From acupuncture to reiki, energy healing is having a moment. If you’ve experienced the benefits then you know it works. But why does it work? Is it just a bunch of woo or can we explain, even quantify, what’s happening when someone lays their hands on you or sticks a needle into that spot between your eyes that always makes you cry? Dr. Jill Blakeway, a Chinese medicine practitioner and Founder of the Yinova Center in New York, sought to measure the changes that arise from energy interventions, and to validate them with evidence-based research. She’s with us today to share the findings in her new book, Energy Medicine: The Science and Mystery of Healing. SHOW NOTES –Energy Medicine: The Science and Mystery of Healing by Jill Blakeway –Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch –Yinova Center: Acupuncture New York City

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