The human energy field is holistic -- incorporating physical consciousness, emotional consciousness, mental consciousness, relational consciousness, and spiritual consciousness.  Our physical health is intimately related to all aspects of our consciousness, and vice a versa.  

In the west, the existence of a human energy field has not yet become main stream within science, but corollaries that support the principles of energy medicine continue to become more and more widely accepted.  The placebo effect, for example, demonstrates that simply believing one will recover can improve a patient's health.  Meditation has been found to lower blood pressure, improve sleep, and reduce anxiety and depression.  More and more doctors are beginning to recognize energy healing as a valid path to recovery from disease, whether it be physical or psychological.

* Those with a scientific perspective may get tripped up by the use of the word "energy".  Within physics and engineering, the term energy has a very specific meaning as the ability to do work.  We use the same word within energy medicine but with a different meaning: within the domain of energy medicine energy is consciousness.  The direct experience of consciousness as a field reveals similarities to electromagnetic, thermodynamic, and magnetohydrodynamic phenomena.  In the same way that an electric field can penetrate and surround an object, can store energy or release it, can induce change in the physical world, so energy penetrates, surrounds, accumulates or decreases, and induces physical change.  Thus, it is not surprising the the terms energy and energy field  has been adopted in the west to describe this experience of consciousness.

In a typical energy healing session, the client lies down and simply receives the work of the practitioner.  Clients often experience deep relaxation and may enter a meditative state or fall asleep.  Because the energy work is passive, it is a wonderful treatment for anyone feeling depleted due to illness, medical treatments, surgeries, insomnia, or stress.  Energy healing may support clients by speeding up the process of physical healing (for example, after surgery), clearing unhealthy emotion, correcting toxic beliefs, changing long-held relationship patterns, and giving clients a direct experience of spiritual consciousness, unconditional love, and life purpose.

While the healing session itself is largely passive, the client's healing journey (which includes and extends beyond the healing room)  requires the client's conscious involvement.  The client's ability to relax into and receive the healing session, their ability to vulnerably and honestly speak their truth, and their ability to integrate the experience of each healing session with self honesty and humility is essential to creating lasting change.