Energy Medicine is becoming a new science with further studies underway to begin to explain this phenomena. From what Charlie understands, Energy Medicine, isn’t an accurate description because if it were energy, it wouldn't be able to work in real time without dissipating over time and space.
Energy Medicine has no boundaries and is effective across the other side of the planet. By referring to this type of healing as energy medicine, we are in some ways already missing the mark, unless we were to change the definition of energy.
Charlie has made it his life's work to demonstrate what energy medicine is capable of and how important it is to make this form of healing accessible to the mainstream. There is caution to ever define something which perhaps is somewhat ‘undefinable,’ at least with the current understanding and tools we have.
When exploring the world of healing and energy, Charlie believes that there can be a tendency to become lost in theory rather than accepting the actual practice as it is. Charlie’s focus has been to look at what it does rather than trying to explain the why. Being able to measure or understand where it comes from can be a ‘nice to have,’ but it does not change the outcome or impact this medicine has. What we do know is that although not commonly recognized in the US and other Western cultures, globally, spiritual healing, energy, or consciousness medicine, and herbalism are very prominent.
Traditional healing practices, including indigenous approaches, ancient medicine such as Ayurveda, TCM, and old Western practices (including Hippocratic schools), had spiritual healing at the center of their healing environment. As a collective, we have lost much of this wisdom in the West for various reasons and place a large focus on life being materialistic, based on molecules and what can be seen. Many parts of the world and even our own previous history spoke of vitalism and those components which we now call energy or consciousness.
The source of the energy is sometimes given different ‘brand names,’ (consciousness/god/bioenergy) but none of that changes the truth, this energy is completely pure and only does good for humanity. It is important to not let our beliefs get in the way of utilizing this medicine, by focusing on what it does we remove this limitation and keep to using this energy to help people.
As a reference point and a way to begin to understand, we can think of this ‘energy’ as a fusion of information and tangible consciousness or a conscious thought imbued with intelligence, capable of creating lasting and healing change in an individual.
When this energy is harnessed by a skillful practitioner, it has consistently demonstrated impactful healing outcomes. This is a very exciting point in time where the hope is that advancements in science and technology will soon allow for a greater understanding of the mechanisms behind this medicine.