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So when the man with the toasty toes asked me if I would please try to relieve his best friend's leg pain, I acquiesced. "Okay," I said, "If we keep it quiet and don't attract any attention." Then I learned that his buddy's painful leg didn't exist, because it had been amputated. I hadn't yet heard of "phantom limb pain," and I felt ignorant. But I realized I had to learn to be comfortable with all kinds of injuries and afflictions. Also, I was curious to see if the healing energy that worked through my body would be of help in easing the man's phantom limb pain. So the following week, I tried it. (Looking back on this experience, I can see that I was learning to relate to people's spiritual essence, and not be psychologically blocked by their physical form or appearance.) |
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Learning to Get beyond Bodies |
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At that time, I believed that some sort of energy was coming out of my hands and going into the patient when I did a treatment. I had no idea where to insert energy for leg pain from a leg I could neither see nor touch. It was definitely a strange experience: I held my hands near to the place where the man's thigh would have been, and felt the characteristic tingles and flowing sensations that I feel when a healing connection is made. Whatever was happening, I began to realize, was far beyond my understanding, and seemed to work in the air. |
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The man said he felt tingling where he often felt the pain. He did not have active pain at the time I was treating him, he said, so I told him to let me know the following week if he had anything to report. The next time I saw him he said that he had experienced no phantom limb pain since the time of his treatment, which was highly unusual for him. He did not ask for another healing session, and I never saw him again. I felt relieved, because the whole concept of spiritual healing was strange enough to me, without having to deal with the idea of how it could be efficacious for symptoms in a person's extremity that had no ordinary sensations, or for symptoms in a body part that didn't even exist. |
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