Energy healing
Subject in Alternative Health
Energy healing has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Jonathan CohenExecutive producer and co-host of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, writer and energy worker
Cohen argues that healing shifts begin when intention is set, well before a session takes place.
“It also makes me think of shifts start to happen as soon as you set the intention or make the commitment to do something that it's not simply in the room itself it's the process leading up”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 1:07:57
Cohen, citing Ellen Langer, argues a prognosis is a statistical average that cannot account for an individual's variables.
“a prognosis is simply a mathematical probability based on everyone else. They're not able to consider all the multiple variables of that individual”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 58:45
Cohen argues the systems influencing us are far more complex than a machine model allows, in part because many operate beyond the five senses.
“but it is far more complex than we're able to deduce simply from our understanding of how a machine operates, right? It's not simply... command in and and result”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 50:59
Martin PicardProfessor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University who leads the mitochondrial psychobiology lab
Picard defines energy as the potential for change at biological, psychological and societal levels.
“Energy is the potential for change. And that's true at the biological level, the psychological level, at the societal level”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 46:37
Picard argues that medicine treats identically labeled diseases the same way despite individual variation, with no real means of personalizing treatment.
“these are three different factors disease entities and they have the same label right and therefore in medicine we treat them the same way”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 12:36
Podcasts
- Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · 1 episode
Episodes
Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena PodcastMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 12, 2026 · 1 h 18 min
A re-aired Phenomena episode in which Ivy Ross, Martin Picard, Richard Hammerschlag, Neil Theise, Meredith Sprengel and Jonathan Cohen ask what energy is in healing.