Although we are entering into a new and exciting era of healing with subtle energies, these healing techniques were probably the first to be used by human beings — whether knowingly or unknowingly!
What is meant by the term “subtle energies”? Probably the best way to introduce the subject is to refer to Albert Einstein’s famous equation, E = mc2, where E stands for energy, m for matter, and c for the speed of light. Essentially, Einstein was the first to define hard, physical matter in terms of invisible energy and intangible light! The traditional idea that matter was the ultimate physical reality and that energy or light were somehow “less real” would never be the same. The physical substance of our bodies is just one form energy can take.
Since our physical bodies can be understood as solidified energy, it is no surprise that our bodies can respond to physical modalities such as surgery and drugs as well as to energetic modalities such as acupuncture, homeopathy, light, sound, magnetism, and electromagnetic fields.
Einstein also said that “everything in life is vibration,” and this is the other basic idea needed to understand energy medicine. Rates of vibration — called frequencies — are important for many reasons, and one of them is that our bodies use frequencies to communicate, just as we use frequencies to communicate by speaking, playing music, radio waves, TV waves, etc. Cells communicate within themselves and with other cells by emitting and receiving energetic information stored in the vibratory frequencies of light, sound, and electromagnetism.
Atoms vibrate, elements vibrate, molecules vibrate, structures in cells vibrate, tissues vibrate, organs vibrate, and even our thoughts and minds vibrate! Energy healing involves the introduction of resonant (matching) frequencies of energy that stimulate and normalize the frequencies already present in our minds and bodies. (Some of the more important carriers that introduce these frequencies into the body are listed above as “energetic modalities”.) When the rates of vibration in our bodies are normalized, cells, tissues, and organs communicate and function better and the body/mind is given a new opportunity for healing.