Energy healing is a pseudo-scientific branch of alternative medicine. It is a holistic practice that transmits healing energy to a patient’s body, activates the body’s subtle energy systems to remove blocks, and thus restores or balances the body’s energy field. The energy is channeled via a healer or practitioner who may use either hands-on, hands-off, or even distant (i.e. where the patient and healer are in different locations) approaches.