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current flows through every clear channel available, whatever the 'healer's' psychic abilities, or, for that matter, religious beliefs."
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It is likely that many energy healing practitioners from time to time access states of awareness that allow the principles of spiritual healing to manifest. However, they themselves may be unaware of the distinction in states of consciousness, or of their mind's transitions between these states. Reiki healing and Therapeutic Touch are two energy healing modalities in which the training of practitioners involves concepts of altruism and compassion. I believe that the inclusion of universal love is an important factor that distinguishes these methods of healing from others that mainly manipulate energy, such as acupuncture. Where there is trust and merging of minds, combined with intentions to help or heal, and surrender of individuality, spiritual healing can occur. |
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Changing the Patient's Reality |
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LeShan's concept of spiritual healing involves "changing the construction of the reality that the patient is in" and feeding a part of the patient that's undernourished. He explains it simply and poetically: |
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We need to live both in the world of the One and the world of the many. But we're . . . undernourished in our need for being in the world of the One. . . . [The healer] feeds that undernourished part of the . . . [patient], and their self-healing abilities [are assisted to] operate at a higher level.26 |
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Healing Message or Healing Energy? |
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So, if a healer is actually sending a healing message, does that mean that he or she is not sending any healing energy? Not necessarily it's just that no one has reliably measured this "energy" yet, though many have tried. The existence of a nonlocal consciousness does not necessarily mean that some sort of energy exchange is not occurring when people are near each other. It is possible that healers have the ability to change the distribution of electrical charge in their hands, or of the local space surrounding them, at will. |
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