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What is Spiritual Healing?
With the advent of new theories and medical practices, the face of traditional medicinecontinues to change in today’s world. In addition to standard medical practices, many peopleare discovering that there can be distinct health advantages in spiritual healing practices. But just what is spiritual healing? And how can it help you to take a most holistic approach tooverall health care and well-being?Spiritual healing is, by definition, the use of non-physical means to treat illness or affliction.Sometimes referred to as “faith healing,” spiritual healing is a type of treatment generallyconsidered to be classified as “alternative” or non-traditional. Yet the roots of spiritual healinggo back for centuries, and some form of this treatment have been shown to exist is almostevery culture known to history.At its core, spiritual healing involves channeling a type of energy from one person, the “healer,” to another. Practitioners claim that this energy can help to heal or alleviate physical,mental or spiritual ailments. The healer is generally thought to be a medium for the healingpowers that are coming from a higher power, or spirit.Other forms of spiritual healing include prayer or meditation healing, in which there is not ahealer, but the energy comes directly to the person asking for the healing.What makes spiritual healing so unique from modern medicine is that spiritual healingaddresses not only issues of the body, but of the mind and spirit as well, treating all three of these human phenomena as one cohesive unit. In fact, spiritual healing is based on thepremise that no one can be truly healthy unless their mind, body and psyche are indeedoperating in one sympathetic unit. It is not enough to alleviate physical symptoms of illness orinjury; to be completely healed one must also address the mental and spiritual symptoms aswell. And, conversely, spiritual healers also believe that many physical problems are actuallymanifestations of illness or disorders within the mind or the spirit. Curing one withoutaddressing the other will be futile and counter-productive, according to these healers.Many people claim that spiritual healing is a “New Age” phenomenon, but in reality that is notso. Most organized religions invoke some aspect of spiritual healing, through prayer,meditation or special intentions, and praying for the sick is a widely recognized and respectedtradition.There are myriad methods for carrying out spiritual healing. Some use a laying-on of hands totransfer healing energy; others anoint the sick with special oils; for others, special crystalsseem to be the conduit through which healing occurs. There are as many methods as thereare religious and spiritual interpretations, all with the ultimate goal of bringing healing andwellness in mind, spirit and body.
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Informative!
thanks a lot ramsiel
just what i wanted!!
Goodness, all those reads and not a single comment! I found it an interesting overview of the subject and a helpful introduction. There was a certain amount of repetition of some paragraphs under different headings but nonetheless an informative document.