Mental Healing

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Alterations in random event measures associated with a healing practice.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether alterations in random events, as measured by a Random event generator (REG), occur in association with a bioenergy healing practice. DESIGN AND SETTING: Two REGs were set up and run in parallel: one in a bioenergy healers ...
Cindy C Crawford, Wayne B Jonas, Roger Nelson, Margaret Wirkus, Mietek Wirkus (J Altern Complement Med, 200306)
alterations-random-event-measures-associated-healing-practice.asp

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Distant healing intention: definitions and evolving guidelines for laboratory studies.

This paper provides definitions and a discussion of evolving guidelines for conducting research on the effects of distant healing intention (DHI) on living systems in the laboratory. We consider the relevance of DHI laboratory research to applied ...
Marilyn Schlitz, Dean Radin, Bertram F Malle, Stefan Schmidt, Jessica Utts, Garret L Yount (Altern Ther Health Med, 200305-06)
distant-healing-intention-definitions-evolving-guidelines-laboratory.asp

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Research guidelines for assessing the impact of healing relationships in clinical medicine.

This paper charts a course for assessing the impact of healing relationships in clinical medicine. The system of healing relationships is multidimensional, longitudinal, contextual, and emergent. In a new conceptual model, healing relationships are ...
William L Miller, Benjamin F Crabtree, M Bridget Duffy, Ronald M Epstein, Kurt C Stange (Altern Ther Health Med, 200305-06)
research-guidelines-assessing-impact-healing-relationships-clinical.asp

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Developing a nursing perspective on spirituality and healing.

The author of this column presents an overview of selected research and nursing theoretical thinking on spirituality and then offers a beginning exploration of the interrelationships of spirituality and healing. Work in both the totality and simultaneity ...
Violet M Malinski (Nurs Sci Q, 200210)
developing-nursing-perspective-spirituality-healing.asp

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Agonias: the social and sacred suffering of Azorean immigrants.

Agonias, meaning "the agonies," is a culture-specific somatic phenomenon experienced by Azorean immigrants. Although the communitys health providers conceptualize agonias as an "anxiety disorder," interviews with community members revealed a more complex ...
Susan James (Cult Med Psychiatry, 200203)
agonias-social-sacred-suffering-azorean-immigrants.asp