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In any case, one day my supervisor had a very bad headache, and no one in the office had any aspirin. I asked her if she'd like to try healing with me, and she was in such pain that she agreed. She removed her glasses, and I positioned one hand in front of her head and one hand behind. In a few minutes her pain had disappeared, and she was ready to resume her job specifying typefaces and sizes for the ads. She put on her glasses and discovered that she couldn't read with them anymore! She became intensely agitated. She was so disturbed about the phenomenon that I couldn't ascertain whether or not she was able to read without her glasses.
My co-workers and I were amazed  but my supervisor was so angry that she left and went home for the day. When I arrived at work the next morning, she was busily designing ads with her glasses on. She never mentioned the incident to me, and I never offered healing to her again, despite her frequent headaches. Nearly every week after that, however, someone else at work asked for my healing help.
Distant Healing over the Telephone
I spent many years unable to confront many of the paradoxes of healing. My self-doubt and my reluctance to deal with other people's reactions to spiritual healing were familiar companions to me. Today those feelings are usually outweighed by my gratitude for being able to help people, and by my curiosity. My most unusual experience with healing occurred when I awakened one morning feeling a strong inclination to telephone a woman with metastasized breast cancer, whom I had met only briefly. I had not had any contact with the woman for many weeks, but I had heard from her friends that she never answered her telephone, as she was very weak and wanted to conserve her energy.
Nonetheless, I felt compelled to telephone her. I expected to be greeted by her answering machine, so I was surprised when the woman answered the phone after just one ring. Immediately after she said hello, I began to experience the sensation of an energized current vibrating through my body. I identified myself to the woman, and asked her how she was doing. She said

 
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