What are Energy Healing treatments? And What to Expect in Your Session

So you’re interested in energy healing! Congratulations, a whole world is about to open up to you! 

But what are energy healing treatments, and why should you be interested in one in the first place?

Maybe someone told you how relaxed they felt after, it allowed them the best night’s sleep they’d had in years, or it resolved an issue they'd sent years trying to fix.

All of that is possible. But what does that mean for you?

I'm going to cover everything you need to know about energy healing, so you can go in with confidence.

What is Energy Therapy?

Just as you would go to cognitive therapy to learn more about the mind, Energy Therapy is an opportunity to learn more about your energy, how to work with it and how it's impacting your life.

For the longest time, “alternative” psychiatrists and psychologists have looked into your body's response to life, and it's long term impact on your body. But very little made it into mainstream science. Slowly, that is changing. 

A popular example is Bessel van der Kolk, who most famously wrote a book on “how the body keeps score”. Theorising that every traumatic event, conversation that didn’t go right, or break up created a response. Over time, they accumulated, leaving an imprint on our body.

This theory is showing us how energy gets stuck. This “response” is negative energy, be it stress, anger, or fear.

Energy Therapy aims to locate and release negative energy that has accumulated in the body. To do that, you cannot be in a negative emotional state that created the problem in the first place, you have to be deeply relaxed. 

This is what energy healing treatments do, through calming music, and the process of energy healing itself send you into a deeply relaxed, yet very aware state; many fall asleep! And that’s great, it means it's working. 

Different Energy Healing Treatments

There are all kinds of energy healing treatments out there. But these are the ones you should be paying attention to.

Each energy healing treatment comes with it’s own approach, impact, and feel. Yet all unite in the practice of releasing negative energy, understanding patterns, and having a positive impact on your life.

Energy Clearing

At Solas Healing, I practice Energy Clearing which is an earth-based energy healing practice rooted in my ancestral lineage from the Celtic Isles. 

You can expect deep relaxation, clarity, and space for insights to come through. Many of my clients come out saying that they felt held, like a long hug from a close friend.

Reiki

The most popular energy healing treatment out there. Traditionally from Japan, Reiki is pure “life force energy”. It feels very light, gentle and floaty with an overarching sense of love that you’ll definitely feel!

Shamanic Healing

Shamanism contains a core set of healing rituals that have been around for as long as human existence. These healing sessions vary depending on the practitioner. 

Some may ask you to sit as they do a Shamanic journey with a drum or rattle for you to retrieve information, others many ask you to lie down, as you would in an energy healing session, while they work on you.

Theta Healing

A technique that focuses on reprogramming the mind, Theta Healing is a little different to what we’ve talked about above. It combines meditation and energy healing to locate core blockages - think repeating emotional patterns or things happening in your life over and over again.

This technique locates and releases those patterns from the body, and then replaces it with positive affirmations. Although a little different in practice, at it’s core, this is energy healing.

What is an Energy Healing Session?

You’ll hear the word “session” float around in the energy healing world. This is the common term for your appointment for your energy healing treatment.

Every energy healing practitioner conducts their sessions in their own way. While some may keep things short: you go, they ask one or two questions, you lie down, close your eyes, things happen, you wake up, and shortly after you leave.

Others, and I personally encourage you to seek those who do, may take a longer more integrated approach to the session. 

You talk about intentions and what’s happening for you at the minute, you receive the energy healing, and then talk about what happened and next steps. 

The main reason for my preference? Managing energy is not a one-and-done. It takes work! The more you are aware of what happened, and use practice to integrate those teachings, the more benefit you will have from the session. 

Personally, I’ve had too many sessions where I left not knowing what happened. I'm sure the energy did impact my life, but as an energy healing practitioner, it's my mission and philosophy that you learn to work with energy as part of our work together.

What to Expect Before and After Energy Healing Treatments

To make the most out of energy healing, a little before and after preparation is highly encouraged! 

Some key things I ask of you:

No alcohol

At Solas Healing, I ask clients not to drink alcohol three days before the session. Energy healing works with the subtle energy of the body. I find that this energy gets depleted from as little as one beer.

It would be a waste of time and money for me to work on replenishing energy depleted by alcohol. By abstaining from it for three days before the session, your body begins a light detoxing process. This guarantees that I will be working with your body in its healthiest state. 

Post-session, stay away from alcohol for as long as possible to remain aware of any emotions or thoughts that arise. That part is really up to you, though.

Intention

You don’t need to know why you would like to receive energy healing to book a session. The calling is enough. 

But before coming to the session, think about what you would like to get out of it; perhaps you want to feel more connected to spirit, less stressed, or even just get a good night’s sleep! All of these are good reasons!

Hydration

When you work with energy, you are moving things around in the body. Naturally, this uses up water. It’s a bit like internal exercise. Before and after the session, it’s best to drink a little more than you normally would. 

When I first started out in energy healing, I often forgot this note, and almost every time I did, people told me they got a headache, so I really recommend following this one!

Recovery

Give yourself time. You are not a superhero. Energy healing can be a jarring and emotional experience, even if you sleep through it. 

It’s best to make your energy healing treatment a day for yourself. At the very least, an evening. After the session, you will want some time alone to process. You will probably want to take a nap!

In the days that follow, again I recommend three, unless otherwise stated, be prepared for emotions to come up… at Solas Healing, I explain to my clients that there is truly no end to things that can happen in this time. 

You can think of an energy healing treatment as taking a big dose of medicine! To see the results, you have to wait a few days; the body is much slower than we allow it to be.

Energy Healing Treatments at Solas Healing

There are so many energy healing treatments out there, when you here the call, it’s important that you trust your gut and book the session.

By reading this article, I hope you got a thorough insight into what happens in an energy healing session, and also how I do things here at Solas Healing.

If you are interested to book an Energy Clearing session with me, either in-person in Hoi An or through Distance Healing, book a connection call today! It's a super casual, no pressure online call, where you get to ask any pressing questions about the energy healing process.

Talk soon,

E-Li x