Shopping For An Energy Healer New York City Style

By Karyn Shields


New Yorkers are famous for their high-stress lifestyle. Throw in the complete range of seasons, from hot and humid to bitter cold, and it can be nearly impossible to stay healthy. Despite this, and as familiar in the New Age market as therapeutic energies have become, somehow when one envisions an energy healer New York City does not come to mind.

For better or worse, anything that resembles an alternative therapy suggest California or New Mexico. New Yorkers are supposed to be cynical and hard-bitten. Even they would admit that the human body has a small electrical charge. The issue is whether biological electricity suggests the existence of energies that are not reliably detectable, and on this issue it turns out New Yorkers are just enthusiastic as any West Coast hippie.

Aura photos are not unusual to find, even while doubters will claim that it is trickery of some sort. Some aura colors correspond to certain characteristics. Some are said to indicate particular degrees of advanced spiritual development. Some, particular personality types or emotional temperaments. Others are said to indicate various degrees of sickness or health.

Most people have at least heard of wholly undetectable energies such as Chinese chi. All across Asia, this energy is well respected, the subject of serious study in medical schools and research clinics. In the US, chi, known as ki to the Japanese, is popular with the public, but little known.

Chi is known primarily through two Asian arts. Acupuncture is perhaps the most common of all forms of alternative medicine, so common in fact that it is easy to forget that it is alternative at all. Acupuncture traces the flow of chi through the body and manipulates it with very fine needles.

Many of us know of chi through familiarity with martial arts, whose most august masters are known to make use of chi. The stereotype of the martial artist who uses chi is an elderly master long past his athletic peak, who uses chi not just to compensate for his failing physical powers but to perform feats well beyond the range of his juniors.

Reiki is another form that has become quite well-known on the alternative healing circuit. It works through the transmission of energy through the practitioner's body, usually hands. It doesn't take much time to learn reiki, the license is fairly inexpensive, and it is easy to find a company of practitioners and patients.

The Japanese have also cultivated a subtle, solar power known as kaji. It is especially well known as a method for distance healing, as it doesn't require the healer and the patient to anywhere near each other. In fact they can be thousands of miles apart. Kaji can also be worked as a group, with many practitioners performing a healing remotely upon a particular patient.

In the public mind, energetic healing certainly benefits from the fact that the body does have a demonstrable electric charge. It also benefits from the fact that several of its most popular expressions are ancient and Asian, both of which carry a certain allure. Finally, there are simply many thousands of people who claim to have been healed through the use of these techniques, which might be the most convincing factor of all despite uncertain scientific evidence.




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