Suzy, Group, Here is a post I got from another penpal who ususally only sends me dark political intrigue posts. THougth I would share this wonderful article with the group.
Barb Excellent health information. http://magical.eden.com/readingroom/energyhealth.html The Energy of Health by John Osborne Originally published in Magical Blend Magazine Issue #65 July 1999 Transformation in the areas of health and wellness has occurred more in the last ten years than in the past one hundred. It's a popular topic in contemporary life. Of course, some people might say that we have come a long ways from the savage healing of shamans and medicine men and women. In exchange for horses or goods, they healed tribal members. "Too primitive and unreliable!" says the modern world. Yet it is possible that humanity in the next hundred years will look back on today's healing methods as totally barbaric. Someone goes into an office and sits down. A physician in a white smock administers a pill or prescription. The patient pays a fee and goes home. The tribal healers at least provided personal connection and involvement, and no fee was required unless healing occurred! The search for health and wellness, for feeling good, is a hopeful current trend. In his book, 14 Days to Wellness, Don Ardell makes an interesting distinction between health and wellness. In his invitation to play the Wellness Game, he views wellness as a life style that encompasses the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of well-being. Ardell suggests that the term, health, simply means "not sick." His fear is that by achieving health, we may limit ourselves "to achieving the minimal requirement for nonillness." He sees wellness as promoting a positive perspective for optimal existence. In spite of linguistic differences, health and wellness are a priority in people's lives. Witness the magazines and best sellers that focus on healing. Americans in particular spend far more money on medical care than any other people in the world. That alone shows our concern about health. However, the cost of medical care prevents many families from having adequate insurance coverage. And besides, more and more maladies reoccur or seem just out of reach of prevention. John Robbins, in his book, Reclaiming Our Health, takes issue with the medicine professions. He gives a clever parable in regards to national health care in America. It goes like this: "Once upon a time there was a large and rich country where people kept falling over a steep cliff. They'd fall to the bottom and be injured, sometimes quite seriously, and many of them died. The nation's medical establishment responded to the situation by positioning, at the base of the cliff, the most sophisticated and expensive ambulance fleet ever developed, which would immediately rush those who had fallen to modern hospitals that were equipped with the latest technological wizardry. No expense was too great, they said, when people's health was at stake." The parable goes on to tell of some people who simply wanted to build a fence at the top of the cliff. Their idea was ignored. Ambulance drivers and manufacturers weren't keen on it. Nor was anyone in the hospital industry. And the medical authorities stated that the problem was too complex to be left in the hands of people who were not experts. Since no fence was built, the country spent a huge amount of its financial resources on hospitals and high-tech equipment. You get the picture. Because the problem escalated and many citizens complained, the medical establishment issued a warning: "Anyone, they said, who had already broken both arms and both legs in previous falls should exercise utmost caution when falling." Robbins is simply illustrating that the medical conglomerates emphasize intervention rather than prevention. Even so, the U.S. ranks 25th among the world's nations in infant mortality. Robbins describes how the AMA obstructs alternative health and suggests some steps we could take to integrate alternative and orthodox medicine. His book is very well documented. Certainly we all know there is a health care crisis - and such a crisis calls for heroes. Bernie Siegel, a cancer surgeon, was one of the first. He noticed how well his patients responded to positive suggestion, especially during surgery. With highly successful results, he began to regularly enlist the patient's innate healing abilities both during surgery and recovery. Bernie sought to humanize medical care and medical education. He was a forerunner to Patch Adams. Mind/Body Connection Deepak Chopra has probably had the biggest impact on the practice and understanding of medicine and healing. His work has helped to make all of us aware of the mind-body connection. In his books Quantum Healing and Perfect Health, he advocated the body's intelligence and its desire for optimal health. Chopra, an endrocrinologist, methodically applied the discoveries in quantum physics to reveal how consciousness can heal or age the body. Defying a mechanistic medical establishment that viewed the body as a frozen sculpture, a physical machine, Chopra revealed that the body is a river of energy and information, and like a river, it is constantly renewed. He realized that the body is a huge empty void containing particles of energy a unified field. A quantum unit of the mind/body connection is a thought, a feeling, an impulse from our own consciousness. All of our cells have consciouness as well. Our immune cells drop in on our internal dialogue and listen. The body responds to how we feel and think. Therefore, the human body is a body/mind at the same time. Our notions about life and reality translate into matching energy patterns. Since we generally have the same thoughts each day (there's the rub), we create a pattern of belief and experience. Belief is all important. For instance, Chopra discovered that heart attacks are often determined by a person's job satisfaction and self-happiness. A person who has both is generally alright. He found that more people die at 9 a.m. Monday morning than any other time. Here is a tremendous accomplishment. A thought about Monday morning determines our experience of reality and our experience of the human body. According to Chopra, we are not physical machines that have learned how to think, but thoughts that have learned how to create the physical body and the mind. Thoughts create matter. We really have infinite choices! Chopra also used quantum physics to illustrate that time itself is subjective. In reality, we live in an eternal present. Would we accept this and live it, we might not age. Hence another of his books, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. He combined his knowledge of ancient Ayurvedic medicine with his orthodox medical training to achieve tremendous results, especially for cancer patients. Relying on his roots in India, he observed how meditation helped relieve stress, thereby increasing recovery. We no longer look at our bodies as separate things to fix. Our ailments, our disease, is often a result of emotional, mental, and spiritual duress as well. We know that. And the mind/body relationship allows us to participate in our own wellness. (Don Ardell believes our most serious health problem is that most people are unwilling to be responsible for their health status and the ultimate fate of their lives. He urges more self-responsibility.) Chopra's scientific approach in establishing the mind/body connection pioneered the way for many physicians and healers. Qigong When Chopra described the intelligence within our bodies as a river of energy he might as well have been talking about the CHI LEVEL of the body. The most basic level on which man and nature are one. Chi-Lel is the self-healing movement art that increases the vital force permeating our bodies. Qigong (Chi-gong) is a practice that helps increase the circulation of the primal energy within the body. Qigong is 5,000 years old. Chi-Lel Qigong consists of 3 parts. The first is exercise, similar to Tai Chi, but not as complex. The idea is to get the energy moving, action. The second part is imagery or visualization. This involves the mind with the body. Affirmation or prayer is the third element. It's an open system. You open to nature to bring in nature's loving chi. You imagine you are expanding all the way out to the ends of the universe. You release anything inside that's stagnant, ill, not feeling well. You think infinity, then bring that universal chi back to the body. You think body because chi follows thought. All of that healing energy from the ends of the universe floods your body with healing. The practice consists of gently flowing movements, relatively easy to do. You can determine the difficulty or intensity. The most important thing is what you are doing with what you are thinking. Again, chi follows thought. It listens to the commands from your heart. It may take awhile for the affirmation to resonate from deep within you, but in that moment all healing takes place. And it doesn't have to take a long, slow time; it can happen quickly. When mind and body connect, miracles happen! Not only does qigong sometimes produce spontaneous healing, it is excellent as a preventative medicine. Like brushing your teeth to make them last longer, qigong makes the body last longer. When the energy comes in, it illuminates the body, bringing lightness and wisdom. It cleans from the inside out. The potential of qigong for health and healing seems beyond belief, but its results have been well documented. The most solid evidence is the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Center in China (www.chilel-qigong.com/miracles.htm). It is the world's largest medicineless hospital (right no medicine, no diets!) with an average of 4,000 patients. No reservations. Generally the clientele consists of incurables who have cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, depression all the so-called hard-to-treat illnesses. The rate of recovery is astonishing and miraculous. Luke Chan, the first ChiLel Master to be certified outside China by the Zhineng Qigong Center has documented many of these cures in his book, 101 Miracles of Natural Healing. One of these stories concerns Li Ri-Chai, 62 years old. He was having chi emitted to him by Dr. Pang, a grandmaster of qigong and founder of the Center. Dr. Pang was utilizing the healing chi gathered by a large group. This is called "Fa Chi" ...directing the chi to another. Suddenly, twenty pounds disappeared from Chai's belly, causing his pants to drop. Li Ri-Chai eventually became a teacher at the Center. Wanting to show the results of working with chi energy, he tired to heal over the cracks he made in eggs. At first it took him eight hours to completely heal over a cracked egg. Then it took him four hours. Now he can do it in two minutes. The Chi-Lel Theory that inspired his egg practice was this: "When chi gathers, matter appears. When chi disperses, matter disappears." These visible results are important. When three thousand patients see what he can do, they become aware of what's possible with their own chi. They take off like wildfire. All sorts of healing occurs, even the healing of bones! And finally it's important to mention that all people at the hospital are called "students" and not patients because they are all learning a self-healing art. The student-teacher relationship is one filled with compassion. The only doctors are at the diagnostic center. The students/patients become their own doctor, their own master. Healing Hands Mitchell May, an American, discovered some of the same principles of the ChiLel Center, but through a completely different methodology. One rainy night Mitchell became the victim of a terrible car crash. His right leg was maimed, his lung punctured, and he was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. When he suddenly gained consciousness, the doctors wanted to remove his leg. For some reason he refused. Mitchell's leg and general health deteriorated rapidly. Because of his defiance, he was flown to the UCLA hospital where doctors insisted that his right leg be removed. It was seriously infected. The leg also had severe bone and nerve loss. The pain Mitchell experienced was excruciating. The doctors told him he'd never walk again, with or without the leg, and that amputation would at least relieve the pain. To the chagrin of the doctors, Mitchell still refused, enduring the agony of blood poisoning and nerve damage. Jack Gray, a member of the parapsychology research lab at UCLA, learned of Mitchell's dilemma and agreed to help on an experimental basis. Skilled in both hypnotism and in the transferring of healing energy from his hands, this healer immediately began working to relieve Mitchell's pain. Gray made magnetic passes over Mitchell's legs. And like Bernie Siegel, he talked continuously to his sometimes unconscious patient. Gray's encouraging words were a reminder that Mitchell had everything he needed for healing already inside him. After three nights of treatment, Mitchell's pain completely disappeared. Two weeks later he no longer needed medicine for pain relief. This was just the beginning. The doctors were perplexed, but insisted that Mitchell would never walk. Eight months later and after frequent sessions with Jack Gray, x-rays showed that the bone was healing. Two months later Mitchell was out of his wheel chair, walking with braces and crutches. Today, Mitchell leads hiking expeditions into wilderness areas. Not only did he defy the medical establishment by walking, he actually regenerated an ankle bone! The case is very well documented. According to Gray, Mitchell used "the automatic ability everybody has to concentrate on themselves and change themselves through their thinking. By changing your way of thinking you can change everything within you, blood pressure, breathing, organs, glands, everything. And anybody can do it if they train themselves, the way they train themselves to read or drive a car. Unfortunately, most people pay more attention to what's bothering them than to what should be normal and natural." Following Jack Gray's direction, Mitchell has become a successful healer. He uses his hands to feel and flow energy. He allows the healing to come forth from the patient. His practice in Castle Valley, Utah (www.synergy-co.com) is thriving. Julie Motz is one of the first persons to use this healing energy, officially, in a hospital setting. In her book, Hands of Life, she describes countless cases where she used the healing energy of her hands to heal patients and shorten their period of recovery. Motz can feel where energy is blocked or sees where it is needed. She believes that "when you touch someone with a loving or healing intention, you create a kind of energy magnet that draws energy to the place you were touching." Bringing alternative methods of healing to hospitals is certainly remarkable, but Motz has made other contributions. As she works with patients, she often receives images of past trauma in various locations of the body. The trapped energy of emotional pain or anger is often the source of the illness. She works with her patients to release it. Motz helps with the emotional healing of hospital patients, curing them deeply, sometimes saving them altogether. We may one day see this combining of energy healing within the medical establishment as standard practice. Let's hope so. Vibrational Medicine We all know what good vibrations are. We feel them after a morning run or a walk in the park. We feel them as we watch movies or our pets. We feel them when our child suddenly clasps our hand, after love making, and after completing a project. This bouyant healing energy floods our entire body and we smile with aliveness. Although we don't need scientists to tell us about this, they are understanding the value of vibrational medicine. In fact, energy is at the forefront of health care. E=mc2 (Energy equals matter & light) is the basis for this new field of healing. It's known as the Einsteinian model of reality. Because all matter is energy, human beings can be considered as dynamic energetic systems, just as Chopra indicated earlier. Vibrational medicine encompasses any attempts that are made to heal the human body on a vibrational level. It's a whole person, multi-leveled, energetic approach. The definitive text on this system is Vibrational Medicine, by Dr. Richard Gerber. Because all matter vibrates to a precise frequency, balance of the body can be restored by resonant vibration. Trauma creates either no movement or constant movement in certain areas of our bodies. Hence these areas either atrophy or burn out. Vibrational Healing or Vibrational Resonance Therapy invites the stuck energy to move and the active energy to rest creating balance. In her website about vibrational and resonance therapy (www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/1144/homepage.html), Anne Tooley, APP, says that the "languages of vibration and resonance are those which stimulate the five senses. This includes color, light, crystals and gems, sound, aroma, sacred geometry, and touch. Common to all is the ability to create the entire spectrum of energy within the circle of life." Light and color are dominant stimuli in our daily lives. Light is life and our source of energy. We could not live without the life-energy the sun gives us. And its light vibrates with color energies which we absorb through our eyes, skin, and chakra system. Color Therapy uses the vibrational frequencies of light and color to resonate with specific frequencies in the body. Inger Naess, author and founder of COLOUR ENERGY, states that we have seven main power stations where we can store the sun's energy. These are, of course, our chakras, the seven interlocking wheels which allow energy to circulate within our bodies. Naess shows how our thoughts and feelings can cause us harm. Our thoughts and actions influence our hormones which control our physical expression of feelings. She says that there is an integral, vital connection between the seven chakras, the seven colours, the endocrine glands, and the seven stages of consciousness. She also believes that color contains energies that can restore health and balance to our entire system since we are fields of color any way. Finally, Inger Naess has developed a system that assigns us to one of the seven colors of the chakra system, ie. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, or violet. Similar to astrology, her system illustrates the personality of each type and how they interact. With this method, we can realize when our colour energy may or may not match with others. Naess has also devised a colour bath procedure for restoring, replenishing, or soothing our energy vibrations. Sound is another dominant aspect or our environment. In fact, color is also a sound vibration or frequency. Music, as you know, speaks to the whole person; we feel it in our emotions. The use of music as therapy is to create harmonic vibrational resonance for health and well-being. One of the most creative pioneers in this area is Steven Halpern. In the notes to his new CD, Music for Sound Healing, Halpern states that music reduces stress, enhances the immune system, slows down and balances brain wave activity, reduces muscle tension, increases endorphin levels, and evokes feelings of love and inner peace. "Unrelieved stress is a contributing factor in a wide range of diseases such as hypertension, heart attack, stroke, ulcers, migraine, irritability, inability to concentrate or sleep, and sexual dysfunction. Knowing that, you can appreciate why it is so important to build into your daily schedule opportunities for your body, mind and spirit to return to a state of balance." Halpern sees the body as a self-healing instrument, and that certain music assists the healing process. "The body heals itself most effectively in a state of deep relaxation." So choosing the right music is a simple and effective way to achieve health. With a background in the scientific studies of the effects of music on healing, Halpern produced a series of recordings which evoked the relaxation response. "In this music, there are no hard edges. Particular instruments are chosen because their tones are easily accepted into the body." Halpern believes that many Western classical compositions are unsuitable for relaxation because their compositions were based on creating tension and resolution. Music for Sound and Healing contains wonderfully relaxing music and proves the point that vibrations can heal. Of course, of the most potent vibrations for healing is love, as Chopra, Williamson, and others have testified. A striking example comes from Christiane Northrup. In her tape she relates an anecdote about rabbits. They were injected with a substance to harden their arteries, and yes they did die, at least most of them did. Because 15% lived, the experiment was conducted four times- all with the same result. As it turned out, one of the graduate students who was injecting the rabbits caused the anomaly. Where the cages were waist high and easy to reach, she picked up each rabbit and petted it. These rabbits defied death so a little love goes a long way in strengthening the immune system. Or, as long as you have someone to love you, eat what you want! Much more can be written about health and wellness. I want to acknowledge the work of the Healing Goddesses: Louise Hay, Joan Borysenko, Caroline Myss, Cristiane Northrup, Barbara Brennan, and Gabrielle Roth. We need an entire issue to talk about emotional healing and feminine values. I want to acknowledge Mother Earth who heals us daily. And I want to acknowledge all the native peoples who always understood the mind/body connection. May your sweat lodges and dances keep the earth in balance. The ways of healing are numerous; the choices are overwhelming and that's a good thing. It almost seems ridiculous that we ever get sick, but we do. And I guess that partially happens so we can learn about ourselves, our beliefs and our fears. We have all hoped for a radical shift in human consciousness. Incredibly, what hasn't come about through social or educational programs is being delivered through the area of health! Once we begin to use our hearts and minds for our own self-healing and for the healing of others, it won't take long for us to use that vibrational healing energy within our families, our communities, and in our very profound relationship to nature. Our quest for health and wellness has delivered cosmic consciousness! Magical Blend Magazine P.O. Box 600 Chico, CA 95927 [email protected] Michael Lee Finney [email protected] [email protected] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. 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