by my guitar master, Jack Goddard uncle of the actress Lisa Goddard, who lived in a small, terraced house in Southend-on-Sea. Each week I used to take my classical guitar along for my lesson but, in truth, most of the time we spent talking. Although I loved music, I probably loved all things spiritual and metaphysical even more and Jack was a psychic. We spent hours talking about Spiritualism, spirit guides, past lives,  Buddhism, Egyptology, astrology, numerology and much more. Also, it was Jack who introduced me to healing by teaching me the technique of aura cleansing.

Now I was born in India and one of the things that Jack conveyed to me from the spirit world is that, as a baby, I was ‘energised’ by an Indian holy man. It is something that I put to the back of my mind and have never really talked about. It’s not the sort of thing that one feels able or inclined to pop into a conversation and I suppose I always felt it to be irrelevant or fanciful. A bit too ‘way out’ for the material world of the Western hemisphere. However, it is something that has become very relevant in my work as a complementary therapist and my innately enhanced energy healing ability has run alongside and formed an integral part of all my other techniques and therapies.

What then is ‘energy healing’? Well, it’s not something that I can explain easily or briefly in a paragraph or two. However, faith healing, spiritual healing and Reiki are all types of energy healing. The ‘healer’ attempts to transfer the energy from ‘God’ or ‘Spirit’ or ‘the universe’ through them into the patient in order to facilitate healing. As quantum physics is now telling us, everything we perceive is in effect energy. As an energy healer I am attempting to correct the currents of energy in and around the body; something the Chinese have understood and practiced for thousands of years. 

Hence, when you come to me for some complementary therapy, whether it be reflexology, massage, tui na or some other technique, then energy healing will always be included. It’s not something I can or would wish to, switch off during sessions. I am reminded of my friend, Reiki Master and fellow therapist, Belinda Kennedy-Scott who came to me a few years ago for some reflexology. At the end of the session she said, “The reflexology was great by the energy was fantastic”.