| A woman lay in the emergency room after being | | | | prayer. There was a significant difference in the |
| taken in unconscious from a sudden pain in her | | | | recovery time of those that received prayer and |
| shoulder and upper chest. Her transport from the | | | | more in the group prayed for had a complete |
| small rural community took 20 minutes and the time | | | | recovery with no complications. |
| seemed too great for the aneurysm that burst on | | | | Prayer is not the only technique that uses the human |
| her aorta. The doctors watched the monitor for a | | | | essence to transfer wellness. Other methods include |
| sign of life. The heart monitor registered a flatline | | | | reiki, quantum touch, qigong, aura cleansing and the |
| heart pattern and they covered her body as they | | | | age old laying on of hands. All of these techniques |
| pronounced her dead. For some reason, no one | | | | use the transfer of energy or unblock the energy of |
| disconnected the heart monitor but they left her lay | | | | the body. While those involved in religion attribute the |
| as went to tell the family that she passed. | | | | healing from prayer to God, labeling the phenomena |
| Within ten minutes after the ambulance took her, a | | | | to the life force of those praying does not detract |
| dear family friend heard of the emergency and ran | | | | from that belief but simply studies the mechanics. |
| home to telephone friends in her church prayer | | | | Quantum touch is a modern laying-on of hands, the |
| group. By the time they began, another 15 minutes | | | | use of one person's chi to start the flow of |
| elapsed. At the time the prayer started, the family | | | | another's. Because of the use stimulation to the life |
| physician, on duty at the hospital, walked past the | | | | force, it resembles the healing of yogis and qigong |
| body and saw a blip on the heart monitor screen. He | | | | practitioners. It uses the energy of the healer |
| called for nurses and doctors and ultimately the | | | | amplified with breathing exercises to create energy |
| woman lived. The aneurysm burst and bled into the | | | | fields around the individual and unblock the life force |
| heart sack slowing the heart's rhythm to a deadly | | | | by synchronizing it with theirs. |
| slow rate. What caused the physician to be there, at | | | | Reiki also uses intervention techniques to unblock the |
| her bedside at that instant? Was the prayer group | | | | life force of the recipient. The difference in reiki is |
| responsible for the one last beat of her dying heart? | | | | that instead of the healer inputting energy, the |
| No one knows for sure but her family believes this | | | | individual receiving the healing draws the energy from |
| miracle of body and circumstance came from the | | | | the healer and participates in the process. |
| prayer. | | | | Aura cleansing is the first step in aura healing. It |
| Prayer, an age old method of healing has been | | | | doesn't need the touch of the healer but may take |
| studied for years. Most of the studies are too | | | | place in salt water, in the sun or with the aid of a |
| personal and anecdotal to be of any use. Just like the | | | | healer to remove the debris from the aura after the |
| woman in the emergency room, too many times | | | | patient is grounded. The healers often use stones of |
| coincidence, the possibility of spontaneous healing or | | | | various colors to unblock charkas and improve the |
| the power of suggestion could explain the healing | | | | flow of energy to major chakra areas. |
| phenomena. One study, however, followed remote | | | | There is still limited study on the benefits of any of |
| healing of strangers. The people that received the | | | | the techniques, but the fact that they all use a form |
| prayer had no idea that they were involved and | | | | of energy transference and come from many |
| those sending their prayers did not know those | | | | different areas of the globe, speaks volumes about |
| patients. A second almost identical group of patients | | | | the potential man has to perform miracles with the |
| were used as a control group and received no | | | | energy they have inside. |