HISTORY
Bio-Energy And The History Behind The Therapy
Thousands of years ago Eastern healers understood the fundamental part that energy played in our health and well being. They learned were the centres of our energy lay in human body and how patterns of our energy flowed and how to channel and unblock those energy flows to help the body to heal itself. Only in the last century has western science discovered the fact that everything we see and feel in the physical world around us including the body we inhabit is simply a manifestation of energy flowing in precise and ordered patterns.
Chi Bio Energy
Bio-Energy is not a new phenomenon it has been the subject of serious study in China and other Eastern countries for thousands of years. The Chinese refer to this energy as ‘Ch’i and they have formulated theories as to how exactly it circulates in the body. This circulation system is quite complicated but the main energy flow is from the base of the spine to the top of the head, and vice versa. Contained in this two-way energy channel are seven major energy centres, which are in turn linked to fourteen energy gathering centres. Bio-energy therapy acts on all of these energy centres.
The first reference to the life energy is in the / Ching ( The Book of Changes) introduced into China some time before 1122 BC. The / Ching discussed three types of energy in broad terms: cosmic energy, earth energy and human energy. The discovery that human energy was a mixture of both earth and cosmic energy led to the further discovery that there was a measurable relationship between the three types of energy and that it was possible for people to manipulate them.
Around 300 BC it was known that people in China were using certain breathing techniques to control and manipulate these energies. Such exercises were use at first to maintain health in the individual concerned but a secondary benefit was found to be that illness could be cured in others. Both were done by changing the quantity and quality of the energy levels within the human system. (it is interesting to note that the study of the energies had no religious overtones at this time.)
Zdenko Domancic, a Yugoslavian man who developed Bio-Energy therapy in the West, became interested in this form of healing through his involvement with the martial arts. Within the last few years Bio-Energy has been spreading throughout the UK and Scotland and Ireland, with the same incredible results. In order to understand bio-energy is and how it works, the single most important attribute is an open mind on the part of those who understand it. This is not to say that what is needed is a blind faith; on the contrary, there is ample scientific evidence concerning the existence of an energy field contained within the human body and around it-in the natural energy of the universe. This is what we mean by bio-energy or the life energy
