primal therapy (primal scream therapy): Mode of psychotherapy developed by child psychologist Arthur Janov, author of The Primal Scream (1970).

Primal therapists dispense with analysis and, through a process of painful catharsis, attempt to resolve neuroses. Janov maintained that, to be effective, psychotherapy must uncover repressed primal pains - unpleasant events undergone not only during childhood and infancy, but even in the fetal and embryonic stages.

According to Janov, patients can dispel primal pains only by re-experiencing them and giving them physical expression (e.g., by screaming). The crux of primal therapy is rebirthing. Variations of primal therapy include Bio Scream Psychotherapy and the New Identity Process (NIP).

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Focusing (Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, Focusing Process, Focusing Therapy): Natural stepwise system of personal growth based on the work of psychology professor Eugene (Gene) T. Gendlin, Ph.D., author of Focusing (1981), Let the Body Interpret Your Dreams (1986), and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experimental Method (Guilford Publications, Inc., 1996).

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy involves dreamwork and inner child work. The effects of Focusing include: direct contact with the wisdom of one's body (prenatal bodily meaning), which is palpable; the flowing of life's energy in new ways of being; discovery of one's genuine self; and an increase in personal whole[ness].

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herbal crystallization analysis (HCA, HCA test, herbal identification, Herbal Tracer Test): Ostensibly diagnostic method developed by Prof. George Benner, a Master Herbologist and the author of Herbal Crystals as Curative Patterns (1979).

Benner's primary inspiration was a method of botanical identification developed by occultist Rudolf Steiner in the 1920s (see anthroposophical medicine). Steiner's method involved crystallizing the sap of botanical specimens with a solution of copper sulfate.

The result was a crystalline fingerprint of the herb. Benner similarly processed saliva. He decided that the resultant salivary configurations correlated with the configurations of herbs useful, according to folklore, against the donors' health problems. the number of specimens of a single herb that match a saliva specimen is a barometer of the donor's need for that herb: the more matches, the greater the need.

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Reiki meditation: Meditation system that involves the healing power of Reiki. It can bring on clairvoyance and release or transmute negative energy.

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Iron Shirt Chi Kung (Iron Shirt, Iron Shirt I, Iron Shirt Chi Kung I): A foundational component of the Healing Tao. Iron Shirt is a system of breathwork, movements, and postures, that, develops the ability to draw Earth energy and packs chi into the fasciae of vital organs.

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Acu-Powder (Acupowder treatment): One of the clinic services offered by the School of Classical Taoist Herbology, in Manhattan (New York City). It involves application of a remarkable herbal powder to acupoints.

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acupoint bloodletting: Form of bloodletting characterized by puncturing acupoints with needles. Its common usage has various purposes, including activation of blood, clearance of channels (meridians), and reduction of hotness.

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Seicho-No-Ie (SNI): Supradenominational truth movement founded in 1930 in Japan by Dr. Masaharu Taniguchi (b. 1893), author of The Role of Mind in Cancer (1965) and The Truth of Life, a series of twenty books. Spiritual healing is a major component of Seicho-No-Ie, which combines Christianity and Buddhism.

In a nutshell, the principle of Seicho-No-Ie healing is that illness does not exist in Reality (the true spiritual world at the core of the phenomenal world) and that it is a false appearance. Seicho-No-Ie literally means House of Growth.

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urine therapy (amaroli, auto-urine-therapy, shivambu kalpa, uropathy): Subject of The Water of Life (1937), by English urine therapist John W. Armstrong, The Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy (Scottsdale, Ariz.: TriMedica Inc., 1996), by Coen van der Kroon, and many other books.

Urine therapy refers to any method for maintaining or improving health characterized by the external or internal application of an individual's urine to that individual. Forms of urine therapy include applying urine to the skin (e.g., by massage or clay packs), ingesting it, injecting it (e.g., urine enemas), and snuffing it. Some proponents describe human urine as a divine nectar, a nectar of immortality, or a God-given panacea.

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Spiritual Beauty Care: Subject of a paperback of the same name, by Jacqueline Sinnige. Spiritual Beauty Care either constitutes or is a part of alternative beauty care. Its purpose is to restore the balance of bodily energies.

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Santeria (Santerismo): Subject of the 1987 occult thriller The Believers. Santeria is a combination of folk Catholicism and Yoruba (an African religion). The word Santeria literally means the worship of saints. Believers visit Santerian spiritual healers for medical help (e.g., to cure cancer).

All Santerian priests and priestesses are herbalists. Most of the plants they use serve both as remedies and as magical ingredients.

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Kalaripayat: Form of Marma Chikitsa promoted by Joseph Kurian (see marma science). It eliminates toxins, overpowers blocks, and restores full circulation.

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Enneagram system (Enneagram, Enneatype system): System of spiritual psychology based on an ancient Sufi typology of nine (ennea in Greek) personality types or primary roles:

(1)           the achiever (reformer) - orderly, rational, and self-righteous;

(2)           the helper - generous, manipulative, and possessive;

(3)           the succeeder (motivator, status-seeker) - ambitious, hostile, and pragmatic;

(4)           the individualist (artist) - intuitive, self-absorbed, and sensitive;

(5)           the observer (thinker) - analytic, original, and provocative;

(6)           the guardian (loyalist) - defensive, engaging, and responsible;

(7)           the dreamer (generalist) - accomplished and manic;

(8)           the confronter (leader) - combative, dominating, and self-confident; and

(9)           the preservationist (peacemaker) - easygoing and receptive.

Each type has a prime psychological addiction (fixation or blind spot), respectively: anger, pride, deceit, envy, greed, fear, gluttony, lust for life and power, and laziness. These addictions include Christianity's seven deadly sins.

(a)           Recognition of one's type is tantamount to spiritual awakening. in the process of neutralizing the prime addiction:

(b)          achievers become pathfinders,

(c)           helpers become partners, succeeders become motivators,

(d)           individualists become builders,

(e)           observers become explorers,

(f)             guardians become stabilizers,

(g)           dreamers become illuminators,

(h)           confronters become philanthropists, and

(i)             preservationists become universalists.

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color therapy (chromopathy, chromotherapy, color healing): Method whose principle is that colors - e.g., of light, food, and clothing - have wide-ranging curative effects. , cures result from correction of color imbalances. Color therapy often is a form of chakra healing.

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LooyenWork: Approach to body therapy that involves body reading and movement re-education and can increase the flow of clients' energy.

Body reading is a sophisticated form of observation that enables practitioners to reach the root of the client's problem.

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radionic diagnosis (radionic analysis, radionic analysis technique, radionic diagnostic work): Form of remote diagnosis that involves using a radionic diagnostic instrument. The basic modes of radionic diagnosis are the stick pad technique and a variation of telediagnosis.

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Fit for Life program: Variation of the dietetic component of Natural Hygiene developed by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. On page 120 of Fit for Life (1987), Harvey Diamond stated that every bodily cell possesses its own intelligence, and that the body effects whatever the conscious desires.

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acupuncture anesthesia (acupuncture analgesia, acupuncture assisted anesthesia, anesthetic acupuncture): Use of acupuncture to relieve pain during surgery wherein the patient is conscious, either in conjunction with or instead of analgesics or chemical anesthetics. It was introduced in 1958 in the People's Republic of China.

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panchakarma (Pancha Karma therapy, rejuvenation therapy, Ayurveda): Ayurvedic group of five purificatory steps or elimination therapies. Panchakarma comprises:

(a)  emesis therapy (therapeutic vomiting);

(b)  purgation therapy - evacuation of the bowels with a laxative;

(c)  errhine therapy (nasal insufflation therapy) - intranasal application of decongestants such as medicated oils, powdered herbs, and ghee (fat derived from butter of cow or buffalo origin);

(d)  oily enema therapy; and

(e)  decoction (watery) enema therapy. Some Ayurvedists regard the two types of enema therapy as one step and bloodletting therapy (Raktamoksha) as the fifth.

See: Ayurveda

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61-points relaxation exercise (61-points exercise, 61-points, shavayatra): Meditative mode of exercise whereby one travels mentally throughout one's body while one is supine and corpselike. Shavayatra means traveling through the corpse. The 61 points are specific parts of the body. , the exercise affects one's pranic field and eliminates muscular tension.

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Taiji Wuxigong: A form of Qigong. It is a group of exercises whose focus is the opening of the body's (alleged) middle (energy) channel. , steady practice of these exercises can conduce to an improvement of health, an increase in mental stability, restoration of vitality, and possible activation of certain latent abilities.

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Polarity energy balancing massage: System based on the work of Randolph Stone (see Polarity Therapy). It has four branches: (1) energy balancing bodywork technique, (2) Polarity Yoga, (3) diet, and (4) body/mind/spiritual psychology.

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