What Are the Benefits and Differences of Some Effective Energy Healing Techniques?

A woman lay in the emergency room after beingprayer. There was a significant difference in the
taken in unconscious from a sudden pain in herrecovery time of those that received prayer and
shoulder and upper chest. Her transport from themore in the group prayed for had a complete
small rural community took 20 minutes and the timerecovery with no complications.
seemed too great for the aneurysm that burst onPrayer is not the only technique that uses the human
her aorta. The doctors watched the monitor for aessence to transfer wellness. Other methods include
sign of life. The heart monitor registered a flatlinereiki, quantum touch, qigong, aura cleansing and the
heart pattern and they covered her body as theyage old laying on of hands. All of these techniques
pronounced her dead. For some reason, no oneuse the transfer of energy or unblock the energy of
disconnected the heart monitor but they left her laythe body. While those involved in religion attribute the
as went to tell the family that she passed.healing from prayer to God, labeling the phenomena
Within ten minutes after the ambulance took her, ato the life force of those praying does not detract
dear family friend heard of the emergency and ranfrom that belief but simply studies the mechanics.
home to telephone friends in her church prayerQuantum touch is a modern laying-on of hands, the
group. By the time they began, another 15 minutesuse of one person's chi to start the flow of
elapsed. At the time the prayer started, the familyanother's. Because of the use stimulation to the life
physician, on duty at the hospital, walked past theforce, it resembles the healing of yogis and qigong
body and saw a blip on the heart monitor screen. Hepractitioners. It uses the energy of the healer
called for nurses and doctors and ultimately theamplified with breathing exercises to create energy
woman lived. The aneurysm burst and bled into thefields around the individual and unblock the life force
heart sack slowing the heart's rhythm to a deadlyby synchronizing it with theirs.
slow rate. What caused the physician to be there, atReiki also uses intervention techniques to unblock the
her bedside at that instant? Was the prayer grouplife force of the recipient. The difference in reiki is
responsible for the one last beat of her dying heart?that instead of the healer inputting energy, the
No one knows for sure but her family believes thisindividual receiving the healing draws the energy from
miracle of body and circumstance came from thethe healer and participates in the process.
prayer.Aura cleansing is the first step in aura healing. It
Prayer, an age old method of healing has beendoesn't need the touch of the healer but may take
studied for years. Most of the studies are tooplace in salt water, in the sun or with the aid of a
personal and anecdotal to be of any use. Just like thehealer to remove the debris from the aura after the
woman in the emergency room, too many timespatient is grounded. The healers often use stones of
coincidence, the possibility of spontaneous healing orvarious colors to unblock charkas and improve the
the power of suggestion could explain the healingflow of energy to major chakra areas.
phenomena. One study, however, followed remoteThere is still limited study on the benefits of any of
healing of strangers. The people that received thethe techniques, but the fact that they all use a form
prayer had no idea that they were involved andof energy transference and come from many
those sending their prayers did not know thosedifferent areas of the globe, speaks volumes about
patients. A second almost identical group of patientsthe potential man has to perform miracles with the
were used as a control group and received noenergy they have inside.