Oct
16
2008
21. Energy work
Wednesday Sept. 28, 2005. We’ve been friends for half a century, my brother and I, and with time and change our friendship has only deepened. Over the years, we have continued to introduce each other to whatever new we find that is of value, and it becomes a part of us both, and we therefore relate in yet another new way, on another new level. I have found it particularly satisfying that he - and our sister Margaret - listened with interest to my early explorer’s tales, at a time when no one else would. And in turn, he made and communicated his own explorations and discoveries, including two friends with highly developed psychic abilities.
One of those friends, Don, lives in San Francisco, and so these days, when Paul meets me at the San Francisco airport, it is common for us to proceed to Don’s flat so that the three of us can spend some time hanging out together.
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Jul
17
2008
This is from the U.S. News and World Report website (http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/01/09/embracing-alternative-care.html)
There is hope! We’re gradually making our point about conventional medicine’s incomplete picture.
Embracing Alternative Care
Top hospitals put unorthodox therapies into practice
By Avery ComarowPosted January 9, 2008″To be blunt, if my wife and I didn’t think it was helping him, we wouldn’t have continued with it,” says Dan Polley. He’s talking about Mikey, the Polleys’ 2½-year-old in the next room, who was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia when he was 6 months old. Chemotherapy, radiation, and a bone marrow transplant have been crucial elements of Mikey’s treatment. But the “it” his father speaks of is nothing like these aggressive, costly, and heavily researched exemplars of western care-it is a kind of touch therapy, from the camp of alternative medicine. Gentle and benign, “healing touch” is intended to rebalance the energy field that its practitioners believe surrounds the body and flows through it along defined pathways, affecting health when disrupted. Several times a week, therapist Lynne Morrison spends 20 minutes unblocking and smoothing Mikey’s energy field, which energy healers like Morrison say they can feel and correct.
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Nov
06
2007
By way of the PEERS network. This message is available online at http://www.WantToKnow.info/071106heartmathchanges
“HeartMath’s research shows that emotions work much faster, and are more powerful, than thoughts. And that-when it comes to the human body-the heart is much more important than the brain to overall health and well-being-even cognitive function-than anyone but poets believed. Briefly re-experiencing a cherished memory creates synchronization in your heart rhythm in mere seconds. Through its research, the Institute of HeartMath proves that health starts with love.”
– Ode Magazine, June 2005 Issue
Dear friends,
The Institute of HeartMath (http://www.heartmath.org) has conducted extensive research showing that good health starts with love, and that love can reduce stress. Simple, quick exercises such as re-imagining a cherished memory can significantly improve your health when done on a regular basis. With a client list which now includes such leading companies as Hewlett Packard, Shell, Unilever, Cisco Systems, and Boeing, the HeartMath Institute has developed a powerful track record in helping managers and employees to decrease stress and increase joy in their lives and work.
In the space of less than 15 years, the HeartMath Institute has published a large body of scientific research in established and respected publications such as the Harvard Business Review and the American Journal of Cardiology. I highly recommend the HeartMath exercises and a visit to their inspiring website. The below, highly inspirational article on HeartMath was published in the excellent magazine, Ode. Every issue of Ode is filled with stories which deeply inspire and empower. As stated in the below article, may we all remember that we can change the world, starting with ourselves.
With heartfelt love and best wishes,
Fred Burks for the inspiring and educational PEERS websites
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Jun
19
2007
This little report from Live Science — http://www.livescience.com/health/070617_touching_faces.html — was included in the ever-useful daily Schwartzreport. It interested me chiefly because it was an indication that science is slowly catching up to interconnections between people that it has long assumed impossible.
Last year I was writing a little book on health and healing — written not from research but from my own experience — and I gave some thought to the fact that some prospective fathers feel the pains of the prospective mother. “Myth!” says science of the phenomenon called “sympathy pains.” But I know otherwise, because when I am engaged in healing work, I often feel where the person’s problem is, a phantom pain or ache that then goes away when it has finished serving as beacon. I know that lots of healers experience this, though some of them discourage it lest they be tempted to take on another’s health problem.
Anyway, as I say, science is gradually beginning to catch up, and will do so quicker if it can just discard its materialist superstition.
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Jun
07
2007
Did you ever wonder why it is that Jesus could perform miracles and you can’t, even though he specifically told his disciples that they (and presumably others) would do greater things than he had done? Why are you unable to performing miracles? Or – are you?
This is a chapter from an unpublished manuscript of mine on health and healing.
Chapter 5. Intuitive knowing
Everything we need to know to heal ourselves or to help others to heal themselves is to be found in the world’s scriptures. That’s why they were put there. This shouldn’t be a surprise. What should be a surprise is how little we use what we have been given.
An old joke says that the churches are filled with Christians who want to go to heaven, but don’t want to die to get there. What if they are misunderstanding what Jesus meant? Jesus said that “the kingdom of God is within you.” That doesn’t sound much like “wait till you’re dead and hope you get to heaven.” Similarly, Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.” I think he meant “life more abundantly” not merely after we die, but now.
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