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“Essential Energy Healing” by Mary Maddux
AMTA-CA Napa Valley Newsletter — February 2003

My first thought when I got certified in Healing Touch was that I would teach it. Healing Touch is an energy healing program created by nurse-healer, Janet Mentgen, and I had been coordinating HT courses. Teaching comes so naturally to me, and it felt like the next step. I never dreamed, however, that I would eventually develop my own program of energy healing. The creation of Essential Energy Healing (EEH) has unfolded with a life of their own as I’ve learned to “follow the energy” in my work.

Unlike most who will read this article, I do not have a background in massage. It was through Healing Touch that I joined the community of “bodyworkers”. Although I’d had some hands-on healing experience as an ayurvedic technician, my path had been mostly focused on personal growth and spiritual development. I’d worked as a counselor and had spent many years teaching meditation, having studied intensively in the Vedic tradition of India. Once I began teaching energy healing, I found myself automatically incorporating principles and practices which came out of this background. When I first studied energy healing, it seemed to occupy a world somewhat separate from my previous focus on expansion of consciousness. Now it has all come to be seen as one and the same.

I started teaching with an emphasis on hands-on healing, and found that my vision has become more comprehensive as I see how unlimited the scope of energy healing is. Since everything is energy, there is really no form of healing that does not involve energetic transformations. No matter what we do, we are moving energy. Our speech, our eyes, attention itself, can convey healing to others and our planet. Essential Energy Healing is a program which simultaneously addresses healing and spiritual development. It honors the broadest possible definition of healing – “becoming whole”, and it is based on the fundamental principles of “spiritual healing”. Classically, spiritual healing means the healer is simply a vehicle for “higher intelligence” to do the work.

This work is so natural, and the time is “ripe” for it. Many people are discovering healing abilities on their own. I find this to be especially true with massage therapists. Many have developed energy healing skills intuitively – it is a natural outgrowth of a heart-centered practice. Many who take my classes are massage therapists who are seeking confirmation of what they are already experiencing and a way to go further with it. Some want to integrate energy healing into their massage practices, and some want to move more into energy healing.

Essential Energy Healing helps people to develop mastery of the basics of energy healing and to use it in a way that is natural and intuitive. The work is directed to the layers of the energy field which surround and permeate the body. This can be easily integrated into a massage session, or used on its own. Creating more flow in the energy field can produce an openness and relaxation that increases the receptivity of the body to massage. Sometimes energy healing alone gives the same results as massage without the physical effort – this can be easier on the therapist as well as the client. One of my clients often remarked, “I feel like I had a deep massage without the pain!” Both massage and energy healing are important, either mixed or as stand alone modalities, but as a massage therapist gains skill in working with subtle energies, energy healing is automatically integrated into the massage. This produces more profound results for the client and greater ease for the therapist.

I teach in a way that honors intuition. Although I teach many energy healing techniques, they are understood to be a springboard for intuitive work. Every technique is different in each person’s hands. We all have our unique “energetic signature”, and our energy fields are also evolving and changing. I love to see people discover the unique ways in which healing is expressed through them, and EEH is designed to create an environment for that. Many energy healing programs are very structured – they have set procedures and models of the energy field. These programs definitely have their place, but I like to teach by presenting multiple models and possibilities, and encouraging people to learn what works for them. That way the work they do is powerful and authentic. I really like the apprenticeship model of learning. I doubt that my program will ever become standardized and taught on a larger scale. Small classes mean that everyone has ample opportunity for questions and sharing. Each class has its own special flavor and rhythm that is created by the participants. I love this way of teaching. There is always room for fresh discovery and I learn so much along with everyone else.

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