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Other types of healing that involve touch share the common belief that to create change, or healing, the patient needs to connect to his or her true self. Whether the healers use ''laying-on-of-hands," "healing touch," or "faith healing," they all involve the idea that the healer and patient are somehow connected on a higher, perhaps psychic, plane that opens an inflow of healing energy to the patient. |
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Want proof that auras exist? They've been photographed! In 1939, the Russian scientist Semyon Kirlian developed a technique using film between two electrodes to show a bright corona surrounding his hand. (One guess what they call this: a Kirlian photograph! We'll talk more about Kirlian photography in Chapter 22.) Skeptics have tried to downplay his discovery by saying that it's photographing ionization, but they still can't explain the differences between living and dying leaves: living ones show bright auras, and dying ones show dull ones. |
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In addition to demonstrating that living matter is more vibrant than dead matter, the Kirlian images also show an interesting fact about healers: Their fingertips exude amazing amounts of vibrant energy. Healers seem to have some force in their hands that is full of life energy. Once you become extremely observant of auras, you can see this for yourself. Often, healers have a lot of heat in their hands, which is though to come from this life energy as well. |
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Getting in touch with this life force is important to healing, as well as to developing intuitive abilities. And the key to connecting to the life force is meditation. Just as meditation helps many people develop their psychic awareness, it also helps them tap into their healing potential. In addition to opening up the auric sense, it can provide the awareness that is necessary for healingboth within ourselves and for others. |
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The Buddhists express their recognition of the integral connection between meditation and healing hands by using mudras. They use these specific hand positions during meditation to harness vital life energies. Various subtle hand positions represent and inspire certain states or conditions, such as compassion, fearlessness, or renunciation. |
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You've probably seen hand positions like these in paintings or statues of Buddha or his disciples meditating; you also might have noticed they appear in many Christian paintings too. Indeed, the mudra for prayer looks very much like the famous Christian artwork of two hands praying. |
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