Pranic Healing and Health Humanities: Integrating Energy Medicine Into Holistic Care

Abstract

Health Humanities has been an interdisciplinary field at the interface of medicine, culture and experience of illness and healing. In such a frame, the complementary and alternative medicines like the Pranic Healing, offer a powerful understanding of the cultural and humanistic aspects of health care. The current paper will seek to discuss how the non-invasive energy-based system Pranic Healing, which manages prana (vital life energy), can fit into the realm of the discourse of Health Humanities and holistic care. With the help of the evidence and cultural interpretation of the contemporary age, the study considers the role of Pranic Healing in physical, emotional and psychological health based on the energy cleansing, energizing and meditating practices. It also brings out the compatibility between Pranic Healing and the holistic approach of care based on empathy, spirituality and patient-centered healing. This integration expands our concept of health beyond the biological to incorporate cultural, ethical and spiritual by developing dialogue between biomedical science and traditional energy medicine. This paper concludes that integrating Pranic Healing into the context of Health Humanities enhances theory and practice to the extent that it facilitates caring models that are kind, inclusive and holistic.