| Distance healing is a simple but effective way to work | | | | been saying for centuries, "We are all connected. We |
| with someone, even if they are in another state or | | | | are not separate." It is the connection that allows |
| country. This type of energy work is also known as | | | | remote healing energy to be transferred over long |
| remote, absent, or long distance healing. You don't | | | | distances. I believe there is no time and space when it |
| have to know the person or even talk with them. | | | | comes to sending positive energy. Both the sender |
| Someone may just ask you to pray for a person in | | | | and the receiver benefit when the energy is sent with |
| distress. This type of healing modality has been | | | | unconditional love. |
| practiced in the Far East for centuries. Nowadays, | | | | If you consider that thought is just energy as well as |
| there are numerous energy techniques being utilized | | | | emotions and feelings, imbalances in the energy body |
| for distance healing in the West. There have been | | | | can create physical problems or an illness. If the |
| many scientific studies done that have validated the | | | | practitioner can help the client to resolve their issue |
| positive effect of long distance healing, including prayer. | | | | which has created the illness, and their energy is |
| A study conducted by cardiologist Randolph Byrd in | | | | balanced and restored, the illness often disappears or |
| 1988 was designed to determine the effects of prayer | | | | improves. Healing energy can be sent for any condition, |
| on patients in the Coronary Care Unit at San Francisco | | | | whether it's physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. |
| General Hospital over a 10-month period. This was a | | | | Improvement can be instantaneous or improve over |
| rigidly designed and randomized, double blind | | | | time. How the recipient responds can vary. They may |
| experiment. A computer randomly assigned which of | | | | feel warm, cold, feel sensations in their body or just |
| the 383 newly admitted patients involved in the study | | | | feel more calm and relaxed. It's common that they feel |
| would be prayed-for, and which would not. The | | | | nothing, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening. |
| statistically significant finding of this study was that | | | | They are just not aware of it. Improvement may |
| prayed- for patients were five times less likely to | | | | come over days or even weeks, depending on how |
| require antibiotics, and three times less likely to develop | | | | fast the individual can integrate what happened during |
| pulmonary edema. None of the prayed-for patients | | | | the energy session. |
| required endotracheal intubation (where a tube is | | | | The most common way that practitioners work with |
| placed in the patient's throat), whereas 12 of the | | | | clients at a distance is over the phone or the internet. |
| non-prayed for patients required this procedure. | | | | However, healers are often asked to work with a |
| There are many other scientific studies that show | | | | family member and given the information about what |
| prayer can positively affect the health of a sick person | | | | that person's problem is. The practitioner then |
| even if the person praying does not personally know | | | | addresses the issue remotely, without ever seeing or |
| the person for whom they are praying. When a | | | | talking to the individual they are working on. This |
| practitioner of energy work transmits energy to a | | | | method is just as effective as talking with someone on |
| distant client, it works on a similar principle. However, | | | | the phone or in person. |
| healing arts practitioners are directing more specific | | | | In conclusion, long distance or remote healing is simply |
| frequencies and energies to the person being worked | | | | directing a specific energy to someone who is not in |
| on. Although anyone can send prayers or energy long | | | | the same location as you are. Whether it's through |
| distance to someone, it may not have the same | | | | prayer or sent by a trained energy worker it basically |
| effect as a trained energy worker, but anything you | | | | works the same way, as I've explained, "We're all |
| send to another person with love and an open heart | | | | connected." How an energy worker directs energy to |
| will be received. | | | | their clients depends on the particular technique they |
| There are many theories about how we can receive | | | | were trained in. Regardless of the technique, they are |
| energy from another person. The field of Quantum | | | | still sending healing energy for the benefit of the client |
| Physics provides scientific evidence how this happens, | | | | they are working on. Just about any type of condition |
| but is beyond the scope of this article to explain in a | | | | responds, creating balance, self-empowerment, and |
| simple, meaningful way for the average reader. If I | | | | peace of mind. |
| could break it down to a single sentence I would say | | | | If you are interested, there are dozens of books about |
| that it's possible to send energy over a distance or | | | | the effects of distance healing, which will give you a |
| remotely because at a deeper level of reality all things | | | | fuller explanation about the principles of Quantum |
| in the universe are infinitely interconnected. | | | | Physics and other theories on the subject of how |
| The scientists of today are now beginning to | | | | energy is transmitted, but the only way to really know |
| recognize what the mystics from many traditions have | | | | how it works is to experience it yourself. |