What Energy Healing Actually Does (And Why You Might Need It)
One of the most common questions I get is: What is the purpose of energy healing?
It's a great question. If you're new to energy healing, I hope this helps you understand what it is and why it matters. And if you're already familiar with energy work, maybe something here will help you when you're trying to explain it to others.
Let me start with the basics.
What Energy Healing Is
Energy healing is restoring balance to the energy of the body.
We have these physical bodies with circulatory systems, skeletal systems, muscular systems—all these different systems that work beautifully together. But we also have energy systems that need to communicate and each do their thing. I call it their calling.
Each part of the body has its certain calling that it does. There's intelligence in every cell and each part. Each energy system has its own calling, and we need to help it stay on track.
The River Metaphor
I see everything in pictures in my mind, so let me give you a picture here.
Imagine a little stream or a river. When it's flowing freely, it nourishes everything along its path—the grass on its banks, the gardens it irrigates, everything downstream.
But if that river gets clogged with mud and garbage and all sorts of debris, it blocks the flow. The water can't move smoothly. It can't nourish what it's meant to nourish. It gets stagnant.
I see our energy systems like that.
They can get blocked up. The energies get dammed up sometimes, and it keeps us from being our best selves—mentally, emotionally, and physically.
What Blocks Our Energy
So what creates these blocks?
Stuck Emotions
Mentally and emotionally, we can get stuck emotions. (I usually don't use the word "trapped" because I don't think they're trapped. That sounds like they can't move on their own unless someone saves them. But they can move. We just need to have the right environment so they can release.)
These stuck emotions can really clog things up.
We release the limiting beliefs and the emotions that go along with those. And as you know, our emotions come from our thoughts. A thought is just a thought—you have the power to change a thought.
(I'm going to do a whole other post about that because it's not a circumstance that makes us feel a certain way, it's our thoughts about the circumstance. But that's a different topic.)
Generational Patterns
We also inherit generational patterns in our DNA. I've taught this for many years, and I'm super excited now that science is actually proving it. There's a lot of research about epigenetics now, which is validating what energy healers have known for a long time.
These inherited patterns create imbalances in our energy just as much as our own experiences do.
The Purpose of Energy Healing
So what is energy healing therapy really about? The purpose of energy healing is to help balance and align all our different energy systems.
In SimplyAlign, I teach you how to do that with all seven energy systems. (I believe there's seven—seven is a sacred number. Some people say more, some people say less. It doesn't matter as long as the intent is to heal and to help.)
Some of those energy systems include:
The chakra system
The meridians (which is the basis for Chinese acupuncture)
Your aura (the energy around you)
And four lesser-known systems
Basically, the purpose is to keep our energies balanced so that:
Our mind can think clearly
Our emotions feel good
We can live in joy
Our physical body can heal and work the way God created it to do, without blockages in the energy
"Why Do You Need That?"
Let me tell you a story.
Many years ago, one of my neighbors told me she had a problem with energy healing. She thought it was from the dark side and that it was really bad.
(There are people who think that because they don't understand that energy healing is actually quantum physics. There's real science behind energy, and we are all made of energy. This physical body is just a dense form of that.)
But what she said to me was: "I know you, and I know you believe in God and I know you believe in prayer. Why would you possibly need something like this?"
So basically she was asking: What's the purpose of what you're doing? Why do you need that?
And what came to my mind, I just said to her: "Do you go to the dentist if you have a tooth that needs work?"
"Well, yes."
"Do you take your kids to the doctor if they're sick and you believe they need something from a doctor?"
"Well, of course."
"Why do you do that? Because I know you believe in God and you believe in prayer as well. Why don't you just have enough faith and pray that they'll heal?"
She said, "Whoa, that's not the same to me."
But I think it IS the same thing.
If you're wondering "is energy healing biblical," the answer is that energy healing works with the body's natural systems that were created for healing. It doesn't replace faith or prayer—it's simply another tool to help the body do what it was designed to do.
It's Just a Tool
Yes, I believe if you have enough faith, you could heal anything (if it's God's will). But the doctor, the dentist, and whoever else we go to in our lives—they're tools to help us.
Our body has an innate wisdom. Our body knows how to heal itself. We just need to help it get there.
Feed it the right fuel. Get enough sleep. Get some movement. Clear your energy.
All of those things are super important.
Energy healing is just a tool. It's an additional tool.
I will take any tool that is light and joyful and good, and leads me to be a better person. I will take any of those tools to help me have a better life and help my family have a better life.
Energy healing doesn't replace prayer if you're a prayerful person. It doesn't replace your morning meditation if you're a meditator. It doesn't replace exercise. It doesn't replace anything.
It's just a tool—an addition.
The purpose is to keep us balanced, healthy, strong, joyful.
That's it.
Benefits of Energy Healing
You might benefit from energy healing if:
You feel stuck mentally, emotionally, or physically
You have patterns you can't seem to break
You're carrying stress, anxiety, or old hurts that won't go away
You know you're not operating at your best
You recognize patterns from your family showing up in your life
You've tried everything else and something still feels blocked
Energy healing techniques work to clear the blocks so your natural wisdom and healing capacity can flow freely again.
Like clearing debris from that river so the water can nourish everything it's meant to nourish.
You Don't Have to Figure This Out Alone
If you want to learn more about energy healing—whether for yourself or to help others—I teach these tools in SimplyAlign.
You can learn to clear your own energy, release stuck emotions, break generational patterns, and help your family do the same.
Because everyone deserves to have their energy flowing freely. Everyone deserves to live balanced, healthy, strong, and joyful.
That's what this work is for.
Have you experienced energy healing? What questions do you have about how it works? Share in the comments—I'd love to hear from you and answer any questions you might have.
