Absolute Beginner's Guide to Alternative Medicine
The upper world is the world of spirit guides. Spirit guides are beings that look more like people and are more familiar to most ...
Healing as a Journey Shamans may be called upon to help those who have become ill or those who have lost their power, their spir ...
266 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TOALTERNATIVE MEDICINE TRY IT YOURSELF: YOUR OWN SHAMANIC JOURNEY ■ Find a private, secure place w ...
Finding Your Friendly Neighborhood Shaman Albert Schweitzer reportedly once observed, “The witch doctor succeeds for the same re ...
rehabilitation centers. Human bodies are multidimensional rhythm machines with everything pulsing in synchrony. Drumming can inf ...
In This Chapter ■Exploring the ancient and modern links between religion, spirituality, and healing. ■Effective healing and life ...
Religion as a Healing Practice. Religion develops and changes over time and is composed of people’s beliefs, atti- tudes, and pa ...
against illness, and almost three-quarters attributed their illness to a sin against God. Some religions stress prayer as the wa ...
tolerance; and it invites people to define for themselves what ‘communication’ is, and who or what ‘the Absolute’ may be.” Accor ...
depend on others for personal care and experience other radical lifestyle changes. Body concept changes may threaten self-esteem ...
busy schedules. With regular practice of the relaxation response, people report expe- riencing an increase in spirituality. They ...
found that elderly patients undergoing heart surgery who participated in commu- nity and social groups, like those who received ...
an avenue for asking for guidance, intervention, and strength. Faith in a God who is loving and caring provides comfort for thos ...
Two different types of prayer are directed and nondirected. In directed prayer, the praying person asks for a specific outcome, ...
practitioner needs to take into account, however, where and how the client’s belief enters into the healing process. Nor should ...
CHAPTER 22 FAITH AND PRAYER 279 FAITH AND PRAYER ASSESSMENT ■ What does your faith mean to you? Has it changed during your illne ...
280 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TOALTERNATIVE MEDICINE The Absolute Minimum ■ While no one knows for sure how spiritual healing wo ...
Other Therapies PARTVII Bioelectromagnetics................ 283 Detoxifying Therapies............... 295 Animal-Assisted Therapi ...
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In This Chapter ■How magnets and crystals can be used to promote healing through their interactions with the body’s energy field ...
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