Bodywork & complementary offers
Energy Work, Esoterics & Alternatives
not evidence-based: The effectiveness of these offers is not scientifically proven. They can complement relaxation and wellbeing, but they do not replace medical, psychological or psychotherapeutic treatment. If you are unwell or struggling, regulated services are the safe choice.
What is Energy Work, Esoterics & Alternatives?
- What is Energy Work, Esoterics & Alternatives for?
- Spiritual and alternative offers without proof of effectiveness
- Is Energy Work, Esoterics & Alternatives legally regulated?
- Not a regulated health profession; partly human energetics as a free trade, partly without any regulation.
- Does Energy Work, Esoterics & Alternatives treat illnesses?
- No, no proof of effectiveness, no treatment
Energy work, esoterics and alternative offers cover a wide range. Some people experience them as soothing or meaningful.
What falls under this
- energy work and Reiki
- Human Design
- kinesiology
- Bach flower remedies
- aura and chakra work
- astrology, card reading and numerology
- pendulum and radiesthesia
- singing bowls, gemstone and crystal healing
- shamanism, angel and light work
- quantum healing and “spiritual healing”
Important to know
There is no scientific proof of effectiveness for these methods. A large part of the effect rests on expectation, attention and relaxation, in other words a placebo effect. These offers are not a health profession and may neither diagnose nor treat or heal illnesses.
If at all, then only as a complement and for yourself, never as a substitute for medical or psychological treatment, and not for children or serious complaints. If you are struggling, regulated services are the safe choice.
What is allowed
- Be used as a personal, complementary ritual
- Offer relaxation, attention and a sense of meaning
- Be used as a personal experience without any claim to heal
Where are the limits?
- No diagnosis and no curative treatment
- No substitute for medical or psychological treatment
- Not for children and not for serious complaints
- Never stop ongoing treatments
How to recognise quality
- Promises no healing and makes no diagnoses
- Does not advise against medical treatment
- Creates no fear and applies no pressure
- No expensive packages, no subscription lock-in
- Explicitly understands itself as a complement
How it works
- Offervaries greatly by method
- Sessionconversation, ritual or touch
- Afterwardscheck critically what it gave you