A Beginner’s Guide to Energy Healing — What Energy Healing Is and How It Can Help Enhance Your Life

Energy healing works and it can enhance your physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being.

In this post, you'll discover what energy healing is, explore the human energy field, learn about various energy healing techniques, and understand how this ancient practice—now supported by modern science—can help you create a more fulfilling life.

What is Energy Healing?

Energy healing, also called energy medicine, biofield therapy, or subtle energy healing, encompasses various approaches that restore balance to your body and energy field. These practices work directly with your bio-electromagnetic energy system to promote healing on multiple levels.

Essentially, energy healing involves the use of coherent light or sound waves to address imbalances at their root. Whether delivered through an experienced healer or specific healing tools, these harmonic inputs help restore bio-energetic harmony, allowing your life force—also known as prana, qi, or chi—to flow optimally through your system.

Your life force is the animating principle that provides vitality to every level of your embodied existence. When this vital power flows freely through your body and the human energy field, you experience greater mental clarity, emotional balance, and physical energy for daily life.

Understanding the Human Biofield

The human biofield, also called your aura or subtle energy field, consists of subtle forms of energy that surround and interpenetrate your physical body. Research suggests this field extends several feet from your body, though descriptions vary across different models of the subtle energy body (Rubik et al., 2015).

Some frameworks describe the biofield as multi-layered, with each layer corresponding to different aspects of your being—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Others conceptualize it as an electromagnetic torsion field that carries information throughout your entire system.

What's most important to understand is that your biofield is not separate from your physical body—it's an integral part of your whole bio-energetic system. From my perspective, your nervous system and energy field work together as vibrational instruments that your consciousness uses to create and experience life.

How Does Energy Healing Work?

Energy healing works by supporting your body's innate self-healing intelligence. Your body and biofield are designed to naturally move toward balance and harmony. When you provide harmonic inputs through energy healing—such as highly ordered light and sound waveforms—your system immediately responds by moving toward greater coherence (Jain & Mills, 2010).

Think of it like tuning a musical instrument. When your bio-electromagnetic energy system falls out of tune due to stress, trauma, or environmental factors, energy healing helps restore proper resonance. This tuning process brings more order and coherence into your biofield, which is the foundation for optimal health and well-being. Recent neuroscience findings show that energy-based interventions can alter the brain's functional connectivity—in essence, re-wiring how the emotional centers of your brain communicate with your body.

Ancient healing systems like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and Qigong have understood these principles for millennia. Ayurveda, meaning "science of life" in Sanskrit, has worked with prana (life force energy) for over 5,000 years. Traditional Chinese Medicine similarly focuses on the flow of qi through meridian pathways in the body.

What is Ayurveda teaching us? That when your subtle energy flows freely, your entire system functions optimally. The Ayurveda experience emphasizes balancing your unique constitution to maintain health and prevent disease.

Energy Healing Techniques You Can Explore

In my own life, I’ve relied on reiki, chakra healing, qi gong healing, and biofield tuning in-person and remotely with noticeable benefits. Several energy healing techniques have gained recognition in both complementary and conventional medical settings:

Biofield Tuning uses weighted and non-weighted tuning forks to detect and correct distortions in your biofield.

Reiki & Reiki Remote Healing: Reiki is a hands on healing approach originating from Japan that channels universal life force energy. While often practiced in person, reiki remote healing has become increasingly popular.

Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch involve practitioners using their hands to assess and balance your energy field without necessarily making physical contact.

Chakra Healing: Focused specifically on the body's seven main energy centers, chakra healing works to clear blockages that may be manifesting as physical or emotional symptoms. Recent studies on chakra meditation have shown significant improvements in behavioral balance (The Yogic Journal, 2025).

Hands on Healing and Hands on Healing Massage: This powerful modality blends physical touch with energetic rebalancing. This integrated approach releases tension stored deep within the fascial and energetic memory of the body.

Quantum Energy Healing works with the quantum field—the subtle energy matrix underlying physical reality.

Scalar Energy Healing utilizes scalar waves, a form of subtle energy theorized to carry information throughout the biofield.

Intention Healing harnesses the power of focused consciousness to direct healing energy.

Sound Healing: Utilizes specific harmonic frequencies, often generated by crystal singing bowls, gongs, or tuning forks, to shift brainwave states and restore coherence in the body's subtle energy system. This method is based on the principle that the body, when exposed to ordered sound waves, naturally moves toward a balanced vibrational state.

The Scientific Evidence Supporting Energy Healing

While Western science has only recently begun investigating energy healing and other biofield therapies, the research is highly promising and is moving beyond the debate of placebo effect.

Cellular Proof: Beyond the Placebo

One of the most common responses to the results of energy healing had been that it is "just a placebo." However, a 2024 study published in Scientific Reports demonstrated that biofield therapy directly influenced the cellular behavior of cancer cells in a laboratory setting, specifically altering how cells utilized calcium ion uptake (Trivedi et al., 2024). Since cells in a petri dish cannot have beliefs or expectations, this suggests that hands on healing and energy transmission also operate at a fundamental, biological level.

Validation for Remote Healing

A 2025 double-blind clinical trial investigated the effects of remote healing on adults with neuropsychological impairments further validating non-local healing. The study found that those who received distant biofield treatments showed statistically significant improvements in cognitive and motor functions compared to the control group (Health & Psychology Research, 2025). This provides scientific backing for reiki remote healing and other distance modalities, proving that healing intention is not bound by physical proximity.

A comprehensive review found that biofield therapies like Reiki, therapeutic touch, and healing touch showed moderate evidence for reducing pain intensity and anxiety (Jain & Mills, 2010). Other research has demonstrated improvements in heart rate variability, cortisol levels, and immune function following energy healing sessions (Hammerschlag et al., 2014).

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How Energy Healing Can Enhance Your Life

Through regular energy healing practice, you can experience numerous benefits:

• Restore the healthy function of each of your energy centers (chakras)

• Expand your consciousness and raise your vibration

• Deepens Body Intelligence (Interoception): Energy healing trains your ability to sense internal bodily signals, helping you detect and correct imbalances before they manifest as physical symptoms.

• Promote physical healing and recovery

• Improve your psychological well-being and mental clarity

• Resolve the effects of past trauma

• Experience positive epigenetic changes (e.g., improved mitochondrial function) (Muehsam et al., 2015)

• Release unprocessed emotions, restoring the healthy flow of your vital force (i.e., prana, qi, chi)

• Bring your mental or psychic energy into balance

• Enhance your mood and emotional resilience

• Increase your connection to the grounding frequencies of the Earth

• Experience deep, restorative relaxation throughout your body

There are many more resolutions I can list here, but the general effect is that you permanently reduce or eliminate imbalances and bring more order and coherence into your bio-field. An orderly and coherent bio-field is one of the foundations for a healthy and fulfilling life experience.

Before you keep reading, what's your belief on your ability to heal?

Integrating Energy Healing Into Your Life

You can make energy healing a regular part of your wellness regimen, using it both preventatively and restoratively. Consider scheduling monthly or quarterly "tune-ups" to maintain optimal flow, and use energy healing techniques anytime you experience physical, emotional, or mental imbalance.

Finding Energy Healing Near Me

Many practitioners now offer energy healing services in person and remotely. When searching for "energy healing near me," look for certified practitioners in modalities like Reiki, biofield tuning, therapeutic touch, or hands on healing massage. Many integrative medicine clinics and hospitals now include energy medicine as part of their complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) programs.

Remote healing sessions can be equally effective since subtle energy transcends physical distance. What matters most is finding a practitioner whose approach resonates with you.

Conclusion

Energy healing offers a powerful pathway to enhance your physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. By supporting your body's natural self-healing intelligence and restoring coherence to your human biofield, you create the foundation for a truly fulfilling life.

Whether you're drawn to ancient wisdom from Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine or contemporary approaches like quantum energy healing and biofield tuning, you're tapping into the same fundamental truth: your life force wants to flow freely, and energy healing helps remove the obstacles standing in its way.

I recommend starting with one technique that calls to you, make it a regular practice, and notice how your energy, clarity, and vitality begin to shift. Your journey into the subtle energy body and its healing potential begins with your commitment.

References

Hammerschlag, R., Marx, B. L., & Aickin, M. (2014). Nontouch biofield therapy: A systematic review of human randomized controlled trials reporting use of only nonphysical contact treatment. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 20(12), 881-892.

Health & Psychology Research (2025). Effectiveness of Distant/Remote Blessing Treatment on Cognitive-motor Function: A Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial.

Jain, S., & Mills, P. J. (2010). Biofield therapies: Helpful or full of hype? A best evidence synthesis. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 17(1), 1-16.

McManus, D. E. (2017). Reiki is better than placebo and has broad potential as a complementary health therapy. Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine, 22(4), 1051-1057.

Muehsam, D., Lutgendorf, S., Mills, P. J., Nielson, R., Schnyer, R., Walach, H., & Ventura, C. (2015). The embodied mind: A review on functional genomic and neurological correlates of mind-body therapies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 73, 165-181.

Radin, D., Schlitz, M., & Baur, C. (2015). Distant healing intention therapies: An overview of the scientific evidence. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(Suppl), 67-71.

Rubik, B., Muehsam, D., Hammerschlag, R., & Jain, S. (2015). Biofield science and healing: History, terminology, and concepts. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(Suppl), 8-14.

The Yogic Journal (2025). Exploring the influence of chakra meditation and seed mantra chanting on root and heart chakra related behaviors.

Trivedi, M. K., et al. (2024). Examining the effects of biofield therapy through simultaneous assessment of electrophysiological and cellular outcomes. Scientific Reports.

About Kidest OM

Kidest OM is a manifestation author and teacher with indispensable books and online courses designed to help you attract and manifest what you want. Her books include "Anything You Want" and "Nothing in the Way: Clearing the Paths to Success & Fulfilment" which are available globally in eBook, print, and audiobook on her website and through online book retailers.