Energy Healing The Training Manual
Writing ‘Energy Healing: The Training Manual’ was a long labour of love! I began to gather information for it in 2010, after 7 years’ experience of working with a Healing Support Group in the Chaplaincy Centre at the Borders General Hospital in the Scottish Borders.
We offered twice monthly clinics which became increasingly popular; we worked together and we learned together, developing our professional skills, assessing the different needs of the people who sought our healing help, and expanding our knowledge of energy with workshops on topics such as Healing Communication Skills, Living with Dying, and Spiritual Healing. During the last 14 years (now with over a years’ break due to the Covid-19 pandemic) we have treated people with many different needs, including acute and chronic physical conditions, deep seated psychological problems, and terminal illness.
Organising the Healing Support Group has been the culmination of my work in health care, which started in 1964 when I became a cleaner in a children’s ward, which I can still remember it as if were yesterday. I qualified as a state registered nurse at Bart’s Hospital in London in 1970, where I learned to care for bodies but not so much for minds or souls. I taught Health and Social Care at Doncaster College of Further Education in the 1980s, (low point – being told ‘Christina, what you are saying is really boring!’, and high point - being told that the students had ‘happy memories of me as a hippy chick!’) I became a registered healing practitioner in 1998, and a qualified tutor in 2003; my mantra for healing work became: ‘always wait to be asked, trust your intuitive voice, and check that you are grounded.’
The other constant thread running through my life has been a deep, enduring faith, which has found great sustenance in spiritual education, which began for me in 1977, learning about the unity of being, and the universal perspective that does not deny any form of belief but focuses on self-knowledge as the guiding force in life. It gives me a sense of joy and a meaning and purpose for living, of being connected to the source of Life Itself.
Now, that’s enough about me!
I wrote ‘Energy Healing: The Training Manual’, as a follow-up to my first book ‘Energy Healing: The Practical Workbook’, which was published by Watkins in 2008. I wanted the content of the Training Manual to focus on the Act of Healing itself, on the simplicity and purity of it, and ended up writing 196 pages about it!
The Training Manual is composed of three sections:
1 - The Science of Energy, according to ancient tradition and modern evidence, which relates to the aura, the chakras, the meridians and the physical body. It describes how energy circulates through them and how they reflect and influence one another, with illustrations to clarify how they reveal themselves in every human being.
2 - The Art of Healing, which focuses on both Distant and Contact Healing, from the historical background to the preparation, provision and conclusion of each treatment, exploring the spontaneous nature, the unique response, and the potential for learning from every session with the patient/client.
3 - The Training Record, which offers a convenient framework for writing about the Science of Energy and the Act of Healing, using the text of the manual as a source of reference. It creates the opportunity for revising, recalling and reflecting on the nature and the experience of sensing energy in ‘Healing Mode’, when patient and practitioner become ‘as one’, united in a single field of energy during the healing process.
Learning about energy never stops, because its presence is endless, innovative, circulating through us and beyond us. As the poet and writer William Blake says:
‘Energy is the only life, and is from the body;
And Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy;
Energy is Eternal Delight.’
Amen to that!