Healing

Biblical poetry, in particular the psalms of lament, provides a model of how composing one's own lament and performing it to God can be a positive element in healing the effects of trauma. In an empirical study, Zulu youth who had experienced various forms of trauma, learned to use the model of biblical psalms of lament to compose their own laments. The process of regaining agency, establishing a sense of justice (with an appeal for the perpetrator of the hurt to be punished), and a rekindling of hope for life going forward, all elements of biblical lament, are also vital parts of the healing process. Thus it is suggested that the use of poetry, in the form of biblical lament, can contribute to the healing of those who have suffered trauma.

Tujuan Penulisan skripsi ini ialah: Pertama, untuk mengetahui pemahaman yang benar mengenai hal yang dilakukan oleh perempuan yang sakit pendarahan tersebut sehingga bisa sembuh. Kedua, untuk menerapkan kembali akan iman yang sungguh untuk percaya kepada kuasa Tuhan. Adapun hasil penelitian adalah sebagai berikut: Pertama, Sakit penyakit yang dialami seberapa lamapun waktunya dan sekeras apapun penyakit yang dirasakan pasti ada waktu penyakit itu akan sembuh dan hilang dari tubuh manusia, sesuai dengan kehendak Tuhan. Kedua, Pengorbanan Kristus di atas kayu salib telah menebus segala dosa umat manusia. Sakit penyakit merupakan akibat dari ulah dosa manusia yang tidak menghargai akan pemberian tubuh yang sehat yang Tuhan berikan dengan cara memberikan tubuh dengan hal-hal yang tidak penting dan memakai hal-hal yang tidak berguna untuk tubuh ini. Ketiga, Kesembuhan dapat terjadi ketika seseorang mempunyai iman untuk kesembuhan tersebut, di dalamnya termasuk dengan adanya tindakan untuk meraih kesembuhan yang adanya dari Tuhan Yesus sendiri. Keempat, Mukjizat kesembuhan bisa terjadi ketika orang masih percaya bahwa mujizat kesembuhan yang dilakukan Tuhan Yesus pada masa pelayanan-Nya ketika Dia ada di dunia ini masih bisa terjadi di dalam kehidupan orang percaya masa kini. Kelima, Tuhan Yesus tidak pernah mengukur akan besar kecilnya iman seseorang ketika meminta sesuatu dari-Nya, sekecil dan sebesar apapun iman seseorang itu sudah cukup untuk menjawab setiap seruan doa yang dinaikkan kepada Tuhan. Iman yang lahir dari hati itulah iman yang sesunggunya. Keenam, Jangan pernah menyerah ketika sakit penyakit menghampiri hidup ini, tetap berserah kepada Tuhan Yesus, minta Dia turut campur tangan di setiap aspek kehidupan ini, maka Tuhan tidak sedikitpun meninggalkan orang yang sungguh berharap kepada-Nya. Ketujuh, yang terpenting ialah seorang murid Yesus dalam hal ini orang percaya yaitu mau mendengar, mau datang dan mau menerima Yesus sepenuhnya diatas segala-galanya.

Among the lessons that emerged after the recent presidential election is a recognition that teachers are generally not prepared to address the intersections of healing, politics, and emotion in classrooms. Now, more than ever, English educators must address trauma in classrooms, while also recognizing how individuals and groups are positioned differently in the material and emotional stakes of this election. Drawing on research, the voices of teachers, and our experiences over this past year, we call for more expansive conversations among English educators across perspectives concerned with creating safe, relational, anti-oppressive classrooms.

The United Methodist Church has a theological statement in the Book of Resolutions 2012 on ministries in mental health that opens: We believe that faithful Christians are called to be in ministry to individuals and their families challenged by disorders causing disturbances of thinking, feeling and acting categorized as "mental illness." We acknowledge that throughout history and today, our ministries in this area have been hampered by lack of knowledge, fear and misunderstanding. Even so, we believe that those so challenged, their families and their communities are to be embraced by the church in its ministry of compassion and love.[1] According to a World Health Organization report in 2012 entitled " Depression: a Global Public Health Concern, " one in four persons suffers from a mental disorder, and among mental disorders, depression is the most prevalent. Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide in terms of total years lost due to disability.[2] Depression, as well as other mental disorders, adversely impacts the ability of affected persons to perform at work, school, and in the family. The World Health Organization (hereafter referred to as WHO) estimates 350 million people of all ages around the world suffer from depression, contributing significantly to the overall global burden of disease. [3] Lack of treatment compounds the problem. Less than half of the persons afflicted with depression, and in some countries less than 10%, receive any kind of treatment.[4] Lack of treatment is due to a lack of resources, including education, diagnostic tools, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, medication and support systems. Lack of resources is directly connected to the poverty and underdevelopment of such countries. Misdiagnosis is also another contributor to improper treatment. Untreated or improper treatment of depression can lead to other more dangerous mental disorders and often to suicide. The WHO cites that over 800,000 persons commit suicide every year, and it is the second leading cause of death globally in 15-29 year olds.[5] Depression is not the only mental disorder that afflicts persons globally. Anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia, autism spectrum disorder and other mental and developmental disorders are on the rise as well, and countries face the similar challenges in treating these disorders. There are many individual and social factors that determine risk: genetics, perinatal infections, nutrition, stress, environment and environmental hazards, individual cognitive-behavioral coping skills, trauma, life crises, national policies, social protection, standards of living, work conditions and community support among others.[6]

This paper examines the practice of Dorothy Heathcote as an active paradigm in the classroom both for the teacher and the learners. This is explored and explained in depth with reference to the work of a number of key research methodologists. The paradigm is then applied actively to the work of a contemporary classroom practitioner whose own words are used – through online audio recording  ‐ to help analyse the work described.

Kenneth Hagin (1917-) represents and is widely accepted as the father of the Word of Faith Ministries1 though his mantle has largely
fallen to Kenneth and Gloria Copeland who, through the magazine “Believer’s Voice of Victory,” promulgate a similar message concerning
healing.2 Because of the impact of his teaching concerning healing,3
with its attendant reactions,4 it is appropriate to analyze his beliefs and practices. Despite his attempts to prove that Christians may emulate the
healing ministry of Jesus, he assumes major differences that undermine
such a link. These will now be explored.

Our journey through life is encoded in our bodies just as the rings of a tree encode the life-story of that tree. If we grow up in an emotionally supportive environment our posture will be secure, our movements fluid, and our speech expressive. We will also be at ease with our bodies, and enjoy an open connection between body and psyche.

If we grow up in the wake of emotional trauma, it is a different story. Our bodies take on the postures, movements, and ways of speaking that seem to offer us protection: we may puff ourselves up or make ourselves small, overeat or starve, yell or stutter. Once established, these bodily defences limit our experience of ourselves and the world. Additionally, they often create painful physical symptoms.

Equally damaging is the disembodiment that accompanies childhood trauma. Emotions are primarily bodily responses, so by cutting off from our bodies we can distance ourselves from unbearable pain. We are not necessarily conscious of our disembodiment, but there are consequences. We cannot pick up the subtle feelings that reflect our bodies' emotional states and which could act as a compass during life. We have little access to the images that arise in our bodies which could help to guide our journey. We see our bodies as objects and tend to blame at least some of our pain on their imagined inadequacy.

Healing trauma requires that we work directly with our bodies to release what they hold, and forge the connections between body and psyche that will enable us to live an embodied life. There are many creative ways to do this work, including authentic movement, voice-work, yoga and working with masks.

This contribution was written on the occasion of the conference entitled “A Not-Newtonian Research Program for Acupuncture – From Biomedicine to LH Medicine”, organised on 1 and 2 June 2018 by the Sigmund Freud University and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna.
For a long time traditional medicine has instilled in us the dogma that our health essentially depends on genetic heredity. If we have inherited good genes, we are lucky, otherwise we are destined to become ill with the same diseases that our parents or relatives had.
At the same time some religions have nurtured the idea of illness as a punishment because of our bad conduct, teaching us to pray for forgiveness for the sins committed, which have provoked God’s anger against us.
Genetic determinism, as well as the belief in a punishing God have introduced to our lives, at a conscious or unconscious level, not only the idea that we ourselves are sinners and the victims of destiny, of coincidence, of our genes, but also the false belief that the power of healing is to be found outside ourselves .
But quantum mechanics introduces a new, revolutionary concept: it is the thought of the observer that conditions the result of the experiment.

With more and more families presenting with two or more children with autism, this revolutionary treatment method in autism is transforming the lives of these autistic children and their families. Not only that, this approach is healing the lives of the entire family, thus being the FIRST, scientifically proven healing approach in autism that is truly (W) Holistic in every sense of the term. This is a win-win situation for all, as one can see the RESULTS of this path-breaking treatment in autism, right from Day ONE. The Problem While it is known that there is a " risk " of another child with autism being born in a family where the parents already have one child with autism, the actual statistics for the same is lacking. This article is inspired by my experience in healing children with autism in families with more than one child with autism. Autism Treatment Approach The healing method that was applied was Intent Healing™ that is based on Applied Energy Medicine and Applied Intentional Epigenetics. One can know more details about the same by perusing these articles on the scientific basis of the same and the case reports of successfully healed cases here: http://www.intenthealing.com/blog/ and in this online course on 'The Energy Basis of Autism and the Solution' , where the Testimonials and the Evidence of successfully healed cases of Autism, in line with EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) applying Intent Healing™ is available here: http://authenticautismsolutions.usefedora.com The treatment method applied was as follows: 1. Energy assessments of both parents and the autistic children: The energy patterns of the parents and the children were assessed over two days and two nights and the reports shared with the parents. This helps in understanding the underlying specific causes for the symptoms of autism seen in each child with autism, which was unique to each child. 2. Individual healing sessions with each parent: These sessions were done over skype and as Remote Healing sessions timed according to the time zones where the parents lived. Intent Healing™ energies were channeled in the sessions and the individual parents' energies were realigned first. 3. Individual sessions for each child: These sessions were done as Remote Healing sessions while each child was sleeping in bed at different times of the night. In some cases the sessions were done for one child and once the symptoms disappeared in that child the ISSN 2379-7150 sessions were done for the other child who had autism and then the third child after that. In some cases with two children with autism the sessions were done on the same day at different timings and improvements in the symptoms in both the children with each session were noted and documented till complete disappearance of all the symptoms was achieved. Results 1. In all the cases improvements of the symptoms in the children were seen right from the very FIRST session. 2. With consecutive sessions, PROGRESSIVE improvements in the symptoms were seen and documented in both the children with autism in the cases where the families had two children with autism and those families with more than two children with autism, the improvements were seen in ALL the autistic children. 3. In ALL the cases of families with two or more than two children with autism, 70-80% of the limiting symptoms of autism in each child disappeared over a span of 20-30 days were the sessions were done on consecutive days with no break in between. In families where the sessions were done for each child one after the other (doing the sessions for one child only first till the symptoms disappeared and then moving on to the next child and so on), the time period for recovery was correspondingly longer due to the logistics involved. 4. The ENTIRE FAMILY including the parents got healed in the process. By this I mean the physical well-being of the parents improved and they had more energy to devote to their individual creative pursuits and careers and were able to see progress in ALL aspects of their lives individually, as well as collectively, as a family.

Dry Needling (also known as Trigger Point Dry Needling) is a technique that has quickly become an increasingly popular treatment modality in the manual physical therapy field. Many physical therapists from different health care backgrounds including Physiotherapists, Myotherapists, Osteopaths and Sports Medicine Physicians are using Dry Needling for the clinical management of musculoskeletal conditions and dysfunctions relating to myofascial pain and trigger points. With the growing popularity of Dry Needling in recent times there are now further clinical studies being published to better understand and establish the pain science behind its use and its role in manual physical therapy rehabilitation.

Building on C. G. Jung's early understanding of dance as a form of active imagination, Dreamdancing (Stromsted 1984) brings together the inner world of body sensation, feelings, dreams and images; moving through dreams can help us experience the body/psyche connection. Just as the sensing body provides immediate access to all of life's experiences, our dreams, in turn, reflect the vitality of the body and the condition of our psychic, spiritual life. Analysis involves attuning to these messages, in the other, and within ourselves, hearing the soul's call and working with obstacles to its fulfilment. Elements from this practice may enhance your clinical practice by providing an increased sense of comfort with and appreciation for your own bodily wisdom and feeling responses. Expanded ways of seeing and enhanced awareness of the somatic foundations of the intersubjective relationship can deepen empathy and effectiveness in working with others, while providing avenues for self care and renewal.

Fandango is a centuries old community based musical tradition from Veracruz, Mexico dating from the first half of the XVIII century. With Indigenous, African, and European influences, this tradition takes place around a tarima, a wooden platform where mostly women improvise foot percussion as a group, involving each other and engaging the community in a musical dialogue. The intent of this research is to explore the tarima as a space of female empowerment and communal decolonial praxis. This research uses as its primary method the collection of oral histories from women participants in the fandango tradition in the U.S and Mexico. Considering the community building nature of Fandango and the tarima as an important space for women, it is anticipated that the results of this research will reflect the empowerment women and communities have found through this practice. Moreover, this research focuses on the collection of personal narratives that support this argument to further explore their implications for resistance and healing in response to gender, institutional and social oppression. My interest in theorizing and writing about these oral histories is to elicit examples and create community for other women and individuals who might want to explore community-based arts as a mode of healing and resistance. This research is an important part of a longer project that explores and proposes community-based arts as tools for recovery from trauma and violence prevention for individuals and communities at large. This research will also open the door for other scholars in the field to consider alternative ways of responding to trauma.

How can one read Mark 5:1-43’s story from the multiple levels of post-colonial, feminist and HIV/AIDS perspectives?  There are, no doubt, many ways of reading any text.  But more importantly each of the above mentioned paradigm is a diverse field of methods and theories.  Mine can only be one small aspect of each of the above paradigms. My exposition will be done through providing a background of a narrative reading of the plot and setting of the story, while the analysis of characters will also come through in this section, it will largely be covered in all other sections.  The narrative reading will therefore be brought to interact with the methodological narratives of postcolonial, feminist and HIV/AIDS frameworks.  Yet the use of the postcolonial here denotes that my reading is both on and through the surface—that is, it also assumes a concrete history of the Roman Empire as well as to read the text as a narrative. The article employs narrative, postcolonial, gender and HIV/AIDS theoretical frameworks to read Mark 5:21-43.

This paper explores the potential that involving communities in media production has in post-conflict countries to foster healing and reconciliation. The trauma caused by intense violence on individuals and their communities is severe. In this context, communication is important to help people make sense of their realities and engage in a dialogue, both within their social network and with other communities. By either directly or indirectly involving people in the production process, individuals are given the opportunity to tell their stories and express their feelings. At the same time, those who are exposed to these types of productions can gain understanding of others' experiences. All these elements enable individuals to begin healing. This is discussed through a review of four case studies involving different types of media projects and communication designs carried out in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of the civil war.

Ang mahiwagang aklat na ito ay naglalaman ng mga karunongang lihim na nauukol sa pagkamit ng mga kayamanang panglupa, gaya na lamang sa pagpapalago ng mga negosyo, pagmimina ng mga ginto at iba pang mga mamahaling bato, at sa lahat pagtatagumpay ng lahat na uri sa mararangal na hanapbuhay. Matutunghayan din dito ang mga mahiwagang mga salita na maaaring magamit bilang depensa, proteksyon at pangontra sa mga masasamang loob, masasamang espiritu at lahat na nagbabalak ng masasama sa iyong buhay. Sundin lamang ng wasto ang mga pamilin ng aklat na ito upang hindi kayo maligaw ng landas habang kayo ay nag-aaral.

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Als Jezus zieken genas, waarom geneest Hij mij dan niet?
Heeft God een doel met mijn ziekte?
Houdt God wel van me, als Hij anderen wel maar mijn kinderen niet geneest?

Wie gelooft dat God liefdevol en almachtig is, botst bij het onderwerp genezing dikwijls op een muur van vragen. Op de vele vragen die er zijn krijg je in christelijke kringen verschillende antwoorden. Wat moet je nu geloven? De één zegt dat je een arts moet bezoeken, de ander ziet dat als een slag in Gods gezicht. Genezingstheorieën in het ene boek spreken die in een ander boek tegen. Verwarrend! Velen zeggen het gewoon niet te weten. Dat klinkt nederig, maar lost niets op. Je blijft zitten met je vragen. De bijbelse boodschap over ziekte en genezing blijft dan een mysterie. Omdat daarmee niemand geholpen is, gaan we in dit boek wat meer de diepte in.
Allereerst gaan we vier bekende christelijke visies op genezing naast elkaar zetten, vergelijken en waarderen. Gegarandeerd zit de jou bekende visie daartussen. In het tweede deel gaan we in op vragen rondom wetenschap en genezing, genezing en geloof, geloof en Gods soevereiniteit en Gods soevereiniteit en Gods koninkrijk. In het laatste deel roepen we op tot meer aandacht voor het lijden en de strijd in de omgang met genezing. Een theologie van genezing is immers niet af als er geen theologie van het lijden én een theologie van het strijden mee gemoeid is. Wil jij je visie vormen op God en genezing? Dan is dit boek een goudmijn!

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The Great Cauldron of the Otherworld has an archetypal role in many cultures.  In Celtic myths it served as a source of creativity and of poetic and artistic inspiration.  One of the four legendary treasures of Ireland, the Cauldron of Plenty magically provided an endless supply of tasty food and drink to the worthy. And it not only provided abundant food, but could also heal any wound, and even restore life to the dead.

Functionally, the Cauldron of the Otherworld and the ‘Healing Cauldron of Dreams’ share many similarities, which leads me to believe that the first may serve as a symbolic representation of the second.  If so, it makes a certain kind of sense that when I first began to experiment with the idea of using dreams as a source of guidance I intuitively chose to look to dreams as a potentially valuable source of information about diet and health. Over the years, this led to the development of what I call the “Dreamatarian Diet” and the “Dreamatarian Lifestyle.”

Is er evidence voor genezing op gebed? Zo ja, hoe vaak komt het voor? En waarom zijn er wel genezingsclaims over (bijv.) uitgezaaide kanker en niet over aangegroeide benen? In deze lezing die ik op 10 november 2017 hield voor het symposium 'Mijn God geneest' ga ik in op deze vragen.

Gerke, Barbara. 2014. "The Art of Tibetan Medical Practice." In Bodies in Balance - The Art of Tibetan Medicine, edited by Theresia Hofer, 16-31. The Rubin Museum of Art, New York in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle and London.

Why do humans heal one another? Evolutionary psychology has advanced our understanding of why humans suffer psychological distress and mental illness. However, to date, the evolutionary origins of what drives humans to alleviate the suffering of others has received limited attention. Therefore, we draw upon evolutionary theory to assess why humans psychologically support one another, focusing on the interpersonal regulation of emotions that shapes how humans heal and console one another when in psychosocial distress. To understand why we engage in psychological healing, we review the evolution of cooperation among social species and the roles of emotional contagion, empathy, and self-regulation. We discuss key aspects of human biocultural evo-lution that have contributed to healing behaviors: symbolic logic including language, complex social networks, and the long period of childhood that necessitates identifying and responding to others in distress. However, both biological and cultural evolution also have led to social context when empathy and consoling are impeded. Ultimately, by understanding the evolutionary processes shaping why humans psychologically do or do not heal one another, we can improve our current approaches in global mental health and uncover new opportunities to improve the treatment of mental illness across cultures and context around the world.

Using narratives from oral histories of LGBTQ migrant Latinas
in Los Angeles, California, and Mexico City, Mexico, this article
argues that, despite experiences of oppression, the narrators
practice resistance in their daily lives. The article first
addresses how the narrators confront conditions of detainability and deportability, making survival a constant struggle. It
then presents different ways in which the narrators engage in
resistance, from survival to community building and activism.
Finally, it argues that healing is a key factor in the narrators’
resistance—healing functions as both a tool for and outcome
of resistance.

Is er enige evidence voor gebedsgenezing? Zo ja, hoe vaak komt het eigenlijk voor? En waarom zijn er wel genezingsclaims over (bijv.) uitgezaaide kanker, maar niet over aangegroeide benen? In deze lezing voor het symposium 'Mijn God geneest' (10 nov. 2017) behandel ik deze vragen. Graag ontvang ik commentaar, aanvullingen, feedback om te kunnen verwerken voor de artikelversie die moet verschijnen in 'Geestkracht'.

For thousands of years and across a wide range of cultures people have reported amazing, even miraculous, healings. In ancient Greece the sick visited the temples of Asclepius with the expectation that they would either receive information in a dream to effect a cure or would receive healing directly from the gods.  Testimonies, stone tablets inscribed by grateful suppliants, specifically describe these events. . . .  While these testimonies may sound unbelievable to some, even today evidential reports of equally “miraculous” healings continue to appear.  . . .However, although radical healings do fall outside of the outdated Newtonian reductionist–materialist 19th century science still embraced by many doctors, 21st century science can in fact provide a reasonable explanation for many of them.  Experiments in modern physics have repeatedly shown that consciousness plays a fundamental role, even to the extent that some physicists have concluded that the universe seems primarily mental, not physical. And research has repeatedly confirmed that our minds can, and do, have profound effects on our bodies, that go far beyond the limits of the prevailing medical model.  The often belittled placebo effect has made cancer disappear, while in others, the nocebo (negative placebo) effect has lead to illness, and even death. (4) With the advent of psychophysiology and biofeedback, scientific research has shown that mind-body healing can have dramatic effects, and that individuals can take a proactive role.  Rather than passively receiving "outside-in" therapies from external sources, voluntary control methodologies have shown that people can take an active role in promoting their own healing processes - from the "inside-out."

The festival dedicated to the healing saint Agios (Saint, m.) Gerasimos is celebrated on the Greek island of Kephallonia, of which he is the patron saint, on 16 August, the day after his death. Two years after his death in 1579, his body was found to have undergone no decomposition, and it exuded a pleasant odour. He became the patron saint of the island in 1622. His relics are housed in his monastery and during the festival his sarcophagus is carried in procession to the plane tree by the well that the saint is said to have dug with his own hands. As the sarcophagus is carried in procession, the pilgrims lie down in its path so that the saint's body may pass over them, thereby healing them. Gerasimos is particularly famous for combating demons, and the pilgrims collect some dust from his tomb or fetch several leaves from his plane tree to keep as amulets. The article will present the festival as I experienced it during my fieldwork in 1992, and make some comparisons with similar cults in the Mediterranean world.