Can traditional and alternative healing be complimentary?

Of course, if you feel ill, you should see a doctor. But if you need treatment, should you also use alternative healing such as reiki and herbal medicines?

All through the treatment a good friend had for cancer, I gave her reiki. When she became terminally ill, we continued as she said it was the only time in her week she felt truly at peace. Energy healing can work in many ways on different levels. We both knew it wouldn’t make her well but it did make her feel better.

My friend was a widow and she worried about her children being alone when they were still only in their early 20s. Technically they were adults, but it is still a young age not to have an older adult to help guide you through the ups and downs of life.

After my friend passed, she came and told me that the healing had worked in ways we had not appreciated at the time. The energy healing created a stronger bridge between Earth and the After Life for her. When she was still in a physical body on Earth, she was able to communicate with her late husband in the After Life and other loved ones. Once she had passed, the same bridge enabled her to connect with her children to help them through their grieving.

Energy healing can do amazing things beyond our comprehension.

A colleague, who is a retired anaesthetist, told me from his observation of people with illness the best healing results came with a blend of traditional and alternative treatments. However, if you intend to take herbal medicines you need to check with your doctor that it does not conflict with any drugs he is prescribing for you.

Advances in scientific research, especially in the field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), is providing evidence that the body believes in images. So, our thoughts and feelings can make us sick or well. This is why we are encouraged to have positive thoughts and to see ourselves well and doing the things we love to do.

Our minds are much more connected to our bodies than we believe. According to molecular biologist, Candace Pert, there is a ‘psychosomatic communications network’ that operates in our brain and across all of our body. As a consequence, conscious or subconscious thoughts send messages which affect our health all around our body right down to the cell level.

Brain scans now show that when we visualise something, the same areas of your brain light up as if you were actually experiencing it. If you visualise yourself relaxed perhaps sitting and enjoying a beautiful view, your body relaxes, the heart beat slows as in the real thing.

You may think of healing as only something to do when you are ill. Wouldn’t it be a great world if you could think yourself into retaining good health from childhood.

Give yourself a visualisation, like you do in a meditation, of feeling good and healthy doing what you most love to do.

Think and feel yourself into continued good health rather than needing to seek treatment when are unwell. You can’t buy good health but you can gift it to yourself.