Turning Mindfulness into Mad Money

For some home-based, the business of energy healing can be both spiritually and monetarily rewarding.

Chalk it up to an increasingly digital - yet disconnected - world, but we increasingly find ourselves disillusioned with all things traditional – be it in our business or personal life.  No longer reserved for the New Agers and the Glitterati, the search for “something greater” and “more rewarding” for the here-and-now has gone mainstream.

No greater momentum than in the healthcare community where acupuncture, for example, is now covered under your policy. The definitions of health and healing continue to morph as the focus moves from the body and the mind, to the spirit and the soul.

Energy healing, in particular, is gaining in both interest and credibility as proof from the growing number of books, seminars, and cottage industries promising and sometimes delivering on incredible claims. Yet different approaches to energy healing are appearing like shooting stars with some disappearing nearly as fast. One company that believes it has dialed into the right frequency is The Reconnection, based in Los Angeles.

“Reconnective Healing is an emerging science that challenges our traditional understanding of health and healing,” said Dr. Eric Pearl.  Pearl, a one-time chiropractor who ran a successful practice for years in Beverly Hills, Calif., is the founder of The Reconnection, LLC, which has taught a non-touch energy healing approach since the late 1990s. "It encompasses the benefits of all known energy healing techniques, yet is accessible without steps, equipment, procedures or rituals, and can be learned by anyone."

So can energy healing replace visits to your medical doctor for treatments of serious illness?  Of course not.  It’s a strict tenet held not only by the medical professionals but also by many of the more notable energy healthcare providers, like Pearl who believes that medical healing and energy healing can and should coexist.  His company will make no treatment claims and will only say that many of its students have reported “miraculous” results. The Reconnective Healing approach, as he explains, reinterprets the concept of healing that is unique to everyone who is exposed to it.

So, the question is, can energy healing move from the ashrams to the mainstream sustainable home-based small business? Despite a growing awareness, making energy healing a full-time career is challenging as the process fights to achieve widespread adoption.

Pearl and his staff are doing what they can to both teach students to heal themselves while providing them the training to heal others by offering healing sessions as a way to generate additional income. They offer an online energy healing course that teaches Reconnective Healing concept and basics. For those looking for more, the company offers three-day training programs that let students receive certificates to provide their own healing sessions. Currently, more than 12,000 around the world have received their practitioner certificates. Many recoup their training costs after conducting just a handful of sessions.  

So will energy-healing practices replace donut shops and pizza places as the best get-rich-quick franchise opportunity? Certainly not soon. But for some home-based business workers looking to better the world while generating additional income – even if it's just extra mad money -  it may be just what the doctor ordered.