UNDERSTANDING HOW ENERGY HEALING WORKS

Have you ever tried to understand how energy healing actually works?

Energy healing isn’t magic - it’s a subtle science of awareness, intention, and connection.

At its heart, it works through two intertwined principles: observation and energetic attunement.

Every aspect of your being, including your body, emotions, thoughts, and subtle energy field, is made up of vibrating energy. The same is true for everything in your environment and for the information in the quantum field.  Quantum physics shows us that nothing is purely solid or truly separate; everything is interconnected through an invisible field of energy and information.

Even what feels physical is actually energy in motion.  This also means that since everything is connected on a quantum level, particles can influence each other even when separated - a phenomenon called entanglement.

This is why energy healing works at a distance, even across the world and without words. Everything is influenced by intention and observation. When a healing practitioner holds space with compassion and focused presence, consciously witnessing another’s energy field, they create an environment that allows the client’s own energy systems to reorganize and heal. This reflects the observer effect: the understanding that observation itself alters what is being observed.

In healing, the practitioner’s attuned awareness is not passive. Instead, it actively brings coherence to areas that may be stuck or out of balance.  In quantum terms, intention acts as a subtle organizing force, supporting recalibration within the field, known as energetic attunement.  This can result in immediate sensations like warmth, release, or calm, or unfold more gently in the hours or days following the session.

The role of the a healer is not to fix or even to heal you, but to hold the space for your own bodies intelligence to take over and start this healing process.

While the quantum explanation of how energy healing works focuses on consciousness and intention, your hands can also play a supportive role,  when wither used in person or in a distance session,  Hands do not create the healing; they are a vehicle for Source energy to help the body receive and integrate the healing. Through gentle touch, hand holds, light contact, or tapping, the healing practitioner helps to anchor the client’s awareness in the present moment, offer a physical cue that supports nervous system regulation, and assist the body in integrating energetic shifts.

The hands themselves are a source of healing. The palm of the hand is considered a mini heart chakra and is connected to the heart through the arm and heart meridian channel. When the hands are used in a healing session, heart energy becomes actively involved in the process. Healing energy initiated in the pelvis travels up through the body’s central channel, down through the arms, and out through the hands. Most people simply feel this as warmth, flow, or a sense of being held, without needing to follow the details intellectually. We all have access to this energy -

consciously or instinctively - and it can be experienced when comforting or soothing another person.

Tapping further activates the body’s energy centers, signaling that healing has begun and bringing additional awareness and intention into the session for deeper integration. In BodyTalk, the centers that are tapped are the head, heart, and gut - often referred to as the three-brain complex. Both the heart and the gut contain more neurons than the brain in the head, and all three play distinct and essential roles in regulating the body’s systems.

All energy healing works even when the hands are used in distance sessions. My clients frequently report feeling what my hands are doing through sensations such as warmth, vibration, relaxation, or energy moving through the body.

This doesn’t replace the observer effect - it enhances it.  The combination of presence + intention + touch creates a coherent field that the body, mind, and nervous system can respond to.

Because every energy system is unique, people notice shifts in different ways. Some clients experience immediate sensations such as warmth, tingling, or emotional release. Others notice a deep sense of relaxation or mental clarity during or shortly after the session. Subtle physical, emotional, or mental shifts may unfold over the following hours or days, including emotional releases, expanded awareness, gentle movement of tissues, increased elimination as energy is released, or new insights that were not previously accessible.

When the client is emotionally and energetically ready, creating the conditions for your systems to reorganize toward balance, will allow for these shifts to occur.  Often the shifts begin the moment a healing session is booked, as intention is set and the system begins to respond. In healing work, there is no limitation of time or space.

If you would like to explore how energy healing can support you, I would love to help! Just click HERE to book a session with me today:) Or if you want to read more about how energy healing has helped me move through my journey - start with Part 1 of my "Burnign the T-shirt series". I hope it insprires & supports you in some way.