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these positive changes were all placebo effects, or the result of some sort of inadvertent hypnosis on my part. It no longer matters to me as long as the effect is positive. In addition, my belief has become stronger that something we call spiritual healing really is occurring. |
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Distant Healing and Coincidence |
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I became interested in distant healing after reading Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi and the healer Olga Worrall's biography.
4 My first opportunity to experiment with it came when I was asked to do healing from my home on a patient who had been hospitalized for two weeks with a serious condition that remained undiagnosed. The man suffered excruciating pain in all his muscles, and he was unable to move or function, due to his pain and low level of energy. Physicians had done exploratory surgery, suspecting appendicitis. They had not discovered the cause of the man's disease, but they removed his appendix anyway. The man failed to recover from the surgery, and his condition was declining. |
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At the time of my healing meditation at home, the man's wife and a friend noticed striking improvements in his condition. The man's pain subsided, and he began to rearrange his body position in bed, to converse, and ask for food and water. |
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When his wife telephoned me from the hospital to tell me that her husband was feeling much better, I asked what food he had requested. She began to discuss his diet with me. I learned that the man had been a vegetarian for over two years. After questioning her about his eating habits in the past years, based on my training in nutrition, I discovered that his diet had probably been seriously deficient in vitamin BI2, iron, calcium, and zinc. At my suggestion, the man's wife gave him some vitamin-mineral supplements, and his recovery continued to progress rapidly. He had been experiencing great pain and lethargy for months before the exploratory surgery, but no health professional had ever asked him about his diet. I learned that spiritual healing can take surprising twists and turns. |
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