Dr. Christopher E. Palmer - Basic BioEnergetics

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Basic BioEnergetics

By

Dr. Christopher E. Palmer

Copyright 2018 by Christopher E. Palmer

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks to my beautiful wife and children for sacrificing your time with me so that I can write. I know of your sacrifice and I love you all so very much. Words cannot express.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

It seems that as time goes on, more and more people are interested in understanding more about the subtle energies of their body, as well as techniques and methods for working with them. Indeed, finding energetic techniques, as well as practitioners who use them to work with the subtle energies of the body, is practically commonplace compared to what it was 20 years ago. Whether its because people are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the rise in expense and lack of results of medical care, or whether its just because the world is shifting in regard to health and wellness awareness, I do not know. But people are seeking more meaningful answers to their troubles, and greater understanding of who and what they are at their core level of being. As a result, awareness of subtle energies, specifically the subtle energies of the body, is growing.

However, even though there is a growing general understanding in this area, as I interact with people I find that there are often sizable gaps in understanding of how and why subtle energies work the way they do. I certainly dont claim to know everything, not even close. But I have enough experience and understanding to notice some of these gaps.

For example, one of the common gaps in understanding I find has to do with stabilizing and shielding our bodys subtle energies. This concept of subtle energetic shielding is so vitally important, yet, from what I find when I talk to people, it seems that it is practically unknown! Even among practitioners that I interact with that work directly with the bodys subtle energies, there seems to be a fair lack of understanding in this area. They usually know that theres an issue with potentially taking on their clients energetic stuff, but they dont often know what to do about it.

Additionally, because I work in the healthcare field, I have many opportunities to work with different health and wellness professionals of various kinds, as well as my own patients and other contacts. In working and interacting in this field I cant even begin to tell you how often Ive heard complaints and seen issues that are the direct result of a person simply not knowing how to manage, shield and stabilize their bodys subtle energies. Because people generally dont understand how the bodys subtle energies work, they simply dont know how effective, necessary, beneficial and simple stabilizing and shielding their own subtle energies can be!

Another thing that I see is that practitioners are sometimes bound down by the techniques that they do. Not that theres necessarily anything wrong with their technique, but because they dont have a basic understanding of how subtle energies work, they arent always able to function outside of it. When something comes up that doesnt fit within a technique they know, theyre stuckeither because they think that the technique defines the way things work, or because they dont have enough of the basic understanding of how subtle energies work to be able to think outside the technique.

Because of these and a few other reasons, Ive felt driven to write a couple of books on the subject of BioEnergeticsworking with the subtle energies of the body. The first of these books, this book entitled Basic BioEnergetics, will talk about basic principles in understanding and working with subtle energiesboth of the body and a little bit about subtle energies in general. It will give basic descriptions of the main subtle energetic systems of the body, define basic principles in working with subtle energies, address concepts in energetic shielding for the body, and discuss some related topics to these as well.

The second book, Healing BioEnergetics, will talk about concepts in emotional release, working with the bodys subtle energies for healing, and other necessarily related topics. It will also talk about muscle response testing and how to do it, as well as some basic concepts in setting up an emotional release session. In many ways this book will be geared toward a person who is either an energetic practitioner or who is seeking to become one, but the information will still be highly valuable for any person wanting to find healing and to know more about how the subtle energies of their body work. Beyond this, other books may follow as needed and as I am able.

The subject of bioenergetics is vastfar more than can be contained in a couple of books. Understandably, neither of these books is intended to be all inclusive, but rather to give a foundation that a person can add upon, or that they can add to what they already know. In every way, I hope that you will find these books uplifting and useful.

Subtle Energies

In our day and time it is becoming increasingly common to hear terms like energy work, energy worker, energetic practitioner and other similar designationsbesides the names of all of the various energetic techniques that different wellness practitioners do. If you are in alternative healthcare kinds of social circles then you probably know that these are terms that have reference to working with the subtle energies of the body. But if you were having a conversation with someone like a physicist, and told him that you were an energy worker, he might raise one eyebrow and ask you to specify exactly what type of energy you worked withlike nuclear energy, hydroelectric, or something else. And this would be a perfect example of why we need to be clear in what were talking about when we use the often abused term energy.

In this book, when we talk about energy were talking about subtle energyeither of the body, or of spaces or objects, etc. Although physical things also have corresponding electromagnetic fields and potentials to whatever degree, this subtle energy we are talking about is not electromagnetic in nature. Our being is made up of many aspects: mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, and subtle energetic, but the electromagnetic qualities of living things correspond to the physical aspect of their being, not the subtle energetic. Furthermore, even though the subtle energies of the body can be affected by electromagnetic changes or stimuli (because electromagnetism affects the physical body, which in turn effects its subtle energetics), the subtle energies of the body themselves are a different system of their own, even though there is a functional relationship between all of these.

Because the subtle energies of things are different than physical energies, for a true lack of a better way to name or describe it, we simply refer to this subtle emanating and influencing quality of things in general as a subtle energy. Although, when we are talking about the subtle energies of physical beings, like people for example, some equivalent terms we might use could be things like chi, or life-force. Otherwise, when talking about the subtle energies of things like objects or spaces, the general term is probably most commonly used.