shamanic/faith/reiki/qi gong/other energy based Healing methods

This entire section needs a rewrite as i am more for this approach then the western idea of medicine currently. this was written when i was more cynical, and needs more input with time. monks raising body temeprature, heat form hands, tekenisis and all the other stuff is making me think in this direction more. however i still would like more experience from my own perspective rather then trusting other peoples stories/hearsay. which is the problem. seeing is beliving, and youd rather do instead. as the more you read in science, and well experience the more your mind starts coming to terms with reality and the human energy field, and like all things you need someone to practice on, and well meditations a bitch if thats the only way to suceed, as i distinctly remember getting electric shocks in the bath when i first started out in the psychic course, but i gave up on it. as i was more distracted on clairvoyance/spirit/telepathy and well the healing side wasn't actually going anywhere at the time, that and its hard to relax in the bath once you start getting electric shocks. so i stopped and forgot about it, other then what i have done on courses. and then it was is it suggestion or not.

as its easy to see an effect, at least on the subcouncious level and i've seen people break down in tears letting a lot of emotion out, but as for the other healing effects, i've yet to feel the heat. as i've only heard stories from other people who have been doing it for awhile. and well sitting in a psychic course, feels silly at first. when your trying to visualise energy going into a person, as its alien to the western idea of how the mind works. sure you feel thebounce between the hands? but is it an illusion or is there something else there? as we in the west keep saying its all sugestion. which is why you do better in blind tests, visualising a different type of thing. and comparing notes afterwards. i.e. did the sensation change? was it pleasure or pain? and well what was the effect. i've been told its relaxing, even when i've done it on a course. but still you have to wounder if your actually doing anything at all!

i would never try and make a living at this yet. certainly not with my experience, but i can't help thinking i may have been lax. stopping my meditation/visualisation and may have to do it daily again! you have been warned, you need someone to practice on. even though i do it on myself. and yes it takes time to loose your christian/atheist fear and come to terms with it, well certainy those with an analytical mind do, as i was conditioned out of beliving in stuff like this. unfortunatly quantum physics and other stuff. have made me resent my western upbringing, my schooling my parents and everyone else who argues western philosophy, as i think they are talking out their arse. and when you actually go back and compare what we know, and what we don't know and look at the evidence with an open mind, you have to wake up, face reality and go this isn't what it seems. as i no longer buy into the fact that this reality is real (the physical one) and think its all a con. perhaps we aclimatise with it, and exert out own influence on someone elses rule set. the more we concentrate on it, perhaps we're working with it, but it seems (if you believe in reincarnation) that the body adjuts, forgets and well we spend our time, finding our will, exerting it again and that means defying the rest. and if you do it long enough (meditation/relaxation) you start to demonstrate visible signs/signals which prove you right, the others wrong, and you go with that. as once you makethat breakthrough, see it for yourself. then no church or religion will hold you back. they sold mankind out and refused to pass the data/knowlege on for free and [witches] were persecuted for it. i regret not studying this lot sooner, and or meditating on it! i think we do better as kids, because we haven't been indocronated/conditioned as slaves and adults may have more of an uphll struggle breaking their conditioning of the collective, as they fight to cling on to the rules more. women are the exception, they just buy into thise stuff anyway. and well its men from a science background like me, who [were] are screwed.

perhaps we all come to this way of thinking as we age? i just can't help thinking i could have been tought it sooner! i.e. as a kid, and well it would have done so much more then - that religious crap. i hate the chrisitan church, islam and everything it stands for as that mind set is wrong. and the budhists of old are just as bad, refusing to pass/share knowlege openly. which is why it seems to be people in groups, passing it on, ignoring the system and the stupidity of old. another revolution? or another dead end, only the people will tell in time. as the acadamic community really is stupid as hell! they look for excuses to ignore things, and its more a case of defending intelictual snobery as people get cought up in the science v religion debate, and things like this get cought in the cross fire, and ignored. people don't like change, and welll... f**k it i wash my hands of religion and science and well people are either helping/sharing knowlege or not. i wil go with anyone who shares. in the meantime, seeing is believing and yes i have heard stories of wican healing circiles (not that i've partaken in any! mind) curing blindness, and other things. obviously other people [chinese] have talked about improving hearing, if only for short periods (saying) it might need repeat courses, but its going to depend on if you buy into chi. i do - as i think their is more evidnece for that, then the other and the west (and religion) is deliuding itself again. people note - i don't rule out third parties helping people achieve their aims. [spiritual ones] i just don't buy into it being gods handy work, and or if god does exit his actually a nice being, or someone i would get on with. as i would happily kill jesus and budha on any journey. as i would rather die then kneel and serve, and yes i would deal with the devil, but i would not assume he would deliver. as he has his life, i have mine and we hope it works itself out in the end. i like to help, but when push comes to shove people will defend their own interests first. charity begins at home, and while we may bankrupt striving ourselves to help, teach with no reward. sooner or later we have to feed. this is unfortuante but i see no way out of it, with the rules as they stand. religion has enslaved us, and goverment more so. no one wants anyone to get good - least they become a threat, and its why most discoveries/leaps (the chariot) are done in silence, and yet we want to share our knowlege? why if everyones doing it, then their is no piint? and selfishness wins, but then agan, if it takes ages to learn - i can't see many trying, as well its such a pain to meditate, relax and train your mind to do what you want it to do instead!

i have to say it works, because i've seen people release emotional stress, and improve, i've also felt,  wave vibrations between my hands when experimenting with healing. people have also talked about release of energy blockages, and visualisations. Now is this all self hypnosis and suggestion, or is there really a human energy field, which we can manipulate with each others energy?

"Yi can only exist with relaxed humility. The harder you strive, the more elusive it becomes. But when you relax and learn to become detached, letting go of all material and emotional attachments, it will suddenly come of its own accord." [yi is not the same as chi, think "to know" as opposed to intent. to dare to visualise an outcome, a goal inter alia of course. think past the target, rather then at the surface and move around the objects to get to your goal. sod it skip the inbetween and go straight to the target (remote if you will) and yes you will probably need to look a quantum physics and stuff like that, if your a western mind]

Alternate Nostril Breathing is a technique that specifically promotes whole-brain development and hemispheric balance. When you breathe in through the left nostril, you are actually promoting right brain activity. Likewise, breathing in through the right nostril will activate the left hemisphere.

By alternating your breathing between left and right nostrils, you are creating healthy brain development. This brain exercise will help with mental clarity and alertness, giving you energy and vitality.

[one wounders if this is why some people get a blocked up noise on one particular side?]

personally as the mind has extrodinary power to heal, i would play it safe and be happy to take western medicine, and a wiccan healing circle, or church of prayer, or the mad shaman with hise energy voodoo. the more help you get the more positive the outcoe, and the more likley you would get well.

theory stems around the fact that some illnesses are a physical manifestation in spirit, so it maifets into the body afterwaords, so heel the spirit, or the spirit lets go of what ever it is bothering it, then the body heals of its own accord. it jsut gets better to quote house. who would have a field day with this. see the episode with god v house in series 2.

descriptions usually draw on the chakra system, and the aura.

This type of heling alost certianyl focuses on relaxing, and visualisation energies of flow of energy, light going flowing from the healer into the patient, and or certainly taking a back seat while higher conciousness, spirit or soething else does the hard work. so its more a higher to higher self communicttion, which is why its so suss, yet i've felt sensatiosn while doing it, and i've known people claim to work at it, so i'm a little sceptical at suggestion working that well, and dismissing it entirely out of hand, due to the deep seated history of people using it to heal patients, where theres smoke theres fire, so to speak. so psychological or something more? learn and find ou

everything usually invovles having your hands an inch or so away from the body, and trying to sense things, visualise light and negativity going away. so experiment on friends, and loved one, and see what things you pick up, same with tantric sex, and sex magick, its interesting when people claim to sense the enrergy flow at the same time, you are visualising it, without any comunication taking place. your instinct on what wrong, also has something in play, lucky guess, or can you get good at diagnosing people, just on instinct, i would use house as an example, all be it, he's fictional, for a logical person, he relies heavily on guess work, intuition. 

I would need to experience this more first hand, and work on people before i came off the fence, as a sceptic I locked up on the first contact with it eight years ago, i thought it was insane, and stupid, back at a party. yet more days its a child like curiosity, as if it works, it solves so many problems, logical gaps, and factoring in martial arts theory kind of supporst chakra, chi energy theory. so i'm sort of rulling in the middle.  it works to a point, perhaps more, but i have no idea why, or want to sell it as fact, untill we've understood it a little more.  

its the two hand on the head, and miricle cure. faith and belief, in god is misplaced, its almsot certainly navigating flows of energy. a few sites, have got touchy about turning it into gods work, and you must not do sacralige, they forget the origins of how it came back into the world. despite the fact its been around for centuries,  they assume it belongs to one domain, when it belongs to the world.  read up on it, and study on courses, and play with people, and see what sensations come up, psychological symptoms will almost certainly come up, reveal themselves in the process, physical less usre, please consult a medical practioner, assuming any exist they can think beyond antibiotics. by french ex, had a low regard for the british health system, claimed they were butchers who had no intlect, so where one expert leaves off another begins. open minded, and what has one to loose, yet i suppose ethical dilemas abound when you end up in a conflict of interests do you go with western meds, or an alternative solution, then i suppose the risk and responsibility is down to the patient.  eastern meds. power of the mind, and where is the mins, is it the spirit? where your philosphical observations end, another picks off, and the entire thing is a can of worms, we know so little, its unbelievable, egyption image in my head, should i draw on that was well.

References

Hands of Light,  A guide to healing through the human energy field - babra ann brenhan

The japanease art of reiki - bronwen and frans stiene