Learning to heal, featured in this issue, is a complex subject.  Some naturally gifted healers feel that healers cannot be taught but must be born to healing.  Others (myself included) believe that the gift of healing - like any other gift - is present to some degree in most people and may be developed with practice.  It is like playing a musical instrument.  Some people find that playing well comes to them naturally, with little effort.  Others practise and with diligence reach a competent level of proficiency.  Some find that even with considerable practice their efforts produce only modest results.

  There are many methods and styles of healing one may learn and practise.  Just a few of the those which are more medically oriented will be featured in this issue of the Newsletter.  Much may be learned from considera-tions of styles and preferences of perception, cognition and communication, a sub-theme of this issue.

  Many of the Newsletter articles presume that the reader has a basic understanding of holistic and energy medicine concepts.  Briefly, energy medicine starts with Einstein's hypothesis that matter and energy are interchange-able, E = mc2.  Conventional, Newtonian medicine focuses on the matter side of the equation.  In the holistic energy medicine model, focus is on the energy aspects of the body, emotions, mind and spirit.  Healers may utilise their own energy fields or through mental interventions (intent, meditation, prayer or the like) influence the energy aspects of healees by drawing upon non-conventional, cosmic energies..  Healers report that the physical body may be understood as the densest layer of energy, with several layers of more refined energy bodies surrounding and interpenetrating the physical.

  Intuitive diagnoses come to many healers.  Dr Dimiter Genov discusses these in great detail, continuing the sharings from the Healing Energy Medicine conference of last October.  (See back cover for tapes of conference presentations.)  UK healing organisations systematically discourage healers from developing and utilising intuitive diagnostic abilities as a matter of policy.  This is a shame, as it hinders their development as healers and their abilities to help healees.  The intent of the healing organisations seems to be to prevent healers from worrying doctors with impressions which are not based in medical training or terminology and therefore given to misinterpretations by healees, other carers and by the healers themselves.  In Eastern Europe and Russia doctors expect healers to demonstrate diagnostic abilities as a part of the skills which establish their credibility as healers.  Healers are encouraged to study anatomy, physiology and other subjects which improve their understanding of the relationship of intuitive impressions (which are often perceived as energy patterns) and their abilities to relate these to physical diagnoses and to communicate with other carers.

  Learning to orchestrate a publication on healing is another level of learning to heal.  There is a focus of intent while at the same time holding an openness to the new and unexpected.  It is like casting nets and lines in waters which are only partially explored.  Other adventurous members of the Network and outsiders who resonate with the ideas, feelings and spirit of the Newsletter must be willing to take up the oars, cast lines, or hoist the sail and pennant.  There must be patience to wait for promised contributions to surface and a fisherman's assessment of how hard to pull on lines of relationships when articles are slow to surface from the depths of watery awareness and through waves of other obligations which contributors must deal with.

  The Network nets have brought up the suggestion that specific healing practices be shared on these pages and that unusual healing results be discussed in detail, so we introduce these sections in this issue.

  There is a growing awareness of being a focal point for the evolution of expression which has a life of its own.  The multi-faceted creations which have surfaced at the end of the fishing expedition must be shaped to a limited budget of pages and time to sort, edit and arrange them.  There is a great sigh of relief when the whole lot is turned over to the callused hands of the printers, who must be watched carefully lest they do the easiest rather than the best job.  Lessons, lessons, lessons - not to neglect the material aspect which grounds us in this world where matter matters even at times when the intent is to spiritualise our awareness.

  The Doctor-Healer Network is applying for charitable organisation status.  This will facilitate fund raising for various activities, such as another international conference - requested by many who attended the first one and some who couldn't.  More on this in the new section of the Newsletter, Network Meetings, along with brief summaries from the various Network groups around the country.
 

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Copyright © Daniel J. Benor, M.D. 1993 Reprinted with permission of the author P.O. Box 76 Bellmawr, NJ 08099 www.WholisticHealingResearch.com   DB@WholisticHealingResearch.com 

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