How effective is energy healing?

A lot of people swear by it, some deride it. Let’s take a look at a new case study.

Riverdance star Michael Flatley recently spoke in the press about how energy healing has saved his career.

In 2006 the dancer was struck by a strange virus that doctors had been unable to pin down, which left him exhausted and suffering from acute joint and muscular pain. He approached Irish complementary therapy practitioner, Michael O’Doherty for help with his condition when conventional medicine failed him.

O’Doherty, who pioneered the Plexus Bio-Energy system that has reportedly worked wonders for Flatley, has praised Flatley’s positive character and commitment to his own healing, using words such as ‘charismatic’ and ‘inspiring’ to describe his client.

Plexus practitioners detect energy blockages within a client’s energy system and remove these with a selection of hand movements, allowing life energy to flow freely. O’Doherty’s website claims that the technique unlocks the healing ability lying dormant within every cell of the body.

The Plexus system also encourages clients to take ownership of their own life and health through self empowerment and an increased awareness of the need for a harmonious existence. O’Doherty believes that developing our psychic abilities is key if we are to move out of the current discordant consciousness of world crisis:

“Unfolding our extrasensory or psychic potential is the gateway for humanity to mature out of its present ecological and spiritual crisis into a species which is capable of living at peace with itself and in harmony with the Earth and Universe,” he says.

In a speech by HRH The Prince of Wales at the fifth annual Integrated Health Awards, Prince Charles reaffirmed his passionate support for alternative medicine.

Prince Charles with his two sons in 1996

Ladies and gentlemen, over the past fifty years we have witnessed the concerted fragmentation of every aspect of our lives, and of Nature Herself. I happen to believe, for what its worth, that there is an ever more urgent need for re –integration and for the restoration of harmony and balance. In health and medical terms, this is why I believe so strongly in integrated health care – treating the whole person (mind, body and spirit) with the best of the ancient and modern within medical practice.

When you think about it, what on earth is the point of throwing away our lifeline; of abandoning the priceless knowledge and wisdom accumulated over 1,000’s of years relating to the treatment of the human condition by natural means? It is sheer folly it seems to me to forget that we are a part of Nature and to imagine we can survive on this Earth as if we were merely a mechanical process divorced from, and in opposition to, the unity of the world around us.

As exponents of “sideways” treatments, this website endorses his views absolutely.