Reimprinting with Divine Intervention: Powerful therapeutic process developed by Gerry Schmidt. it is a means of transforming childhood experiences with divine assistance.

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biodynamic psychology (Biodynamic therapy): Therapeutic approach developed by Gerda Boyesen, a clinical psychologist and physiotherapist born in Norway. It is related to bioenergetics. One of its principles is that, when bodily fluids do not circulate efficiently or tissues are not properly cleansed, emotional tensions or blockages show up and keep bioenergy from vitalizing the body.

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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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creative visualization: Subject of the bestseller of the same name, written by Shakti Gawain in 1978.

In creative visualization, one clearly imagines whatever one wants to manifest (see manifesting); then one gives the idea, image, or feeling positive energy, by focusing on it regularly, until it becomes reality. Creative visualization's theory posits a spiritual source: a supply of infinite energy, love, and wisdom discoverable in the inner beings of humans.

Expressions for methods identical or similar to creative visualization include: active imagination, creative imaging, directed day-dream, directed waking dream, dynamic imaging, guided fantasy, guided imagery, guided visualization, imagery, imaginal medicine, imaging, initiated symbol projection, inner guide meditation, led meditation, magickal visualization, mental imagery, pathworking, Positive Imaging, positive thinking, positive visualization, visualization, visualization therapy, waking dream therapy, and willed imagination.

For example, willed imagination, also called creative visualization, is the magickal art of imagining the result one desires of one's magick (the word for Wiccan magic) in order to achieve that result.

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Unani (Unani medicine, Unani system of medicine, Unani Tibb): System based on the ancient Greek theory of four basic elements - air, earth, fire, and water - and four bodily fluids (humors) - blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile (choler). The goal of Unani is the balancing of humors. Temperament stems from the dominant humor and is a determinant of diagnosis and treatment. For example, anger and irritability manifest an excess of yellow bile. Unani is the Arabic word for Greek. Hikmat and Tibe-Unani are synonymous with Unani medicine.

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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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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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Inner Child Cards: Divination system created by Isha Lerner and professional astrologer Mark Lerner, coauthors of Inner Child Cards: A Journey into Fairy Tales, Myth, and Nature (1992). The system features this book and a fairy-tale adaptation of the 78-card tarot. It reawakens the child within by conducing to interaction of the user and the most potent archetypes of the inner world. Its apparent principle is that humans are divine and have radiant selves: starchildren who live in the heart.

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integrative acupressure: Form of acupressure whose chief distinction is a technique called acupressure lymphatic release.

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C.A.R.E. (Chakra Armor Release of Emotions): System advanced by author Raphael Rettner, D.C. its principle is that emotions are involved in four energy pathways: acupuncture meridians, chakras, polarity elements, and armor (a muscle spasm due to an unexpressed emotion).

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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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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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Ayurvedic nutrition (Ayurvedic diet): Nutritional phase of Ayurveda. It involves eating according to

(a)           one's body type and

(b)          the season.

The activity of the doshas - three bodily humors, dynamic forces, or spirits that possess - determines one's body type. In Ayurveda, body types number seven, eight, or ten, and seasons traditionally number six. Each two-month season corresponds to a dosha; for example, the two seasons that correspond to the dosha named Pitta (see Raktamoksha) constitute the period of mid-March through mid-July. But some proponents enumerate three seasons: summer (when pitta predominates), autumn, and winter (the season of kapha); or Vata season (fall and winter), Kapha season (spring), and Pitta season (summer).

According to Ayurvedic theory, one should lessen one's intake of foods that increase (aggravate) the ascendant dosha.

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Chi Lel (Chi-Lel Qigong): Variation of Qigong and Qigong therapy pioneered by Pang Ming, M.D., practiced at the Wahzhan Zhineng Chigong Clinic and Training Center (a medicineless hospital in Qinhuagdao, China), and promoted by Luke Chan, author of 101 Lessons of Tao (Benefactor Press, 1995) and Secrets of the Tai Chi Circle: Journey to Enlightenment.

Chi Lel has four components:

(1)           generation of a strong belief (shan shin) - e.g., by listening to testimonials - that chi (life energy) can heal all ailments;

(2)           Chu Chong;

(3)           Chi Healing; and

(4)           Lan Gong (practice), which includes methods from Zhineng Chigong.

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Tibetan Reiki: Variation of and extension to Reiki. Tibetan Reiki is of ancient Tibetan origin.

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Psychogenetics: Method founded by psycho-spiritual consultant Gayatri Rein Reich, author of Psychogenetics.

Psychogenetics:

(a)   cracks and reprograms genetic codes related to birth, aging, and death; and

(b)  (b) dissolves lineage chains.

Its theory posits a powerful program on one's psychogenetic computer that determines:

(a)   when one is born, marries, and gives birth;

(b)  the nature of one's relationships;

(c)   the state of one's career and finances; and (d) the quality of one's physical and mental health.

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Thought Field Therapy (TFT, Callahan Techniques, Callahan Techniques Thought Field Therapy (CTTFT), tapping therapy, tap therapy): One of the power therapies. According to clinical psychologist Roger J. Callahan, Ph.D., quoted in the November 1996 issue of Visions Magazine, TFT is the study of the structure of thought fields and the body's energy system as they pertain to the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems. Callahan originated TFT in the 1980s. It involves sequentially tapping specific acupuncture meridian energy points with fingertips.

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auricular reflexology: Mode of reflexology whose focus is the ear. Dr. P.F.M. Nogier of France discovered the method in 1967.

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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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Sufi healing: Tradition of faith healing based on Sufism, an Islamic form of mysticism that developed mainly in Persia (Iran). It is based particularly on the teachings of one of the largest Sufi orders, the Chishti order. Sufi healing includes abjad, breathwork, fasting, and prayer. According to its theory - which posits devils, ghosts, and jinn (genies) - disbelief in God is the most severe imbalance.

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Biogram Therapy: (biogram healing, Biogram Healing System, biogram mind-body healing, Biogram System): Treatment developed by Dr. Richard Johnson. It involves guided imagery and is the basis of an audiocassette program. Biogram refers toa something that communicates directly with the source of a malady to initiate the healing process on mental and physical levels.

The principles of Biogram Therapy include these:

(a)           One can learn how to use one's mind to correct any negative physical conditions in various areas of the body.

(b)           Everyone possesses a cellular memory, the experience of one's ancestors in genetic code, which may cause otherwise inexplicable difficulties for the individual.

(c)           One can develop both the ability to see inside one's body with one's mind and the ability to derive information from one's DNA archives (the Library of Time), with which one can retrain oneself at the cellular level.

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