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Brennan Healing
To perceive a person’s ‘energy field’ / chakras via ‘high sense perception’ and then, by hands-on or hands-near work, to ‘charge’, clear and restructure the chakras and field — claimed to support physical, emotional and spiritual healing.
Brennan healing in 6 lines: Healer grounds and “runs energy,” then scans the field/chakras with “high sense perception” for blocks. They clear and “chelate” up the body, then hold each chakra’s colour/vibration until it feels “charged,” while processing the emotions that arise. The model (aura, seven layers, chakras, HSP) has no scientific support — treat it as a relaxing, compassionate, talk-and-touch experience, not measured energy work, and never in place of medical care.
What it is
Barbara Brennan’s system teaches that the body is surrounded and interpenetrated by a structured Human Energy Field (“aura”) of several layers, organised around chakras (energy centres).
The healer first uses what Brennan calls High Sense Perception (HSP) — a trained, claimed-clairvoyant sensing — to “read” or scan the field and chakras for blocks, tears, or imbalances.
The healer then works hands-on (lightly touching) or hands-near the body to clear, repair and “charge” the chakras, channelling specific “vibrations” or colours of energy into each centre until it is “charged”.
This is paired with psycho-spiritual processing (talking through the emotional/biographical material that surfaces). It is taught only at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing as “Brennan Healing Science”.
The Method
As set out in Hands of Light (1987) and the school’s curriculum, a session broadly involves:
- Centre and clear the healer. The practitioner grounds, breathes, and raises their own energy/“running” before working, so as not to “mix” fields.
- Scan with HSP. Passing the hands a few inches over the body and “sensing” (visually, kinesthetically, intuitively) the field’s layers and each chakra — looking for areas felt as dense, depleted, torn, or congested. Brennan maps a seven-layer field and seven main chakras, each tied to colours, psychological themes and body regions.
- Clear and “chelate”. Slow hands-on or hands-near passes to “clear” stagnant energy, often a foot-to-head “chelation” sequence working up the chakras.
- Charge the chakras. The healer “channels” the colour/vibration associated with a given chakra and holds it over that centre until it is felt to be ‘charged’ and spinning evenly — repairing or restructuring chakras perceived as damaged.
- Psycho-spiritual processing. Throughout, the practitioner works verbally with the client’s emotions, memories and “intentionality,” treating the energy blocks as linked to life history and beliefs.
- Self-practice exercises. Brennan also teaches chakra-opening exercises for the client/healer — grounding, kundalini-style breathing, and physical exercises to “charge and open” one’s own chakras.
- Close and ground. Seal the field, ground both people, and integrate. (This is a faithful summary of Brennan’s taught structure — scan, clear, charge, process — not a reproduction of her copyrighted text or full protocols.)
Source & Lineage
Barbara Ann Brennan (1939–2022) trained in physics (BS, and an MS in atmospheric physics) and worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center before moving into healing; she later studied bioenergetics/Core Energetics and Pathwork.
She published Hands of Light (1987) — over a million copies in print — and Light Emerging (1993), and founded the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (1982).
Her chakra/aura model blends Theosophical and yogic chakra systems, bioenergetics (Lowen/Pierrakos) body-character work, and the laying-on-of-hands / Therapeutic Touch lineage. Related in this library: bioenergetics; Core Energetics; hands-off energy work.
Common refinements
Treating a “reading” as diagnosis. HSP cannot diagnose disease; do not let a field-reading substitute for medical assessment.
- Believing the anatomy is literal. Layers/chakras are a metaphor framework, not verified structures — hold them lightly.
- Bypassing real feeling with “energy” talk. The processing component is where ordinary value lives; don’t let mystical framing skip over actual emotions and life context.
- Over-claiming cures. Relaxation and emotional relief are not the same as curing illness.