You Can’t See X-rays, but You Believe in Them
- Brainz Magazine
- Oct 31
- 7 min read
Updated: Nov 2
Written by Gemma Gains, Director
Gemma Gains is a Space Holder and Facilitator in the world of healing and transformation. She specializes in the subtleties of reading and harnessing energy.
We believe in many things we cannot see, from God to atoms to the energy that powers our bodies. So why is energetic healing met with fear and resistance? In this thought-provoking piece, Gemma Gains explores the stigma around the unseen, the power of belief, and the real-world transformations that occur when science and spirit meet.
“It’s really easy to believe in the things you can’t see.” – Zoe
Believing in the unseen
Most of the known world believes in God. How many institutions, traditions, and entire belief systems are built on faith in a being we cannot see? Is God dangerous? Or is it the wars we wage in God’s name that cause harm?
Even science believes in the unseen. Bacteria, atoms, energy, particles, we can’t see them, yet we build our entire world around their existence. Every great discovery began with belief, in electricity before it sparked, in new continents before they were mapped, in flight before it lifted from the earth.
So why, when I speak of energy, of the body’s ability to heal, of unseen intelligence that moves through us all, does that belief suddenly become dangerous? How is the unseen ‘God’ and the human body’s ability to heal different? Why does it bring such strong projections?
Is it less about the unseen aspects and more about the stories that would unravel, from expanding our beliefs? My strongest intention for my work is that you question everything. Research, explore and adventure into possibilities. Life will meet you there!
Holding the label ‘dangerous’
I’ve been called many things, “delusional,” “narcissistic,” and yes, “dangerous.”
For a long time, that word hurt. I couldn’t understand how someone whose deepest intention is truth, care, and healing could be seen as a threat. I don’t cut into bodies. I don’t prescribe drugs with side effects. I don’t force or frighten. I hold space, I listen, I work with the body, I do not manipulate or even use pressure, I use something you can’t see, but you can feel.
And yet, the projection remains. I’ve been called dangerous by strangers, by institutions, and recently, at a talk I did, by a woman grieving the loss of her husband to cancer. I’ve had my own child taken from my care by a system that labelled me a “risk,” not because of evidence, but because of misunderstanding.
I’ve learned to hold that projection. I can stand in the discomfort of being called “dangerous” because I know the truth of who I am. My work, though considered controversial, is rooted in integrity, observation, and compassion. During the talk, I thanked the lady for speaking her truth and reassured her that it was necessary, that our shared beliefs were necessary and left the exchange open for curiosity and further insights.
I believe that healing pain isn’t just a physical exercise, that the way we live and carry out every exchange and interaction is all part of the alignment into healing.
I don’t want to scare anyone. I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable. But I’ve seen too much healing to pretend it’s not real. I’ve witnessed bodies transform, pain dissolve, and hearts open. Healing is possible.
When science meets spirit
(Zoe has kindly given me permission to share our work together for the article). Zoe has spent her life devoted to science, to revealing what can’t be seen.
With a BSc in Diagnostic Radiography and postgraduate certification in Computed Tomography, she has worked as a radiation protection supervisor, audit manager, and specialist consultant. Her world is precision, evidence, and the measurable unseen.
“You spend your life taking pictures with things you can’t see,” she told me. “What you see on a radiograph is a direct representation of a phosphorus sheet reducing light, a computer’s version of seeing the unseen. You can’t see X-rays.”
So when her own body began breaking down, and medicine couldn’t find the answer, Zoe faced a kind of irony that many face.
The breaking point
Her pain began in her teens and never truly left. She first injured her back at 13, then again in her twenties during a powerlifting competition, tearing 95% of two spinal discs (L3–L4 and L4–L5) and suffering a subluxation of her left sacroiliac joint.
“I was told by a neurologist that I’d be in pain for the rest of my life,” she said. “He said I should be grateful I could still walk.”
For years, Zoe fought her body. She pushed herself back into competition, only to find the pain waiting, like an echo of something deeper. Then came childbirth.
“Heath’s birth was traumatic,” she recalled. “I was two weeks overdue, five days in hospital. Induction, four suppositories, five sweeps, an epidural that only worked on one side, a Pitocin drip. I wasn’t allowed to kneel, which felt natural. They used forceps. His head was delivered five minutes before his body. He was born in shock.”
Afterward, her body never felt the same.
“The pain was constant. Deep, searing. I had to roll out of bed every morning. I couldn’t lift my son. I couldn’t exercise. Some days, I cried just trying to stand.”
The diagnosis was clear, nerve damage, chronic pain, and the expectation of lifelong suffering. But inside, something refused to accept that this was it.
The healing journey
When Zoe and I began working together in January 2025, she was in agony, physically, emotionally, spiritually. Her body was clenched in protection, her energy frozen in survival.
“I was apprehensive,” she admitted. “I’d tried everything else. But something in me knew this was different. When you said, ‘Your guides are ready,’ I just felt it. When you know, you know.”
The first session was raw. We began with gentle conversation, energetic reading, and light touch. The pain reacted instantly.
“You warned me it might hurt,” she said.
(I was going to try to articulate what actually happened during our session during the body work, but I don’t think it would translate well and sound like nonsense. There was a huge difference between Zoe’s Left and Right sides, and I had to treat each side as if they were 2 different people)
“When you placed your hand near my heart, I felt like a cork had been released, a lightning bolt down my spine. Without you making physical contact with my body. I hugged my knees, I was shaking.”
In the days after, the pain shifted to the opposite side of her body. We spoke again, exploring lineage, memory, and maternal energy. Through this process, she began to see her pain not as punishment, but as communication, her body speaking the truth of everything she had carried for generations.
“I realised I’d absorbed my mum’s energy,” she said. “The feeling that I had to do it all, carry it all. When that was released, everything softened.”
The transformation
A few months later, her message was simple:
“Before, I was rolling out of bed, stuck. Now I get out easily. I’ve had three big colds since, each one a clearing. I realised how much resentment I’d held, that I put up with too much, allowed myself to be taken for granted. It’s been an awakening.”
Her back pain, once a daily 9 or 10 out of 10, now sits around 1–3 on the rare days it flares. Most days, it’s gone.
“I’m 99.5% healed. The rest feels like memory. I’m conscious when I sneeze, a little guarded, but that’s more habit than fear.”
Emotionally, her voice has changed, too.
“I’m steady now. Clear. My self-worth has increased tenfold. I can ask for help. I rest. I sing again. I feel joy.”
Standing in the face of danger… in Integrity.
So yes, I can hold the projection of being called “dangerous.” I have put myself in the firing line to help others, time and time again, and I will continue to do so. To achieve countless reviews and stories of the success of my interactions with people from all walks of life, like stabilising a lady's Thyroid, locating tumours, stabilising hips and ankles, and clearing trauma, to name a few, and healing my own body several times.
Because if believing in the unseen makes me dangerous, then so does every scientist who ever believed before they proved.
I don’t work in opposition to science, I work in harmony with it. My path is not about blind faith, but about evidence that comes through experience. I am logical. I am grounded. I am truthful. And I’ve seen too much to deny the possibility of healing.
I’m not here to convince anyone.
I have been called a Medical Medium, Human X-ray, shaman, healer, none of these titles sit with me. I believe in emotional intelligence. Any human can learn to do what I do through practice. I learnt this through trauma and survival.
Humans are part of living intelligence. I do not heal or fix anyone, I give the patient room to heal themselves. I’m here to walk with integrity, to speak truth with compassion, and to remind others that belief and experience can coexist.
Because you can’t see X-rays. You can’t see energy. But both have the power to reveal what’s truly within, and to change everything
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Gemma Gains, Director
Gemma is a space holder, guiding you as a compassionate, protective, and dedicated shepherd through the subtle energies of your field. With patience and wisdom, Gemma uses her intuitive card readings, deep conversation, and body work to help release blockages and heal generational traumas, realigning your energetic flow. Drawing on principles of quantum physics, Gemma can help you understand how your inner world reflects your relationships with yourself, others, and the Earth. As your unwavering guide, Gemma is dedicated to supporting you in returning to a "right" relationship with yourself, while leaving you with full autonomy over your healing journey. Her intention is to empower you to reconnect with your true self and cultivate harmony within your body, energy, and the world around you.
