CranioSacral Therapy (CST, cranial balancing, cranial osteopathy, cranial sacral manipulation, cranial technique, cranial work, craniopathy, craniosacral balancing, Craniosacral Osteopathy, Cranio-Sacral work): Method whose goal is to remove impediments to a patient's energy. It involves manually aligning skull bones. Dr. William Garner Sutherland, a student of the founder of osteopathy, developed cranial osteopathy in the early 1900s.

According to its theory, movements of the skull bones cause movements of the sacrum and vice versa. John E. Upledger, D.O., developed CranioSacral Therapy, a derivative of Sutherland's work.

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Creative Kinesiology: Offshoot of applied kinesiology codeveloped circa 1990 by acupuncturist Haakon Lovell and psychotherapist Carrie Jost. Its theory posits an astral body, an etheric body, chakras, and chi.

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creative meditation: Subject of Richard O. Peterson's 1990 book of the same name. It uses vibrational patterns to effect attunement, self-guidance, and self-healing. The last of the seven principles of this unique approach to meditation is: Creative meditation is first directed to at-onement [sic] with God [Creative Forces] without expectations of benefits; the resources of God are then accessible for self-knowledge, self-guidance, and self-healing.

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curanderismo (curanderismo healing system): Mexican-American healing tradition. It encompasses acupuncture and homeopathy. Its theory posits natural and supernatural sources of illness; supernatural sources include evil spirits and brujos (practitioners of antisocial magic). The word curanderismo derives from the Spanish verb curar, which means to treat, to cure, or to heal.

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curative eurhythmy (curative eurythmy, therapeutic eurhythmy): The medical form of eurhythmy (eurythmy, eurythmics), the terpsichorean mode of anthroposophy. The design of eurhythmy is direct expression of a rhythm that pervades Nature. Proponents of eurhythmy describe it as a visual form of speech and music. Curative eurhythmy causes the inward conveyance of a harmonizing process that influences diseased organs, the astral body, and the etheric body.

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Cymatics: The science of wave phenomena;a means of restoring health advanced by Sir Peter Guy Manners, M.D., D.O., Ph.D. (see cymatic therapy). Its principle is that life is sound, and illness is any deviation in its pattern. the word Cymatics refers to both cymatic therapy and the science behind it.

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Crystal Therapeutics: System based on the books Crystal Therapeutics and Advanced Crystal Therapeutics, both by Rev. Ojela Frank, D.D. It embraces crystal healing, Energy Assessment, energy balancing, and guided imagery.

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crystal healing (crystal therapeutics, crystal therapy, crystal work): Multiform use of crystals (especially quartz crystals) and gemstones to treat such conditions as blindness, bursitis, cancer, depression, forgetfulness, tension headaches, hemorrhages, indigestion, insomnia, Parkinson's disease, rheumatism, and thrombosis.

Its principle is that crystals draw light and color into the body's aura and thus raise its frequency and allow the emergence of lower frequency energies, which are healthful. Crystal healing sometimes is adjunctive to, or a form of: acupressure, aura balancing, chakra healing, color therapy, pendular diagnosis, prayer, and self-healing.

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nutritional herbology: Form of herbology expounded by author and research chemist Mark Pedersen. It is part of the educational basis of Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. (NSP), a multilevel marketing organization whose headquarters are in Spanish Fork, Utah. Nutritional herbology theory encompasses the ancient Chinese theory of the Five Elements.

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creator force geometric healing methods: a means of attuning the heart chakra to 'creator force' energy. Such attuning enhances all forms of energy healing (see vibrational medicine).

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crude herb moxibustion (automatic moxibustion, cold moxibustion): Variation of moxibustion involving placement on the skin of particular herbs that cause blisters and scars.

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A Course in Miracles: Form of spiritual psychotherapy based on A Course in Miracles, whose three volumes - The Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers - comprise well over a thousand pages. The Course originated in 1965, was completed in 1972, and was first published (as a photocopy of typescript) in 1975. It is the fruit of channeling from Jesus Christ to Helen Cohen Schucman (1909-1981), a research psychologist at Columbia University.

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cosmo-biological birth control: Subject of the Lotus Light book of the same name, by Shalila Sharamon (whose training includes holistic astrology and the Sidhi technique) and Bodo Baginski (whose training includes meridian therapy, Polarity, spiritual healing, and Touch for Health). Cosmo-biological birth control is a mode of birth control and family planning based ona interaction of personal and cosmic cycles.

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consciousness therapy: A logical multi-dimensional tool whose theory posits chakras (energetic centers), a psychosoma (a nonphysical body that includes an energetic body, an emotional body, and a mental body), and thosenes (informational energetic fields that constitute a collective unconscious). Consciousness therapy is related to projectiology (see IIP Consciousness Development Program).

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contact healing (laying on of hands): Healing by touching a person with the hands or palms.

According to its theory, a healthy person has vital energy to spare, which is transmittable into sick persons. Contact healing is at least 15,000 years old. Usually, the healer places his hands, palms down, on the top of the patient's head or on the shoulders or waist.

Some proponents use the expressions laying on of hands and touch therapy interchangeably. The former expression may also refer specifically to the act of laying hands on a person's head to confer a spiritual blessing, as in Christian rites of confirmation and ordination (see: Healing)

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Contact Reflex Analysis (CRA): Variation of applied kinesiology cofounded by Dick A. Versendaal, D.C., author of Contact Reflex Analysis and Designed Clinical Nutrition.

According to Contact Reflex Analysis theory,

(a)           the surface of the human body has about seventy-five reflex points that serve as windows to numerous conditions, and

(b)           (b) the back of the hand is electronegative, the palm is positive, and the fingers are neutral.

The practitioner pulls downward on the patient's outstretched arm while he keeps part of his hand on a reflex point. Arm weakness indicates an incipient or full-blown health problem whose identity depends on the reflex point.

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Alternative 12 Steps: Nontheistic derivative of the Twelve Steps, expounded by Martha Cleveland, Ph.D., and Arlys G. in The Alternative 12 Steps: A Secular Guide To Recovery (1992). Three of their Steps affirm spiritual resources or spiritual energy.

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Ama Deus: Reportedly, a system of healing, magic, and divination used for millennia by Guarani shamen in Brazil. The Guaranis are a South American Indian people.

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Connective Tissue Therapy (CTT): Spiritual mode of bodywork developed by Paul and Nancy Marcus. It helps to free stagnant energy.

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consciousness and thought diagnosis: Mode of Natural and Macrobiotic Medicine that is a variation of so-called mind reading.

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Natural Way Zen Shiatsu: A combination of natural healing modalities that includes Zen Shiatsu.

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Contact Reflex Communication: A method used by physician Richard L. Plagenhoef, to review the body's memory bank of wellness.

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