I have some disdain for the phrase "energy work," and all things related to it. Like Reiki. Hey, I'd be happy to stand over you and push the air around. Sixty dollars please... And yet, today I'm off for some energy work. At more than 20 years logged in on a real effort at a spiritual journey, there remain in my life many many many nonspiritual aspects. Being judgmental, for instance. But here's the thing, I have met loads of people who claim to work with your energy field, and for the most part they all say the same thing. It works if you believe it works. Uh, that sounds a little too close to Christian Science for me. Of course if you believe you're going to benefit from the air pushing, I do believe you can feel better as a result. And for the most part, I don't think people doing this work are shysters. I believe they believe. But I've come to a point in the road where trudging the same old direction just isn't working. I'm afraid to give up being judgmental--I mean, what the hell am I gonna say at all?--but I'm willing to at least see what she says. During the course of our conversation this woman didn't ask me to believe anything, but I experienced a shitstorm of emotions. And the next day I felt better than I had in a while. But feeling better temporarily isn't enough, or I'd go back to drugs. I don't just want to hush the voices of the sniping inner committee, I want to turn them into cheerleaders. Guess we'll see.
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Yeah, I was raised w/reverence for science, disdain for most things religious or new age... but at some point in Chemistry class I realized, there's millions of exo/endothermic reactions going on in each of our bodies... so shouldn't human proximity have dramatic effects? We can feel the warmth of another person affecting our temperature, and that's just the grossest level of influence. So I see energy work as somewhere between psychology and chemistry, hampered by the unfortunate infiltration of more than a few hacks.
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