Hands of Light
Background: Where does this technique come from?
Definition: A modern healing technique which uses high sense perception for assessment, then laying-on hands and visualizations to bring all the layers of the Human Energy Field into balance.
Source: Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing through the
Human Energy Field by Barbara Ann Brennan.
Origin of Method / History: Barbara Brennan was a research scientist in Atmospheric Physics for NASA when she began “seeing” energy phenomena around people’s bodies. She began to observe the energy more closely, learning to manipulate her own field to interact with another person’s field and to rebalance energy fields. Some information she received seemed to be coming from “what appeared to be an intelligence higher than myself.” (Brennan, 7) She describes this as a spirit guide, named Heyoan. She has trained in Bioenergetic Therapy, Core Energetics, massage therapy, and homeopathy, and has studied with both American and Native American Healers. This book presents her theories of healing based on all these experiences.
Theory: What is energy? What is energy healing?
What energy is being worked with? Human Energy Field (HEF), a “luminous body that surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body, emits its own characteristic radiation, and is usually called ‘the aura’.” (Brennan, 41)
Sources of Energy: The HEF is part of the Universal Energy Field, an unlimited, regenerating field that “permeates all space, animate, and inanimate objects, and connects all objects to each other; it flows from one object to the other.” (Brennan, 40)
Energy centers/pathways: Based on her clairvoyant vision, Brennan states that there are seven major chakras, 21 minor chakras, and seven layers of the auric field.
What is illness/health? “Any discomfort anywhere in your body/life is a direct message to you about how you are out of alignment with your true self.” (Brennan, 14) “Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is the result of forgetting who you are.” (Brennan, 131) “Health is… the experience of being one with the Creator, yet being individuated at the same time.” (Brennan, 139)
Brennan discusses types of energy blocks: “blah” blocks result from depressing one’s feelings until they stagnate and cause an accumulation of fluids, compaction blocks suppressed feelings and contain accumulated emotions that cause an accumulation of fat or body muscle in the area, mesh armor helps someone avoid feelings – tends not to manifest in illness but tends to create crises where one breaks into deeper feelings, plate armor holds all types of feelings by freezing them and creates tension-related illnesses (ulcers, heart problems, tendonitis), energy depletion is a decrease in energy to the distal ends of limbs which may be associated with feelings like being unable to stand on his own two feet, and energy leaks where one is decreasing energy to the point where he will not have the strength or feeling to respond to experience – this results in coldness in limbs and joint problems from the energy escaping through joints.
What is the mechanism for healing? “Healing rebalances the energies in each body. When all the energies in each body are balanced, health occurs.” “Inner healing deals directly with the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of the human being, how he creates his belief systems and reality.” This healing, which challenges faulty belief systems, must happen or illness will again appear in the physical field. Outer healing by a practitioner supplements this by “applying energy distilled from the Universal Energy Field”. (Brennan, 147)
Role of practitioner: “What the healer has to offer the patient… a different and broadened view of the causes and cures of disease; access to information about any given life or medical situation that may not be available through any other means; and working directly with the patient to enhance the patient’s healing abilities.” (Brennan, 147)
Who can heal? Training? The book can be used as a textbook for classes under supervision of an experienced healer. She states clearly that the book “is not a substitute for classes in healing... you will need direct hands-on experience and verification of those experiences by a qualified teacher-healer.” (Brennan, 9) The Barbara Brennan School of Healing offers lectures and workshops, and offers a four year program for training healers.
Brennan believes that developing High Sense Perception is a natural evolutionary step for the human race, which more and more people are developing at this time.
Practice: How does a healing session work for this technique?
Practitioner preparation: Learning high sense perception, and internal viewing to see imbalances. Learning high auditory perception and communication with spirit teachers. Healer must first open and align herself with the cosmic forces. Healer must charge and open chakras. Book includes several exercises toward these goals.
Beginning a session: Align yourself with the highest energies. Visualize energy flowing into you.
Assessment: Analysis of the patient’s energy system. Look at structure of physical body, compare it to theoretical knowledge of character structures and what likely issues will be. Then check chakra functioning with a pendulum.
Treatment process:
Alignment of energy system of healer, patient, and guides: Prayer. Then hold the solar plexus reflex point on client’s feet, and scan up through crown of healer’s body and then client’s body.
Healing the lower four bodies of the aura with chelation (running energy into the body starting at the feet and moving up along the body, following Brennan’s chelation chart on page 205), spine cleaning (massage the spine, from sacrum upwards then move up the spine sending blue energy into it), and cleansing specific areas of the aura where you detected blockages.
Healing the etheric template. “If the [spirit] guides decide to do etheric template work, the healer will be signaled to simply lay hands on the body in two places, usually over two chakras, and to allow the hands to rest there. From this point on, the guides control everything.” (Brennan, 219)
Healing the ketheric template. Organ restructuring: The hands of the healer “remove the ketheric field of the organ, the organ then floats above the body where it is cleaned and restructured by more rapid finger movements.” (Brennan, 222) Chakra restructuring: Threads of “gold light pour out of your hands… sewing the small vortex in [the] chakra.” (Brennan, 225)
Healing of the celestial level. Cup hands over patient’s brow. “Psychically reach for the highest spiritual reality you know by first connecting through the heart with universal love… it will flow down through your field into that of your patient, lighting up the central brain area.” (Brennan, 226)
Sealing ketheric template level. Working with the hands on the ketheric template level (2½ feet off the surface of the body), repairing holes, smoothing out lumps, filling dark areas with light. Then make large sweeping motions all around the body of the patient, strengthening the egg-shaped aura. Place hands on the outside of the eggshell layer, silently honor the patient and turn her healing back over to her. Then “I pour myself back into my body.” (Brennan, 228)
Ending
a Session: Drink water.
Give the client a full glass of water.
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