Exploring Esoteric Healing: A Review of Its Principles and Practice

By Dr. MaryAnne Walker, Bernadette Bloom and Dr. Jose Becerra

This article includes adapted content from Wikipedia, revised for the NAEH community.

last updated: 07/24/2025

Esoteric Healing stands apart in the landscape of energy medicine for the way it interprets health through the relationship between soul and personality. Developed in the tradition of Alice Bailey, this modality situates the soul—not simply energy or the body’s systems—as the true source and governor of well-being. While other approaches may focus on balancing chakras or manipulating biophysical fields, Esoteric Healing presses further, returning again and again to the primacy of the soul and its influence on the whole person.

The Soul as the Agent of Healing

Central to Esoteric Healing is the recognition that disease is not merely a malfunction of the body, but a reflection—often a distorted one—of divine possibility. In Bailey’s system, all creation participates in a fractal or holographic universe, where the pattern of health or dis-ease echoes from the cosmic scale through the solar system, planetary bodies, humanity, and, ultimately, into the individual psyche. On each level, distortion arises as a departure from original intention.

For the human being, this principle defines disease as the result of a “blockage” in the flow of energy from the soul—the higher self—into personality. Such blockage is not random, but patterned, echoing cleavages at the mental and emotional levels. These inner divisions reflect the same kind of fragmentation found in greater wholes, a microcosm mirroring the macrocosm.

An Energy-Centered Approach Rooted in Soul Alignment

At the heart of Esoteric Healing lies the recognition that everything is composed of energy, but more specifically, that energy must be guided by the purpose and vitality of the soul itself. Practitioners do not simply work with the electromagnetic field or biofield as stand-alone entities. Instead, they seek to align these fields to the will and clarity of the soul. The goal is not only to remove energetic blockages or restore balance, but to allow the free transmission of the soul’s intention into the physical, emotional, and mental expressions of the individual.

The Role of Chakras and the Fractal Nature of Dis-ease

Esoteric Healing integrates a sophisticated understanding of the chakra system, regarding the seven major centers as loci where cosmic patterns become individualized within the human form. Congestion or distortion in the chakras is not simply a physiological issue; it is evidence of deeper cleavages in the flow between soul and personality. Thus, when balancing the chakras and restoring flow to the etheric body, the practitioner is in effect re-establishing a right relationship between the higher and lower aspects, mirroring the correction of distortion on every level of the universe.

• Certain chakras relate directly to the nervous system and endocrine glands.
• Others mediate the body’s response to emotion, immunity, or digestion—always acting as bridges for the energy descending from the soul to personality.

Disease, then, marks the places where this downward flow is blocked, and healing is the restoration of the original pattern.

Philosophical Foundations : The Art of Alignment

Alice Bailey, along with Djwhal Khul, frames Esoteric Healing not merely as the manipulation of subtle forces but as the “art of alignment.” This paradigm holds that “[alll disease is the result of inhibited soul life.” The healer’s task is to reestablish the flow resolving the cleavages—mental, emotional, etheric—that obscure the soul’s influence. The work is philosophical and practical, linking abstract principles to hands-on alignment within the energetic bodies.

Healing at Every Level: The Holographic Universe

Esoteric Healing extends its logic beyond the personal. Health and disease, order and disorder, repeat across scales in a fractal or holographic fashion. The practitioner works at the personal level but in doing so participates in the healing of larger wholes—family, community, nation, planet, cosmos. Every act of soul-personality alignment echoes upward and outward, restoring fragments to coherence at every degree of magnitude.

Bridging Biofield Science and Spiritual Medicine

Uniquely, Esoteric Healing blends rigorous meditative focus and subtle perception with modern biofield science. But what makes its approach distinct is its rooting in the premise that energy fields and their blockages are always subordinate to the deeper alignment—or misalignment—between soul and personality. Unlike modalities content  with local adjustments, Esoteric Healing asks: To what greater wholeness is this life attuned? The hands-off technique is not just a technical choice but reflects an intention to mediate the soul’s purpose without interference or imposition.

The Hands-Off Technique and the Release of Congestion

The method remains non-invasive. Adjustments take place in the energetic field, encouraging shifts that release mental and emotional congestions residing in the etheric body. These congestions are not arbitrary, but the visible outcome of unresolved division within the individual—a splitting from the soul’s original pattern.

A Global and Holistic Practice

Today Esoteric Healing is practiced worldwide supported by organisations such as National Association for Esoteric Healing (NAEH), Internatiu. Its deep theoretical literature explores the fractal nature of disease and healing, the practical steps to clear cleavages in the personality, and the ever-present need to align the individual with divine intention.

Relevance in Modern Holistic Health

What distinguishes Esoteric Healing in a crowded field of energy practices is this relentless orientation toward the soul as primary, with all symptoms and blockages understood as echoes of deeper misalignment. This philosophical clarity, rooted in the works of Alice Bailey, allows for a more integrated and sustained form of healing—one that speaks to health not as an absence of disease, but as the undistorted reflection of higher possibilities lived through body, heart, and mind.

To practice or experience Esoteric Healing is to enter a process where health is not just managed, but re-envisioned—as the alignment of soul and personality, the restoration of original intention at every level, and the resolution of cleavages that fracture the living pattern. Here, healing becomes both an act and a realization: the continual return to wholeness amidst the complexity of life.

Healing Traditions and Modalities

Related and comparable approaches include:

• Energy Medicine
• Alternative Healing
• Chi Healing
• Christian Science healing
• Energy Medicine
• Esoteric Healing (Alice Bailey)
• Gifts of Healing
• Johrei
• Pranic Healing
• Prayer Healing
• Sound Healing
• Qigong
• Quantum Healing
• Reiki
• Six Healing Sounds
• Spiritual Healing
• Universal Medicine
• Vibrational Healing

See Also

• Energy (Esotericism)
• Healing Revival
• Inner Healing Movement
• Long Healing Prayer
• Shamanism
• Traditional Medicine
• World Healing Day

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