05/19/2026
There comes a point on every healing path where information alone is no longer enough.
You can understand your patterns intellectually.
You can analyze your wounds.
You can gather insight after insight after insight.
And still… the body waits.
Because true healing is not merely cognitive.
It is energetic.
It is cellular.
It is spiritual.
It is the slow and sacred process of teaching the nervous system that it is finally safe to release what it has carried for far too long.
This is why I place such profound value on energy work.
Mediumship readings can be beautiful and deeply validating experiences. They can bring comfort, closure, confirmation, and peace. But readings often engage the analytical mind — the part of us still searching, interpreting, comparing, questioning, and trying to “understand.”
Energy work bypasses much of that.
It speaks directly to the body.
To the subconscious.
To the emotional field.
To the places where memory was stored long before language ever arrived.
The body is not separate from our biography.
It is the biography.
Every grief.
Every heartbreak.
Every betrayal.
Every fear.
Every moment of suppression, hypervigilance, silence, or survival leaves an energetic imprint somewhere within the system.
And the body remembers.
This is why so many people experience emotional releases during Reiki or energetic healing sessions. Tears surface unexpectedly. Memories arise. Dreams intensify. The breath deepens. The nervous system begins unwinding patterns it may have held for decades.
Not because something is “wrong.”
But because the body is finally being given permission to stop bracing against life.
Many practitioners work with seven energetic centers within the body. In my own practice, I tend to work with eight, as I also include the pineal gland as an important energetic center connected to higher perception, intuition, imagery, dreaming, spiritual awareness, and inner vision.
Each center carries its own symbolic language.
Each one governs different emotions, memories, patterns, beliefs, and even physical organs within the body.
In many ways, these centers function like messengers.
And as energy begins moving through the system, the body often starts revealing precisely where healing is asking to occur.
Some people enter extraordinarily deep trance states during sessions — that liminal space where the body feels asleep while consciousness remains softly aware. Others experience colors, floating imagery, symbolic impressions, sudden memories, sensations of warmth, expansion, or the unmistakable feeling of being lovingly accompanied by something greater than themselves.
Loved ones may appear.
Spirit guides may step closer.
Ancestors, healing intelligences, or deeply comforting presences may become perceptible within the field.
And yet none of this is coming from the practitioner personally.
The practitioner is not “giving” you their energy.
Quite the opposite.
A well-trained practitioner functions more like a conduit for universal life force energy — allowing the current to move where it is needed most. What flows through the practitioner flows into the client, creating a profound energetic synergy between body, mind, spirit, and consciousness itself.
This is why so many people leave sessions feeling lighter, clearer, emotionally softer, spiritually calmer, and more deeply connected to themselves.
There is often a remembering that takes place.
A remembering that healing is possible.
A remembering that the body is intelligent.
A remembering that Spirit has never truly left us.
Sometimes there is also a brief detox or integration period afterward. This can include vivid dreams, temporary fatigue, emotional sensitivity, crying, cold-like symptoms, increased intuition, or emotional processing surfacing unexpectedly.
This is generally not viewed as “negative energy.”
It is simply the body recalibrating after release.
Gentleness becomes important during these periods:
hydration,
rest,
Epsom salt baths,
quiet,
grounding,
prayer,
fresh air,
vitamin C,
meditation,
journaling,
and allowing the nervous system space to integrate what has shifted.
Books like The Body Keeps the Score and When the Body Says No beautifully explore the relationship between emotional experience and the physical body. Energy work approaches healing from a similar understanding: the body is not working against us. It is communicating with us continuously.
And while self-healing practices are incredibly powerful, there is also something profoundly transformative about allowing another person to hold sacred, neutral, compassionate space for your process — someone capable of witnessing what may be difficult to see alone.
The deeper this energetic relationship is cultivated, the stronger the current becomes.
Trust deepens.
Intuition sharpens.
Sensitivity expands.
The connection with one’s own guides, inner wisdom, healing intelligence, and higher self grows clearer over time.
This is why meditation, yoga, grounding practices, breathwork, contemplative prayer, and mindful self-awareness are so deeply encouraged between sessions. They help sustain the energetic architecture already being built within the body.
Energy work is not about dependency.
It is about remembrance.
Remembrance that healing was always possible.
Remembrance that the soul and body were never truly separate.
Remembrance that beneath the exhaustion, grief, noise, fear, and conditioning… there is still a current of Life moving quietly within you, always attempting to guide you back into balance.
And when that current is finally allowed to move freely again, something extraordinary begins to happen:
the body softens,
the spirit opens,
and the soul remembers how to breathe.
All My Best,
Rev. Stella Berthelette