When energy healers “run energy” does it truly go into the client or are they just perceiving it within themselves?

There is an exchange of energy that occurs. For those who are quite kinesthetic, the effects may be perceived more greatly on themselves than the client receives, or certainly perceives, from their end of things. The energy in most instances is human-generated and delivered, and is of modest impact, at best. It does not begin to match what is possible when being sent from a divine agent. This is why if one wishes to do energy work, partnering with the divine to carry out the session itself will achieve greater benefit. It will still be quite limited because, in the absence of understanding what is needed, what is possible to be delivered other than in a very general and vague way that one is "running energy," the divine realm will be quite limited in what it will do, even in partnership, because the human lead must always be followed and the divine realm cannot exceed what the human envisions for the client and the manner in which help is brought to bear. That is why the Lightworker Healing Protocol with its broad and all-inclusive attention to the many ways humans become out of alignment and need to be brought back into balance and the ways in which this is done by divine realm, as the standard, imparts a great deal of detailed specificity to the undertaking. So, the needs of the client will be seen to, even in the absence of a precise diagnostic understanding, so to speak, of the nature of the discord and its origin at the outset of the session. Because one is asking for every possible intervention, to address every possible source of discord, you are literally covering all the bases through the application of the Protocol in a detailed, thorough, systematic way. So, everything needing to be done will happen, at one point or another, and often during multiple steps of the Protocol, to address varied aspects of inner discord. To ask for an ill-defined summoning of energy will allow only the most minimal of responses in answer to the request by the divine realm itself, in spite of its vast power and capabilities. This is owing to the ignorance of the practitioner, not whether the client is deserving. It is simply another consequence of the power of human to be limited through their own choices to be ignorant, and not seek greater understanding that would correspondingly increase their range and power to benefit others and themselves.