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This is a video of Mike Adams of Natural News speaking about our freedom to choose our own healing modalities and the future of alternative health choices.

I’ve recently been asked about “energy work” … working in the energy field of a client to affect healing on a physical or emotional level. In addition to practicing therapeutic massage (I am a nationally certified massage therapist), I often use a couple of different techniques to enhance my work. They are “Reiki” (pronounced ray-kee) and “Healing Touch”. Reiki is basically hands-on healing, although it can be done from a distance as well. It is intending and allowing healing energy to flow through my hands … my hands get very hot when I practice Reiki. It works well with massage, since it is mostly practiced through physical contact. I also practice Healing Touch, which I use in a different way. There are times when injury, recent surgery, cancer, skin conditions, or some other malady might preclude massage because of the increase in blood flow and movement of chemicals through the body that massage and Reiki both encourage. Healing Touch is performed primarily in the energy field surrounding the body and not through touching the physical body. This energy field actually creates the physical body and changes in the field cause changes in the physical body at some point. I don’t want to get into a lengthy explanation about how this works at this time, but I know it works through my personal experience. A lot of different effects can be acheived through Healing Touch because it is a collection of healing techniques from many different sources and cultures. You can do what’s called a “pain drain” and take energy out of an injured area. A system called “Therapeutic Touch” which has credibility in many hospitals is also incorporated into Healing Touch. The American Wholistic Nurse’s Association taught classes in it until 1996 when Healing Touch International was established and took over training.

• A good book for some Healing Touch techniques is Hands Of Light. It was written by Barbara Ann Brennan, who has a school in New York City teaching these techniques and Chapter 22 is the basis for one of the more advanced Healing Touch trainings.

• An excellent book for history, use, and techniques for Reiki is The Reiki Sourcebook

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Dan
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I heard a radio article this morning on NPR about Jon Kabat-Zinn using a simplified version of a Buddhist mindfulness meditation back in 1979 to help patients at the University of Massachussetts reduce their pain. Here’s another example of the power of the Mind used to focus consciousness on healing. Here’s a link to the article and to a method of scanning the body with the Mind on NPR’s website… Crash Course in Body Scan Meditation

About a year ago I received an e mail from a close friend about a new film that was only available from a website in Australia. I checked out the website and was immediately hooked by the many teachers and their credentials of expertise in the subject. I bought the film and have been showing it and recommending it to my friends and spiritual community since Spring of last year. It is a documentary about The Secret which turns out to be a powerful film containing instructions and demonstrations on how to create the life that you want through the “Universal Law of Attraction”. I have seen it’s popularity soar since it first became available and some people that I know have been watching sections of it frequently to help them focus on practicing the principles and techniques daily. Recently, Larry King dedicated two consecutive hour long weekly shows interviewing the teachers in the film. This coming Thursday (Feb. 8th, 2007), Oprah Winfrey will have some of the teachers and the producer of the film on her tv show. I highly recommend The Secret as a tool to train your Mind to create the life that you desire.

At the time that I heard of The Secret, it was only available from the website, but now it can be found almost everywhere. Check it out … The Secret

I was just reading an article by a doctor whose opinion I respect. His name is Dr. Joseph Mercola. In this article he talks about getting enough sleep and what time of night is best to sleep. I know that I personally don’t get to sleep early enough according to Dr. Mercola. He says that sleep deprivation is a form of stress on the brain and body and that it ages us prematurely. Since we are concerned with reducing stress for relaxation, this is valuable and pertinent information. For the article click Too Little Sleep May Accelerate Aging.