Energy Medicine is both a complement to other systems of medical care and, in itself, a complete system for self-care and self-help. It can address physical illness and emotional disorders, and it can also promote wellness and peak performance.

Because we receive so many requests from people who are new to Energy Medicine for help with health conditions, we have written this brief guide to help orient you and to direct you to a wealth of available resources, most of them free.

There are TWO LEVELS where Energy Medicine might make a difference with a health condition:

1. THE FIRST LEVEL has to do with getting your body’s energies into a good flow, harmony, and balance. While not focusing on your health issue directly, this can create within your body an energetic environment that supports your overall health, vitality, and healing.

This is the place to start, even if you are also taking additional steps, such as assessing and working with specific vulnerabilities in your energy system or consulting with an Energy Medicine practitioner. Unlike treatments that offer pills or surgery, Energy Medicine focuses on the entire body as a system. Before doing more specific treatments, Energy Medicine practitioners routinely help people get their body's overall energies into a strong and healthy flow.

Over the years, we have designed a “Daily Energy Routine” that combines the most potent techniques we know that are able to help the greatest number of people to stimulate each of the vital energy systems and bring them into harmony and balance. These are the methods you can use to strengthen and balance your own energies. There is much you can do for yourself through the Daily Energy Routine. We propose that you dedicate about 10 minutes each day to this. That is all that is necessary to begin to make a difference. Five minutes for the Daily Energy Routine and five minutes to experiment with repeating some of the techniques and using additional Energy Medicine methods available.

We guide you through the Daily Energy Routine in every introductory publication we have. You can find a great video of it here: Donna's Daily Energy Routine >>

2. THE SECOND LEVEL by which Energy Medicine might make a difference with a health concern involves an assessment of your body’s energies and the ways they are related to the condition.

Based on that assessment, individualized energy routines can be designed to make your energy system more robust, specifically in the ways that will help with the health condition.

If you are a beginner with Energy Medicine, this is more than we recommend you attempt without the help of a qualified practitioner (see below for suggestions on how to find one).

However, various resources can help you get started immediately. The book, Energy Medicine, gives further instruction in how to assess your energies and correct problems.  We also have an excellent online program called: The Essentials of Energy Medicine. 

Meanwhile, everything you might do in terms of the basic Daily Energy Routine would support work with a professional Energy Medicine practitioner.

Every local community is enjoying a rapid increase in the number of health practitioners who incorporate an Energy Medicine perspective. Practitioners may be found in all of the healing professions, from physicians and chiropractors to massage therapists and personal energy consultants. An excellent guide to finding a qualified energy practitioner can be found on the Eden Method Practitioner Directory at practitioner.edenmethod.com.

A key concept to understand is that the words "diagnosis" and "treatment" have a different meaning in Energy Medicine than they do in conventional medicine. In conventional medicine you diagnose and treat an illness. In Energy Medicine, you assess where the energy system needs attention and correct the energy imbalances. Physical symptoms may be a clue, but they are not the focus. For instance, the same stomachache might trace to an imbalance in Heart meridian for one person, in Liver meridian for another, and in Stomach meridian for a third. The same physical symptoms can reflect different kinds of problems in your energy system and call for different energy interventions.