“Be kind whenever possible... It’s always possible.”   

“It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.”

Although popular interest in ‘Biofield Therapies’, techniques such as Reiki, Bioenergy & EFT, is fairly recent, many of these techniques are actually thousands of years old emerging from age old traditional sources of human understanding and healing.

The US National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has classified energy medicine into two basic categories: biofield therapies & bio-electromagnetic-based therapies.

The Biofield
In my last piece, ‘New Age Therapy’, I referred to the US National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) classification of energy medicine into two basic categories: biofield therapies & bio-electromagnetic-based therapies. Biofield therapies are defined by the NCCAM as those therapies that affect the energy fields that “purportedly” surround and interpenetrate the human body. These therapies all involve touch or the placement of hands in or through the biofields. Reiki, Bio-energy and Qi Gung are all good examples of well known biofield therapies. 

Gulcan Arpacioglu
BSc, EFT trainer, TAT practitioner, NLP practitioner, Reiki and meditation teacher.

By profession I am an Industrial Engineer – sceptical, analytical and very, very curious.  After graduating from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, I worked extensively in the IT sector specializing in sales, marketing and training until 1997 when I gave it all up .... permanently!

Since 1992 I have been involved with various energy healing techniques and feel that I am now doing what I was really meant to be doing – at least for this lifetime!