| Where does healing come from? Pills, potions, holistic | | | | Spiritual healers themselves believe that healing takes |
| provisions? Can a medical doctor heal someone just | | | | place by channeling the healing energy from a higher |
| by slicing, dicing, sewing them back up, and then | | | | source. It has some differences from what most |
| sending them on their way with a handful of | | | | people think of as faith healing though in that it is non |
| prescriptions for drugs that may or may not help | | | | denominational and does not necessarily require the |
| facilitate a true healing of the disease at hand? | | | | sick person to share the religious beliefs of the |
| What is healing, and how does it take place? Perhaps | | | | practitioner or even believe in the existence of a God. |
| there is a clue in the sentence above. The word | | | | The one who is desirous of being healed does need to |
| facilitate. After all, any sort of drug taken or procedure | | | | be open minded to or at least believe that the healing |
| done can not be said to be the thing that actually heals. | | | | can take place in order for it to work. Depending upon |
| They are only an avenue to the desired end result. | | | | the personality and character as well as the |
| Reasoned out in this way it seems obvious to | | | | symptoms of the person desiring to be healed the one |
| conclude that there must be something else going on | | | | doing or attempting the healing may vary the particular |
| behind the scenes. A finer intelligent energy working | | | | method of approach to solve the problem. Is this not |
| through the physicians hands, the pharmaceutical drugs, | | | | what a regular medical doctor would do? |
| the holistic provisions, and other alternative medicines | | | | Spiritual or psychic healers report that several |
| that people use to acquire the desired end result which | | | | interpenetrating, subtle energy fields surround the |
| is healing from their ills. | | | | physical body. Most all say similar things in that the |
| Some people think of this energy as God. Some just | | | | physical body is an expression of the states of these |
| think of it as energy. Some don't think of it at all. | | | | energy fields, each of which is distinctly related to an |
| Whatever it is, mankind has been relying on it from the | | | | aspect of being whether it be physical, emotional, |
| beginning to cure disease. In the modern era as we | | | | mental or spiritual. |
| understand this energy or these energies more and | | | | Spiritual Healing should not be considered an absolute |
| more, new devices are being developed at a rapid | | | | substitution for regular medical treatment or exams. It |
| pace to take advantage of it to improve our lives. | | | | should be considered as a complementary therapy, |
| Modern day spiritual and faith healers just as in days | | | | compatible with all others forms of treatment. Not too |
| of old treat the afflicted by the "laying on of hands". If | | | | many years ago the chiropractic field was considered |
| done successfully is this not just the healer accessing | | | | by the regular medical community as a whole to be |
| these same hidden or psychic energies to facilitate the | | | | medical quackery. How times change. |
| healing? | | | | Healing by methods other than potions and pills is |
| Prayer, or focused intent for a desired result relies on | | | | gaining more and more acceptance as people |
| the same thing does it not? Medical studies have | | | | become more aware of the energies around us and |
| shown the benefits of prayer, although the scientific | | | | available to us. This can be thought of as natural |
| community as a whole has yet to really understand | | | | energy healing, and those who have been practicing |
| how or why it works. Just because the machinery has | | | | holistic medicine, reiki healing, psychic healing and other |
| yet to be invented that can prove scientifically that this | | | | alternative medicines know all about it. It can |
| energy exists and how it works certainly does not | | | | complement conventional medicine by treating the |
| mean that it does not exist or even applicable in our | | | | entire person. The body, mind, and spirit. |
| daily lives. | | | | |