Miriam taps into body’s energy field to aid healing

Date Published: 07-Mar-2013

Bio-energy is a healing therapy that is difficult to explain to people who have never heard about it but one practising therapist and her clients can testify that it works.

Knocknacarra based Miriam Lynch says it had a huge impact on her life at a time when she needed a boost as well as a new direction in her life. As it happens the bio-energy therapy became her new life as she is now entering into her fourth year as a practitioner.

The therapy was introduced to the West of Ireland by two men who still maintain rooms in Merchants Road where Miriam helps out from time to time.

Basically, the therapy, which is based on the Chinese chi energy, works on the energies of the body. If the energy flows become stagnant, disturbed or imbalanced, this can lead to sickness, not just of the physical body but also the mental, spiritual and emotional aspects.

Recent studies show that the person’s primary responses to stimuli take place first in the energetic field, not in the sensory nerves or in the brain. These correspond with earlier findings that the body contains a complex electrical system that regulates the activity of the internal organs and is the foundation of health.

Miriam explains that she never claims to heal anyone but rather stimulate the person’s energy field by her work so that the body starts to heal itself. That’s why she tells her clients that sometimes they have to give the bio-energy a chance to work as people respond differently. Some respond immediately and feel the benefits after the first session while others take more time.

Originally from Mayo, Miriam came to Galway after spending seven years living in London, followed by a few years living in Dublin and then Shannon.

She worked in the IT business and she was made redundant twice, the last time in 2009 from Hewlett Packard where she was a project manager.

Miriam found working for a large multi-national very stressful. “I tried different therapies for my fatigue and stress and it wasn’t until I came across bio-energy here in Galway that I found a solution. That was the one that worked for me and then I wanted to find out more about it. So I did and decided to do a course on it and become a practitioner.

“After all those years doing IT, it was lovely to be doing something different and I also did a diploma in anatomy and physiology.”

She was looking for work and wondering what new direction to take with her life after redundancy when she started her course which took place one weekend a month in Dublin.

Though she knew the IT sector was under pressure, it was still a shock when she was faced with the decision to take redundancy. Around the same time, her father died. It was a time of great change for her but she acknowledges now that it was a crossroads and she has no regrets about changing direction.

During that transformation, when she spent time on the course, she met lovely people, people who were like-minded and open to new experiences, new directions. These people she met were all on their own journey, like her, so she didn’t feel as alone and in fact she ended up enjoying those first early months of uncertainty.

Family and friends were supportive, which she says helped. And yes, she did find it hard in the beginning to explain exactly what she was taking the course in.

“Up to recently, I would find it hard to explain bio-energy but it is scientifically proven that the body has energy fields and if these are balanced and free-flowing, the body will be healthier.”

She subsequently did a deeper course with one of the Bio-energy therapy founders, Tom Griffin. This was in the Hidden Mind Programme, which is specifically aimed at children with AD-HD. or who have autism or special needs.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.