I often hear of energy healers who have quit doing energy work because they felt it drained them. Many who remain will look for ways to protect themselves from energy drain, which can be counterproductive if not done properly. In this article we will explore the four main reasons why energy healers feel drained during or after a healing session.

Using Your Own Energy:

Using your own energy is the most popular explanation of why healers get drained. We each have our own vital force energy which, as most modern energy practices explain, should never be used for the healing of another individual. The eventual long term effects of using your own energy to heal another person, is the deterioration of your own health and wellbeing. Modern day energy healing practices (and most ancient ones) endorse the use of universal life-force energy for healing. This energy comes from an infinite source and is what animates life in all living things. There are many ways that you may be using your own energy rather than universal life-force energy in a healing session. One big clue is if you are trying hard to get a certain result.

Energy Entrainment:

The energy healing practices which work with the principles of resonance and entrainment will often speak of how it is necessary to hold a high vibration when doing healing work. Everything in our universe is vibration and we naturally entrain to one another in a common frequency. One of the easiest ways to understand this is to think about a friend who is always in a good mood or is excited about something. After spending time with this friend you too will begin to feel good and excited. You have entrained up to their high vibrational frequency. The same holds true for healing. The person receiving the healing ideally entrains to the higher frequency of energy that you’re holding for them. If you’re not maintaining a vibrational frequency which is higher than the client’s then you will often entrain to their lower frequency. So instead of them feeling better, you will often feel worse. There are many specific techniques which will help the energy healer raise and maintain a higher vibration. Also it’s important for you to make sure that you are fortified by your own self-care, meaning that you are well rested and have attended to your basic needs.

Energy Normalization:

Energy normalization is what happens if you have raised your vibration to a very high level during a healing session. After the session you may feel deflated. In order to be effective energy healers must expand themselves beyond their normal state of awareness and feeling. Then after the session there is a normalization period where you return to your previous state of function. It is akin to driving a car very fast then slowing down to the speed limit. It feels like you’re creeping along when you slow down, when you’re actually just returning to a normal speed. If you feel deflated after an energy healing session it’s just a signal to take some time to ground yourself as you re-enter regular life.

Energy Integration:

Energy integration is the opposite of using your own energy. You have fully opened yourself up to the flow of universal life-force energy so much so that you are changed by it. When you open to universal life-force in this way your body, (meaning the physical body, the mind, and the spirit) becomes a vessel powerful vibratory frequencies. This can be strenuous. The body may only be accustomed to accommodating a particular range of frequencies, and something a little different from that range can be interpreted as intense or overwhelming. When the system goes into overwhelm it will actually shut down for a while until its own healing process is complete. Rest and reintegration is needed to return to a normal state of function. You will know that you’re going through an energy integration phase when you feel a little out of sorts after a session or if you have the desire to take a nap or do nothing. This is actually a very positive effect of doing energy work, but it’s necessary to attend to basic self-care when you work on this level. Proper rest, nutrition, exercise, spiritual and personal growth practices go a long way in honing your vessel for the more intense forms of universal life-force energies. If you find that you are getting sick as a result of opening up wide to life-force energy, it may be time to back off and receive more energy healing yourself.

Before you give up the practice of energy healing because you feel drained, consider these four reasons and begin to make adjustments in your own energy management to become a stronger vessel for healing.

Cassandra (Sandy) Freschi is an intuitive healer and ordained minister who writes on holistic healing, spirituality, love, relationships and business. Lessons on Healing, Lessons on Love, Healing Business Success

Cassandra (Sandy) Freschi is an intuitive healer and ordained minister who writes on holistic healing, spirituality, love, relationships and business. http://www.lessonsonhealing.com, http://www.lessonsonlove.com, http://healingbusinesssuccess.com

Author Bio:
Cassandra (Sandy) Freschi is an intuitive healer and ordained minister who writes on holistic healing, spirituality, love, relationships and business. Lessons on Healing, Lessons on Love, Healing Business Success

Category: Self Help
Keywords: energy healing, energy drain, self help,