With our reawakening to very old knowledge of our True Self as energy based beings, we are adjusting our thoughts about health, medicine and healing, on a wide scale. This rejoining of old and new healing modalities has already begun. In 1971, Dolores Krieger, Ph.D. was apparently the first conventional practitioner to successfully use energy therapy in a hospital environment. Krieger is now a professor at the New York School of Nursing where energy therapy is taught to medical students as a technique to ease pain and boost the hospital patient's internal ability to heal. Early research by Krieger demonstrated that energy therapy can raise blood hemoglobin levels, thus increasing the flow of oxygen to healing parts of the body. One 1982 study by Janet Quinn Ph.D., indicates that energy therapy did significantly reduce anxiety in cardiovascular patients at a New York Medical Center. A 1986 study at the University of Missouri documented that energy therapy reduced tension-headache pain by 70%. Research data collected from the progress of groups of premature babies while in intensive care, (provided by Dr. Tiffany Fields Ph.D., a professor of psychology and director of the University of Miami Touch Research Institute), showed significant results. This data found that infants given energy therapy averaged 47% greater weight gain per day, became more active and spent six fewer days in hospital than those babies not included in the therapy. There have been many clinical studies as these that provide our modern practitioners of conventional medicine the cause to accept the validity of this style treatment, even if not completely understood.

Energy therapy is now taught at more than 50 medical colleges and universities throughout the continent while hundreds of conventional hospitals have already embraced this modality as a valued practice with proven results. These healing techniques are now used to reduce healing time of bone fractures and wounds, alleviate pain, calm accident victims, soothe premature babies or traumatized surgical patients. Energy therapy also induces a quick relaxation response making it an impressive treatment for stress related disorders. As a person who has found our healing abilities within his own hands and is healing people on a regular basis, I am immensely pleased to realize that this modality of healing was coming into mainstream acceptance. While eleven hospitals have embraced energy therapy here in Ontario, I particularly amazed at seeing a recent television documentary that filmed an American heart surgeon in the process of by-pass surgery and calling for the energy therapist to tend and help stabilize the patient. This was truly a sign of the advance global awakening to spirit that is the signature of the next millennium.