Can one heal by touch?

By Jaime Licauco One of the oldest, simplest and most natural forms of healing is by touch. Yes, using our hands to ease pain and to heal all forms of physical ailment simply by placing them lightly on the affected part has been practiced since ancient time s all over the world. Healing by touch is instinctive in all of us. We don t have to learn it from anybo dy. If we bump our head, our most natural and immediate reaction is to place our hand where the pain is. And we keep it there until the pain subsides. In the Christian Bible, there are so many examples of sick people healed by Jesu s Christ using touch, as when he made a blind man see by merely touching his eye s. Sometimes he used only verbal command, as when he ordered Lazarus who had been d ead three days to rise. At other times, Jesus used common materials, like mud, to heal the sick. He neve r used drugs or chemicals, perhaps because they had not yet existed at that time . Or more likely because they were not needed to effect healing. Some readers may say, Okay, Jesus Christ can heal like that because he is God. He can do anything, but not us ordinary mortals. Wait, Jesus also said that everything he had done we can also do, if we only bel ieved in him. The exact passage can be found in John 14:12 where it says: Verily, verily, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these. If this is the case, I often wonder why most Christian priests cannot heal. But that s another story. Healing touch Let s go back to natural healing touch. This method has been called by many names. Some of the most common modern terms used for this are: laying on of hands, magn etic healing, pranic healing, healing by bio-energy. Two Western healers who have studied, codified and systematized healing by touch are the late Dr. John Thie, whom I met in San Francisco, and Barbara Ann Brenna n, whom I met in London in the early 90s. Thie was a chiropractor who wrote the book Touch for Health and established a cent er to conduct healing using only touch, massage and making diagnosis through wha t is known as Applied Kinesiology, or muscle testing. Brennan is a medical intuitive and clairvoyant who practices in New York. I met her in London where I accompanied the Cebu faith healer Emilio Laporga. Brennan was with another well-known researcher Dr. Danny Benor who wrote a two-volume bo ok on healing around the world where he quoted my work on Philippine healers. She also wrote the very informative and practical book Healing Through the Human Energy Field. Ray of light Brennan told me what she saw when she observed the Filipino healer Laporga perfo Hands of Light: A Guide to

rming psychic surgery at a distance of about two feet from the patient s body. She said that as soon as Laporga pointed his fingers on the body of the patient, she saw a very strong spark of light radiate from his fingers and hit the patie nt s body. As soon as this happened, blood suddenly spurted out of the patient. She said that the Filipino healer was using a very strong but subtle force which could break open the patient s body. Unfortunately, only Brennan saw the spark of light come out of the healer s hand. I only felt a very strong energy while he wa s healing, but I saw nothing. This is because since childhood, Brennan could see the human aura very clearly a nd describe not only its colors in detail but also its configuration. She could recognize a healthy aura and distinguish it from a diseased auric field. Her book Hands of Light, which was published by Bantam Books in 1986, gives a very detailed and comprehensive guide to healing with one s hands. For past life regression, personal consultancy and other paranormal services, ca ll tel. nos. 8107245 or 0908-3537885. Attend the next Soulmates, Karma and Reinc arnation seminar on Aug. 17, from 1 to 7 p.m., at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I, 106 Le gaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati City.