Category Archives: Energy Medicine

Energy medicine refers to a variety of New Age healing techniques that purport to manipulate, balance or cleanse an alleged “universal life force” that supposedly pervades all of creation. Science has never found any evidence of the existence of this energy and does not recognize or regulate any practices associated with it.

Nine-Year-Old Girl Proves New Age Energy Fields Don’t Exist

Posted on by

Emily Rosa at age 11, the year she published the study in JAMA (photo courtesy of her mother, Linda Rosa RN and Wikicommons)

New Age energy workers insist that the cause of all of mankind’s ills are related to imbalances in an alleged universal life force energy known as chi, qi, prana, vital force, etc. Thanks to the sophistication of modern science, it was easy to prove that this energy doesn’t exist, so easy, in fact, that a nine-year-old girl thoroughly debunked the claims of these “energy workers” in a fourth-grade science fair project!

Read the rest…

What Does Your Aura Say About You?

Posted on by

New Age practitioners swear by them and claim you can tell just about anything about a person by reading it. Others believe you can use it to diagnose illness and change the way a person thinks. What is this remarkable tool?

Read the rest…

Christian Has Concerns About the LifeLine Technique®

Posted on by

CB asks: “Just thought that I’d make you aware of another technique that is gaining adherents here in the Chicagoland area. It is the LifeLine Technique developed by Dr. Darren Weismann. He is gaining followers through his books and is training people to teach his methods. It’s classic New Age psychic/energy healing nonsense with a side of chiropractic thrown in (which is what draws most people into his practice initially.). You might want to address this in your blog.”

Read the rest…

Testimony: Alternatives Are Often the “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”

Posted on by

We received this feedback from a recent Women of Grace® “Wacky Wednesday” radio show during which we discussed The Healing Code and other pseudoscientific alternatives. This listener was generous enough to share the hard lesson she learned from dabbling in alternatives:

Read the rest…

The Facts About Energy-based Massage

Posted on by

We have numerous questions from both patients and health care providers about the use of energy massage techniques such as Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Hands of Light, Reiki, etc. in hospitals and hospice care. Are these practices New Age; if so, why are they so prevalent in health care facilities?

Read the rest…

Is There Hidden Meaning in Waking Up at Odd Hours?

Posted on by

RT writes: “I have heard that there’s some kind of spiritual significance to when you wake up in the middle of the night. For example, if you wake up at 1:00 a.m. it means you’re on the brink of a spiritual awakening – or at 3:00 a.m. it means your energy levels are too low. Is any of this true?”

Read the rest…

Is Your “Energy” Out of Whack?

Posted on by

Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would come up with a way to help us stay energized and alert throughout the day regardless of how busy we are? It sure would, but the New Age idea of restoring “energy” isn’t the way to go.

Read the rest…