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 by Kristina Bak
Energy healing is big business in 21st Century America, with one informed estimate at well over a million practitioners. Quite a few, including me, are currently living in, or moving to, Central Oregon.
You don't need to "believe in" any philosophy or doctrine to benefit from energy healing. As one of my Australian teachers said, "Don't imagine, FEEL." Does your healing session lower your feeling of stress? Does your Qigong practice leave you feeling more energetic, calm, vigorous and pain-free? With energy healing does your body feel more flexible, your weight stabilize at a healthy level, your sleep become more peaceful? Do you find yourself more resistant to the bugs others catch? If not, move on to a different healer or technique.
This is a wonderful opportunity to do your own research by visiting various energy healers. You may not understand why one thing works for you and another doesn't, but this is exactly the kind of "experiment" you conduct each time you take a new prescription medication without understanding human anatomy or pharmaceutical science, though the energy work carries far less risk.
Just about as many different ways of doing energy healing exist as there are healers. Even Qigong forms (patterns of movement, breathing and attention) are said to number in the thousands. You have a wide field to explore with an excellent chance of finding a method and provider offering a match for what you want. Just as in medicine or psychology, the connection or rapport between client and practitioner has a dramatic effect on the outcome. Be attentive to your gut-level (or brain-level) response.
One commonality among most energy healers is understanding that the human body, when released from negative tension and stress, moves naturally toward health. Another is that our normal state, what all of us should expect and experience most of the time, is feeling good and loving life. You can change the habit of accepting discomfort, unpleasant moods, or pain until they become intolerable, and only then seeking professional help. Instead, you can work with an energy healer to increase your wellbeing--physical, mental, and spiritual--to levels you've forgotten were possible, or maybe never known at all. This is a proactive choice that's yours to make.
Some forms of energy healing have established credentialing organizations, but many serious and capable practitioners work in systems for which no licensing exists. Ask around, consult the Central Oregon Wellness Directory (www.OregonWellness.net), attend healing fairs, and don't hesitate to contact healers to ask questions before committing to a healing session. Ask questions even if you don't think you want a session--yet. Central Oregon, and Bend, specifically, are on the energy healer radar like Boulder, Sedona, and Santa Fe. As our community's alternative healing choices expand, we do well to understand what that means to us, as individuals and as business people.
Kristina Bak is a healer, counselor, Qigong teacher, artist and writer in Bend.
www.kristinabak.com
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