| For years, New Age therapists have yammered on | | | | You may wonder how a Satvik Energy therapist is |
| about the body's electromagnetic field, and how | | | | trained to perform such a remarkable undertaking. Ian |
| important it is to maintain an energy flow around | | | | Dale, Satvik Energy Sound Healer, explains all on his |
| your body that is not obstructed or out of balance. | | | | own website. "The ability to sense and work with |
| Many point to the ancient Chinese Masters, who they | | | | energy fields is a natural ability that we all possess. In |
| believe recognized the necessity of having a | | | | order to access this ability, Satvik Therapists are |
| free-flowing energy system to retain good health. | | | | taught and commit to doing specific exercises and |
| When this electromagnetic field is blocked, they say, | | | | meditations on a daily basis," he writes. |
| chaos in the body can ensue. This happens when the | | | | "Over a period of time, the therapist ís sensitivity |
| everyday stress we encounter creates specific | | | | to energy increases and eventually they are able to |
| "patterns" in our body which obstruct it. People | | | | feel not only their own energy field but those of |
| whose basic life force energy is blocked, they | | | | other people as well." He recommends that patients |
| maintain, can suffer not only physically, but spiritually | | | | who undergo a treatment of four sessions will feel |
| and mentally as well. | | | | the results for six weeks, during which time repeat |
| One way to unblock it, they say, is through Satvik | | | | treatments are not needed. He adds that animals |
| Energy Healing, which aims to concentrate on the | | | | respond well to Satvik Energy Healing too. "Great |
| causes of illness, not the symptoms. The word | | | | success has been achieved with horses, dogs and |
| Satvik comes from the Sanskrit and means "perfect | | | | cats", he writes, even conditions that failed to |
| balance". Using this therapy will not only unblock the | | | | respond to conventional treatment. He gives |
| energy flow within the body and let it waft | | | | discounts to children and animals. |
| unencumbered, it's claimed, but will also strengthen | | | | Therapists are also trained to open their heart |
| the immune system and trigger the body's natural | | | | centers and allow "love to flow" to enable a |
| healing process to work better and maintain the | | | | "profound energetic exchange to occur between the |
| correction in future. | | | | therapist and the client.", according to The Satvik |
| In fact, Satvik Energy Healing is not only worthwhile | | | | Training School in Somerset, UK. Therapists |
| for people who are feeling a bit off-kilter, but can | | | | undergoing training are encouraged to release and |
| also be beneficial for those who have suffered an | | | | process their own emotional blockages, and to |
| accident, undergone relatively recent surgery or are | | | | understand the "silent emotional interaction" that |
| going through a difficult emotional patch, proponents | | | | takes place between therapist and client. They are |
| say. They believe it can also help with certain medical | | | | also taught that no two clients are the same, and |
| conditions such as multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, irritable | | | | that no two therapists work in exactly the same |
| bowl syndrome, arthritis, migraine, asthma and | | | | way either. |
| eczema. | | | | Is It a Scam? |
| Or can it? | | | | Satvik Energy Healing may or may not work for you, |
| Typical Treatment | | | | but it is a completely non-invasive type of therapy |
| If you have the chance to actually watch a Satvik | | | | that cannot harm, as long as it is not done in place of |
| Energy Healing session take place, do it. It appears to | | | | conventional medicine, but alongside it. Whether you |
| be perhaps the most bogus, or at least one of the | | | | will get anything out of it depends on your own |
| most bogus "therapies" that has come to light in | | | | constitution, natural level of skepticism and wallet, as |
| recent years. Saying that, it is not that far removed | | | | well as your state of mind actually receiving the |
| from its more widely known and infinitely more | | | | treatment. |
| respected cousin, Reiki. | | | | There is no doubt that some people will benefit from |
| With Satvik Therapy, a patient will have a brief chat | | | | paying hundreds of dollars to undergo a series of |
| with the therapist and tell him or her all about himself, | | | | Satvik Energy treatments. Many individuals benefit |
| including a detailed medical history as well as an | | | | from different types of caring, loving therapies that |
| outline of their current state of mind. Remaining fully | | | | concentrate on the individual as a whole, and makes |
| clothed at all times, the client will then be asked to | | | | him or her feel special and singled out for positive |
| stand up, lie down or sit, depending on which part of | | | | attention. |
| the body is to be concentrated on at the time. | | | | "The therapy sessions were comfortable and relaxing |
| The therapist will then assess the strength of the | | | | and I felt reassured by Sue's kind and insightful |
| energy flowing around the person, as well as the | | | | treatment. I felt the therapy has restored much |
| patterns the energy will make. They will encourage | | | | physical and emotional energy and has given me the |
| the energy to flow better by what appears to be a | | | | impetus to begin to care for myself in a positive |
| series of quite humorous hand waving, gesticulation | | | | way," says patient Cheryl, writing on the website. |
| and often quite active arm movement. In theory, | | | | "Meeting Sally and receiving Satvick [sic] energy |
| while this takes place the patient will feel specific | | | | treatment from her has changed my whole mental, |
| sensations - both warm and cold - meaning that a | | | | physical and emotional being. I felt in a safe place |
| balance correction is occurring. | | | | within her caring energy treatment. I felt like I'd been |
| "During the treatment clients may have a variety of | | | | wrapped in a cloud, secure and loved. I came away |
| feelings such as hot or cold, tingling and pulling | | | | feeling elated and exhilarated from her treatment and |
| sensations," the Inspirational Friends website writes. | | | | highly recommend it to every one," writes a woman |
| "This is a sign that an energy release and realignment | | | | identified only as Maggie. |
| is taking place." | | | | Who knows - it may work for you! Then again, it |
| Satvik Therapist Training | | | | may not... |