Energy Healing
You can feel when your energy shifts. Some days you feel grounded and present. Other days, what you’re carrying feels heavy. You might be curious about what happens in an energy healing session, how ancient traditions still practised today approach healing, or how a simple ritual can help you honour a loss, reconnect with yourself or mark a new beginning.
We’re only scratching the surface here. Think of this page as a starting point, with names and ideas you can Google and explore for yourself. If something catches your attention, look up where it comes from, what it involves and how the people who practise it describe it in their own words.
Making room for different ways to heal
You can talk something through a hundred times and still feel like you’re carrying it in your body. You might feel heavy, restless or flat without quite knowing why. Some people call that stuck energy. When something shifts, you might notice it in small ways. Your shoulders drop, your breath comes a little easier, or something that felt hard yesterday feels more manageable today.
Different practices give you different ways to make room for what you’re feeling. In a Reiki session, a practitioner might use gentle touch or hold their hands just above your body. A clearing or cleansing may draw on ideas about chakras or energy fields.
If a session or a ritual leaves you feeling calmer, cared for or a little more like yourself, that can matter. Sometimes that small shift changes the tone of your day. It can have a place alongside the other support you draw on, especially when you’re living with a serious mental health condition.
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Modalities to Explore
Aura cleansing
Think of it as clearing the air around you. Sweeping gestures, visualisation or simple ritual focus on the energy field many traditions describe surrounding the body.
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ReadChakra balancing
A check-in with the energy centres that run from the base of your spine to the crown of your head. Imagery, breath or hands held close help you notice where things flow and where they feel stuck.
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ReadCrystal practices
Every stone carries its own qualities, from calming amethyst to heart-opening rose quartz. Crystals can be placed on or around the body, set into grids, carried through your day or brought into a Reiki session, where many practitioners use them to amplify the healing.
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ReadHealing Touch
Developed by a nurse, Healing Touch draws on a set of gentle techniques, from holding each of your feet in turn to slow sweeps just above the body.
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ReadJin Shin Jyutsu
A practitioner rests their fingertips on two specific points at once, then changes positions in a sequence known as a flow. Some also teach simple self holds, such as gently wrapping one hand around a finger of the other.
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ReadKinesiology
A hands-on practice that uses gentle muscle testing to explore stress and emotional patterns, often with less need to put everything into words.
Neuro Emotional Technique
A structured practice that brings together emotional recall, muscle testing and gentle body contact to explore the stress response attached to a particular experience.
Polarity Therapy
Light touch, firmer pressure and gentle stretching, woven together. Developed in the mid-1900s, it works with the idea that energy moves between different areas of the body.
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ReadPranic Healing
No touch at all. The practitioner sweeps away what feels heavy, then works to restore prana, or life energy. A little like airing out a room, then letting the light back in.
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ReadReiki
A Japanese practice whose name means universal life energy. Hands rest lightly on or just above you while the practitioner channels that energy, which many describe as flowing to wherever it’s needed most.
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ReadTherapeutic Touch
Created by a nursing professor in the 1970s, it often involves very little actual touch. Slow hands pass over your body, smoothing outwards from your centre.
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Educational information only. Nothing here is a diagnosis or a recommendation. Speak with a qualified health professional before making decisions about your health.
