Dr. Craig Brown           

Every Wednesday I have a healer, Del Ralph, sitting with me in my GP surgery.  Patients are given the option when they phone for routine visits on Wednesdays to see the two of us together or to see me alone on another day.  We have been working this way for four years.  Let me share a typical case report.

  My first contact with Mrs. French was through a phone call on a Monday morning.  She wasd in a panic because her heart was beating very fast.  I gave her some advice and asked her to call back to see me in the Surgery the following day.  She was a new patient to the Practice and had no objection to coming when a healer would be with me.
 
  Mrs. French told me that the attacks of fear and panic had been troubling her for five years.  She generally felt well and held a responsible position at work but on occasions these feelings overcame her so that she had to stop what she was doing for between five minutes and up to half an hour.

  She felt it had all become worse since her grandmother's death one month previously. She was obviously distressed by the symptoms as she shook and cried when talking about them.  She said her over-all emotion was one of fear and panic.

  In the past she had been given Valium and Beta-Blockers to slow her heart. She had found these partially helpful but she was not keen to re-start drugs.  Her grandfather had died of a stroke five years previously and she couldn't get the thought out of her mind that she may have a stroke or even a heart attack.  She also revealed that her own father had left home when she was sixteen years old.
 
  I gave her one of my stress sheets and took her to the Practice library to introduce her to some books and tapes on relaxation.  I mentioned other therapies such as hypnosis, yoga and healing that might be helpful to her.

  After this short ten minute consultation, Del and I discussed her case.  He picked up from her conversation that she was wanting to change her job to work with horses but as it was not so well paid her parents didn't want her to.  He also felt intuitively that the problem was at the heart centre.  This was supported by her posture when she was crying and holding her chest as though it was aching and by her symptoms of palpitations and chest ache which were centered around the heart.  He felt this was a point of conflict between the lower outer physical and the upper inner spiritual with a turmoil being centered around the heart.  In a word, there was a feeling of frustration and we both felt that healing would be very helpful in her case.  There was an obvious psycho-dynamic element to her symptoms which was related to her recent and perhaps past unresolved bereavements.  She may well also need counselling about her father suddenly leaving home.
 

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