Energy Healing for Anxiety and Stress: How It May Help You Feel More Balanced

Anxiety and chronic stress can affect far more than your thoughts.

When you live with ongoing stress, worry, fear, or the feeling that you are constantly trying to hold everything together, it can begin to affect how you experience your body, your relationships, your work, your sleep, and your life.

For many people, the question eventually becomes:

Could energy healing help me feel different—not just manage my anxiety?

That is an important question.

Energy healing is a complementary approach that works with the body’s energy field and, depending on the practitioner and modality, may include practices intended to support relaxation, energetic balance, awareness, and a greater sense of well-being.

My own approach has developed over more than 30 years of working with energy, consciousness, and healing. I became a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner in the 1990s, and Healing Touch was an important part of my early development as a healer.

Over the years, my work continued to evolve into what is now Soul Light Holographic Healing®, a consciousness-based approach to energy healing that I practice remotely with clients around the world.

But my understanding of anxiety and stress didn’t come only from studying healing.

It also came from living it.

My Own Experience With Stress, Energy, and Healing

Years ago, while working as a nursing supervisor in an Alzheimer’s unit, I found myself in an environment that could be extremely stressful.

At the same time, I was developing my abilities as an energy healer and completing my Healing Touch training.

I was highly sensitive to the people and environments around me. I could feel when a room was tense. I could feel when someone was frightened, angry, or overwhelmed.

At first, I thought being a healer meant learning how to get away from environments like that.

I wanted to be around people who were interested in healing, consciousness, spirituality, and personal growth.

Instead, I found myself learning how to remain grounded and present in the middle of difficult environments.

That became one of the most important lessons of my own development.

I had to learn that being sensitive did not mean absorbing everything around me.

I had to learn how to stay connected to myself instead of allowing fear, anger, or someone else’s emotional state to pull me out of my own center.

That experience changed the way I understand energetic balance.

And it is one of the reasons I approach anxiety and stress differently today.

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What Is Energy Healing?

Energy healing is an umbrella term used for a variety of complementary healing practices that work with the body’s energy field or what many practitioners describe as a biofield.

Different approaches use different methods and philosophies.

Some people are familiar with Reiki. Others know about Healing Touch, therapeutic touch, biofield therapies, or other forms of energy medicine.

Some approaches involve physical touch or hands placed near the body. Others are practiced without physical contact.

Distance healing is another form of energy healing in which the practitioner and client do not have to be physically located in the same place.

The important thing to understand is that energy healing is not one single modality.

The practitioner, training, philosophy, and method matter.

My own work has evolved beyond the particular techniques I learned early in my career. Today, I work directly with the energetic and consciousness patterns presenting beneath the surface of a person’s experience through Soul Light Holographic Healing®.

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Can Energy Healing Help With Anxiety and Stress?

People seek energy healing for anxiety and stress for many different reasons.

Some are looking for a way to relax and quiet an overstimulated system.

Some feel disconnected from themselves and want to regain a sense of inner balance.

Others have already tried therapy, meditation, medication, exercise, or other approaches and are looking for an additional way to work with what they are experiencing.

Energy healing may be supportive because it gives someone an opportunity to slow down, become more aware of what is happening within them, and experience a different relationship with their internal state.

For some people, the experience is primarily one of relaxation.

For others, it can bring awareness to emotional patterns, beliefs, sensations, or recurring experiences they had not previously recognized.

And sometimes the most important shift is simply moving from constantly reacting to what is happening around you to becoming more aware of what is happening within you.

That distinction matters.

Energy healing is not a replacement for appropriate medical or mental health care, and it should not be presented as a cure for anxiety disorders or trauma.

It can, however, be used as a complementary practice alongside appropriate professional care.

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What Happens to Your Energy When You Live in Chronic Stress?

This is where my perspective differs from simply looking at anxiety as a problem that exists inside your thoughts.

Your experience is not limited to your mind.

Your thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, nervous system responses, relationships, environment, and energetic experience all interact.

When you are repeatedly experiencing fear, uncertainty, pressure, or internal conflict, you can begin living in a state of constant reaction.

You may find yourself:

• overthinking everything
• anticipating what could go wrong
• replaying conversations
• feeling responsible for everyone around you
• struggling to make decisions
• feeling exhausted but unable to relax
• waking during the night
• feeling disconnected from your body
• constantly looking for the next problem
• feeling as though you cannot turn your mind off

At some point, the problem isn’t simply that you are having anxious thoughts.

You have become accustomed to living from that state.

That is an important distinction.

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When Your Head and Your Heart Are Pulling in Different Directions

One of the themes I recognized very early in my work was what happens when someone knows one thing intellectually but feels something completely different internally.

You may know you need to make a change.

You may know a relationship isn’t working.

You may know you want to leave a job.

You may know you want to move forward with something you’ve dreamed about for years.

And yet another part of you is afraid.

So you think about it.

And think about it.

And think about it some more.

You stay caught between where you are and where you want to be.

That internal conflict can become exhausting.

I have seen this pattern repeatedly in my work—and I experienced it myself.

The answer isn’t always to think harder.

Sometimes the deeper work is learning how to become present enough to hear what is actually true for you.

That is part of what I mean by energetic balance.

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My Experience With Healing Touch and Energy Healing

My relationship with energy healing goes back more the three decades.

I became a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner in the early 1990s, during the period when I was decided to formalize my understanding of energy medicine and learn how profoundly the energetic environment could affect the way people experienced themselves.

My professional background also includes 25 years as a registered nurse, and that combination gave me an unusual perspective.

I understood conventional healthcare.

I understood what it meant to care for people who were frightened, sick, confused, or approaching the end of life.

And I was simultaneously learning how to perceive and work with the energetic dimension of human experience. Mind you, I was born into healing, but chose to shut it down when I was very young, because I didn’t understand what it was.

You can learn more about my background and the development of my work HERE.

Over the years, my work continued to evolve.

Today, I work through Soul Light Holographic Healing®, a remote, (and channeled) energy healing approach that works within the field of consciousness.

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Types of Energy Healing for Anxiety and Stress

There are many different forms of energy healing, and they should not all be treated as though they are identical.

Reiki

Reiki is one of the most widely recognized forms of energy healing. A practitioner uses a light-touch or hands-near-the-body approach with the intention of supporting relaxation and energetic balance.

People commonly seek Reiki for stress reduction, relaxation, emotional support, and general well-being.

Healing Touch

Healing Touch is another established energy-based approach.

It uses gentle touch or hands held near the body and is practiced by trained practitioners in a variety of settings.

Because I am a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner, Healing Touch was an important part of my own early training and development as a healer.

Distance Healing

Distance healing allows an energy healing session to take place without the practitioner and client being physically together.

This can be particularly appealing to people who cannot travel, live far from their practitioner, prefer remote sessions, or simply resonate with working this way.

My own practice is conducted remotely, and I work with clients from around the world.

Soul Light Holographic Healing®

Soul Light Holographic Healing® is the modality I practice today.

It has evolved from decades of experience in energy medicine, healing work, consciousness, and my own healing journey. (The Soul Light Healing Holograms were channeled to me right after I was diagnosed with a rare, “incurable” cancer called EHE.)

Rather than requiring you to be physically present with me, sessions are conducted remotely.

The focus is on what is presenting beneath the surface of your current experience and on the deeper patterns that may be keeping you stuck.

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Can Distance Healing Help With Anxiety and Stress?

One of the most common questions I hear about remote healing is:

How can energy healing work if the practitioner isn’t physically in the same room with me?

Distance healing is based on the premise that energetic and consciousness-based work does not necessarily depend upon physical proximity.

This is one reason remote energy healing has become an important part of my practice.

I work with clients around the world through remote sessions, including telephone and Zoom-based sessions.

You don’t have to travel to my office.

You don’t have to live near me.

And you don’t have to prepare your home or create a special environment before a session.

You simply need to show up and be willing to participate in the process.

Schedule a Healing Session with Martha →

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What Happens During an Energy Healing Session?

An energy healing session can look different depending on the practitioner and the modality.

In my sessions, I don’t ask you to perform a complicated ritual or arrive with everything figured out.

We begin with what is actually happening for you.

That may be anxiety.

It may be chronic stress.

It may be a physical symptom.

It may be an emotional pattern.

It may be something that you cannot quite put into words yet.

I work with what is presenting beneath the surface and within the field of consciousness, identifying the deeper patterns involved and supporting the shifts that allow forward movement to begin.

You do not have to know exactly what the problem is before you come.

That’s part of the work.

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How Do You Know If Energy Healing Is Helping?

This is one of the most important questions you can ask.

You should never feel that you have to keep paying for sessions indefinitely simply because someone tells you that healing is happening somewhere you cannot perceive.

Pay attention to your actual experience.

You might notice that:

• you feel more settled
• your reactions aren’t as intense
• you have greater clarity
• you stop replaying the same thoughts
• you feel more present in your body
• you recognize patterns you hadn’t seen before
• you’re able to make decisions more easily
• something that once felt overwhelming doesn’t have the same grip
• you feel more connected to yourself
• you begin responding rather than constantly reacting

Sometimes the changes are subtle at first.

Sometimes the shift is immediate.

And sometimes what changes first isn’t the original symptom you came in with, but your relationship to it.

That’s why I don’t believe healing should be reduced to a single checklist of symptoms.

Your whole experience matters.

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Energy Healing, Therapy, and Conventional Healthcare

Energy healing is a complementary practice.

It is not a substitute for appropriate medical care, psychiatric care, psychotherapy, or other professional treatment.

If you are experiencing severe anxiety, depression, trauma, panic, suicidal thoughts, or another serious mental health concern, work with an appropriately licensed mental health professional and seek immediate help when necessary.

You don’t have to choose between conventional care and complementary approaches.

Energy healing can be part of a broader approach to well-being.

My background as a nurse has always influenced how I view this.

I don’t believe you have to reject conventional healthcare in order to explore another dimension of healing.

I believe you need to be informed, discerning, and willing to use the support that is appropriate for you.

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Anxiety Isn’t Always About What Is Happening Right Now

One of the deeper questions I often explore with clients is:

Why does the same pattern keep happening even when you know better?

Why do you keep becoming anxious in situations that you intellectually understand?

Why does your body react before you have even had time to think?

Why can you know that you are safe and still feel unsafe?

Why can you have done years of personal growth work and still find yourself caught in the same emotional pattern?

These are not always simple questions.

Sometimes the answer isn’t found by thinking about the problem harder.

Sometimes we need to look at the deeper patterns that have become embedded in how you experience yourself, your body, your relationships, and your life.

This is where my work moves beyond simply helping someone feel temporarily calmer.

The deeper question becomes:

What is underneath the pattern?

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Learning to Stay in Your Own Energy

One of the greatest lessons of my own healing journey was learning that sensitivity does not mean you have to absorb everything around you.

You can walk into a stressful environment without becoming the stress.

You can be around someone who is angry without becoming angry.

You can hear someone else’s fear without making it your fear.

You can be deeply compassionate without abandoning yourself.

That is what I mean when I talk about developing what I once called soul stamina.

It is the capacity to remain present.

To stay connected to yourself.

To recognize what is yours and what isn’t.

To stop automatically following every fearful thought.

And to build enough internal coherence that the outside world doesn’t dictate your internal state.

That is a practice.

And for many people, it becomes one of the most valuable aspects of healing.

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What If You Feel Like You’re Supposed to Be Somewhere Else?

This was the heart of the original experience that inspired this article.

My client believed she needed to become a different kind of healer before she could begin living as one.

She thought she needed another class.

Another credential.

Another environment.

Another opportunity.

She was waiting for her life to change before she allowed herself to step into what was already calling her.

But sometimes the very circumstances we wish we could escape are showing us something about ourselves.

Sometimes the work is not to run.

Sometimes the work is to become more grounded, more conscious, and more fully yourself right where you are.

That doesn’t mean you should stay in an unhealthy situation.

It means that your inner development doesn’t have to wait for your outer circumstances to change.

You can begin now.

Energy Healing for Anxiety and Stress: Frequently Asked Questions

Ready to Experience Energy Healing for Yourself?

You don’t have to understand everything before you begin.

You don’t have to know exactly what is causing your anxiety.

You don’t have to have the perfect words.

You simply have to be willing to explore what is happening beneath the surface of your experience.

I work with clients remotely through Soul Light Holographic Healing®, bringing more than 30 years of experience in energy healing, Healing Touch, consciousness, and holistic healing to each session.

If you’re ready to explore what’s underneath what you’re experiencing, you can learn more about working with me here:

Sometimes the first step isn’t figuring everything out.

Sometimes it’s simply becoming willing to see what is really there.

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This article is offered for educational purposes and does not constitute medical advice. Distance healing is a spiritual and energetic practice intended to complement, not replace, professional medical care. Anxiety can be a chronic medical condition that requires ongoing care from licensed healthcare providers. Always consult a qualified physician regarding medication, treatment plans, and changes to your care.