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Articles: healing
Below are the articles associated with this topic. Click on a title to read one. A Healing Story
by Leo Sofer
Leo is an intuitive storyteller. Each story he tells begins with a question spoken out loud, alone or in front of an audience.
A Shield Around the Heart
by Robina Hearle
The author tells us that before the age of six or seven, traumatic experiences can cause us to ‘put a shield around the heart’. She states that a shield is an energetic barrier and also a physical one.
A Synthesis of Healing Therapies
by Amanda Jackson-Russell, Ph.D.
...new therapies seem to be appearing almost weekly (if not daily), how is a person supposed to be able to know what particular therapy (or group of therapies) may be helpful for their particular needs?
A Tentative Mechanism for Healing
by Toni Bunnell, Ph.D.
A criticism often levelled at healing, hands-on healing, bioenergy therapy, therapeutic touch, or whatever you choose to call it, is that there is little irrefutable proof that healing per se is effective.
Ancient Rainbow Conscious Healing (ARCH)
by Melissa Ann Kennedy
ARCH stands for Ancient Rainbow Conscious Healing, a form of vibrational medicine, developed by a healer, psychic and Reiki teacher, Laurie Keako'a', after an enlightening experience in Hawaii. The author has studied with this teacher and now practises in the UK.
Angelic Reiki - A New Healing for our Time?
by Kay Zega
This article focuses on Angelic Reiki, which the author says Archangel Metatron describes as ‘The New Healing for Our Time’, …a system of energy healing that will be paramount in bringing one of the highest forms of healing to individuals, groups and the planet.
Beyond Healing - The Form: Love and Truth in Reflection
by Suzanne Johnson
'The Form: Love & Truth in Reflection' is a series of movements that the practitioner makes around the seated recipient. It is described as a gateway for both participants to experience true healing. It looks like a slow dance or moving meditation.
Body Harmony:
by Kit Ford-Young
Body Harmony is a form of hands-on bodywork, based on listening to, and being guided by, a client's body responses. By combining careful observation with good listening skills and sensitive touch, communication with the body is opened up on all levels: physical, spiritual, mental and emotional.
Breath and the River: Say Yes To The River
by Sue-me Gregory
Breath is the essence of life – Physiologically we know breath as that which provides oxygen to the lungs which in turn oxygenates the blood. However, we can literally buy oxygen, available in numerous forms off the shelf.
Buddhist Healing
by Steven Lane
Mention chakra disturbances, spirit intervention or karma to most people and they may ask what planet you live on! Whichever planet, Buddhist healing works with all such forces, and many more, and can obtain extraordinary results.
Clearing Emotional Baggage
by Clive Digby-Jones and Dr Eileen Watkins Seymour
Does the glass of your life seem half-empty, or is it three-quarters full to overflowing? Do you have the sense that there is something missing in your life, or is your life permanently 'in transit', or never seeming to arrive?
Clearing Emotional Baggage
by Clive Digby-Jones and Dr Eileen Watkins Seymour
Does the glass of your life seem half-empty, or is it three-quarters full to overflowing? Do you have the sense that there is something missing in your life, or is your life permanently 'in transit', or never seeming to arrive?
Curing a Symptom or Healing a Life?
by Debbie Shapiro
There is an important distinction to be made between curing and healing. To cure is to fix a particular part. Allopathy – Western medicine – is particularly good at doing this, offering drugs and surgery so that disease, illness or physical problems can be repressed, eliminated or removed.
Discourse Narrative : The Quest For Healing
by Joan Croome
The author makes an interesting and important distinction between ‘curing’ and ‘healing’. Healing is an active process of moving through stages similar to the stages of grief, which the patient engages in, and can reach both a positive, peaceful state of mind while in doing so is facilitating the body’s physical healing processes. She contrasts this with the bio-medical discourse, which disempowers and excludes the patient. Reverse Discourse translates the biomedical ‘illness narrative’ into the patient’s ‘therapeutic narrative’.
Distant Healing - Advanced Form of Bio-Energy Healing
by Michael Nudel and Eva Nudel PhD
In this article the authors explain the principles of bio-energy healing, the power of distant healing, and how we can all master the healing method to benefit both ourselves and others.
Emotional Transformation and Cellular Healing
by Kevin Billett
Psycho-neuro-Immunology research has produced compelling evidence that our thought patterns directly and instantaneously affect our whole body chemistry, and can suppress our immune system.
Energizing your Life with your Values
by Michelle Maxwell
Those special moments you remember and enjoy are the first clues to discovering what is important to you in your life – what your true values are. In this sense, values are not about moral standards but much more about what motivates, fulfils and nurtures your wellbeing.
Fiona's Healing Journey
by June Butlin
Last month I discussed Fiona's case study on Lupus from a nutritional point of view, which is one of the most important aspects of any healing process.
Foundations for Healing
by Andrew Pallas
'I'm so confused,' said Jenny, 'I've had three different explanations for my problem, they all seemed to make sense, but how can I tell which one is right?'
Four Dimensional Wellness
by Dr Keith Scott-Mumby
My quest for some years has been for a model which will bind us all together in a friendly, cohesive schema.
Golden Re - Healing, Development and Awareness Programme
by Steve Gamble MGCP
Steve Gamblin is a practitioner and teacher of Golden Re Healing, a system of healing developed by Ray Abraham through his observation and understanding of nature and its working in balalnce and harmony.
Hawaiian Healing
by Jane Lewis
For the ancient Hawaiians, spirituality and healing were intimately connected. Healing can be physical, such as massage or herbs or psychological, but always spiritual.
Healing Energy to Enhance Your Life
by sHEALy (Sherry Healy)
Sherry Healy looks at the renewal of the old healing modality that means people are learning to utilize energy therapy as a means of enhancing their lives. This requires an openness to change in behaviour, thought and attitude. An unhealthy energy body can, in time, affect the physical body causing fatigue, posture problems or illness.
Healing On a Multidimensional Level
by David Malin
Body Math is a Multidimensional Approach To Healing (MATH) for the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies, and is truly a universal language of healing.
Healing Research
by Dr David Peters
At a recent colloquium organised by the National Federation of Spiritual Healers regarding research into spiritual healing, I was asked to summarise the themes emerging through the day.
Holidays or High Holy Days
by Cynthia Alves
An inspirational article encouraging readers to plan and take soul-restoring holidays
Integrated Energy Therapy(r) (IET) - Channelled Energy from the Angelic Realms
by Gilly Workman
The author describes her own experience of traumas leading to anxiety and depression as well as lower back pain and long-standing IBS. She came across Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) from a woman at a local Psychic & Wellbeing Fayre, and after some hesitation, booked three sessions with this person. Through the release of negative emotions and their replacement with positive feelings, which this technique facilitates, her health and well-being were quickly very much improved.
Is San Pedro A 'Miracle Healer'?
by Ross Heaven
San Pedro (huachuma), like the better-known ayahuasca, is a Peruvian visionary healing plant. It is taken in the form of a cold tea made by boiling sections of the mescaline cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi).
Natural Born Healer
by Jennifer Pride
Four years ago, at 53, Burges Stace, a Sussex gardener found by chance that he was able to take away pain from his partner just by placing his hands on the affected area.
Our Approach to Healing Sick Houses
by Roy and Ann Procter
This article describes how Roy and Ann Procter, both spiritual healers, discovered the concept of health affected by subtle environment twenty years ago and developed dowsing skills under the tuition of Bruce MacManaway so that they could heal sick houses by turning negative energies into positive ones.
Our Innate Ability to Heal Ourselves
by Kris Needham
To many people, illness is something that comes from 'out there', brought about by external factors – environment (pollution, pesticides, germs, etc.), lifestyle (smoking, diet, alcohol, stress, drugs, etc.) and hereditary disease. If we accept the premise that ill health is something that happens 'to' us, then it follows that all the treatment necessary to cure these illnesses can also be done 'to' us. This way we cut ourselves out of the equation as far as health and healing are concerned.
Our Role in Personal Transformation and Healing
by Petrene Soames
It is important to realize that when we learn to heal ourselves, we are not limited merely to changing our own realities; the world reality is also ours to change.
Personal Transformation to Healing
by Kim Hutchison
Transformative healing is a form of energy healing, based on the understanding that there is an energy interplay between the mind, body and soul, a form of power, which needs to be harnessed by the patient so that they can bring themselves into healing.
Poetry for Health and Healing
by Steve Jaffe
After a heart quadruple bypass operation in 1999, for poet and novelist Steve Jaffes, something magical started happening one day as he was writing the journal in which he vented all his negative emotions. His thoughts started dancing and he found himself turning his emotions into poetry.
Prana for Health - No Touch Energy Healing
by Meera Venkatesan and Vidya Rajagopalan
In this article the authors discuss the benefits of pranic healing, a no drug, no touch therapy, which is easy to learn and open to everyone. It resulted from over thirty years of research into healing by Grand Master Choa Kok Sui.
Recovery from a Broken Neck
by Marie McKenna O'Brien
This is a story of profound healing. I left home on a bright, sunny, summer's day to return home two weeks later. In that time I had been paralysed, injured, shocked, traumatized, operated on and nursed. My healing had begun.
Recovery from a Broken Neck - Update
by Marie McKenna O'Brien
This article is an update of Marie's account of a car accident in which she broke her neck and spinal cord. Her story was published in Positive Health in 2000 with the title "'Recovery from a Broken Neck'. Five years on, after one surgeon had said "you are the luckiest person alive" hers is still the only story she can find of a double trauma of this magnitude leading to complete recovery.
Remarkable Recoveries - Individual Potential for Healing
by Zelda Di Blasi
Dr Blasi considers the significance of double-blind randomized control trials (RCT) and the way they provide an empirical basis for testing pharmacological, surgical, psychotherapeutic or alternative treatments. Then she discusses the value of placebos and how they score highly in RCTs, to the point where they can be shown to have a beneficial effect in severe depression, Parkinson's and osteoarthritis.
Root Cause Healing - A New Healing Paradigm
by Peter Donn
The article looks into Root Cause Healing, a therapy that helps to unlock the subconscious mind where limiting beliefs and experiences, including our past pain from our womb to the present, are held, and helps to track them down. It is based on Guided Self-Healing (GSH), a powerful therapy developed by Andy Hahn a clinical psychologist.
Self Healing BSM Method
by Maciej C Kuczynski
The BSM self-healing method was discovered in 1977, when retired Polish colonel, Eugene Uchnast, seemed to cure his persistent hip pain by sleeping with his palm against his head. Already interested in the study of the brain, he went on to test his theory that this had come about through radiation from his palm, interacting with the part of the brain that controlled his hip function, which had healed his pain.
Self-healing Guide to Auto Accident Trauma and Recovery
by Donna Foley
Car accident trauma is one of the most misunderstood, most under-treated and even most incorrectly treated of all traumas. Car accidents are increasing, affecting more than ten million people worldwide each year.
Starving Amidst the Oceans of Energy
by Silvia Hartmann PhD
Dr Silvia Hartmann describes the 'energy body' as a system of complex organs, pathways and lines of communication and exchange. Ancient techniques such as acupuncture and Chi Kung work with this system and Dr Hartmann's own techniques seek to repair and rebalance the system, which in turn gives improvements for the mind, body and spirit.
Steps to Forgiveness
by Francoise Rapp
Aromatherapist Francoise Rapp shares some words of wisdom on the importance of forgiveness, both of oneself and of others, and learning to be less judgemental and more accepting and compassionate.
Tarot for Healing
by Stephen Houssome
Despite its unfortunate image, there is a massive interest in the Tarot and more importantly, an acceptance that it works. It is precisely because it works that the time is ripe for the Tarot to once again be used for healing and therapy. The Tarot is perfectly placed and poised to address the needs of those that come to it, in the hands of suitably qualified professionals, in the new millennium.
The Calabash of Light
by Christopher Larthe
Christoper Larthe discusses the shamanic tradition of Huna. Its practitioners find out from the Sprit what healing the soul needs for the body to be whole again, so that harmony can be restored between soul and body.
The Hawaiian Practice of Ho'oponopono: Healing the Collective Consciousness and the Planet
by Dr Daniel Benor
This article focuses on the collective consciousness, how it works, and how it can be healed. According to the author, there is impressive research evidence suggesting that a collective consciousness exists…and rigorous studies of telepathy, clairsentience, precognition and psychokinesis.
The Healing Heart
by Pratibha Castle
Humanity, both collectively as well as individually, (you and me) is presently poised for a leap in consciousness – whether we realize it or not! This leap reveals to us a dimension that is both full of mystery, as well as unknowable in any way that is available to us from our past experience.
The Healing Journey of James
by Dr Anna Rewilak
Dr Rewilak describes her treatment of 'a disorder lying in the autistic spectrum' using spiritual and holistic healing methods.
The Healing Potential in a Word - Part I
by Dr Daniel Benor
In the first of this two-part series on words, the author explains that the words we use shape our perceptions and our interactions with the world. Through words we are taught to label the myriads of stimuli that enter our sensory portal. The words and labels we learn to use come to identify who we are, what we do, how we do it, and how we relate to each other individually and collectively, and how we interact with to the environment.
The Healing Potential in a Word - Part II
by Dr Daniel Benor
In the final of this two-part series on words, the author discusses aggressive language in treatment and the world of matter and separate realms of the mind and spirit.
The Healing Potential in a Word - Part III
by Dr Daniel Benor
The author continues his series of articles on healing words by looking into the value of words in general as well as those related to therapies.
The Healing Potential in a Word - Part IV
by Dr Daniel Benor
The author continues his series of articles on healing words by focusing on the many terms that exist for those who offer treatments as well as those who seek them.
The healing Potential in a Word - Part V
by Dr Daniel Benor
The author continues his series of articles on healing in this issue by sharing his views on the meaning of Complementary / Alternative / Integrative, Holistic/Wholistic and Integrative Care. He also provides some insight into Abbreviations – by internet users and medical profession as a form of time-efficient communication.
The Heart in Healing
by Sue Green
As complementary medicine becomes more and more established and able to hold its own with proven research showing its effectiveness, there is perhaps room to ask the question, what heals?
Theta Healing: Accessing the Theta Brain State to Let Go of Limiting Beliefs
by Jack Stewart
This article focuses on how to access the theta brainwave and what we are capable of achieving at that state. Theta Healing, the author says is in a constant state of evolution. It is about co-creation with the Divine.
Tibetan Pulsing Healing
by Anne Moulsdale
Tibetan Pulsing Healing is an adaptation of the ancient ritual practices of the Tibetan monasteries into bioelectrical processes better understood by the Western mind. It is a relaxing bodywork technique and a powerful energy process.
Transform Your Life
by Donna Taylor
Integrating Astrology, Homeopathy and Changed Beliefs by Donna Taylor Laurence Le Shan sums it up nicely when he says that "a disease from the viewpoint of holistic medicine is a sign that something is wrong with your life. Your task is to find out what that something is and take appropriate action."
Trees for Health: Winter Trees
by Róisín Caroll
Celtic legends and myths permeate the very soil and the soul of their peoples. Throughout these tales, there are many references to trees and their healing powers.
Universal Harmonic Healing
by Dr Heather Parsons
This article looks at Universal Harmonic Healing (UHH), which is a rebalancing of universal energies both within and around us in our aura. Our bodies want to be in a state of balance, and given the chance they allow us to recover our equilibrium and to heal ourselves. What blocks our recovery is our emotions, as we have difficulty letting go many of our emotions or memories, be they pain, grief, anger jealousy or any other draining feelings. Guilt is one of the strongest emotions which we feel we have no right to let go, but in terms of universal energies everything can be released through love and understanding.
Vibrational Healing - Harmonising
by Rosemary Angelis
The premise of Vibrational Healing is that everything vibrates on a certain frequency. All objects, even wooden tables, are made up of molecules which vibrate to create their mass.
Working as a Pharmacist and a Healer
by Dr Ann Harris
For over twenty years now, I have been on a path of learning about relieving suffering in its various forms. It was only when I started practising in a community environment that I began to understand the complexities of the human condition and the possibilities for healing.
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