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degree, by the mind." 3 A similar analogy may be drawn in the field of physics, where the classical models persist, even though they are unable to account for the data of relativity, quantum physics, or remote viewing.
Era II, according to Dossey, describes the kind of mind-to-body approaches to medicine that involve the psychosomatic effect of one's consciousness on one's own body  the idea that "what you think affects your health." Era II medicine does attribute a causal effect of mind, but the mind is still seen as a function of brain chemistry and anatomy. Era II acknowledges the connection between an individual's brain, mind, and organs. Its therapies involve psychosomatic medicine, and include counseling, hypnosis, biofeedback, and self-healing imagery and relaxation techniques, as well as psychoneuroimmunology. Eras I and II are similar in that the mind is still considered to be localized in one's body, as well as in present time.
In the 1990s, we have entered the third era of medical therapies. Despite the important advances of Era II medicine, researchers recognize that it is still incomplete. In Era III medicine, mind is seen as unconfined by either space (brains or bodies) or time (present experience). We recognize that our nonlocal mind may affect healing both within and between people. Non-contact healing modalities between people in each other's presence, as well as between people distant from each other, become possible with nonlocal mind. It is this latter element that distinguishes Era III medicine.
Healing modalities from all three of these categories can be highly efficacious in certain situations and under the right conditions. The greater range of therapies that has become available with each new era of medicine has not extinguished the value of the healing methodologies of another era. Instead, each era's healing therapies complement the approaches used in the others. Many people don't understand this, and think that one mode must be sacrificed in order to use the other.4
In my (Jane's) practice as a healer, I have experienced the disappointment and antagonism that clients express towards Era I medicine, once they discover the efficacy of self-healing imagery, for instance, or the healing power of herbs, or of a particular energy healer. As we discover more about nonlocal healing, we are not required to eliminate the physically based treatments

 
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