Restoring Homeostasis to Body, Mind, and Emotions with Energy Healing
Written by Deborah Lallier

Energy Healing encourages the body’s healing systems to progress to a state of optimum integrated functioning through the relaxation response. Studies show that a deep state of relaxation relieves tension and anxiety by acting through the autonomic nervous system to lower blood pressure and heart rate. This results in an enhanced capacity of the immune system to defend against bacteria and viruses and by stimulating the brain’s production of endorphins. The prompting of this relaxation response through Healing Touch and Reiki treatment, coupled with the increased and unimpeded flow of life-force energy through the body, encourages healing at all levels.

Disease can be broadly defined as a state of imbalance that causes disruption in optimal functioning of the body, mind, and emotions. Disease is not separate from the body; it is the body out of balance. By using a higher perspective, disease can be understood as an important messenger carrying the word that homeostasis needs to be restored. Energy Healing fuels the body’s homeostatic mechanisms, thereby assisting in the restoration of balance on the physical, mental, and emotional levels.

Wholeness, unity with God, is the goal of healing. Spirit moves toward wholeness by gently dissolving limiting thoughts and moving us toward acceptance of all aspects of ourselves by creating balance in all areas of our lives. This is a state of living with awareness, in balance and harmony with ourselves and our environment with the intention of expressing ourselves authentically in all areas of out life. In this state of awareness we experience humor, vitality, organization, self-acceptance, creativity, flexibility, intuitive understanding and clarity of thought. This is optimal well-being.

Energy Healing facilitates this healing process via a cleansing process that affects the physical, emotional, and mental levels of the body. Toxins are released as well as the limiting thoughts that attracted them. When we have positive optimistic thoughts, Life Force Energy or ki is enhanced within our body; likewise, when our thoughts are negative and destructive the flow of ki is blocked. Various organs and tissues can be affected diminishing the vital function of the organ until the blockage can be dislodged. Disease is the long-term result.

Understanding the mind-body connection to limiting thoughts is instrumental in developing a more aware perspective when dealing with physical as well as emotional and spiritual concerns. Further reading suggestions include, Louis Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Body and Carolyn Myss' books, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can and The Creation of Health.

With increasing interest in the mind’s influence of bodily health, credible medical experts are leading the efforts to articulate a new way of viewing the mind/body relationship. As current research suggests…the world we see is more than just matter and the body is more that just a collection of functioning parts. Americans have turned with growing enthusiasm to an array of complementary healing modalities, which are slowly becoming recognized as important because they are cost-effective and they work.

Reference: Barnett and Chambers with Davidson. Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital, and Hospice. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 1996.