QUESTION:
In the response about going for energy-healing in therapy [Q&A 8166 – The Energy Body] the Rav had responded that this is a method that works only for goyim (gentiles) because it treats only the nefesh habehaimis (animal level of the soul) alone and therefore it will not fully heal a Jew’s soul, who has more than a nefesh habehaimis, and that using such an approach is like a “branch without the root”. Is there any gain at all though for a Jew to use energy-healing? Can we learn how to develop our “energy” and heal others with it? For example if I think good thoughts about my parents and that I imagine them having a good marriage and living peacefully with each other, can my thinking send good energy to them and have any effect on them? (Assuming of course that there is even such a thing as energy-healing and also being aware that I’m just imagining these thoughts and that it’s not really happening in reality)? Although imagination cannot make a reality, can “energy” have effects on reality? Is energy just a part of our imagination? Can we use energy to manipulate or bring any changes to another’s reality?
ANSWER:
Yes, but usually it can only bring very little benefit. In such situations [i.e. wanting to improve your parents’ marriage by sending good energy to them through thinking positively about them], most people do not have such strong “energy” levels and they can’t penetrate very far with it, and therefore their “energy” remains for them on the level of makif (“encircling” power, which is outside of them). And therefore, it doesn’t do much.
QUESTION
2) According to my therapist, I need to learn how to build up my energy levels so that I can send healing to other people through my energy. My therapist also wants to educate others about energy and show them how to develop it, so that we can use our energy to heal ourselves and heal others, and in his opinion, everyone needs to become more educated on the topic of using their “energy” better. Does the Rav agree to any of these points?
ANSWER
Most people are not able to affect or influence others that much [with their “energy levels”]. Therefore, we cannot base our entire approach in life based upon this [using “energy”] alone. If we want to use it [“energy”] in addition to what we are already doing, then yes, it has its place.
QUESTION
3) Is it possible for a person to harm others energetically, by thinking or imagining any negative thoughts about the other person?
ANSWER
Yes, but only very minimally.
QUESTION
2) According to my therapist, I need to learn how to build up my energy levels so that I can send healing to other people through my energy. My therapist also wants to educate others about energy and show them how to develop it, so that we can use our energy to heal ourselves and heal others, and in his opinion, everyone needs to become more educated on the topic of using their “energy” better. Does the Rav agree to any of these points?
ANSWER
Most people are not able to affect or influence others that much [with their “energy levels”]. Therefore, we cannot base our entire approach in life based upon this [using “energy”] alone. If we want to use it [“energy”] in addition to what we are already doing, then yes, it has its place.
QUESTION
3) Is it possible for a person to harm others energetically, by thinking or imagining any negative thoughts about the other person?
ANSWER
Yes, but only very minimally.
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