HAND OF A HEALER (Triptych)
2019 l 12” x 12" l Ink, Gouache, 24k Gold Leaf & Resin on Archival Paper
The human hand is blessed with its own intelligence and familiarity with the subtleties of the body. This understanding can be used for many purposes. It can harm, hammer, and hoist...but most importantly, it can heal. I explore the belief systems of energy healers and the role of hands in this healing arts. One of the most prominent belief systems surrounding energy healing is that of ‘Reiki’. It’s practitioners believe that the ‘Universal life force energy’ (the energy that animates all living things) can stagnate in the body where there has been some form of physical or emotional trauma. This stagnation can manifest as ‘dis-ease’ in a person. Hence the job of an energy healer is to promote the free flow of life force energy through a person experiencing some type of blockage or create balance where there is an imbalance in energetic levels. They achieve this by placing their ‘hands’ on strategic energy channels along the body which allows the universal life force energy to flow where it needs to go and promote healing in a patient. As the world understands that our health is in direct relationship with our mental, emotional, and physical energetic patterning, it is becoming more evident that we hold the power of healing ourselves and others in our own ‘hands’.
