What Energy Healing Actually Feels Like (And What To Expect From A Session)

Energy healing is a phrase most people have heard, but very few people actually know what it means or what happens in a session. Allow us to pull back the curtain on what energy healing is, what the process looks like & what you can expect to feel before you ever book a session for yourself.

The Science Behind Energy Healing

Grounding spirituality with science can help the brain grasp how these concepts actually work together instead of abstract, "fluffy" ideas meant to make you feel better.

So, let's talk physics!

Physics has known this for a long time - During the 1840s, a handful of scientists working separately (Julius Robert von Mayer, James Prescott Joule & Hermann von Helmholtz) made the same discovery around the same time, now known as the law of conservation of energy.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It just moves & changes form.

A log burns & turns into heat. The sun travels ninety three million miles of empty space & lands on your skin as warmth. The food you eat is turned into calories & used as energy in the body, anything extra is stored as fat cells.

None of the energy ever vanished, it just turned from one thing to another.

You work exactly the same way! You're not walking through your days sealed off & untouched. You're picking up energy constantly - from the room you just walked into, from your boss who was in a mood in your meeting, from a conversation with a friend that struck a chord & keeps replaying in your head, from a version of yourself you were trying to be for someone else.

None of that just disappears once the moment passes. It either moves through you or settles somewhere & changes form. Later, it can show up as tension sitting in your shoulders, a decision you keep circling & avoiding, or a reaction that feels way bigger than whatever actually triggered it.

Newton's Third Law states that every action has an equal & opposite reaction - And it works the same way inside you. Whatever wasn't processed at the time of its occurrence doesn't just sit there quietly forever, it pushes back out somewhere - in your body, in your behavior, in a moment that seems to come out of nowhere.

If energy is always moving & changing shape, it can be worked with directly. Talk therapy is a wonderful way to chat through the energy, but energy healing is a modality to move the energy at the source.

Let's Talk Chakras

In yogic teachings, there are 77,000 energy points running through the body. Chakras are where the main energy points intersect, each one carries its own meaning.

Root (base of the spine): Your grounding point. All about feeling secure, stable, financially sound, at home in your environment & in yourself. It's the one asking whether you actually feel safe in your own life, or if you're bracing for something to go wrong more often than you'd admit.

Sacral (two fingers below the navel): Creativity & pleasure. Are you moving through life on a rigid schedule, or are you actually soaking it up & enjoying it for all the vibrant colors it can offer?

Solar Plexus (three fingers above the navel): Self confidence & self worth. This is your fire, the part of you that either knows what it wants & goes after it, or keeps asking everyone else for permission first.

Heart (center of the chest): The capacity of love you can give & receive. Are you actually letting people in, or keeping one foot by the door just in case?

Throat: Speaking your truth. Actually saying the thing out loud instead of swallowing it because it might make someone else uncomfortable.

Third Eye (center of the forehead, between the eyebrows): Seeing your path clearly & intuitively. Trusting what you already know before your brain talks you out of it.

Crown (top of the head): Feeling connected to the universe & to others on a deep level. That sense that you're part of something bigger than the grind of the day to day.

You don't have to remember these verbatim; but just as you'd audit your finances, checking where your money is going & whether it lines up with your goals - The best energy healing sessions audit your chakras & your energy.

Where are you actually spending your time & is it going toward the life you say you want?

Reiki & pranic energy healing are cut from the same cloth, but ultimately are different sources & ways to cleanse energy.

Pranic energy healing works in your aura, the energy field surrounding your body.

Let's give the brain some imagery it can grab onto - Think of it like popping the hood of a car. An energy healer can go in & clean out the pipes to make sure nothing's rusty, clogged, or dirty. Once the engine is cleaned & all the parts are dusted, wiped spotless; the car runs pristine. Completely smooth. It can actually get you where you're trying to go, instead of sputtering along while carrying old buildup that's been causing small problems, stressing you out in anticipation all of it would eventually burst & crash down at once.

Nikki is a practitioner who has trained (7) years in energy healing, clairvoyant work, meditation & yoga; studying under Balinese priests, Guatemalan shamans & practitioners that blend western & eastern medicine - She has learned how to intuitively listen to what your body needs to help you toward your goals.

So - What does a session actually look like?

Nikki & you start by setting an intention together - What you actually want to get out of the session. Depending on what kind of bodywork or energy healing session you booked, next comes the massage portion, either abdominal or full body; or dive straight into energy work.

Nikki cleanses the auric field of any energy that is causing build up & not allowing energy to flow freely throughout the body. Through your hands & feet, Nikki pulls out the stagnant energy & fills you back up with prana, life force energy - Pulled from the sun, the trees & nature itself.

Throughout this work, situations you've been feeling stuck in often show up with a new perspective attached & burdens you've been carrying start to loosen.

After the initial cleanse of the auric field, Nikki tunes into your chakras to see what clairvoyant messages come through - This part can feel like a deep meditation.

Once the messages have been received, Nikki brings out tuning forks & sound bowls to help the body integrate & settle. Nikki will pull you back & you will chat together about all of the messages & insights that came through to give you an action plan on your path forward.

What to expect & how you'll feel

Every person responds differently - But some common reactions are feeling lighter, reaching a meditative state, not having any thoughts & just feeling deeply connected to the body.

Some feel energy pulse through them, whatever thoughts & feelings they were mulling over seem to lose their grip.

Nikki says numerous people say they feel like they've come out of the womb & been reborn.

To set more realistic expectations - Some people feel something shift the second they sit up off the table, like their body feels different & their mind is calmer.

Other people leave feeling totally normal, go about their day & a few days later says the thing they've been circling for months has an answer attached to it out of nowhere.

Some people cry & have a big release, some feel like they're walking on air for a week.

While some have a headache for a day as all of the energy bubbles up, then it dissipates with more clarity.

All of these are completely normal responses, everyone is unique & different!

These sessions work on the deep subconscious body level & the conscious mind - When you get both on the same page, it can be the start of feeling different in your body & your life. Although one session can give a lot of clarity - Ongoing holistic healing can help solidify the patterns, create deeper neural pathways & build lasting change.

Nikki states that working with clients biweekly, that's where she has seen the biggest results - Getting new dream jobs (some in dream destinations), $10k promotions out of nowhere, meeting the partner of their dreams within months of ongoing work together. When this work compounds, it can be powerful! And we would love for you to see that for yourself.

Ready To Feel Lighter?

If you're ready to receive an energy healing session, in person or virtual, you can book your session here. If you have any questions, feel free to call Serenity at (708) 848-4626 or send an email to info@serenityoakpark.com.