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Hand healing - the energy in your hands
This article on hand healing first appeared in the November 2005 issue of The Good Life, which had the theme of energy.
It starts with a simple exercise to feel the energy in your hands and goes on to discuss the many forms of energy healing as well as my personal and research about some of them.
Energy in your hands Hands have always been used for healing. Because they can also be used to manipulate a person’s energy field. Written records of hand healing date back at least 5,000 years. But the practice is even older. Hand healing is depicted in cave drawing in the Pyrenees, which are 15,000 years old.
To experience the energy in your hands, try this simple exercise:
Some people can feel the energy in their palms at step 1. If not, they usually feel it by step 4 or, at the latest, by step 5. Most people feel pressure, and a sense of bounciness, building up in the space between their palms. Others may feel heat, cold, tingling, pulsations and so on.Different people feel different things. So don’t accept the experiences of others. Instinctive hand healing Instinctively, we use this energy in our hands all the time. If a friend is upset, we put our hands on the shoulder to offer comfort. We hold the hands of people who are seriously ill, especially those on the verge of death. Parents regularly pat, tap and stroke their children. We apply hand healing on ourselves too. Stomach ache? We automatically place our hands over the painful part. We do the same for headaches, heartache, etc. Such acts may not remove our illness. But they do make us feel better, even if it is only for a while. In that sense, they are healing. When done deliberately, however, hand healing can produce dramatic results, including cases of curing “incurable” diseases. This could be by a spiritual healer, or by someone trained in qigong, reiki, therapeutic touch, bioenergetics, and other forms of energy healing. It could be a priest, a therapist or ordinary people like you and I. Obviously, some healers have a higher success rate than others. But is hard to predict who can heal, or who will be healed. The most famous healers cannot guarantee miracles. At the same time, we cannot rule out the possibility of miracles coming from you and I. I have had a few experiences of hand healing, two of which are particularly memorable: Hand healing by qigong master One was by a lady qigong master from China. My Chinese sinseh had studied with her and he described her as “very powerful”. During one class, my sinseh recalled, she merely rubbed her thumb against her fingers, and all the students could feel her energy. I went to see her without any specific health complaints. Ad she diagnosed correctly that my intestines were weak and that I have a lot of flatulence. Her treatment included a very vigorous belly massage, which left me burping for several minutes, after which I felt much better. The most memorable part, however, was when she simply waved her hands over my body, supposedly to remove my “bad qi”. When she did this, I felt energy leaving me, and my body cooled down significantly. It was not the coolness one feels in an air-conditioned room, nor the coldness one might feel when seriously ill. My body was losing its natural warmth and I wondered whether this would be the feeling I get when I die. Because for a while, I felt like a corpse, cold and lifeless. She later gave me back my energy and I felt normal again. That experience left me with no reasons to doubt the stories of miraculous cures which my sinseh related.
Hand healing for asthma My other memorable experience was with a more ordinary person – my wife. This happened many years ago, shortly after I became interested in natural health, when I was eating plenty of salads and fruit juices. One cold, rainy night, I ate a salad for dinner and I woke up in the middle of the night wheezing, with an asthma attack. (This episode, by the way, taught me a valuable lesson about cooked versus raw foods.) I did not normally get such attacks, so I didn’t know what to do. Calmly, my wife suggested that she gave me energy. We sat on the bed facing each other. She placed her fingers touching mine, kept silent, and concentrated. I could feel warmth coming from her fingers. After just a few minutes, my wheezing stopped. Did she really perform energy or hand healing? Or did I stop wheezing simply because she calmed me down? Perhaps my wheezing was going to stop on its own anyway? Such question didn’t bother me. What matterered was that very soon after, I was back to sleep. Interestingly, while researching for this article, I came across this passage in Dolores Krienner’s book, The Therapeutic Touch: “Asthma is very responsive to Therapeutic Touch. I was having acupuncture treatments for a complicated knee condition... and I came in for my first treatment to find the acupuncturist in the midst of a severe asthmatic attack. “When my own treatment was over, he allowed me to do Therpeutic Touch to him. “By chance, my first wristwatch was clearly visible to me during the entire treatment and so I can accurately state the length of time of it took for the asthmatic attack to cease: four minutes. “The second time I visited the acupuncturist, he was in throes of an extremely severe asthmatic attack. I again treated him and within two a half minutes his attack subsided.” Click here to read a commentary about my reservations over reiki as a form of hand healing.
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