Headaches occur in the energy field surrounding your body, as well as in your physical body. You can use energy healing to work with the energetic component of a headache and help reduce its severity and length.
Read on to learn two simple energy healing techniques for relieving headache pain.
Preparing to Do Energy Healing
Take a few moments to quiet yourself. Breathe deeply, slowly, and regularly for a few minutes while you tune into your body. Set the intention to relieve your headache.
From a seated position (or whatever is most comfortable), rub your hands briskly together for 15-30 seconds to sensitize them. Turn your palms so that they are facing inward, towards each other, 1-2 feet apart. Slowly bring them towards each other, paying attention to any sensations that you feel in your palms. The sensations may be very slight. They might feel like a fullness or slight pressure in your hands--or like something else entirely, since people experience energy differently.
You're feeling your own subtle energy! The feelings may get stronger as your palms get closer to each other. (Don't worry if you can't feel anything. Just keep practicing this exercise, and you will.) Return your hands comfortably to your lap.
Next you will be using your hands to sense your energy field, the electromagnetic energy surrounding your body.
Stretch out your arm with your palm facing toward your head, in the area of the headache. See if you can sense your field.
Now slowly bring your palm closer to your head, feeling for any subtle differences or disturbances in the area around your head (your energy field). Experiment with approaching the headache area from different angles.
The energy signature of the headache might feel like a heaviness, a cloudiness, a spike, a prickliness, a disturbance or turbulence, buzzy, electric--or like something else entirely. People feel energy differently and your experience will be unique.
The area in your field where you feel the most difference or disturbance in the energy is the place that you will be working.
If your hands don't pick up the energy signature of the headache--don't worry. Like anything, it takes practice. Intention is the most important element of energy work--so hold the intention to relieve your headache, and just act "as if" you can feel it, working in your field wherever you feel drawn to do so.
Headache Energy Healing Techniques
Move your left hand slowly counter-clockwise in a circular motion in the field over the painful area, for up to five minutes. This will help to clear and release the energy of the headache. When you feel the energy change or the headache abate, or when you just get the sense that it's time, put your left arm down. Using your right hand, reverse the motion and move it in a clockwise circle over the painful area, balancing the area you've just cleared.
An even simpler technique is to hold your hand, palm-down, in the field over the painful area (where you feel the energetic disturbance) for up to five minutes. You can hold your hand still or move it to "smooth" the energy. If the disturbed energy moves (usually closer to the head), just follow it with your hand. When you feel the disturbance lift, clear, smooth, or otherwise change, or when you feel the headache improve, you're done.
Afterward
You may want to wash your hands in cool water, or shake your hands, to help clear any excess energy from them. Take some time to rest, breathing slowly and deeply.
See Your Doctor Immediately If
Some headaches are serious and require immediate attention from your medical doctor. The following headache symptoms are signs of potentially serious, even life-threatening health problems. Please call your doctor immediately if:
you experience extremely intense head pain
the headache comes on very suddenly and severely
the headache is accompanied by mental confusion
the headache is accompanied by unusual symptoms such as passing out, loss of vision, or difficulty walking or speaking
the headache is accompanied by a high fever (over 100 degrees F) and/or stiff neck
you are over 50 and the headache is a new kind for you
the headache was preceded by head trauma
you have a family history of brain aneurysms.
(This article is not intended to replace the advice and treatment of your regular medical doctor. Please call your doctor immediately if you have any serious health concerns.)
(c) 2009 -- Nancy Hausauer
