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The first time I treated a relatively new friend who was suffering from postpartum pain resulting from a spinal block, I had an interesting experience that was to be the first of many similar healing encounters. We discovered that each time I tried to help relieve her ferocious headache, the anesthetic effect of the healing only lasted about an hour and twenty minutes, despite the fact that neither of us expected her pain to return after any time frame. Both of us napped in between the healing treatments, which took only about ten seconds, before she would again experience pain relief. She awakened each time her pain returned, and it seemed to recur on a regular schedule.
At that point in my healing experience, I realized that some universal life energy was involved, and I also thought some sort of local forcefield was created during healing that dissipated with time. Sometimes, however, only one treatment was needed for pain to disappear completely without returning. Another outcome was that a person experienced complete pain relief for the duration of his or her life, but they died from the ailment we both hoped would be cured.
While I was a graduate student, I had occasion to participate in healing with an open-minded professor with a sinus infection. This person was a trusted friend, and it took only about a minute to establish the healing connection. I was holding my hands on either side of his head, and we both felt the feeling of energy flowing. The treatment eliminated his symptoms of pain and swelling, and I was feeling the characteristic "high" that I experience from healing interactions. When I am in that connected state, I see concentric spheres of vibrating light behind my closed eyelids. The colors and movements of the circles change as the patient's pain and other symptoms change. I am often able to feel in my body the same symptoms and changes that the patient experiences.
I characteristically keep my hands in the same position as long as I feel the engine-like vibrations moving through my body. Suddenly, the vibrations and "whirring" feeling inside me stopped. For the first time, I realized that it was the client, and not me, who had the most to do with the cessation of the connection. I "felt" his abrupt disconnection from the merging

 
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