Quantum


HEALTH


Issue 8 December 2010


The greatest mind-body healer of recent times was a diminutive and rather brusque character who lived in New England in the first half of the nineteenth century. His name was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. Having cured himself of tuberculosis, ‘considered impossible in those days’, he developed a healing method that concentrated on changing the dysfunctional beliefs of his patient. These, he asserted, were the root cause of all health problems. He wrote, ‘If you have been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth, I come into contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.’


Quimby’s methods were unconventional to say the least. Usually he imagined a courtroom scene in which he (an attorney) pleaded with a judge (the patient’s subconscious) to release the thought patterns that created the illness. Sometimes, in an early form of CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) he challenged the patient’s beliefs aloud, but as his skills developed, there were increasingly many healing sessions that took place without a word being spoken, as he silently ‘intuited’ the cause of the problem and ‘projected’ healing thoughts into the mind of the patient. This he could do in their presence or at a distance.


Quimby fervently believed-in opposition to the medical and clerical ‘wisdom’ of his day (and ours) - that health is the birthright and natural state of every human being. The life force or ‘Intelligence’ which sustains us was like a TV station broadcasting health and well-being for all, but could be blocked by error thoughts and beliefs which prevent us from enjoying long and happy lives.


I’m guessing you’ve never heard of him. Few have, even though he left behind a voluminous body of writings and influenced almost every mind-body healer who came after. The best accounts, though, came from those whom he had cured. Several testified to his prowess and wrote detailed accounts of his methods and results, including one, Mary Baker Eddy, who claimed his discoveries as her own. Quimby


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was also a forerunner of neuro-linguistic programming (Milton Erickson, on whom much of NLP is based, knew all about him) and many best-selling authors who have made a fortune writing about the mind-body connection would be nowhere without him.


Awareness, intention, attention, imagination and belief, - correctly applied, - are the keys to mind-body healing, increasing the effectiveness of all forms of healing. For instance, F. W. Alexander - best known for teaching his patients to stand, sit, walk, hold their heads correctly and so on – taught his patients mindfulness and positive affirmations to accompany every healing movement. I sum this up in my I-T-I-A Formula© – Intention, Thinking, Imagination and Action. When all four are applied to any given situation, the results can be astounding.


In the last issue of Quantum Health magazine (issue 7), I discussed ‘phases’ 1 through 5 in the consciousness of healing (the mechanic, naturalist, microbiologist, biochemist and mind- body healer). Now let’s take a look at number 6.


Phase six: the energy healer There’s nothing new about energy medicine, of course, it’s as old as the hills of China. In conventional medicine it’s considered woo-woo, even though it has a credible scientific basis. Despite this, many of its practitioners do little to debunk its mystique. There’s a good living to be made from crystals, rituals, symbols, coloured torches, pendulums and the like.


Energy healers work from the consciousness that humans are formed from a complex flow of energies, and that inputting energy into the body or correcting the energy flow through the body can promote health and cure illness. An example is Reiki, an ancient oriental practice of channelling healing energy through the body of the practitioner into the body of the patient. Reiki practitioners believe that the energy knows where to go and goes where it is needed. All that is required of the healer is to put their ego aside and allow the ‘healing energy’ to flow.


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