Energy Healing For Headaches

Three Techniques To Feel Better Fast



With a little practice, you can add energy healing for headaches to your home remedies "toolkit," relieving and often eliminating the pain. In my personal experience, energy healing can be very effective.

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Holding your hand in the energy field around the head, you can often feel the energy of a headache. (Healing Touch practitioners often report feeling the pain spike of a migraine many feet away from the sufferer's physical body.) 

It may feel hot, spiky, dense, painful (to the healer’s hand), throbbing, tingly, or "electric."  The energy is often concentrated, excessive, and "stuck."  Getting it to balance and flow can be very helpful.

Pain Pump

An excellent technique using energy healing for headaches is adapted from a Healing Touch method. It works to draw the energy of the pain off, draining it away and out into the earth.

  • Put your open left hand above the most intense area of the pain (or wherever you feel that the field is most disturbed), usually a few inches or more away from the head, with the palm facing the head. Experiment with the distance to see if you can find the pain in the field, and hold your hand there.
  • Hold your right hand away from your body, with the palm open and fingers together, pointing down toward the ground. Imagine that you are drawing the energy of the pain into your left hand, across the front of your body, down your right arm, out your right hand, and into the earth.
  • You may need to hold this position for a while (up to about five minutes). To speed up the process, you can open and close your right hand to help “pump” the pain out.
  • When you feel the flow of energy slowing down, or when you (or the person you are working on) feels relief, switch hands, putting your right hand in the field above the headache, and your left hand pointing toward the sky.
  • Visualize pure white light channeling into your left hand, traveling to your right arm and hand, and filling the headache area.

Clearing

Another technique is to move your left hand slowly counterclockwise in a circular motion in the field over the head or the particular headache area, for up to several minutes. This will help to clear and release excess energy.

Then, reverse the motion and move your right hand in a clockwise circle over the painful area to balance the area you’ve just cleared.

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Modulation

Perhaps the simplest energy healing technique for headaches is just to hold your palm over the headache area, in the field, for one to five minutes. Hold the intention to relieve the pain. You can hold your hand still or move it to "smooth" the energy in the disturbed area.


I hope that these techniques using energy healing for headaches are useful to you. One beautiful thing is that they can't hurt you!

But Before You Try Energy Healing For Headaches.....

Of course, you first want to make sure you've done all the obvious, practical things such as

  • making sure you're well hydrated
  • making sure you're getting enough sleep
  • eliminating possible migraine triggers in your diet
  • checking the muscles at the base of your head, where your skull joins your nect, to make sure they're not tight.
  • making sure you haven't abruptly eliminated caffeine.


And do be sure to call your medical doctor right away if you have unusual or extreme pain or any other concerns. Here's an excellent source for further reading about headaches, including danger signs you should watch out for.

Some Questions That May Be Valuable

Often with severe chronic pain, there may be underlying emotional, life-style or energetic issues. If you suffer from ongoing headaches, it's possible that your body is asking for change in the language of pain. Keep the journal for at least a month, and see what patterns emerge. This could help you discover migraine triggers and other useful places to make changes in your life, if you are willing.

Here's an example from my practice. Once I worked with a young woman who suffered severe migraines. She was very sad that the headaches kept her from living a normal life. She wanted to go out with friends, have a boyfriend. But the migraines were so frequent and severe that she just couldn't.

However, they always went away when she visited dry climates. It was clear that moving to the Southwest would improve her life dramatically. But she was extremely attached to her ill father, whom she had cared for most of her life. He had other close family members, but my client was unwilling to relinquish care of him to them, and so she chose not to relocate. She was choosing to sacrifice her life to care for her father.

If you are are suffering greatly from your headaches, consider that they may be trying telling to you something important. Are you willing to really listen? And then are you willing to do what is necessary to truly take care of your own needs, however inconvenient that might be? If not, ask yourself--why not?

To facilitate your efforts toward migraine headache relief, it might be helpful to keep a journal about migraine triggers by recording when the migraines come and what precedes them. Here are some ideas of what kinds of things to track:

  • what you ate and drank
  • quality of sleep
  • dreams
  • people you interacted with
  • schedule
  • events
  • stress levels
  • thoughts
  • feelings
  • general feeling tone of the day, etc.

If you resist giving yourself the time and resources to make a serious effort to heal, it's important for you to shine the light of consciousness on that. It's important information. Why are you not making your own well-being a priority? A mental health therapist might be helpful with this process. Also, try reading Dr. Gabor Mate's book, "When The Body Says No.

And here's a website that can give you more information about dietary triggers for migraine.

Warning! Red Flags: See Your Doctor Immediately If

The following symptoms are signs of potentially serious, even life-threatening health problems. Please call your medical doctor immediately if a headache:

  • is extremely intense (i.e. it feels like the worst head pain of your life)
  • comes on very suddenly and severely (like a "thunderclap")
  • is accompanied by mental confusion
  • is accompanied by unusual symptoms such as passing out, loss of vision, or difficulty walking or speaking
  • is accompanied by a high fever (over 100 degrees F) and/or stiff neck
  • is a new kind for you and you are over 50
  • was preceded by head trauma
  • or if you have a family history of brain aneurysms.

 

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