The Big Apple is legendary for being fast-paced and highly stressful. Add the full complement of four seasons, and one has quite a health challenge before them. However, as common as healing energy is in New Age circles, when one thinks of an energy healer New York City doesn't fit the image.
When one associates these therapies with a locale, usually it is Southern California, or at least Boulder, Colorado, that spring to mind. Denizens of the Big Apple are thought to be made of sterner, even more cynical stuff. However, New Yorkers, too, will admit that the body does possess a definite electrochemical charge. As it happens, they are just as likely to believe in subtler forms of energy as their Western beatnik brethren.
Aura fields can be photographed, though skeptics are almost certain it's all some sort of trick. When it comes to health, auras are important because different auras are associated with specific characteristics. Certain aura colors are associated with different levels of spiritual development, different types of personality or emotional state, but they are also associated with particular degrees of health and sickness.
Most of us are familiar with entirely invisible energies, like Chinese chi. In Asia, this is well established and the subject of serious academic and medical study. In the West, chi, known in Japan as ki, has broad popular acceptance but little in the way of medical support.
Chi has entered the public imagination because of two arts from Asia. Acupuncture may be the single most prescribed type of alternative medicine. In fact, it is so common that it hardly seems an alternative medicine at all. Acupuncture works through manipulating the body's flow of chi using extremely fine needs.
Many of us know of chi through familiarity with martial arts, whose most august masters are known to make use of chi. The stereotype of the martial artist who uses chi is an elderly master long past his athletic peak, who uses chi not just to compensate for his failing physical powers but to perform feats well beyond the range of his juniors.
Reiki is also quite familiar to the alternative healing market. It is the most well-marketed form of the ancient masters' ability to heal by laying on hands. Reiki can be taught relatively easily, the license is not expensive, and practitioners are easy to find even in New York City.
Kaji energy, discovered by the Japanese, is a super-fine energy which appears connected to Sun. It shows particular promise as a means to "remote heal." It is unnecessary for doctor and patient to be in the same city. It can work when the parties involved are thousands of miles from each other. Kaji can also be applied in group situations, such as when several people want to heal another at a distance.
In the public mind, energetic healing certainly benefits from the fact that the body does have a demonstrable electric charge. It also benefits from the fact that several of its most popular expressions are ancient and Asian, both of which carry a certain allure. Finally, there are simply many thousands of people who claim to have been healed through the use of these techniques, which might be the most convincing factor of all despite uncertain scientific evidence.
When one associates these therapies with a locale, usually it is Southern California, or at least Boulder, Colorado, that spring to mind. Denizens of the Big Apple are thought to be made of sterner, even more cynical stuff. However, New Yorkers, too, will admit that the body does possess a definite electrochemical charge. As it happens, they are just as likely to believe in subtler forms of energy as their Western beatnik brethren.
Aura fields can be photographed, though skeptics are almost certain it's all some sort of trick. When it comes to health, auras are important because different auras are associated with specific characteristics. Certain aura colors are associated with different levels of spiritual development, different types of personality or emotional state, but they are also associated with particular degrees of health and sickness.
Most of us are familiar with entirely invisible energies, like Chinese chi. In Asia, this is well established and the subject of serious academic and medical study. In the West, chi, known in Japan as ki, has broad popular acceptance but little in the way of medical support.
Chi has entered the public imagination because of two arts from Asia. Acupuncture may be the single most prescribed type of alternative medicine. In fact, it is so common that it hardly seems an alternative medicine at all. Acupuncture works through manipulating the body's flow of chi using extremely fine needs.
Many of us know of chi through familiarity with martial arts, whose most august masters are known to make use of chi. The stereotype of the martial artist who uses chi is an elderly master long past his athletic peak, who uses chi not just to compensate for his failing physical powers but to perform feats well beyond the range of his juniors.
Reiki is also quite familiar to the alternative healing market. It is the most well-marketed form of the ancient masters' ability to heal by laying on hands. Reiki can be taught relatively easily, the license is not expensive, and practitioners are easy to find even in New York City.
Kaji energy, discovered by the Japanese, is a super-fine energy which appears connected to Sun. It shows particular promise as a means to "remote heal." It is unnecessary for doctor and patient to be in the same city. It can work when the parties involved are thousands of miles from each other. Kaji can also be applied in group situations, such as when several people want to heal another at a distance.
In the public mind, energetic healing certainly benefits from the fact that the body does have a demonstrable electric charge. It also benefits from the fact that several of its most popular expressions are ancient and Asian, both of which carry a certain allure. Finally, there are simply many thousands of people who claim to have been healed through the use of these techniques, which might be the most convincing factor of all despite uncertain scientific evidence.
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