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trampling on their ego boundaries," is the way Russell expressed his concern regarding mind-to-mind healing to me.
Spiritual healers, on the other hand, freely admit that they never know what will happen in a healing encounter. We try to get ourselves out of the way so healing may occur. Speaking for myself, I practice healing interactions because it is a "calling" that chose me. It was given in a revelation, and it is practiced from inspiration. I do not understand how it works, or why some people have instant relief from pain or other symptoms that lasts for years, while others experience only temporary or partial symptom relief, or no relief at all.
A Spiritual Healer's Concept of a Patient
I view a patient as a person who has a temporary need for a boost in self-healing potential, or a person who is unable to tap the source of supply. A person who chronically suffers from stress or depression, for instance, often benefits temporarily from spiritual healing. However, such people may need to change the way that they interpret and experience their life events in order to maintain their vitality consistently. An experience of spiritual healing can bring on an essential transformation of consciousness that literally opens one's mind to new perceptions  a different way of perceiving and experiencing reality. This opening enables self-healing. We might never have learned about our mind-to-mind connections, or connecting to the Source, if we had never needed healing. So illness can be seen as an opportunity  an invitation to cease doing, be still, and see our relationships to others and to the world in new ways.
The Mind of a Spiritual Healer
I perceive myself as having some attribute or talent for achieving coherence with another person and boosting his or her self-healing energy. Somehow I am able to access a Source of healing information through a particular form of attention, psychically adapt my body-mind to another person, and

 
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