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Therapist energizes crowd
By Jennifer Frey
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Thursday, October 2, 2003
In keeping with the Women's Center theme of "Healthy Self, Healthy Relationships," Susan Harrison spoke on the topic of chakras and energy medicine at the Women on Wednesday presentation.
Trained as a massage therapist, Harrison noticed a natural correlation between healing the body with massage and healing with energy.
"When I touched my patients, magical things would happen," Harrison said. "Hostile people would calm down and I realized I had to find out more about why," she added.
The body is made of cells that are spaced apart from one another. Energy fills this space and acts as a circulatory system would. Flowing through the body, energy needs to be maintained to create a sense of balance.
Harrison mentioned that energy workers are finding their clientele to be mostly female. It appears that women have a sense of intuition that allows them to feel when their bodies are out of alignment beyond the physical sense.
"She should have talked more about how it relates to women specifically, but her methods of healing were interesting," senior Kelli Tande said.
Rather than focus on a feminine connection, Harrison stressed the abstract side of energy work. Since energy cannot be seen, you have to rely on your other senses to detect where the energy is out of alignment. A medicinal intuitive, as an energy worker is sometimes called, uses a set of seven energy points to guide in healing people. These energy centers are called chakras. Each chakra is responsible for maintaining a different part of the body. From love and self-expression to exchanges with others and socialization, chakras are used to keep all parts of the body in balance.
With the idea of healing the body through energy, there is a certain responsibility placed on the healer and the client. Both people have to clear their minds so they don't transfer distracting thoughts to each other.
Harrison abides by a set of five guidelines when dealing with clients: relaxation, belief, listening, intention and visualization. Harrison's personal intention in healing people is living out her true calling and creating a safe space where healing can begin. Both the client and the energy worker must listen to the client's body to achieve complete success.
Energy healing has many benefits. Clients have claimed success in dealing with anxiety, depression and even infertility.
The whole concept of energy healing in Western medicine is still in the newfound stages. Harvard is slowly making progress on the subject by doing tests and practicing the techniques of energy workers.
"It's really interesting because I have never heard of anything like this before," said junior Angie Fitter.
A typical energy treatment consists of several different steps aided by tools. Harrison may start a treatment by combing through the aura of the person. She then holds a chakra for a given amount of time to balance it. By finding places of positive and negative energy in a person's body, she can work with their natural polarity.
Grounding is a term for bringing a person's energy down through their whole body. Sometimes events will happen and chakras get blocked. By opening up the body and letting the energy flow consistently, Harrison can restore harmony to the body.
Harrison lets the body guide her.
"The body knows what to do, in what order and how long to do it," Harrison said.
For more on chakras and energy healing, check a local bookstore.
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