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With healing, the
healer is a channel through which healing energy can pass to the
individual and this sometimes involves touch. Healing can re-energise and
relax. It may help to make the most of a person’s own healing abilities,
or to cope with illness, injury or stress. Reiki is another form of
healing.
Faith healing, or
divine healing, is the use of spiritual means in treating disease,
sometimes accompanied (in extreme instances) with the refusal of modern
medical techniques. Faith healing is a form of alternative medicine.
Many people who resort to faith healing do so in cases of otherwise
incurable disease. However, there are groups that believe in faith healing
as the primary (if not sole) remedy for any health problem.
The predominant view among supporters of faith healing is that medical
treatment should be sought whenever necessary, and that the two are not
incompatible (believing that God can heal both supernaturally and through
modern medical practice). However, there is an extreme view that teaches
seeking medical treatment constitutes a "lack of faith" in supernatural
healing.
Some practitioners such as William Baldwin and Ken Page incorporated
methods that were Christian in origin with Shamanic tools for work on
clients regardless of their spiritual beliefs or backgrounds. Many
consider Richard Rossi one of the most credible examples of faith healing
because of his willingness to subject all healings to medical verification
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