Dr. F. Muriel Pearce           

When I qualified as a doctor in 1946 I never dreamt that I would one day be working as a spiritual healer.

  I discovered when I was in my teens that I had 'healing hands'.  I sat in school at a double desk with a girl I didn't know well.  One day she complained, 'I feel awful.'  I am not a very tactile person, but I put my hand intuitively on hers.  She immediately reported that she felt better and told me that I had healing hands.  I took that on board, but left it on a shelf for many years.

  I decided to become a doctor, which I have never regretted.  During my training I was so committed to the study of medicine and surgery that the healing slipped to the back of my mind.
 
  In those days there was a lack of understanding between doctors and spiritual healers.  Most spiritual healers appeared to be opposed to orthodox medical treatment, a situation which I regarded as potentially dangerous.  Naturally, the doctors weren't too keen on the healers either!

  Working in general practice over the past thirty years has proved satisfying.  To some extent the healing power flowed but I did not invest much of myself in this.  Occasionally I was told by patients that their pain was gone after I touched them.  I wondered whether I might have contributed to the disappearance of leukemia in a patient with this "incurable" illness, but couldn't know if my contribution, her own self-healing, or healing by others might have been the more important.

  After retirement I received spiritual healing myself for arthritis with good pain relief and other symptomatic improvements.  It was then that I intuitively felt I should be using my healing gifts, and the healing power developed fully.  I should add that my arthritis is slowly getting worse but I am able to cope with it.

  I have been taking part in healing services in church for about three years, but find that healing in the context of a church service is restricted.   It is a high Anglican church.  The vicar invited me to participate regularly in a Sunday healing service.  We say evening prayers.  He anoints those who come for healing and we do a laying-on-of-hands lasting no longer than a minute.  The atmosphere is quiet and the prayer contributes, I am sure, to the healings.  But I do not feel as satisfied with this as with the healings I do for 15-20 minutes.

  I joined the NFSH Bromley branch at the beginning of this year and was registered as a healer member.  Working with the group of healers at Bromley is satisfying and enjoyable.  My fellow healers can get help on medical questions if need be and I am learning from them.  I am impressed that those very ailments which respond only partially to medical treatment, particularly asthma and eczema, often respond dramatically to spiritual healing.  It is also successful for pain relief in problems of all sorts, such as migraine, arthritis and cancer.  Patients with chronic illnesses are helped to achieve a positive attitude.  Cancer patients do well, though we do not lead them to expect cures.  We have patients with multiple sclerosis enjoying long remissions.

  For any General Practitioner who might have doubts about his patient going to a spiritual healer, it may be a help to know that there are now doctors amongst the healers.  I know I am not the only one.
 

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