HEALTH is an elusive concept. Related concepts such as maintaining health, evaluating health, health care, health care system, and restoring health are also elusive. We speak of our health care system which I see as having little if anything to do with either health or caring. Rather, it is a disease management system designed by drug manufacturers and insurance companies and underwritten by government to maximize the transfer of funds from the general public into the coffers of those corporations.

One way of conceptualizing the universe is as an energy field with areas where the frequencies and intensities of the energy vary in ways that result in galaxies or stars such as our sun or planets such as the earth and in the various features of which the earth is constituted: rocks and soil and water and plants and creatures of many varieties.

Humans are part of the universal energy system and each human is, in itself, a complicated system of components all of which are composed of energy. Our understanding of the human organism deepens and widens, sometimes gets stuck in a rut, finds branches to the ruts, discovers or rediscovers concepts which are either new or mostly abandoned long ago.

In recent years the general concepts of health and wellness have centered around what we usually think of as physical and chemical. There is a constant search for chemicals to modify every condition somehow identified as abnormal and undesirable. The chemicals have helped many people through problem situations and there can be little question that they are of value. There is, however, room for questioning whether the chemicals are worth the enormous costs that put what we call health care outside the reach of most people.

Another part of the present general notion of health care is surgery. We use chemicals to treat joint pain but when the pain is no longer tolerable or the part no longer works we replace it.  We use chemicals to treat assorted problems of circulation and respiration but we use surgery as a last resort in replacing hearts and lungs. We also replace kidneys and livers when they cease to function adequately. We cut out tumors and cancers, and repair damage from assorted accidents.

Our model of health has grown to include psychiatric conditions which are dealt with using chemicals or various types of social interactions which take place in groups of two or more participants and referred to loosely as therapy. We have gone through periods in which the therapies included considerable use of things like electrical or insulin shock or cutting parts of the brain. I suppose some of that continues but, in general, it has been found that such techniques are not usually helpful.

There has never been a shortage of alternative approaches to dealing with the concerns of people. We have manipulative approaches such as various types of massage, chiropractic, and osteopathic. Osteopathy, of course, has mostly dropped its manipulative treatments so that there is very little difference in the training of MDs and DOs. There are treatments such as hydrotherapy and techniques for inducing sweat, often as part of some sort of cummunication with spirits.

There is also a growing awareness of techniques for modifying areas of the human energy field known as subtle energies. There are many approaches to obtaining such modifications and a growing body of research into their effectiveness. It is such techniques that are of most interest to me.

There is some sense in which I seem to be an energy healer.  I am a Reiki master and have had classes with assorted practitioners/teachers of energy medicine and energy psychology.  But what healing I do has little connection with any of the classes I’ve had.  My experiences in healing are so different from each other that I have difficulty finding the connections among them.

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