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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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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Hakomi Integrative Somatics (formerly Hakomi Bodywork): Form of body-centered psychotherapy originated by Pat Ogden. It includes energy work. Its theory posits wisdom of body, mind, and spirit.

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Harner Method Shamanic Counseling (HMSC): Admixture of classic shamanism and the work of anthropologist and author Michael Harner, Ph.D., founder and director of The Foundation for Shamanic Studies, in Mill Valley, California.

The thrust of Harner Method Shamanic Counseling is problem-solving by divination. , practitioners (ordinary reality Harner Method Shamanic Counseling counselors) serve merely as facilitators, and sacred teachers in nonordinary reality are the real counselors.

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Healing Science (Barbara Brennan Healing Science): Spiritual system by Barbara Ann Brennan, author of the bestseller Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field and Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing, both published by Bantam.

Brennan, who holds a master's degree in atmospheric physics, founded The Barbara Brennan School of Healing, in East Hampton, New York, in 1982. Her system is a form of energy field work that includes Core Star healing and Hara healing. Hara is a Japanese word that some alternativists use to denote the tanden, the seat of ki (supernatural energy) in humans, slightly below the navel. The name of Brennan's guide, whom she channels, is Heyoan.

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HealthWatchers Analysis: test of urine and saliva for the physical and emotional frequency of an individual's Stress Pattern. (See HealthWatchers System.)

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Healing Tao (Healing Tao Practices, Healing Tao System, Healing Tao Warm Current Meditation, international healing Tao system): System of Body-Mind-Spirit discipline promoted by the Healing Tao Co., in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Healing Tao is a means of developing a solid spiritual body. Its ultimate goal is transcendence of physical boundaries. Healing Tao theory posits a soul and a spirit in man.

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Healing Love (Healing Love meditation, Healing Love practices, Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu, Taoist Sexology and Practice): A foundational component of the Healing Tao System.

Healing Love is a mode of sexual intercourse that cultivates, conserves, and transforms sexual energy through the Microcosmic Orbit,a major energy channel. For men, Healing Love involves the power draw: sex without ejaculation.

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HealthWatchers System: Specialized application of Biological Immunity Analysis to weight management. Its centerpiece is the HealthWatchers Analysis. HealthWatchers System, a mail-order house in Scottsdale, Arizona, defines: (a) Stress Pattern as the resistance created by People, Places, Circumstances and Events attracted to you because they are opposed to your Soul Pattern; (b) Soul Pattern as the pattern inherent in your Soul....the point-of-view from which you are able to see and express life when you are free from your Stress Pattern; and (c) Soul as the immortal, spiritual, moral or emotional nature of a human being.

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heart-centered hypno-behavioral therapy: A combination of Ericksonian Hypnosis, humanistic psychology, and other methods that addresses Mind/Body/Spirit.

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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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life span nutrition (Limbic Eating): Dietetic philosophy formulated by author Majid Ali, M.D., who depicts enzymes as the life force of foods in Nature. Life span nutrition encompasses autoregulation.

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Health Patterning: a process of facilitating unitary well-being. It includes imagery (see creative visualization), mediation, and Therapeutic Touch.

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Healing Touch (HT): Variation of Therapeutic Touch and Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch whose design is to restore balance to the client's energy system.

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Healtheology: One of the fields of study offered by the American Institute of Holistic Theology, a correspondence school in Youngstown, Ohio. The institute defines Healtheology as a theological science of health, a concept that health and theology have a common ground.

Healtheology encompasses acupressure, angelic healing, aromatherapy, Ayurveda, breathwork, color therapy, crystal healing, herbalism, homeopathy, hypnosis, music therapy, polarity healing (polarity balancing), psychic healing, reflexology, shamanism, shiatsu, Therapeutic Prayer, transpersonal psychology, vibrational healing (vibrational medicine), and yoga. Its theory posits a soul with a threefold purpose: to experience, learn, and express itself. Practitioners are called Healtheologists.

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Healing the Skin from Within: Complete skin care program developed by dermatologist Michael R. Bilkis, M.D. It affects skin problems on three levels: body, mind, and spirit.

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Healing the Heart workshop: Psychospiritual component of a healing program run by cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, M.D. In 1995 the program included meditation and a visualization involving patients' requesting guidance from believable spiritual powers.

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Health Kinesiology (HK, HK system): An energy modality created by psychologist Jimmy Scott, Ph.D. HK is an offshoot of applied kinesiology. Its theory posits the Five Elements (Five Phases), a material layer of the aura, a meridian system, and reflex points for the Five Elements in the area of the navel. Corrective treatments may include crystals, gems, magnets, and homeopathic remedies.

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Health Harmonics: Technology that enables determination of the sound frequency one needs for balance and harmony of body, mind, and spirit.

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heart-centered transformational therapy: a means of deepening spiritually and uncovering one's true purpose.

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healing light kung fu (healing hands kung fu): a combination of cosmic energy chi kung and Five Finger Kung Fu.

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Hawaiian bodywork: Mode of massage originally practiced only by kahunas (see kahuna healing). It releases old patterns at the cellular level. Hawaiian bodywork is a variation of, or identical to, lomi-lomi.

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