It's been known for some time that many illnesses are at least partly caused by psychological or emotional issues. We also know that people have enormous self-healing potential, given the right conditions simply because they believe that they will be healed. Medical science has come to recognize that the mind can have a very beneficial influence on the body's ability to heal. Case in point, the documentary "The Secret" addresses this as well as the minds ability to change one's life circumstances.
If the unconscious mind can accomplish such feats of self-healing, then it is likely what in part goes on with 'psychic healing' can be somewhat like a placebo effect. Some people in the scientific community want to know, if psychic healing is just self-healing, then all they need to do in order to encourage such self-healing, is to understand the psychological and interpersonal factors that trigger it. On the other hand, if the healer really 'does' something to the patient, then they would want to understand how to enhance or amplify that healing 'power.'
If there is some telepathic rapport between the two persons, then one (the patient) may simply be acting as a 'receiver' in a telepathy experiment, unconsciously picking up information from the 'sender' and then inducing slight shifts in his or her own physiology. In this case, we are back to a form of self-induced healing - a telepathically induced placebo effect!
What's the difference between telepathically triggered self-healing, vs. a healing truly based on another person's influence, i.e., based on psychokinesis (mind-over-matter)? There are several theoretical issues here; but there's also at least one important practical concern. In real instances of illness or disease, a patient may not have the resources, mentally, psychologically or physically, to induce self-healings, even given the kinds of suggestions, which usually trigger placebo effects. By contrast, if healing - and not just healing suggestions - really comes from an external source, then a vital, confident healer could still input positive 'energy' into the patient's organism and restore health.
People who come to a healer may be desperate; they may have abandoned hope with conventional treatment methods. To many, it might feel like the healer is their last hope. Others, having developed a solid distrust of allopathic medicine, may feel that mental or psychic means of treatment are the only way to go. Either way, many coming into a healing session have high hopes and expectations, or are in a hyper-suggestible state. If, coupled with this receptive state of mind, and a healer who the patient resonates with --then the situation may be just right to trigger a self-healing process, leading to alleviation of symptoms or even a cure.
Many, anecdotes and testimonies about miraculous healings, don't permit us to infer what kind of mechanisms are involved -- whether the healing was based on 'normal' psychophysiology, or whether it involved a truly 'paranormal' element. Generally, it is very difficult to distinguish psychic healing from self-healing.
The theoretical or metaphysical implications, of healing are mind-boggling (that's one of the reasons there's so much resistance to accepting paranormal phenomena in general).
Perhaps healing can take place on many levels. First, at the soul level, second the intention of the patient to be healed, and thirdly by the healer's intentions, thoughts, and energy as a conduit for healing of these social and psychological factors. Does it matter if healing is a fully internal process, the 'healer' being just a convenient trigger of self-healing, or if it is a genuinely paranormal process.
Either way, many coming into a healing session have high hopes and expectations, or are in a hyper-suggestible state. If, coupled with this receptive state of mind, we have a healer who we resonate with --then the situation may be just right to trigger a self-healing process, leading to alleviation of symptoms or even a cure.
Bottom line, I believe that all healing takes place in the Healing Matrix of God, and that none of us are separate from this source. If it is our destiny to be healed, it is done one way or the other. If not, our ultimate healing may mean leaving this reality and entering another. When it is our time, we return to the Matrix. Where something is developed, birthed - a point of origin.
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