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Comment on FYAmusement: Medical terminology made simple

2010-01-06T16:38:38Z

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Comment on FYAmusement: Medical terminology made simple

2009-11-13T18:02:40Z

brilliant :D

I`d love to but it on my facebook, may I?

Comment on Distant healing with WHEE

2009-09-09T11:47:50Z

Good Question, Anne!

I have two answers:

1. If you are asking about the mechanism(s) by which distant healing is effective, the answer is that no one knows for sure. Many scientists have addressed this question, considering all known forms of energies and the little that is known about consciousness.

Because the effects of all known energies diminish with distance from the source of energy, no such theory appears tenable because distant healing effects occur around the world and there does not appear to be a diminished effect.

The same is true of psychic telepathy, clairsentience, precognition and psychokinesis (mind influencing matter). Based on this information, my own belief is that we are all part of a collective consciousness that includes all other people, all other living beings, and all other so-called inanimate matter in the universe. I believe that it is consciousness that makes distant healing possible.
See summaries of researchon psychic abilities at http://wholistichealingresearch.com/psi_research.html

2. If you are asking about the mental processes by which healers send healing, these vary broadly according to the healing traditions/ methodologies, belief systems of healers, and their personal gifts of healing.

Some use mental imagery, visualizing the changes required to achieve health or visualizing the desired end state of health. As you note, there may be a felt state of connectedness, toning or chanting, healing rituals, etc. Others invoke prayers, and some of these include beliefs that if prayers are not offered within their own religious frameworks of belief that they are no good or even the work of the devil. Prayers may be outcome-oriented, in which case the healer may again be pushing the healee towards the healer's desired goal states of health. Prayers may be invitations to the healee to shift, change and grow; and/or to a higher power to intervene to facilitate the same - leaving the outcome to the higher wisdom of the healee and the higher power.

The common denominators of mental processes involved in the healer, elucidated brilliantly by Lawrence LeShan, are:
1. Quieting the healer's mind (centering/ meditation exercises are helpful)
2. Connecting mentally with the healee
3. Connecting mentally with the All

LeShan L. The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist, New York: Ballantine 1977. (UK edition: Clairvoyant Reality, Wellingborough, UK: Thorsons 1974). (Psychologist studied healers, found common denominators in methods, learned to heal and teach healing. Excellent theoretical discussion on healing, altered states of consciousness, and other dimensions of reality.)

For a broad overview of healers' beliefs about how healing works, see

Benor, Daniel J, Healing Research: Volume I, Spiritual Healing: Scientific Validation of a Healing Revolution, Wholistic Healing Publications 2007 (Orig. 2001). Healers describe their work, research in parapsychology as a context for understanding healing, brief summaries of randomized controlled studies, pilot studies.

Blessings

Dan

Comment on Distant healing with WHEE

2009-09-09T03:48:54Z

Dr. Benor i agree with your definition of spiritual healing, and what is needed to have the extra energy accepted. But how does a spiritual healer send the energy from a distance? is it usually a visual, felt, or sound process, or somethng else? Thanks.

Comment on Building for environmentally sensitive people

2009-07-01T15:12:12Z

This is great news! Thanks for posting it. This kind of project was first recommended by former Ottawa Mayor Marion Dewar just over a quarter century ago. You can see her letter as an attachment at http://ages.ca/content/marion-dewar-suggests-housing-coop

Comment on Hex deaths

2009-06-02T09:06:19Z

Thanks for this great article. Years from now, health practitioners will scratch their head over the way that "modern medical science" did everything they could to eliminate the Placebo Effect, which harnesses some of the most potent forces for helping regain health, namely faith and intention.
I personally suspect that the "placebo effect" is still grossly underestimated. For example, researchers often don't take into consideration the energy of the actual practitioner who is offering the active medicine or placebo. Imagine if the same pill is offered to you by the Dalai Lama, as compared to George W. Bush. The impact of the medicine on your health is likely to be significantly different. Another great example is someone like the Energy Medicine Healer Donna Eden. She radiates such positivity, that many of her clients are bound to "catch it." We need to study such people and help develop qualities of warmth, empathy, and presence in our health practitioners.
While I respect science as one way to gain knowledge, there is also a need to develop good heartedness, and positive authentic energy in a practitioner. In the past, we had a name for this. It's what used to be referred to as a doctor's "good bedside manner." We need to develop the whole practitioner, and not just their brains, if we hope to offer the most truly efficacious medicine.

Comment on Transactional Analysis - Mind and Heart -- benorwholisticblog.com --

2009-04-27T20:01:50Z

Another article about the little professor would be nice. It is also very important.