Healer Dictionary

Toning: Vocal method expounded and developed by American healer Laurel Elizabeth Keyes. It isa means of bringing new life energy to inhibited or unbalanced parts of the body. Toning involves standing with eyes closed, relaxing the jaws, and expressing feelings with vocal sounds.

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healing power

The source of the power to do healing. The healer must achieve an uplift of consciousness to contact and withdraw power from this higher plane reservoir. Attending spirit operators may aid the healer, but the power for healing is from the Highest Center

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shadow sound therapy (c) (SST, shadow therapy): Modality developed by Elide M. Solomont, Ph.D., composer, Jungian psychotherapist, sound healer, and author of One Day We'll All Be Together and You Are Who You Hate - The Alchemy of Dissonance: History, Theory, Self Reports, Practice for Therapeutic Purpose (Vantage Press, Inc., 1995). SST is a combination of guided imagery and music therapy.

According to its theory,

• if one listens to unfamiliar, unstructured, or inharmonic music, one will face one's shadow (a dark side that disappoints); and
• interpreting images of the unconscious can effect healing.

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Magnetic Healing Introduced to the West by Mesmer; in it the pranas or general vital powers of the healer are able to help, in many cases, a sufferer to throw off an ailment or disease by arousing the sufferer's own powers of resistance to vital inharmony or disease.

The success of magnetic healing arises from the fact that human or animal magnetism is a fluid, and hence an emanation flowing from the healer to the sufferer. The existence of such human or animal magnetism has now been established by the researches of a multitude of investigators during the last century or more.

All human beings have this magnetic fluid, but some natural-born healers have the instinctive power of projecting or emitting their own magnetism, which flows from different parts of the body, but especially from the tips of the fingers, the eyes, or the hands.

To animal magnetism likewise are to be ascribed the cause of the so-called antagonisms or repulsions, or again affinities and attractions, between human beings.

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Assimilation:

A technique of psychic healing involving the picking up of a patient’s pain and/or illness by the healer, who experiences it personally for a short time, after which it is supposed to vanish in both patient and healer; may also be done accidentally.

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NATURAL MEDICINE -any therapy that stimulates one’s own healing powers: that places responsibility upon oneself rather than the doctor, healer or any exterior source; that utilizes nontechnological means and medicine. (NAD)

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Spiritual Healing with Colour Therapy is a method of natural healing, which is centred upon the universal life force energy. By attuning with this energy the healer acts as a channel by laying the hands on the body channelling this life force energy. Colour helps to restore the balance of vibrational electromagnetic components of light that make up our auras, which we see as the seven colours. Treatment consists of light being passed through various coloured prisms generated through a Light Box.

Read more here: » Colour Therapy: Short introduction to Spiritual Healing with Colour Therapy

PHYSIOHELANICS

Energy work practiced as an adjunct to other modalities, Physiohelanics uses the body’s own energy systems to enhance healing.

Treatment begins with cleansing, balancing, and repairing the etheric energy field that surrounds the body and is followed by treatment focusing on connecting major and minor energy points (chakras) in the body.

Touch from the practitioner is very light and usually targeted toward areas that require cleansing and clearing. Throughout the 35 to 40 minute session, the healer channels energy rather than using her own. Physiohelanics was developed by C. Diane Ealy.

(See also: PHYSIOHELANICS , Alternative Health, Massage, Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul)

demagnetising

Drawing from a body as from a healer, the human magnetism which may have been built up for healing purposes. The distance of hands from body, the direction of passes and negative or positive attitudes in body and spirit of each contributor and recipient may be factors that determine the effectiveness of the magnetism transferred from healer to patient

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THERAPEUTIC TOUCH: The underlying premise of therapeutic touch is that healing is promoted when the energy (vital life force) enveloping the body is in balance. The disease process is thought to be manifested when this energy is in a state of imbalance. By passing his hands lightly over the person's body, the healer can feel any energy imbalances. These usually show up as one of several sensations: heat, cold, tingling, pulsation, electric shock, or tightness.

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EARTH -

1. the nest of humanity. (Dante)

2. third planet from the Sun, generally represented in world mythology as a feminine being of high consciousness, through a masculine being in Egyptian tradition.

3. Grandmother or Mother of all beings (Sioux and other traditional Peoples)

4. Gaia (the Greek Goddess of the Earth), a living self regulating organism.

5. planet for our training our playground in preparation for the next life in the vibrational world. (Michio Kushi).

6. the primary scientist, the primary educator, healer and technologist, the primary manifestation of the ultimate mystery of things. (Thomas Berry) (NAD)

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Huichol Shamanism (Huichol Indian Shamanism): Form of shamanism promoted by the Dance of the Deer Foundation, taught by its director, shaman healer Brant Secunda, and practiced by the Huichols, a tribe of Indians living in central western Mexico, near Ixtlan.

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It's not surprising to see both Hindus and Muslims praying at the dargah of the thirteenth century sufi, Shaikh Nizamuddin Aulia (1244-1325), in New Delhi. A refugee who had sought shelter here along with his parents, when Bukhara was subjected to repeated Mongol invasions, Nizamuddin never went back to the Central Asian Republic. Living here amongst the common people, he stressed that a mystic should transcend all barriers of religion, race and language in dealing with human beings.

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Read more here: » Shaikh Nizamuddin Aulia: Healing the Human Heart of Pain  

Archetype:

A form or template emanating directly from the mind of God, which represents one of the twelve attributes of God. Each person has one primary archetype for a particular incarnation. Examples are the Creator, the Teacher and the Healer.

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This article presents a couple of ways crystals can be used to augment energy healing, also known as therapeutic touch or healing touch. In all energy healing work, the healing can be instantaneous if the healer is connected to truth and the recipient is receptive. It's important to remember that the healer is simply a channel for pure positive energy. The patient is the one who is responsible for accepting the healing. As a healer, it's wise to remember that when we spiritually ask for aid in helping another in any way, we immediately summon great help from Spirit.

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CADUCEUS

(keryx, "herald - a herald's wand, kerukeion). Representative of the spinal column: matter and spirit intertwining to produce the manifest world and to create a channel for the sexless Sushumna power. Pingala and Ida, the two serpents, are male and female. Ultimately, the embodiment of Kundalini: the sexual, hence vital force or "healing power." The doubled serpent is unconditional, absolute wisdom. A herald's wand confers immunity in all regions - protection from attack (especially since the serpents are vipers).

Apart from being the emblem of the wandering healer, the caduceus also stands for the Qabalah as a whole. The staff itself is the middle pillar and the serpents are the two flanking pillars, representing the slippery extremes that reflect one another back and forth. A recently unearthed hieroglyph depicts Thoth with a staff surmounted by two cobras bearing, respectively, the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt (the conscious and unconscious mind). In medicine, the black and white serpents signify disease and health.

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Astronomos (Ancient Greek). The title given to the Initiate in the Seventh Degree of the reception of the Mysteries. In days of old, Astronomy was synonymous with Astrology; and the great Astrological Initiation took place in Egypt at Thebes, where the priests perfected, if they did not wholly invent the science.

Having passed through the degrees of Pastophoros, Neocoros, Melanophoros, Kistophoros, and Balahala (the degree of Chemistry of the Stars), the neophyte was taught the mystic signs of the Zodiac, in a circle dance representing the course of the planets (the dance of Krishna and the Gopis, celebrated to this day in Rajputana); after which he received a cross, the Tau (or Tat), becoming an Astronomos and a Healer. (See Isis Unveiled. Vol. II. 365).

Astronomy and Chemistry were inseparable in these studies. "Hippocrates had so lively a faith in the influence of the stars on animated beings, and on their diseases, that he expressly recommends not to trust to physicians who are ignorant of astronomy.’ (Arago.) Unfortunately the key to the final door of Astrology or Astronomy is lost by the modern Astrologer; and without it, how can he ever be able to answer the pertinent remark made by the author of Mazzaroth, who writes: "people are said to be born under one sign, while in reality they are born under another, because the sun is now seen among different stars at the equinox "?

 Nevertheless, even the few truths he does know brought to his science such eminent and scientific believers as Sir Isaac Newton, Bishops Jeremy and Hall, Archbishop Usher, Dryden, Flamstead, Ashmole, John Milton, Steele, and a host of noted Rosicrucians.

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Artemis (Greek) Greek divinity, commonly identified with the Roman Diana, daughter of Leto and Zeus, twin of Apollo. Goddess of chastity and protectress of youths and maidens against the wiles of Aphrodite, she is celebrated in Arcadian rites and legends which are older than those of Homer.

These show her to be a nature goddess, patroness of fields and forests, goddess of life-giving waters, marshes, rivers, and springs. As goddess of agriculture, she brings increase to the fields, drives away mice and pests, and is the friend of the sower and reaper. The legend of the Calydonian boar shows her to have been worshiped as a harvest goddess. She was also called the tamer, the goddess of the chase, and the healer. She is the protector of the beasts, rather than their persecutor in the chase.

Artemis was also the protectress of mankind and was specially active in regard to the education of the child and youth. Boys and girls were consecrated to her in the temples. She was goddess of marriage and presided over births. Her chief festival, that of Ephesia or Artemisia, was held in the spring.

The connections of various kinds between Aphrodite (or Venus) and the moon, represented under various names, were numerous and highly suggestive. In fact, the Aphrodite Pandemos (the common and popular) was more intimately connected with the lunar powers and attributes than even with Venus. The moon, for instance, under the name Lucina, presided over births; under the name Diana was referred to as being the giver of life and lives, of abounding vitality; and under the name Hecate was the goddess of the underworld because the bringer of disease, decrepitude, and death.

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Apollo (Greek) Also called Phoebus (the pure, shining); son of Zeus and Leto (Latona), the polar region or night, and twin brother of Artemis (Diana). His birth shows the emanation of light from darkness. One of the most popular gods of Greek mythology, he is primarily the god of light, and is also associated with the sun, hence a giver of life, light, and wisdom to the earth and humanity.

Apollo and Artemis are the mystic sun and the higher occult moon (SD 2:771). Apollo stands for order, justice, law, and purification by penance. His attribute as a punisher of evil is shown by his bow, with which as an infant he slew Python. He is the deity who wards off evil; the healer, father of Aesculapius and often identified with him; and the god of divination, associated especially with the Oracle at Delphi.

The other principal seat of his worship was at Delos, his birthplace. He was also the patron of song and music, of new civic foundations, and protector of crops and flocks. His lyre is the sacred heptachord or septenary, seen in the sevenfold manifestations of the Logos in the universe and man; he is also the sun with its seven planets. He answers in some respects to the Hindu Indra and Karttikeya and in others to the Christian archangel Michael; Janus was the Roman god of light.

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Curandera: Pronounced “kur-ahn-dehr-rah,” it is Spanish for “female healer.”

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Dakini:

Dakini - Female Tantrika or Yogini. An attendant or servant to Great Goddess by holding the intention to embody Her highest will; Commonly used to describe a Priestess, healer, alchemist, or initiate skilled at high level arts.

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Essenes (probably from Hebrew asa to heal)

Described by Josephus as one of three principal sects among Jews from about the middle of the 2nd century BC; the title Healer, often equivalent to savior or teacher (cf therapeutae). They were a sect of Jewish theosophy, rather exclusive, adhering to Jewish tradition in some respects though regarded as heretical in others.

Their cardinal principles were active benevolence and self-discipline. They had an esoteric school guarded by secrecy, accessible through novitiate and degrees. Josephus, describing the rule of a community, presents the picture of a tranquil life, divided between practical avocations, assemblies, and ritual observances.

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