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within also promotes confidence that I will be able to achieve that mind state in the presence of patients experiencing stress and pain.
Thoughts On Psychic Abilities, Spiritual Healing, and Energy Healing
Remote viewing is similar to spiritual healing in that, for both of them, you have to be willing to have nothing happen in order for something to happen. They are undertakings with no guaranteed outcomes. For both, you have to be willing to appear foolish and be unattached to the results. Experience helps, because you know that previous outcomes have been positive. Both activities must be entered into with the expectation of success. The more often you consciously adjust your awareness to the nonlocal mind space, whether it is for remote viewing or spiritual healing, the more natural and easier it becomes. With practice, one develops trust in his or her own ability.
Spiritual healing and remote viewing are similar in another sense, in that the practitioner in both processes becomes involved in accessing extrasensory information that is only available to a quiet mind devoid of thoughts. A remote viewer is seeking specific information from her timeless, nonlocal mind. The message is translated into thoughts, drawings, and sensory impressions. A spiritual healer becomes involved in the transmission of nonspecific, nonlocal information to another person, without ever translating or analyzing the message. Changes in a patient's physiology would be the translation of the message into the sensory domain.
The issue of attachment to outcome brings up a clear distinction between psychic and spiritual healing. Psychic or energy healers have usually studied their methods of practice, and paid someone to teach them effective healing techniques. They then use what they have learned and practiced as a means to earn a living. When healing is an occupation, and money is exchanged for services, people are understandably concerned with having predictable outcomes. In this context, healers and patients are both likely to be more comfortable with the concept of ''energy exchange" in healing than they are with the intimacy and mystery inherent in mind-to-mind connections. "People don't want you running barefoot through their mind and

 
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