Opening Your Mind To Energy Healing
If you're looking for a much-needed mental break and a more holistic way to get your week off to a fresh start, there's one practice that seems to have it all: Energy healing. With the surge of beliefs and practices around energy, it's time for some education.
I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Richard Gerber, author of Vibrational Medicine and creator of the BodyTalk System, who we've also written about on Rockstar INK .
Gerber has many claims to fame: He's been in medical practice since 1970, was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and founded the first Health Recovery Center in California. In 1980, he started a new field called Bio-Information Science (BIS) and published his first book. He's also the author of Vibrational Medicine: The Scientific Basis for Energy Healing (1997), which was a New York Times bestseller, has appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast and wrote a passage in Bill Gates' yearly letter.
But it wasn't until I had a chance to sit down with Gerber late last week, via Skype, that I learned his most interesting point of view on the practice of energy healing.
In my opinion, energy healing is about more than just faith. There are specific ways to create change in the body. -Dr. Richard Gerber
"I'm a scientist; I love to study things," said Gerber, as we began our conversation. "I founded BIS because I wanted to create a new healing modality that used quantifiable forms of energy. I wanted everything to be measurable and provable. When I did energy medicine, it was simply the observation that everything in the universe has energy. We can learn how to use our vital energy in a more positive way. That's all we do here with our work."
In 1997, Gerber said he got a call from Helena Rubinstein who, at the time, was 87 years old and struggling with sciatica . "She had this pain. For the first three months she was on painkillers but they didn't do a damn thing."
So, Rubinstein decided it was time to call in a life-force healer. She chose Gerber and he performed an energy healing. "I did the healing, I watched her for some more time and then I called her every week for three weeks. And after that, she said to me, 'You have changed my life. I am out of pain. I don't need my pills anymore.' And it was never needed again."
She called back after a year with him and said, "I called you because I wanted to know how you could have helped me. You knew that you didn't do anything but I want to thank you for giving me this gift."
This was the first time Gerber realized the power of energy healing, something he's been immersed in since then. He said he's tested everything and believes, in fact, there are ways to change the body's energy -- no matter what someone's religious or spiritual beliefs.
"In my opinion, energy healing is about more than just faith. There are specific ways to create change in the body," he said. "The main thing is that it can't be contained in one box because there are so many different ways for healing to occur. There are different ways to do it and the main thing is that it should produce change in the body. That's what I'm doing."
Gerber looks at all energy healing as a therapeutic process. "I'm studying each way of energy healing, which involves using a certain type of energy, manipulating some kind of movement or position that creates this change, then helping to create something new in the body," he said.
He also suggested we look into new ways to redefine old words like medicine and medicine man. "I think we need to expand our definition of medicine. Medicine means treating something," he said. "The way I see it, when we talk about the medicine you take in and the medicine you take out (defecation) -- those are not medicines because it doesn't treat anything and there's no energy involved. Medicine has to involve some energy."
When it comes to energy healing, Gerber said BIS is now looking into applying this practice in different areas other than bio-information healing. They're also studying whether or not this form of medicine can be used to create a field in which we can grow new organs.
Not everyone believes in energy healing; there are people who say they don't believe in it at all. But Gerber's experience hasn't been the same. "How do you describe faith?" he asked me. "Your brain won't allow you to see what's right before your eyes if that energy is not part of your belief system.
Conclusion:
Although energy healing has been around for over two thousand years, it's only recently that it's become popular. With the rise of alternative medicine and new forms of healing taking the world by storm, energy healing has become something to talk about and experience. It sounds like an expensive practice but I guess if you believe it works; then you're money is well spent. It's only a matter of time before your skeptical mind shuts off to this idea because the results are evident...