What's New on IJHC (May 2008)

IJHC May 2008, Volume 8, No. 2 features:

Editorial Musings

WISH POLLUTION
Daniel J. Benor, MD

Have you ever had an unlikely wish come true? Did you have the feeling that you may have made it happen – perhaps through the strength of your desire or your activation of an energetic pattern of intent as you wish for it?

For the most part, people assume that when wishes come true it is a positive thing. On one level, the object or event of desire in the wish is a reward. In addition, there is an affirmation of a person's ability to shape reality and a feeling of being worthy on some higher level – as witnessed by having one's wishes granted.

Tesearch in parapsychology and spiritual healing confirm that wishes and intents can alter the probabilities of:

• dice thrown mechanically showing a randomly chosen number
• a random number generator (RNG) deviating from random output, where the RNG is based on an electronic program or radioactive emissions
• the cascade of balls through a randomizing maze of pins
• rates of growth of bacteria, yeasts, cells in laboratory culture, and plants
• rates of healing in animals who have malaria, amyloidosis, skin wounds
•  rates of healing of humans who have anxiety, pain, depression.

The parapsychological research has been replicated in sufficient numbers of studies in numerous laboratories around the world, and the meta-analyses of the results are more substantial than in many other areas of research. Research on spiritual healing for human subjects also demonstrates significant effects in human and non-human subjects.

The Western worldview is one of seeking outer achievements and successes as ways of validating our personal worth and success in life. With this mindset, we develop a pattern of seeking ever more, never-ending outer goals. Our wishes are often directed towards successes in these endeavors and are never-ending, never satiating…
 (See more in IJHC, May 2008)

“AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE”:
Impressive results of non-traditional healing methods in treating Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD/CRPS)
Nancy Hopps, LMT, CSH
This article is a summary of my work with a young woman, “Marissa," who was diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD/CRPS). This is a very painful disorder that has no generally accepted treatment in conventional medicine. After several months of unsuccessful nerve blocks and other allopathic approaches, the only western medical treatment options presented to her were placing a morphine pump in her back, or performing a sympathectomy (severing of the sympathetic nervous system to the affected limb.) Both are considered palliative measures, not cures. Fortunately, at that point she was referred to a physician who diagnosed Marissa’s disease as being psychosomatic in origin. Shortly thereafter, I began working with her. Because Marissa’s symptoms were so severe, the medical testing and previous treatments so extensive, and the cure so dramatic, hers is one of the most profound examples of mindbody healing I have witnessed in many years of practice. Most notable, the fact that the symptoms were such a clear metaphoric reflection of the underlying emotional issues makes this case study a wonderful example of the synergistic, (and creative!) workings of the mindbody continuum. Simply put, as the underlying emotional issues were resolved, the amazingly congruent physical symptoms also disappeared. We used many techniques and therapeutic approaches, but as is evidenced below, “the greatest of these was Love.”
(See more in IJHC, May 2008)