In This Chapter
■The philosophy, history, and benefits of
energy-balancing therapy
■Three different approaches to energy-
balancing therapy
■How an energy-balancing session works.13 Energy-Balancing Therapies
13 Energy-Balancing Therapies.
A wide variety of alternative healing practices emerging in popularity
are designed to balance the body’s biofield, or energy field, and increase
the flow of energy. Richard Gerber, M.D., author of Vibrational
Medicine, defines biofield therapy or energy medicine as the emerging
science of using various forms of energy for diagnosis and healing.
Reviewing hundreds of research studies, Gerber hypothesizes that con-
scious and unconscious thoughts exist as energy that surrounds and
permeates the body. While these studies are in their early stages, vali-
dation of the existence of the human energy field is beginning to
emerge. More detailed discussion of the concept of body energy is
found in Chapter 2, “How Does Alternative Medicine Work?”