Hands-on Healing
Background: Where does this technique come from?
Definition: Modern spiritual healing technique. Practitioner uses energetic scans to assess needs for healing, then places hands on or just above client, and allows healing energy to flow through to client.
Source: Hands-on Healing: A Practical guide to
Channeling your Healing Energies by Jack Angelo.
Origin of Method / History: Not addressed in detail. Apparently developed by Jack Angelo himself, with some consultation with other spiritual healers.
Theory: What is energy? What is energy healing?
What energy is being worked with? The subatomic particles of your body are vibrating patterns of energy. Matter and energy are one and the same. Because all energy originates from the Source of consciousness, energy is conscious… every unit of energy within a large pattern, such as an organ, will be in touch with each other through a network of consciousness. (Angelo, pp. 12-13)
Energy centers/pathways: Author discusses circulatory system, digestive system, lymphatic, etc. and how we can consciously help the functioning and flow of all these systems through breathing, relaxation, and intention. (Angelo, pp. 20-36)
Also discusses the human energy field / aura and its layers: etheric, astral, mental, spiritual. Chakras are gateways into etheric body. Chakras are linked by meridians.
What is illness? Function of disease is to draw our attention to any state of imbalance. If we mask the symptoms that are the body’s signals, the body will sound the alarm again, maybe in a different way. (Angelo, 88) “Things that happen to us in life can enhance or inhibit the flow of subtle energy… everything that happens on the emotional and mental levels has an energetic impact on the etheric body. This in turn impacts us on the physical.” (Angelo, 57)
What is the mechanism for healing? Looking at the whole person, seeing them as spirit, mind, emotions and body, in that order; and working with the cause and meaning of the ill health as well as condition itself.
Role of practitioner: Help people get in touch with the body’s wisdom to activate their own healing potential.
Role of person receiving healing: Their soul directs the healing through attunement. Healing comes when we are relaxed, allowing heart to open and make decisions at some level.
Who can heal? Apparently anyone can. The book is a full reference text for healers, including information on how to set up a healing practice.
Practice: How does a healing session work for this technique?
Practitioner preparation: The book is filled with exercises for working with your own energy, scanning other people’s energy, balancing chakras, etc. It does say that you should ensure that your own energy is balanced before trying to affect other people’s energy.
Beginning a session: Interview patient regarding presenting condition. Attune to patient: place hands on patient’s shoulders, link with patient at a soul level by mentally thanking him for this healing opportunity and asking the soul to direct the healing.
Assessment: Three scans. 1) Aura Scan. Start with hand’s a body’s width out from client’s head. Bring them in slowly toward head until you feel a change in the energy. Then bring your hands down the side of the body, front, and back, noting any changes or discrepancies in the shape or feel of the aura. 2) Chakra scan. Holding your hands a few inches from client’s body, hold hands over each chakra region for a few minutes, first in front of the body, then behind. Note the different energy sensations: where you felt energy leaving your hands, or projected from client, or where you felt nothing at all. 3) Physical scan: With hands just off surface of body, start at skull; move slowly down over the back of the skull to the base of the spine. Then down the sides of the back, then the center of the front of the body, then the sides, then arms, then legs. Make a mental note of which parts of the physical body called for healing.
Process: First aura: place hands at the problem areas from the aura scan – may sense energy leaving your hands. Keep hands there until you feel it’s complete. Then chakras, keeping hands a few inches away from client’s body. Start at base chakra moving up. Hold hands opposite chakra as long as it seems to need it. Physical: Return to places that called for healing. Place hands directly on body or just above.
Ending a session: Grounding. Ask client to focus on feet, wiggle toes, rub hands together, and breathe deeply. Ask them to visualize “closing down” chakras (like a flower closing up at night) and visualizing a golden sphere of protection around themselves. Healer should wash hands, or visualize hands being cleansed with light.
Uses: When is this Technique useful?
What do practitioners say it is useful for: Does not address this specifically, although various examples in the book show it being used with a wide variety of conditions.
Contraindications: None mentioned.
Studies done: None mentioned.
Other uses: Distance healing.
Spiritual Component: This is a spiritual
healing technique, which involves connecting to a Universal Source of energy.
He doesn’t discuss this directly, but it’s clearly implied in the book.
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