By Cindy Fulton Carse, MA, NCTMB
For as long as history has been recorded, cultures and spiritual traditions have recognized an animating life force that makes up who we are. Scientists and healers alike have acknowledged the existence of this energy and its important role in sustaining life and maintaining health.
As you know, our bodies are composed of various systems such as the nervous system, digestive system, and circulatory system. What many people do not realize is that our bodies also have a subtle energy system through which life force (sometimes called qi/chi, spirit or prana) flows. Energy medicine is the practice of balancing this subtle energy system in order to improve physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health and wellbeing. Energy work gets at the root cause by harmonizing imbalances at an energetic level before they completely solidify in the physical body.