Posted by:
Tevai
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Date: April 29, 2017 12:28AM
siobhan Wrote:
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> How this dovetails with Utah housewives I cannot
> wrap my brain around.
This was my first reaction as well...energy work is plenty common in the same general areas as, say, yoga and general kinds of meditation and vegetarians and Whole Foods/Sprouts/family-owned health food stores are common, but I don't understand how this includes Mormon women in Utah.
There is nothing exotic about "energy work"---certainly the kinds of energy work that are used as commonly as (and often in conjunction with) Neosporin (etc.) and Band Aids. Anyone can do it, it takes about three minutes to teach, and children (kindergarten age and above) can be taught to do it in four or five minutes or less.
Around here we do it for things like muscle/cartilage pains (we just today, a few hours ago, finished moving an entire warehouse, so this is what I have at the front of my mind as I type this), or the kinds of ordinary-but-physiologically-complex situations where someone has stepped "wrong" off a curb and twisted an ankle, or hit an elbow, or accidentally smashed a hand with a load of books or a heavy saw that was being moved from one place to another.
You just get another person who takes a few deep breaths (to get into a "centered" state), visualizes positive "energy" in whatever form is most natural to them (love is popular)...
...but also, it could be visualizing "sunlight" or "moonlight" (if this works for the person doing the visualizing)...or visualizing actually inside the person's skin (if the person doing the energy work knows the interior physiology) INTO their muscles or joints or fascia or cells (etc.)...or visualizing some kind of pleasing and healing music vibrations (you don't need actual music being heard for this, you can VISUALIZE that you are "hearing" music and put THAT energy into the person)
If "you" (the person DOING the energy work) have permission to touch the person (this is important), then touch them as you feel best (could be fingertips, or grasping with your hand, or putting some part of your body against their body...whatever you feel is likely to be most effective), and then you proceed by whatever means (visualizing love or "energy" or whatever) transmit that energy into wherever the other person needs relief from pain (etc.).
Kids have been taught to do this for playground hurts: general kid-type falls when playing games, accidentally getting hit with a ball, whatever.
Maybe not immediately, but usually within one or two or three minutes (maybe up to five or ten minutes) the person who is RECEIVING the energy usually notices that the part of the body they were concerned about is feeling better. Most people also notice that the energy work helps potential bruising, too.
It is really simple...it has nothing to do with religion...and it pretty reliably works for ordinary, daily life stuff.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2017 12:35AM by Tevai.