I am a person interested in the concept and practice of healing. I have been trained as an Ericksonian hypnotherapist and master neurolinguistic programmer. I have practiced taiji and qigong. I have learned therapeutic massage. I am a pharmacist, a Reiki master, a practitioner of therapeutic touch. I practiced meditation for a long time. I am a person who heals by somehow manipulating subtle energies. Such activities are sometimes called faith healing. While I have no argument with the idea that the energies come from outside myself and are channeled through me or directed somehow by my intentions, I don’t see the processes as having anything to do with faith except that the term, faith, may be taken to mean learning to believe that what seems to be happening is happening. They are physical processes involving energies which we are not very good at measuring. The ability to be involved with those energies and to learn to apply them probably exists in each of us but are ridiculed by our society and suppressed in children so that many if not most adults find themselves no longer able to sense them, at least consciously, or to benefit from the application of them.

I am constantly bewildered by subtle energies and I am able to apply them in ways which sometimes seem miraculous. The concept that is difficult to truly accept is that, although I may set out to help someone with some problem, my intention is never to heal that problem. My intention is to help create an abundance of energy which the other entity’s protective and healing systems can use to advantage in THE BEST INTERESTS of that entity while not interfering with my protective and healing systems so that all that happens is also in my best interests.

The healing can involve a person who has recently died or, lived thousands of years ago, animals as well as humans, and individuals thousands of miles away. Help for any one individual may include the energy healing as well as others of the healing techniques I have learned through the years.

All healing is internal to the individual being healed. Doctors don’t heal anything, healers don’t heal anything. They provide help to the individual’s immune processes enabling the individual to heal naturally.  Since those natural healing processes are not well understood, no kind of healing or medical attention is infallible.  In hypnotherapy or neurolinguistic programming the fortunate discovery of the effective way of reframing (describing differently) an experience underlying a condition impacting a person’s whole life can be healed immediately in a way which seems miraculous.  The problem for the therapist is to find the underlying cause and think of the right thing to say.  Neither of those is guaranteed in any therapy session.

Energy healing is similar but even less understood.  I have had what seemed like very good results in helping with healing a growing variety of conditions: the eye of a cat in the Pacific Northwest, stopping the death of a cat suffering from renal failure again in the Pacific Northwest for several months so the devoted human “owner” could accustom herself to the anticipated death, dental pain in the Southwest and Southeast, in the Mid-Atlantic region: depression, PTSD, Lupus, uterine fibroids, dental pain, a cold, headaches, and probably others that I am not remembering.  All of that while not leaving the area of central Pennsylvania and usually without ever seeing or talking to the person being healed.  I care about people in general and have sent energy to many people who simply asked me to without having any feedback concerning its effects.