Alternative Health Glossary - G

guided imagery (guided visualization): A method akin to creative visualization and led meditation. Its design is to promote physical healing or attitudinal or behavioral changes. Practitioners act as prompters and orally outline scenes and/or give instructions on using imagery for self-help.

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Grape Cure (grape diet): Mono-diet advanced by Johanna Brandt, N.D., Ph.N., author of The Grape Cure ((c) 1928). The front matter of the 1967 edition, a paperback published by Benedict Lust Publications, quotes the author: My discovery of the Grape diet is the direct result of Divine Illumination.

The grape diet consists of grapes or grape juice. Brandt held that the mind operated through magnetism and that the Grape Cure contributed to the purification and buildup of magnetism. She recommended it for appendicitis, cancer, diabetes, gout, pyorrhea, rheumatism, scurvy, sex problems, tuberculosis, unnatural cravings (as for alcoholic beverages, coffee, tea, and tobacco), and other conditions. Under the heading Sex Problems, she stated: By the magical purification of the blood the nerves are stabilized, self-control is established and our God-given heritage of sense and desire is transmitted into divine creative power.

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glandular therapy: Method whose philosophy is: Like cell helps like cells. According thereto, intake of a glandular substance quickly results in its use as nourishment for a similar gland.

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G-Jo Acupressure (G-Jo [GEE-joh]): Strictly digital form of acupressure promoted by the G-Jo Institute. Certification by the institute as a Master of G-Jo Acupressure requires only one weekend of home study. The institute claims that G-Jo Acupressure is foolproof and that it instantly heals hundreds of ailments. G-jo is Chinese for first aid.

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Going Home: Twelve-audiotape derivative of Hemi-Sync introduced in 1994 by The Monroe Institute. It offers extraordinary opportunities to people who want to overcome their fear of death.

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Gong Therapy: Method whose apparent principle is that gongs have Sacro-magical powers.

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Gong Yoga (Gong Shui): means of rejuvenating one's physical tone power. Its theory posits an intuitional body, and, chakras and Meridians.

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Gestalt therapy (Gestalt, Gestalt Psychotherapy): Holistic approach cofounded by psychiatrist Fritz (Frederick) Perls (1893-1970), M.D., and Laura Perls. It shares little with Gestalt psychology (configurationism).

Gestalt therapy theory posits five personality layers. According thereto, one reaches the death layer when blocked feelings and psychic energy condense and knot, and the life layer through the release of blocked energies. The aim of Gestalt therapy, which includes dreamwork, is to help clients achieve wholeness.

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Golden Light Solar Meditation: Part of Taoist Healing Imagery that is a means of absorbing life energy from nature.

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Gestalt Somatic method (Gestalt Somatics): Apparent combination of Gestalt therapy and bodywork.

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Gemstone-Reiki Therapy (Gemstone Reiki): Variation of Reiki.

One of the principles of Gemstone-Reiki Therapy is that gemstones concentrate light-filled powers and color vibrations into chakras.

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Gandharv Ved (Gandharva therapy, Gandharva-Veda music therapy, Maharishi Gandharva-Veda): Hindu form of music therapy, designed to restore physiological harmony and eliminate pathogenic imbalances.

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gem therapy: The wearing of precious and semiprecious stones for healing, for example, bloodstones for hemorrhages and rubies for chills.

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Gentle Bioenergetics: a variation of Reichian Therapy that prevents neurosis in infants. It involves massage.

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Gerson Therapy (Gerson dietary regime, GDR, Gerson method, Gerson treatment): A state of the art, contemporary, wholistic and natural treatment which assists the body's own healing mechanism, according to the Gerson Institute, in Bonita, California.

The Gerson Therapy involves sodium restriction, potassium supplementation, extreme fat restriction, periodic protein restriction, and coffee enemas. The institute promotes the Gerson Therapy as a preventative lifestyle and a virtual panacea. German-born Max B. Gerson, M.D. (1881-1959) originated the method in the 1920s. His book, A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases, first published shortly after his death, is the acknowledged bible of the Gerson Therapy. The fifth edition of the book includes the following statements.

(a)           In man, there are electrical potentials outstanding in the life of the cells. They are especially accumulated in the nervous system, which is ultimately our 'spiritual organ'.... (p. 12)

(b)          In the nutritional field, observations for centuries have shown that people who live according to natural methods in which plants, animals and human beings are only fragments of the eternal cycle of Nature do not get cancer. (p. 14)

(c)           ...[N]ot one factor alone or a combination of single factors is [therapeutically] decisive, but what is decisive is how they influence the whole body, mind and soul in their entirety. (p. 18)

(d)           Above all we must realize that there is nothing in heaven or on earth that does not exist in man himself. We can say, therefore, that the system which governs the human being itself is 'Great Nature.' (p. 49)

(e)           In order to deal with the harmful things which we have to use to our disadvantage, the Lord gave us an alchemist (stomach) not to absorb the poisons that we eat together with the good nourishing food, but to separate it from the favorable substances. (p. 49)

(f)             * For the things that one does for the prolongation of one's life are ordained by Great Nature. (p. 49)

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geopathic therapy (geopathic medicine): Method that embraces dowsing, feng shui, and kinesiology (see below).

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graphochromopathy: A form of sympathetic magick (image magick) and a variation of color therapy and absent healing.

Graphochromopathy involves exposure of a photograph of the patient to sunlight, or artificial light, that has passed through an appropriately colored filter. The photograph should not include anyone besides the patient, and the diseased area of the patient's body should be distinct and uncovered therein.

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Great Swimming Dragon ta'i chi form (Great Swimming Dragon): Subject of the videotape Healing Movements: The Great Swimming Dragon T'ai Chi Form (Rudra Press, 1996). It is an ancient form of Qigong.

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GRUBERwork: Form of bodywork promoted and practiced by Susanne Gruber. it is a combination of connective tissue massage, Reichian emotional release, Rolfing, and Yoga movement repatterning. GRUBERwork restores the body's natural energy flow.

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