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body or to the body of a patient. Healing occurs through a joined state of consciousness. I surmise that the drumming, chanting, dancing, and rhythmic breathing that is part of healing ceremonies in other cultures has to do with a similar entraining of minds in a nonthinking realm. Joined minds, combined with intentions to help heal, can have real effects on the body.
Energy Healing
Although spiritual healing differs in practice and experience from so-called energy healing modalities such as Reiki healing, Chi Gong, Therapeutic Touch, pranic healing, and the Barbara Brennan and Rosalyn Bruyere healing techniques, the successful results may actually derive from some similar principle involving joined minds and helping intentions. Theories of energy healers regarding the life force coincide with the practice of spiritual healing, if one thinks of the energy as being a manifestation of consciousness.
We have attempted to summarize the similarities among different energy healing techniques. These overall descriptions are not meant in any way to judge the effectiveness of any particular school of healing, or subtle energy modalities of healing in general. All nonlocal healing is controversial. Whether or not one method or another involves "energy transfer" is still very much an open question. One of the purposes of this book is to explain why the authors believe that "information transfer," or more precisely, ''information access and sharing," is an inherent aspect of both energy and spiritual healing modalities. In this way, remote viewing and healing connections are related. They both reveal aspects of coherence, or our mind-to-mind connectedness to one another.
The various schools of subtle energy healing teach their own stylized theories and techniques, which usually involve some combinations of physical and mental exercises and practice. These methods of healing often require study and memorization by the healer-in-training concerning hand positions to be used during healing, or specific points on the healee's body toward which to direct energy for particular ailments. Breathing exercises, visualizations and meditations, and some process of initiation by a master

 
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