Blessed with Energy: The Mystery of Energy Medicine Explained Through Science and Scripture

Copyright © 2018 Marcy Meyers.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: What is Energy Medicine

and How Does it Work?

Chapter 1     Everything Owes Its Existence to Sound

Science proves the vibration of all matter

Scriptural support for all of creation formed and held together by sound

History of sound-healing practices

Chapter 2     What Is the Electromagnetic Field?

Science proves the frequencies that surround the human body

Scriptural support for the human chakra system

How imbalances in the electromagnetic field affect the body

Chapter 3     How Energy Healing Works

Science proves how healers transmit energy

Scriptural support for using hands as a healing tool

How energy medicine uses resonant frequencies to heal

Chapter 4     Harmony in the Field

Science proves the harmonic frequencies of health and disease

Scriptural support for using tones and chants to restore health

Harmonic resonance is energy medicine

Chapter 5     The Energetics of Thought and Emotion

Science proves the frequencies of emotions and thoughts

Scriptural support for aligning our thoughts with truth

What we think affects the neurochemistry of emotion

Chapter 6     Our Relationship to Earth

Science proves the human body is composed of the same elements as earth

Scriptural support for using plants as food and medicine

How environmental factors impact our health

PART TWO: How to Effectively Put

Energy Medicine into Practice

Chapter 7     Mind, Body, Spirit: Three Case Studies

Imbalances in one aspect of life affect the health of every other system

Chapter 8     How Energy Medicine Complements Health-Care Modalities

Testimonials from health-care professionals who utilize energy medicine in their practice

Chapter 9     The Energetics of Spiritual Consciousness

Science proves the existence of a third eye deep within the brain

Scriptural support for an eye that illuminates the entire body

Chapter 10   The Gray Areas

Finding our truth in the difficult concepts that don’t have scientific explanation

Chapter 11   Self-Help Tools to Rebalance

Tools you can use at home to start regaining your physical, mental, and energetic health

Chapter 12   Conclusion

With knowledge comes the opportunity to choose

Suggestions for Further Reading

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

I want to thank all of the brilliant teachers and pioneers in the field of energy medicine, many under whom I have had the opportunity to study. It is their hard work, vision, and dedication that have paved the way for reintroducing energy medicine into mainstream health care. I also want to thank my husband, Mike, for his steadfast support and encouragement. His patience and consistent belief in my work have been the foundation for my confidence in completing this project. Thank you to my colleagues in Kansas City who supported this work even when they didn’t understand it. I am deeply grateful to my amazing editor, Betsy, for her thorough work. She went above and beyond words—literally. Finally, I want to thank all of the professionals who contributed to the writing of this book. May you all be blessed with energy!

Introduction

This book is written for anyone interested in learning more about the innate ability of the human body to heal and rebalance itself. Whether you are struggling with imbalances in your emotional or physical body and looking for ways to regain harmony and health, or you are a health-care practitioner interested in offering your clients support tools to help in their recovery, or you are fascinated with the magnificent design of the human body, this book will offer you deeper understanding and greater insight. If you are skeptical about the validity of energy medicine, I encourage you to read on with suspended disbelief as I did when I began my journey into bioenergetics.

There are many healing modalities that are referred to as energy work or energy medicine. The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine, compiled by Linnie Thomas, presents over sixty-five disciplines that fall under the broad spectrum of energy medicine, and describes the required training and suggested application of each discipline. There are also several commonly used terms that refer to energy work: bioenergetics, energy healing, electromagnetic (EMF) therapy, biofield therapy, and healing touch therapy. Each term indicates the type of training the practitioner has received.

My perspective on energy medicine will always be as a bioenergetic practitioner trained in anatomy and physiology, core breath work, personality defense structures, personal psycho-spiritual transformation, and the structure and frequencies of the electromagnetic field that surrounds and supports the body. Since each one of these categories is a field of study unto itself—and there are many great resources already published to deepen your understanding—I have included a short list of resources by chapter topic at the end of the book.

Bioenergetics is a system of physical and psychological therapy designed to work with the energetic transformation and exchanges within the human body. During my years as a bioenergetic practitioner, I have heard two consistent questions: What exactly is energy medicine? and Are you sure energy work lines up with the word of God? I needed to find concrete, easy-to-understand scientific explanations and scriptural confirmation for the concepts. As I researched the teaching of energy medicine within the context of religious belief, I discovered that only one current major religion approaches the topic with many misconceptions and fears: Christianity. I needed to understand why this large group of people would collectively fear such an important aspect of our created self. What I discovered is that there is much misinformation and confusion within the Christian culture about the origin and practice of energy medicine.

My intention for this book is to present the science of energy medicine and the scriptural teachings that support the concepts. It is not intended as a book about religious doctrine. My faith is based on Christian beliefs; therefore, I have used the Bible as the primary source for scriptural reference, with the awareness that many other spiritual teachings also support the scientific concepts presented. For those readers interested in learning biblical support for energy healing, I have highlighted those references in italics throughout the book. All Bible passages come from the New American Standard Bible (NASB). Although it is impossible to include every culture’s sacred teachings, throughout the book there are supportive references from several sacred texts. It is exciting to discover common teachings on the basic concepts of the human energy field among these diverse spiritual texts.

I have also encountered a widespread lack of understanding among health-care practitioners about the nature of energy medicine. For those readers interested in the scientific explanations of energy medicine, the first six chapters of this book lay out in detail the foundational concepts and supportive research. The second half of the book presents personal accounts of lives that have been impacted by energetic imbalances, and how energy medicine helped them heal. As I learned the scientific explanations behind energy medicine, and held up these concepts to the knowledge found in the Bible and other sacred texts, I found many beautiful intersections where science and scripture confirm each other. Truth must support truth!

Most of our beliefs about the ability to heal ourselves come from teaching and schooling that we have heard and absorbed without question. St. Augustine stated, Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known about nature.

This book will take you on the same journey I have traveled, removing the mystery around energy medicine and expanding your knowledge of your own created nature. By replacing fears and misconceptions about energy medicine with the truth of the human energy field, you will gain a greater understanding of how we are created. This knowledge presents the opportunity to learn how to access your innate ability to rebalance and restore harmony. I believe everyone should learn about this vital aspect of our being.

My personal journey into energy medicine started with chronic family illness. I struggled for years with infertility, severe sinus problems, and asthma. Two of my sisters suffered from chronic progressive autoimmune disorders. None of us were born with any health conditions, and none of us had been sick in our childhood. The only common denominator besides genetic inheritance was chronic childhood trauma. As a result of being raised by a parent with unpredictable and often violent mood swings, each of us developed differing levels of anxiety, hypervigilance, insecurities, and depression. As adults, all three of us lived with serious health issues that interfered with normal functioning, and the Western medical system told each of us that short of surgery, long-term drug therapy, and pain management techniques, there was nothing more to be done.

It does not align with my belief system that we have to simply resign ourselves to a life of discomfort and chronic health problems. God did not create us to live in a state of dis-ease. I became convinced that over the years I must have developed lifestyle choices and unconscious habits that had gotten me into an unbalanced state. If I could find these unconscious patterns and shift them, maybe I could also find a way back to a life without dis-ease. Bioenergetics provided many of the answers that helped me reclaim my health, my energy, and my life.

We are blessed with energy, and we are so much more than just our physical body. My prayer is that this book will give you a greater awareness of who you really are, of the innate power to heal that resides within you, and of how you can use energy medicine to manifest your full potential in life.

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Everything Owes Its Existence to Sound

What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.

—Albert Einstein

Everything vibrates! The universe and