Living in a Place of Love Rather Than Anger, Hurt and Fear Daniel J. Benor, MD - IJHC Editor
There is one Moral Principle the Love which springs forth from a willing heart, surrendered in service to God and Humanity, and which blooms in deeds of beneficence.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Living in a place of love generates healing in you and in those with whom you interact. By clearing your blocks to being a vehicle for healing, you can bring more healing into the world. Through the web of consciousness and life you can contribute your healing to all of creation.
Research
Measuring Children's Intuition in a School Setting Christian J. Hallman, PhD
total of 2,040 children were tested in a school environment with a computer software program designed to measure the intuitive ability of predicting a future, randomly selected target. This ‘precognition’ test consisted of 30 trials. Comparisons between gender and four categories of age groups ranging from 3-19 years of age were examined. Females scored significantly overall (z = 1.75, p = .04), whereas males did not (z = 0.39, n.s.). The only highly significant finding in age categories came from the youngest age group of children 3-6 years of age (males z = 2.29, p = .01; females z = 2.13, p = .02; overall z = 3.13, p = .001).
Distant Mental Healing: Influence of Intercessory Prayers and Qi-Gong Therapy Alexander P. Dubrov
Perspectives from Russia on healing research
Conscious and unconscious (psychic) mental healing (MH) has been known since times immemorial [1-3]. There are vast numbers of methods of MH in various countries of the world, practiced by numerous peoples, nationalities and even small ethnic groups. It is estimated that more than 200 different kinds of folk healing methods are known at present [4]...
According to the survey data from 1970-1980, from 5 to 38% of people in western countries applied for psychic treatment, most of them women (50-78%). The patients, who were from 40 to 60 years old, requested healing for Chronic diseases - rheumatic, neurological and cardiovascular, which accounted for 50% of the cases. Improvement was attained in 31-65%; deterioration was marked in 6%, on average, and in oncological cases in 21% [5]. In recent years, complementary and alternative medicine has grown more popular with the inhabitants of Denmark (up to 18%), Belgium (38%), US (43-69%), Great Britain (60%), and France (75%) [7]. It has become even more popular in Russia, Bulgaria and Brazil, where these methods have been traditional over many generations.
In 2001-2004 the circumstance stated above encouraged the European Union in Strasburg to investigate the EUHEAL project on distant healing (no less than 100 km) of patients with chronic weariness syndrome and chemical substances hyper-allergy. Four hundred healers from 21 European countries, each of them having three patients, took part in this triple-blind experiment, the results of which will be published soon, upon completion of the study [8,8a].
In Russia, which is a traditionally religious country, folk healers have rendered medical aid to patients for many years. These healers include in their healing arsenal a centuries-old experience in prayer and spiritual healing, connected with the exorcism and incantation art of Eastern Slavs [9].
A list of the best professionally qualified folk healers, including the names of 275 persons, is presented in the All-Russian International Individual Register of Complementary Medicine for the years 1999-2003. Twenty of them (7.3%) claim the ability to heal at great distances [10]....
MAKE SOME THINGS RIGHT AGAIN
When I was a child growing up in a family where things were often dreadfully wrong and no one knew how to make them right, my siblings and I had to carry some pretty adult-sized burdens at far too young an age. In little ways, large parts of our childhood were stolen in order to help my mother keep my father's impulsive decisions from capsizing our wobbly family boat in rough seas. He didn't mean to create such chaos, but he had the nature of one who grabbed for what he wanted when he wanted it, and the pieces were left for my mother and the children to pick up or put back together. One example of this phenomenon – a relatively small blip on an already chaotic family radar screen – is an era I have always spoken of, heavily punctuated with sighs, as "The Horses!" ...
THE HEROIC JOURNEY
Ruth, a very dear Quaker friend of many years, is slowly entering the last stage of her heroine's journey home. Now in her mid-seventies, Ruth was diagnosed six years ago with Primary Progressive Aphasia. The first signal that her brain was changing its course was that she could not retrieve some common words she had always used with ease. Working with healers in various traditions, including indigenous healers, she was able to stand her ground against these progressive losses for five years, but more recently, the changes are coming quickly, and she has been losing balance, words, and memory with advancing speed...
Past life regressions can add many dimensions to psychotherapy. They may release traumatic roots of current-life symptoms that have puzzled therapists and patients and have resisted more conventional psychotherapeutic approaches. They can be rapidly and profoundly transformative - not only in dealing with psychological issues but also in opening patients to spiritual awarenesses that are in and of themselves transformative. As with any abreactive therapies, regressions may involve strong emotional releases. These can be distressing and sometimes even traumatizing to patients. Establishing a Place of Joy is a way to help patients deal with these and other traumas.
Many patients start their past life regression therapy with an urgent desire to 'find the culprits,' be it they themselves or others. Yet, they are not prepared for the depth of sensation and knowledge that confronts them once they have commenced their journey through the veils of time and hidden knowledge to potentially stressful and traumatic past life roots of current issues.
When patients have found their 'Place of Joy' to help them through their past life regression, they can travel through difficult times knowing that they can retreat to their peaceful, spiritual haven at any time. Regressions may be emotionally intense and deeply moving, bringing about rapid and profound transformations. They need not be as painful in ways that emotional and cognitive shifts are often experienced during conventional therapy.
This induction technique allows them to go to a place and time earlier in this lifetime, or in a past or future lifetime. The only proviso is that they visit a place and time where they felt, or believe they would feel, peace, comfort, love and joy. Unlike many hypnotherapists, I use a very light level of trance to leave them in control and therefore able to access their resilience and maintain complete memory of the entire experience...
Balance Brings Better Intuition Rev. Cay Randall-May, PhD
How we can optimize conditions for intuitive development and practice
Intuition is any leap of logic in thought or action. When we know something without knowing why we know it, that's intuition. When we find ourselves in the right place at the right time that's the result of our intuition, as well. Everyone is intuitive to some extent, but those who enhance their intuitive awareness are often rewarded with improved health and abundance.
It's not surprising that countless hours and untold resources are spent every year by individuals who want to develop their intuitive and healing abilities. They study, attend workshops and classes on how to use particular methods or tools, remote view, etc.
These activities are undoubtedly useful, but if basic principles of physical and emotional balance are overlooked, the student will not reach her or his maximum intuitive potential. Intuition and related abilities, such as clairvoyance, are attributes of a higher level of thinking than ordinary consciousness. Their cultivation requires harmonizing the physical and bioenergetic bodies, a task more complex and subtle than learning a typical academic subject or athletic skill. After more than 30 years working as a professional intuitive consultant, healer, and educator, I know that intuition is a natural ability, which everyone who strives for personal balance can sharpen. Practitioners of intuitive medicine and related professions will benefit from a daily balance regime in order to meet the energetic demands of their work...
I have never been very good at visiting people in the hospital. I am unsettled by the smells of disinfectant that do not quite mask the sick-room odors of medicines, and of the cloying, private aromas of the human body. I seem, always, to get lost in the maze of hallways. The sight of blood makes me dizzy.
You might think that I would be the last person to 'shadow' hospital chaplains in their daily patient rounds, and an even more unlikely person to visit with patients and family members on a big-city hospital's Intensive Care Oncology Unit. Maybe so, but as a master's student embarking on an independent study of my own design, my fears and anxieties -- especially, my own spiritual uncertainty -- quickly took a backseat to the amazing displays of compassion and faith that I witnessed there.
...I now understand so much more deeply the ever-present tension between intellectual curiosity and the unsettling emotions I would need, somehow, to process. I sensed the dichotomy between the academic -- the systematic gathering of data -- and the slow and rarely anticipated birth of inner wisdom.
In taking on this project, I strove to understand, experientially, how compassion could bring about healing. Perhaps I would also learn something more about myself and how I was connected to what I envisioned (albeit somewhat diffusely!) as 'God,' 'Nature,' or 'Universal Spirit...'
Man has turned on himself in his attempts to conquer the environment. This literature review examines the emergence, relevance and validity of Ecopsychology ®¢ the study of this self-destructive process and the search for its cure. Has man betrayed himself in his patriarchal pursuit of dominion? Can Ecopsychology embrace other fields of psychology, science, physics and religion to sort out how collective efforts could halt the destruction of our planet and ultimately ourselves? It seems that a revolution in ideas, positive action and especially thought is rising to help understand our behavior and to present possible solutions to our global environmental issues. The earth is our home, our mother and our lifeblood and as Ecopsychology shows, as much a part of us as we are of it.
Recently, environmental movements have created a greater awareness of the imperative of preserving our planet. In attempts to understand how our situation became so grave, some psychologists (Roszak, 1995) acknowledge the need for examination of the motivation for destroying our own home and the indifference towards this immanent destruction. It is in hopes of determining the reasons for such behavior that the field of Ecopsychology was established. It asks, "Can we understand the psychology hidden behind self-destructive patterns and create ecologically sound principles that can save our environment and thus mankind?"
...It is in within our nature to love, be loved and express community in all our daily interactions. However, accountability for our actions is [dismissed overridden] by self-serving endeavors and the pursuit of personal gain at the expense of others, adhering to Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. The costs are high and frighteningly threatening as we destroy the sacredness of the earth. Winter and Kroger (2004) shed light on some of the underlying fears that create our self-destructive attitudes. They suggest that the fear of scarcity reveals that we have little trust in our future or in the fact that our needs will be met. As fear and competition replace the belief that cooperation and trust will bring us benefits, we become neurotic in one of four ways, and these neuroses will impact our environmental behavior. The four reactions are narcissism, depression, paranoia and compulsions. Narcissism denies the value of anything beyond the self. Depression creates helplessness and apathy toward global issues. Paranoia creates fear of others and negative propaganda about foreign political systems and others, thereby fueling this neurosis. Compulsions are fed by the greed that is advocated as need based ®¢ having set our standards for needs in some parts of the world at levels that drain the resources of other parts of the world. Boldt, (1999) writes of the art of abundant living and the Tao of abundance as an alternative to fear. We can learn of our incredibly creative qualities and exercise them versus living in fear of our imminent demise...
Reiki is a healing art that hails back to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shintoism, and was originally developed by Mikao Usui in Japan. This article presents the importance of its use for all people, regardless of their belief system, as a means of healing and involvement with other people. The author talks about her own experiences with Reiki, relieving pain for others, and helping her become more hands-on and less aloof. She also explains the basic Reiki tenets, briefly describes the seven major Chakras (energy centers in the body), and how Reiki attunements begin the process of healing self and others through a mysterious source of interconnectedness, which might be likened to the Oneness in Christ that begins with the ritual of baptism.
Creative Arts for Healing
Phototherapy Ellen Fisher-Turk
Profound transformations through self-acceptance
I call my work PhotoTherapy. PhotoTherapy combines black and white photography and journal writing as tools for changing women's negative self-image. I ask women to keep a journal when they decide to be photographed through six weeks afterward. Women start the photographing clothed and disrobe during the session. Everywhere we look , in magazines, on television, the images are retouched They look perfect How should we feel?
This article is about how women take back the appraisal of WHAT IS BEAUTY. PhotoTherapy uses a woman's multiple images to shift her negative self-perceptions. By being seen and not judged, by being photographed nude and seeing what they're most afraid of seeing, women have had the opportunity to reconstruct how they see themselves.
I remember photographing Camilla six years ago. When she called to set up an appointment, she said, "I must be crazy to do this, but my body image is terrible. I can't keep getting up in the morning being disgusted with what I see."
