Comments on: What is Healing, Anyway?

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500 Words on Thursday » Ayurveda — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:26:28 +0000

[...] Since this week I was dealing with my own malady, it seemed appropriate to videoconference with Dr. Sree. He’s in Ukraine now, where he has a year-long contract to treat cancer patients using Ayurveda and also Reiki. [...]

By: Ayurveda

Ayurveda — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:15:17 +0000

[...] Because I was dealing with my own malady this week, it seemed appropriate to videoconference with Dr. Sree. He’s in Ukraine now, where he has a year-long contract to treat cancer patients using Ayurveda and also Reiki. [...]

By: Lotta

Lotta — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:06:25 +0000

I’m so glad that you are doing this blog, Lee! I just caught up with your two most recent posts. Being a ‘convert’ since quite a while back, I remember how skeptic I was when I started out. Even when I took my first Reiki Level training, I was still a skeptic. Intentions go the same way. It was while studying some of the basics of Quantum Physics that I started to accept with my left brain, what my right brain knew since I was a child; basically that there is so much we can’t ‘see’ or ‘measure’ yet, which makes it no less valid. We don’t question love, even though it’s impossible, so far, to measure or explain scientifically. In my existing world-view, it’s the height of arrogance to believe that if we can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist. Life has such richness and depth and we still haven’t even begun to scratch the surface…

Thank you!

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:26:05 +0000

There’s a little bit of apples and oranges here. T-cells are one cell line involved in the body’s ability to fight pathogens and the thought is that as this cell line is depleted, susceptibility to infection increases. Given the innumerable factors involved in disease and healing, extrapolating the impact of one cell line on a global process doesn’t make sense. Two healthy people with a “normal” compliment of all the factors we can measure will have different susceptibility to disease, different rates of healing, and different abilities to perceive/tolerate pain. Like pain perception, healing is a complex physiological process which seems susceptible to cognitive modification.

By: Bob Ellal

Bob Ellal — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:33:31 +0000

Lee,

One measurable proof I’d like to observe would be T-cell count. The type of qigong I favor is standing post meditation–the arms are held in an arc in front of the body, palms facing the heart. According to masters, this pressures the sternum and in turn stimulates the thymus gland–which kicks out T-cells, and normally deteriorates witih age. I’d love to see a study of people who practice standing post and T-cell counts.

Regards,

Bob