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All of the ostensible energy healing modalities we have described fall under LeShan's category of Type 2 healing. We call them modes of "psychic healing," because they involve physical or mental actions done with the intention of manipulating another person's physiology or energy flow. In our terminology, psychic healing involves decision-making processes, learned concepts and diagnoses, the consideration of body functions and symptoms, or a focus on "doing something" to someone else with the intention to affect changes in a body. Psychic healing may be done distantly, or in the presence of the patient.
Psychic, or energy healing, originates from an assumption that a practitioner is acting upon a recipient. As long as the practitioner is focused on doing something to the patient's body, a separation of consciousness between healer and patient is maintained, and this division distinguishes these modes of interactions from spiritual healing. In actuality, psychic and spiritual healing can be complementary to each other, as well as to the other physical and mental healing modalities described by Larry Dossey in Eras I and II of medicine.
When physicians realized the efficacy of mind-body healing techniques that had formally been the domain of psychologists, health educators, and nurses, they began to incorporate them into their practice. Drs. Larry Dossey, Deepak Chopra, Jerry Jampolsky, Bernie Siegel, and Norman Shealy are some of the physicians who have written about their conscious use of nonlocal mind in their therapies. It is possible that most successful physicians use nonlocal mind in their healing practice, even though they may be unaware of it.
Historically, some spiritual healers possessed psychic abilities that complemented their spiritual healing capabilities and allowed them unusual flexibility in interacting in the nonlocal domain. Olga Worrall, one of this country's most renowned and researched spiritual healers, referred to her gift as "spiritual healing" rather than "psychic healing." She said that although her psychic abilities enhanced the healing she did, spiritual healing is usually accomplished by people who are neither clairvoyant, clairaudient, nor psychically mediumistic in any way. She stated that, "The 'healing'

 
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