What is energy work?

 Have you ever been in the room with someone and you ask what they do for a living and their response is “energy healing,” “energy work,” or “reiki practitioner?” I’m sure your response was something along the lines of “Oh, that’s cool. Sounds really interesting,” followed by quickly moving away, and later thinking to yourself that person was completely making up words. Well, let these next couple lines be a clarifier for you in the future of what energy healers do, what we are working toward, and how they can be the next big thing to help you on your healing journey.

If you take a moment to rub your hands together quickly you’ll start to notice them get warm – then begin to slowly pull your hands apart a very small amount, and you’ll feel something like a magnetic push/pull between them. This is energy. For some people, various changes in their energy body (the system within and surrounding our physical body,) can cause actual manifestations of dis-ease and discomfort within the mental/physical body, itself.

Energy work takes various practices and integrates it to clear any existing heaviness from the energy body. This leaves the person, mentally, physically, and literally feeling lighter. There are various techniques that are considered to be a part of “energy work,” but one of the most common examples is reiki.