Overview

Healing is the channelling of healing energies through the healer to the patient. It re-energises and relaxes the patients to enable their own natural resources to deal with illness or injury in the best possible way. By 'attunement' - perhaps best described as a combination of empathy and intent - either in the presence of the patient or at a distance - and by directing energy, usually through the hands, the healer seeks to supplement the depleted energy of the recipient, dealing with stress at whatever level it exists and releasing the body's own recuperative abilities to deal with the problem in the most effective way for that individual.

History

Healing - often known as spiritual healing or therapeutic touch - is a skill with a recorded history or over four thousand years. Misunderstood and under exploited, it is a natural phenomenon which use is profoundly relaxing, restorative and completely non-invasive.

It can be of therapeutic value in a wide range of physical and psychological conditions, sometimes to a remarkable degree, and it can be employed by itself or in conjunction with any other therapy.

Benefits

Healing can be given for any illness, stress or injury and as a therapy which is completely natural, has no side effects and is complementary to any other therapy.

It can be helpful in a wide range of physical and psychological conditions, sometimes to a remarkable degree: indeed the medically diagnosed nature of the illness appears to be irrelevant to the outcome, and case histories range from the trivial to the terminal in which healing seems to have made an important, perhaps even overriding, contribution to recovery. Aside from its value in relieving pain and restoring function, healing is also notable for initiating improvements in patients' attitudes and clarity of thought, and in their quality of life.

Procedure

Healers work in their own and patient's homes, in the workplace, in doctor's surgeries, in hospitals, in hospices, in healing and natural health centres, in nursing and retirement homes, in community centres - in fact, almost anywhere a need for healing exists.

The treatment is accomplished by concentrating on the patient with focussed intent and by pannng the hands at varying distances above the surface of the body. Sometimes light touch is employed. The resulting interaction of energy between the healer and the patient enable the depleted energy of the patient to benefit from the energy radiated by or through the healer. The use of energy for therapeutic purposes is commonplace in medicine and it is the natural energy within all of us that the healer seeks to tap into and affect.

Patients receiving healing tend to experience sensations of being re-energised or relaxed, 'pins and needles', heat or coolness, and pain coming to the surface and dispersing indicating that the energies are indeed 'going to work'.

Source of information: National Federation of Spiritual Healers | The Doctor-Healer Network