The Big Apple is legendary for being fast-paced and highly stressful. Add the full complement of four seasons, and one has quite a health challenge before them. However, as common as healing energy is in New Age circles, when one thinks of an energy healer New York City doesn't fit the image.
Alternative therapies always seem to have more to do with Colorado or the Bay Area than Manhattan. Those hard-bitten types, however, will acknowledge that the body does carry an electric charge. The question at hand is whether human electricity implies that other, undetectable energies exist. When it comes to this, citizens of the Big Apple turn out to be not very different from citizens of the Left Coast.
Aura fields can be photographed, though skeptics are almost certain it's all some sort of trick. When it comes to health, auras are important because different auras are associated with specific characteristics. Certain aura colors are associated with different levels of spiritual development, different types of personality or emotional state, but they are also associated with particular degrees of health and sickness.
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 also quite familiar to the alternative healing market. It is the most well-marketed form of the ancient masters' ability to heal by laying on hands. Reiki can be taught relatively easily, the license is not expensive, and practitioners are easy to find even in New York City.
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.
Alternative therapies always seem to have more to do with Colorado or the Bay Area than Manhattan. Those hard-bitten types, however, will acknowledge that the body does carry an electric charge. The question at hand is whether human electricity implies that other, undetectable energies exist. When it comes to this, citizens of the Big Apple turn out to be not very different from citizens of the Left Coast.
Aura fields can be photographed, though skeptics are almost certain it's all some sort of trick. When it comes to health, auras are important because different auras are associated with specific characteristics. Certain aura colors are associated with different levels of spiritual development, different types of personality or emotional state, but they are also associated with particular degrees of health and sickness.
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 also quite familiar to the alternative healing market. It is the most well-marketed form of the ancient masters' ability to heal by laying on hands. Reiki can be taught relatively easily, the license is not expensive, and practitioners are easy to find even in New York City.
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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