Spiritual Energy Touch Therapy
Contributed by Daniel N. Russell, MS, Energy Therapist
People often report feeling lighter on their feet, feeling better, and having more power, after having energy touch therapy. An advantage of energy touch therapy is that it enhances one's faith and health. It also accelerates, balances, and centers a flow of life energy, called qi, throughout the body more quickly and easily than Shiatsu Acupressure and Acupuncture techniques. More and more people have been seeking out energy therapy, as an adjunct to massage, because the spiritual aspect adds to the health benefits.
In energy touch centering one pulls excess heat toward areas of the body where there is not enough energy. This accelerates a flow of life energy (qi) throughout the body, which may increase both healing rate and energy level in patients. Sensitive heat sensors are located in the palms of our hands, and just below each lower eyelid. So, by placing one's palms over a patient's body and concentrating the mind, with training, one can detect where there is too much heat energy or not enough heat energy.
In this way it may be determined where to place a cold stone to help pull excess energy to center and balance it. It is often desired to pull energy toward the sixth tsubo on the Conception Vessel (CV-6), also known as the hara or tanden in Shiatsu and Acupuncture therapy, and to center the qi or life-force energy there. This tsubo (acupressure point) is 2 finger-widths below the belly button. I have observed, when a large cold stone is placed on the tanden, or CV-6 tsubo, that excess heat dissipates from areas of excess energy, and heat energy builds up, quickly, under this cold stone.
I encourage my patients to use their mind together with my mind to move the energy. I also, silently, ask God to send the Holy Spirit to help the patient to heal. The stone serves as a tool to help concentrate the mind on centering the qi energy, and on healing. So, I have founded a non-verbal, touch ministry. There is no charge for this ministry! I use a single, large, smooth, black basalt stone, because these stones are good black-body radiators, which means they absorb a lot of heat and then radiate it. You can find such stones on Alaska's beaches and riverbanks, where they have been deposited and ground smooth and round by glaciers over tens of thousands of years. Most types of stones work fine, though, as long as they are not porous.
Room temperature of about 600 F is fine for the temperature of cold stones placed upon the body. One may think that it would be uncomfortable to have a cold stone placed on their belly, but it pulls and gathers heat quickly from areas of excess energy in the body, and one can actually feel heat building up under and around the stone. You may contact the author at 907-444-5647 or by email: dnrussellms@yahoo.com.
Daniel N. Russell, MS is a physics consultant, former Term-professor at both Physics Dept. and Massage Therapy Program, University of Alaska, and ordained spiritual energy touch therapist in Anchorage, Alaska.