Discuss the application of 12-step Spirituality to another form of “healing”?
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12 step programs are a form of self help, much like music therapy that builds self esteem and opens up lines of communication with outers.  Telling your story in AA or NA is akin to talking about lyrics that you wrote in Music therapy, it lets others know what you feel and it leads to a healthier lifestyle.
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You've heard of the 12 step recovery programs? Well, I have good news for you. I have developed a brand new one step program. It works every time. Are you ready for the secret??? Ok, here it is.............\nGET OVER IT!\nThat'll be 2 points please!
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This is a very general question. What you really want to look for is Alternative Medicine/Healing Modalities. There are many ways for the body/mind/spriit to heal when it is given the appropriate tools and encouragement.\n\nWith alternative medicine, you, the patient/client must become educated and take responsiblity for your health.  You become a pro-active partner with your health care practitioner. This is crucial for achieving optimum health and well-being. It is a much different situation than is found in the typical allopathic MD's office.\n\nSome alternative healing modalities are: nutrition, herbs, homeopathy, accupuncture, detoxification of the tissues and organs via vitamin and chelation IV drips, nutrient supplementation; all types of bodywork--therapeutic massage, shiatsu, deep tissue massage, osteopathic manual manipulation, chiropractic; movement therapies--Feldenkrais Method, Alexander Technique. yoga, t'ai chi, chi kung; spiritual practices--meditation, shamanic practices, the list goes on.\n\nPersonally, I've been involved in many of these modalities for 25 years. I have had the great good fortune to have found some outstanding practitioners that have enabled me to achieve and maintain my health and well-being.\n\nIn the end--we are all responsible for our health and it's a very positive step you're taking in inquiring about natural healing modalities. \n\nThere is a ton of information out there and it can get to be very confusing. Finding a competent and experienced health care professional--holistically-oriented MD, clinical nutritionist, naturopathic physician, osteopathic physician, accupuncturist, etc may be of great value in taking care of yourself and preventing serious degenerative diseases.\n\nAllopathic medicine (the medicine practiced by most doctors) definitely has its place. Allopathic medicine is excellent in emergencies/trauma, surgical procedures and acute/life-threatening illnesses. It basically works (in illnesses) by treating symptoms and not causes and uses surgery (sometimes necessary) and drugs as its tools. It has a dismal record concerning the treatment and prevention of chronic and degenerative diseases.\n\nIt is important to remember to not "throw the baby out with the bath water." Everything has its place, time and purpose. \n\nBelow are some soures that may be of help in your quest.\n\nWishing you Excellent Health
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Dear friend,\n\nAt present only one therapy is the best as an alternative medicine and i.e. HYPNOTHERAPY. And it can help you by all means. This is drugless and natural scientific system. This wonderful system is related to our sub-conscious mind / sixth sense / ESP\nBy using this therapy you can solve any problem related to our mind-body & spirit.\n\nFor further details you can contact on "chirayu.hypnotist@yahoo.co.in... \nor\nMAUNANGINI MNGO\nC-205,MANUBHAI TOWER,\nOPP.ARTS FACULTY,\nABOVE BJP OFFICE,\nSAYAJIGUNJ,\nBARODA-390005.\n\nMobile:- 9824876795,9824353154\n\n* We are providing all types of HYPNOTICAL services since 1981.\n\n* We provide certificates after completion of different courses of\nHYPNOSIS and the same courses are conducted by the Faculties of\nHYPNOSIS-YOGA appointed by GOVT. OF INDIA.\n\n* We provide services like...\n\n1. Educating and training people in learning HYPNOSIS so that\nthey can hypnotize themselves and others. \n\n2. Goal Achievement courses can help you to fulfill your\ndreams.\n\n3. Hypnotizing your family members, you do not remain in\nfrustration / stress / tension / phobia /sleeplessness\netc. which is a tedious task for you ... Once you rely on\nthe HYPNOTIST.\n\n4. Improving your body, mind & spirit to develop\nconcentration power, memory power, self-confidence,\npre-natal education, personality, etc. through this\ndrugless, natural and scientific system.\n\n5. MAUNANGINI is only the institution \n" WHERE YOU CAN KNOW YOURSELF, DEVELOPE YOURSELF &\nCURE YOURSELF "
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DK_Holistic_Healing@yahoogroups.com...try  here....he can  help  or  let you know
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A twelve step call is "carrying the message".\n\nIt's a very important part of AA, create more AA members. Doesn't make any difference whether or not AA is appropriate or not, gotta swell the ranks!\n\nIt's called proselytizing. They wouldn't want you doing 12th step call yet, you haven't been thoroughly indoctrinated yet. AA is bad religion, and it doesn't work for the VAST majority (95%) of people who go there.
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I do not think it works!!!\n\nMyomancy was a method of divination by rats or mice, which may be alluded to in Isaiah 66:17. Their particular cries or some marked devastation committed by them was taken for a prognostication of evil.
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I don't know where you can get the story, but it may be affliated with Reiki.  A Reiki practitioner once brought me through it.  It's a form of visual imagery.
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a)  Nope.  100% Neo-pagan, which makes sense since I'm Wiccan.  The next closest matches were New Age and Buddhism.\nb)  I've explored all three.  I was raised Protestant.\nc)  I'm extremely happy with where I am in my life.  I would advise anyone else to look at what they truly believe - not what they have been told to believe, but what they actually think "explains things" when they look at life and how it works.  I was very unhappy until I finally let go of the fear that I would be punished if I said, thanks Jesus, but I'm going over here.  Thus far, things have been much better since I realized I was on the wrong path.  Above all, I think maintaining a balance in life helps breed happiness.
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Well first you should know that the gift is not a supernatural ability you have to heal. It is an open channel through which God heals. You are a vessel through which the elixer passes not the elixer.\n\nYou sensations imply that you may have that gift. The way to exercise it is to bring yourself into a place of spiritual connectedness and pray for healing of the person you are with. Touch is not necessary a requirement but there is power in the humn touch. None of this ever has to be done in a way that anyone would ever know that it is happening. Silent prayer is just as powerful as spoken prayer. Infact the only time this should be done with spoken prayer or attention drawn to the healing is if it is giving witness to the glory of God.\n\nOften God's healing is through medicine not miracle. Sometimes illness must destroy itself by worsening before healing occurs.\n\nDo not promise anything other than praying for the person healing if it is god's will. There are times that God's will does not include healing. In those times the person must look for how God is blessing them in other ways. T oa saved soul death in this life is to be mourned but not feared. If it is time for you to start a new work with God in heaven and God needs you illness for other works such as bringing family members closer and reconciling relationships then you will be ill and can count that as a blessing.
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I have all the levels--I can teach many different kinds.\nYour energy chain is a nice idea...but...DID THE SICK PERSON ASK FOR IT?   Energy healing is changing and the old paradigms don't work anymore.  Healing has become very personal. People need to step into their own power and ask for help, not just passively accept it.  There are exceptions--babies, people in comas--of course, but for the most part, in the new energy, people must ask.
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I am a spiritual atheist.   I have the following practices:\n\n* Personal altar where I self-pray or meditate to focus on an issue or to help absolve a problem I have.\n\n* A few books of quotations that I read occasionally for inspiration.\n\n* Dancing to my music---that is one of my other ways of gaining spiritual inspiration, to just "let go".   Some of my internal answers are found via dancing.  :-)\n\n* Internet searches for religious answers to my queries, if any.\n\n* Being an artist (writing, drawing, painting).   I consider this a spiritual aspect of my life.
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I looked into this and thought of pursuing it, but in our area, people unfortunately still associate it with solicitation.  (Massage parlors).  I would get pretty freaked out if someone misunderstood.  (And my husband would get pretty freaked out if someone misunderstood!)\n\nI think there are amazing health benefits with massage therapy.  I don't know about spiritual benefits.\n\nI am the sort of person that people tell their life stories to in the grocery store.  Often waitresses sit at our table and tell me all about themselves.  I think part of it is because I am open, but I also think people are pretty starved for attention.  We, as a culture, don't really look each other in the eye anymore.  I make a habit to look people in the eye.  I think for some people, I'm the first one to make eye contact with them in a while, and they end up telling me everything they have pent up.\n\nBecause I am open, and apparently approachable, I think I might have that boundary issue.  I am concerned that touch - even without lust or the intention to arouse - would be misunderstood by someone who had been neglected or someone with an addictive/obsessive personality.  How do you avoid that?  Even if they taught me how to have really good boundaries and deal with inappropriate reactions, I would just feel horrible for someone who misunderstood.  They would still experience it as a rejection.\n\nWhat spiritual benefits have you seen, and how do you gently deal with people who have boundary issues?
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THE TWELVE STEPS\nOF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS\n\n1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.\n\n2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.\n\n3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.\n\n4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.\n\n5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.\n\n6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.\n\n7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.\n\n8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.\n\n9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.\n\n10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.\n\n11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.\n\n12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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Hi! Anything is possible with LOVE and INTENTION. When there is intention to help/heal others through LOVE, the energy is channeled in miraculous ways. The person/thing being prayed for, uses the energy whichever way they see fit. We are ALL ONE. We are ALL connected through SOURCE and we are ALL part of SOURCE. What is prayed to (names)or how, doesn't matter because GOD is the very essence of unconditional LOVE. We are ALL united through this LOVE/GOD. When we LOVE through unconditional LOVE/GOD, we are already honoring the greatest gift of GOD/LOVE by being a vessel of DIVINE LOVE for GOD/LOVE.\n\nwww.profiles.yahoo.com/urloveurloved
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Dear friend,\n\nAt present only one therapy is the best as an alternative medicine and i.e. HYPNOTHERAPY. This is drugless and natural scientific system. This wonderful system is related to our sub-conscious mind / sixth sense / ESP\nBy using this therapy you can solve any problem related to our mind-body & spirit.\n\nFor further details you can contact on "chirayu.hypnotist@yahoo.co.in... \nor\nMAUNANGINI MNGO\nC-205,MANUBHAI TOWER,\nOPP.ARTS FACULTY,\nABOVE BJP OFFICE,\nSAYAJIGUNJ,\nBARODA-390005.\n\nMobile:- 9824876795,9824353154\n\n* We are providing all types of HYPNOTICAL services since 1981.\n\n* We provide certificates after completion of different courses of\nHYPNOSIS and the same courses are conducted by the Faculties of\nHYPNOSIS-YOGA appointed by GOVT. OF INDIA.\n\n* We provide services like...\n\n1. Educating and training people in learning HYPNOSIS so that\nthey can hypnotize themselves and others. \n\n2. Goal Achievement courses can help you to fulfill your\ndreams.\n\n3. Hypnotizing your family members, you do not remain in\nfrustration / stress / tension / phobia /sleeplessness / mental or physical illness\netc. which is a tedious task for you ... Once you rely on\nthe HYPNOTIST.\n\n4. Improving your body, mind & spirit to develop\nconcentration power, memory power, self-confidence,\npre-natal education, personality, etc. through this\ndrugless, natural and scientific system.\n\n5. MAUNANGINI is only the institution \n" WHERE YOU CAN KNOW YOURSELF, DEVELOPE YOURSELF &\nCURE YOURSELF "
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Acultomancy - divination using needles?  Other than using needles, I don't think there is another way.