What is Healing Therapy

By definition heal means to make whole and healthy and therapy is a treatment to effect healing. No doctor or therapist is able to claim the ability to cure and therapists who practise complementary treatments assert that their treatments can be accepted by a patient who is being treated allopathically. Before the advent of allopathic medicine healing was carried out using herbal compounds, natural oils, health giving foods and drinks and by changes in the external environment, as for example in health spa’s. Many of the earliest healing practitioners on record used energy releasing techniques to heal and in some cases herbal and natural food treatments were used in conjunction with such techniques. By whatever name energy healing techniques were known they all derive from a common root of knowledge –namely the ability to release a qualitative force of energies to affect and heal disharmony of body, mind and spirit.

In today’s world healing therapies as distinct from orthodox allopathic medicine is termed either complementary or alternative –the latter being therapies that use natural substances and/or surgical techniques to effect a healing change, as for example does herbal medicine, homeopathy and acupuncture. Complementary therapies employ techniques that can effect a healing change alongside allopathic medical drug and surgical treatments. Spiritual Healing, psychic healing, meridian healing, energy healing, shamanistic healing, therapeutic touch, aura healing, cosmic healing, chakra healing, reiki healing, natural healing, distant, remote and absent healing are all methods of treatment that use energy releasing techniques to effect healing.  Some manipulative therapies such as reflexology, aromatherapy and shiatsu also use energy releasing techniques to effect healing changes.