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The ideal space for spiritual healing should be devoid of any unpleasant sensory stimuli or mental associations that might promote psychological defensiveness, or detract from a client's ability to relax. I prefer to practice healing in a small, quiet, private room with soft, diffused light. I find quiet, inspiring music to be helpful in the attuning process. It relaxes both the patient and me, and helps divert the client's attention away from pain, symptoms, and self-consciousness. |
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A patient need not have faith or even believe that the treatment will be helpful for healing to take place. What is important is that the patient be relaxed and "open" to whatever may occur, and allow the process to take its course. Sometimes negligible results occur with the most prayerful people, and other times skeptical patients experience remarkable outcomes. It has taken me many years of healing practice to develop a nonattachment to the outcome. Most people are helped to some degree by spiritual healing, but the irony is that nonattachment of the healer is a crucial element for success. |
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The act of asking for a treatment or coming to the healer's treatment space is very important for the patient. It initiates the healing interaction by providing an opening for "new information" to come into their being. Spiritual healing is not obstructed if a patient is unconscious or asleep in fact, the healing interaction often puts people soundly to sleep quite rapidly. Sometimes the effects of a treatment are not obvious until after a client has gone home, gone to sleep, and reawakened. It took me some time to realize that spiritual healing might occur best during sleep, possibly because a patient's mind, when awake, may block access to the healing information. |
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Often, a series of treatments over time are necessary, and other times, one treatment can result in the elimination of a person's pain or the restoration of function to an injured body part. Sometimes, the self-repair systems of patients are mobilized to heal different health problems than the one they had in mind when they came for healing treatment. |
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During healing interactions, both the patient and I often feel that we are bathed in a serene sea of warmth. It feels pulsating, peacefully invigorating, and wonderful. Sometimes, both the client and myself experience synesthesia, where we "sense" expanding or pulsating vibrations of colored light |
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