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What's your opinion regarding healing systems?
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| lallous 2006-05-07, 1:26 pm |
| Hello
What are your thoughts against energy healing systems such as:
Reiki, Pranic Healing, Chi Qong, etc...?
Do you think they are commercial teachings w/ no value at all?
Do you think learning such technique and applying it to help others would
accumlate negative karma on both you and the patient?
Do you need to see / know all about the energy field and energy system in
order to apply/channel healing energies?
I see it the same as when one takes a pill that works, but w/o knowing how
it works, but in the end it works and heals sometimes (and other times, just
masks the problem).
The pill will not mess w/ our energy system directly, but it will
eventually...so all people are taking in bad karmas?
Most healing systems teach about this conflict of whether to heal anyone or
not even if we feel that his pains are due to karma:
They say that even if the pain or incident was due to karma, we should try
to heal and do what we can, and if it was karma it would not heal and the
disease would return to the person since we cannot tamper with karma.
Please shed your thaughts.
--
Elias
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| On 2006-05-07 10:57:55 -0700, "lallous" <lallous@lgwm.org> said:
> Hello
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> What are your thoughts against energy healing systems such as:
> Reiki, Pranic Healing, Chi Qong, etc...?
I have a number of chronic conditions and am just enough of an
experimenter to try various alternative therapies. So far they only
practices I have found that best improves these chronic conditions are
Yoga (meditation, asanas pranyama), exercise, and diet.
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> Do you think they are commercial teachings w/ no value at all?
> Do you think learning such technique and applying it to help others
> would accumlate negative karma on both you and the patient?
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> Do you need to see / know all about the energy field and energy system
> in order to apply/channel healing energies?
I have been to these sort of practitioners and found them to be
lacking. They do have a value for psychosomatic illness. For example
57% of people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome respond positively to
placebos. Reiki and pranic healing certainly can help a lot of people
this way.
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> I see it the same as when one takes a pill that works, but w/o knowing
> how it works, but in the end it works and heals sometimes (and other
> times, just masks the problem).
> The pill will not mess w/ our energy system directly, but it will
> eventually...so all people are taking in bad karmas?
Modern pharmaceuticals generally work by mimicking the effects of
polypeptide receptors through out the body. Some work better than
others, nearly all have side effects, and nearly all have long term
effects that have not been studied.
Pills do mess with the energy system directly. You may want to read
the works of Pharmacologist, Candice Pert. May I suggest her book
"Molecules of Emotion".
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> Most healing systems teach about this conflict of whether to heal
> anyone or not even if we feel that his pains are due to karma:
> They say that even if the pain or incident was due to karma, we should
> try to heal and do what we can, and if it was karma it would not heal
> and the disease would return to the person since we cannot tamper with
> karma.
I am not sure what you mean here. Karma is action. Not only is pain
or incident due to karma, but joy and rapture is part of karmic
movement.
Healers have existed since humans picked up tools. Much of what
healers have relied upon has been based on myth and folklore. Since
the advent of scientific method we have made some inroads in the
workings of the body and have dispelled many myths. Modern medicine
continues to be plagued by myths as well as the pitfalls of corporate
greed. But it is improving.
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> Please shed your thaughts.
Ultimately there are three things for us to do as individuals in
regards to our health.
Watch what we eat. (eat healthy)
Bring awareness to our movement. (Exercise)
Bring awareness to our thoughts. (Know thyself)
After that we are at the mercy of snake oil salesman and a few people
with genuine desire to see us healthy.
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~Stu
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