The scientific community is recently coming to recognize that physical matter in all living things is composed of several energy fields. The combination of energy patterns is usually referred to as the aura. Through advances in technology, modern sensitive instruments are now able to detect and, in some cases, describe these overlapping energy patterns of the aura. In humans, there are separate and distinctive energy patterns which ultimately determine our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual makeup. Each person's own combination of higher vibrational patterns is unique, and makes that person as individual as a snowflake or a fingerprint.

In a healthy body, the original and natural pattern of each energy body results in a harmonious, continuous vibration, and an even flow of energy among all levels of the auric field. We are now learning that if a person is unhealthy, it will show in his or her energy patterns as an unbalanced flow of energy or as stagnated energy that has ceased to flow. Furthermore, in the diseased system, any imbalances in the higher vibrational energy bodies are progressively transmitted down into the lower energy bodies, eventually causing disease in the physical body.

However, energy-based healing is an art, as well as also becoming a science. Two people with the same disease may manifest different symptoms. Alternatively, two people with the same symptoms may have different diseases caused by different underlying factors. Therefore, the energy healer must be intuitive and flexible in order to assist the client in completely releasing not only the physical disease and its symptoms, but also the underlying causes of the disease which originate in the higher energy bodies.

Energy healing is also a partnership effort. The healer functions as a channel for healing energy and acts as a channel between the Universal Energy Field and that client. However, the healing is done by the client's own body. The purpose of the healer is to ensure that sufficient healing energy is made available to the client in the right places on the right levels. Further, the client must consciously want to be healed. Healing energies are usually rejected by hypochondriacs who receive psychological benefit from their ailments. And finally, the client must accept the healing energy on a subconscious level. The client's Higher Self is always in charge of accepting or rejecting any energy treatments, based on the highest good for that individual at that time. Therefore, a permanent physical healing may not occur in all cases. It may be that a certain disease has been manifested so that a specific lesson may be learned by that person's soul. Other forms of therapy may be appropriate to discover the underlying cause of the disease.