Paulina Baume           

A healer friend told me she was giving people pieces of cotton wool impregnated with healing energies and finding that sometimes the results were very good.  She also noticed that it seemed to work with some people and not others.  I asked my local healing group if they were interested in finding out if it could work for our patients.  Everyone felt we should try it out and began to ask their patients if they would take part in the experiment.  There was a great deal of laughter and leg-pulling from patients and healers alike, but we carried on regardless!  We requested an honest feedback, both positive and/or negative from everyone taking part in this work.

  The next week, I was surprised at the number of people who had felt comforted or eased their pain and had received healing energies from their pieces of cotton wool.  I was also puzzled because some people felt nothing had happened.  I could not pin it down to one healer and it seemed a random occurrence.  It made no sense.  Either the cotton wool should work or not.

  I received a letter from someone who had been for healing to give up smoking.  As an afterthought I gave her a piece of cotton wool.  She reported back that she had stoped smoking 60 per day from that moment on and she was pleased to report there had been no withdrawal symptoms.  She had loaned the cotton wool to a friend who had also managed to give up smoking painlessly.

  We used the cotton wool in various ways.  It is a comfort for those who are lonely and afraid and to old and young alike whose sleep is disturbed.  Painful ulcers and arthritic joints, healing bones and tissues responded.  We offer it once to each patient and do not need to remember to offer it again!  I had one request for twelve pieces of cotton wool for an office as they all wanted to give up smoking and had been sharing one piece.  We are very much in the exper4imental stages with this at the moment.

  For clarification  I rang a friend who is very psychic and from birth has had a natural ability to see auras and energy fields around people and objects.  We were interested to find that if I put my hands together, palm to palm and healed the cotton wool, the energy field became a healing green colour that lasted about half an hour, after which it disappeared altogether.  When I held the cotton wool in my left palm and healed from about two to three inches away, the energy field became bright blue.  This lasted from about half to three-quarters of an hour.  The real surprise came when I healed about six to eight inches away from the cotton wool.  The whole energy field seemed to change.  My friend said she had never seen energy like it.  It was a glowing, white, pure energy that seemed to grow and radiate light around the cotton wool.  This did not change or fade in any way.  It stabilised and radiated light and healing energies.  We also found that it did not make any difference to the quality of the light whether I put healing into the cotton wool for 30 seconds or five, ten or even fifteen minutes.  The end result was always the same.  Here, then, was a possible answer to why the cotton wool sometimes had worked and sometimes had not.  It might have been that healing was given to the cotton wool form different distances without our realising it.

  A patient brought me a big polythene bag containing cotton wool.   I thought I could treat the whole bag just as well as I could a single pad, and proceeded to do so without opening it.   I found it very difficult to heal through the bag.  I had to take the cotton wool roll out of its bag and even then, to my surprise, I found that it took ten minutes of hard work instead of the usual one or two minutes.  It would seem that the polythene blocked the healing from reaching the cotton wool, even after the cotton wool was outside the bag.

   I read of an experiment some time ago in which a Kirlian photograph1 was taken of a piece of bread and then a priest blessed the bread and the whole energy field shown in the second photograph of the bread had changed and seemed to glow and be full of light.

  We have found that the cotton wool has worked very well with animals, babies and young children.

  A word of caution, however.  A report from one of my patients suggests that it may be possible for patients to overdose with this method of healing.  'Selma', a 42 years old dry alcoholic who attends AA, severely fractured her wrist.  She received healing two days following the injury, with complete pain relief and good relaxation.  She placed treated cotton wool under each end of her cast.  She woke up at 3 am with marked light-headedness and dizziness.  These apparent side effects of healing abated shortly after she removed the treated cotton from under the cast.  It is not entirely certain that these symptoms were due to the treated cotton wool because Selma was undergoing considerable personal and marital stresses at this time.  The symptoms may have been related to stress rather than to the cotton wool.

REFERENCES

1. Kirlian photography is an electrophotographic technique which displays auras around objects, living and inanimate.  It is used extensively for diagnosis in Eastern Europe.
 

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