Emotional Freedom

Energy flow to me is palpable. Whether chakras, meridians, or directed energy, when I am quiet and still, listening and feeling with open simpleness, energy flow is as real to me as visible light. Most humans have the experience of welling feelings of sadness, love, joy, or power. These are energy flows (even though clearly there are neurological and biochemical movements as well; energy as I refer to it is when we look at the body as bioelectromagnetic energy in its entirety—the quantum physics view of the body rather than the Newtonian.)

If you have had an experience moving energy within your own body, with Qi Gong, Tai Chi, meditation, kundalini yoga, etc., then you know that there are flows of energy that can be directed with the mind. When combined with the breath, these energy flows can be intensified.

Quantum Touch (http://www.quantumtouch.com) gets people in touch with their own energy flow, and uses specific breathing techniques to intensify the energy (just as fire breath in certain yoga practices). Using soft hands, this energy flow is then “intended” to flow through you into the injury/pain site. The receiving body can use the energy to balance and restore, as well as raise an area of lower or discordant energy vibration to a higher, healthier one (as a hand on the shoulder of someone who is quaking with fear will help ground and calm them in many cases).

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Does it work? Absolutely. It can be a useful practice for a massage therapist to use to raise his or her own awareness of energy and energy flow, to build up the skill to feel it. I find that what I learned in Quantum Touch most often comes into play when I do Stillpoint or Craniosacral work. I will often intuit that an energy flow would be helpful, and “quantum touch” can help provide that. Yet, I don’t really consider myself a quantum touch practitioner. The book and other information I have read on it served to reaffirm what I have been doing for 12 years with energy flow. I don’t “reasonate” myself with the breathing techniques it uses, although you might.

If I had a recommendation for an energy technique, I personally think that EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is quicker and more effective. For example, I was doing a charity chair massage benefit yesterday. I worked with a client and after the session was over, she said she felt a lot better but her heel was in terrible pain. She had a diagnosed “bone growth problem” in the heel. Quantum Touch would have had me with my hands on her heel for several minutes (maybe even 15-30 minutes) directing energy into the area. EFT uses a combination of a statement that gets the person directly connected to the pain “Even though I have this bone-growth heel pain, I deeply and completely accept myself” (my wording choice) along with tapping on key meridian points. Her pain level went from a 6 on a scale of 10 to a 2 to a zero in two rounds of EFT. In two minutes of work, she said “My bad heel feels better than my good one right now!”

It is my intuition, which is not scientific, that Quantum Touch provides energy to an area which if intense enough and sustained enough ends up helping the energy flow in the body. The body starts moving energy and blockages clear. EFT uses tapping, even self-tapping, to do the same thing in a quicker way by “tapping all over the energy system.” Yes, there is an art to it. But like massage, the benefits are apparent really early in the learning.