The Six Pillars of Energy Medicine (EM)

1. REACH

  • Definition: EM can address biological processes at their energetic foundations, allowing it to impact the full spectrum of physical conditions.

  • Premise: EM optimizes the energies that surround, permeate, and support body structure (e.g., cells, organs, blood, lymph) and body function (e.g., immunity, respiration, cardiovascular). EM methods also influence gene expression.

  • Practice: Disturbances in the energy flow of a patient with multiple sclerosis can be corrected by holding, tapping, or massaging specific energy points, bringing about changes in the disease process rather than symptom suppression.

2. EFFICIENCY

  • Definition: EM regulates biological processes with precision, speed, and flexibility.

  • Premise: EM techniques address systemic as well as specific disease factors, send signals that are hundreds of times faster than chemical signals, and provide instant feedback to the practitioner for intervention adjustments.

  • Practice: Balancing and strengthening the energies that surround and permeate the heart of a post-coronary patient leads to an internal environment that better supports healing and repair.

3. PRACTICALITY

  • Definition: EM fosters healing and prevents illness with methods that can be readily, economically, and non-invasively applied.

  • Premise: EM utilizes specific movements, postures, and hands-on approaches that do not require high-tech equipment and do not result in unintended side-effects.

  • Practice: Assessing disturbances in the energy flow to the kidneys of a patient with renal failure allows interventions that are more flexible and precise than medication or surgery and can be used preventively.

4. PATIENT EMPOWERMENT

  • Definition: EM includes methods that can be utilized on an at-home, self-help basis, fostering a stronger patient and practitioner partnership in the healing process.

  • Premise: EM procedures can be self-administered to assess systems that are out of balance, implement corrective actions, and build resilient energy patterns throughout the body.

  • Practice: Cirrhosis patients can on a daily basis utilize techniques that balance the energies that impact the liver and enhance its ability to heal.

5. QUANTUM COMPATIBILITY

  • Definition: EM adopts non-linear concepts consistent with distant healing, the healing impact of prayer, and the role of intention in healing.

  • Premise: EM explores fields that influence consciousness and work over a distance (“macroscopic quantum interactions”), postulating why intention and expectation have salient outcomes, as illustrated in the placebo effect and distant healing.

  • Practice: Cancer patients can be shown how the energies of their thoughts and imagery affect their healing, and they can be taught techniques which engage the healing power of focused intention.

6. HOLISTIC ORIENTATION

  • Definition: EM strengthens the integration of body, mind, and spirit, leading not only to a focus on healing but also to achieving greater well-being, peace, and passion for life.

  • Premise: EM is based on the principle that the body, mind, and spirit are integrally connected, and it promotes their harmonious integration.

  • Practice: Ulcerative colitis patients can be shown how psychological conflicts may exacerbate their symptoms and can be provided therapies which quickly alter the energetic foundations of those conflicts.

Reference

  • CITATION: Feinstein, D., and Eden, D. (2008). Six Pillars of Energy Medicine: Clinical Strength of a Complimentary Paradigm. Alternative Therapies, 14(1), 44-5