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March 14, 2005
How external qigong healing helped a badly burned teenager
A couple of weeks ago, a good friend of mine's teenage daughter got crazy-drunk and in a fit of depression decided to kill herself. In her drunkenness, she chose a particularly horrific method.
The young girl poured lamp oil over her forehead, ears, neck, shoulders and arms, then set fire to herself. Lamp oil burns slowly, cooks deeply. By the time, the poor young thing came to her senses (and a friend put the fire out with the aid of a shower curtain), she had done herself some serious damage.
My friend emailed me and asked if I would stop by the Burn Unit and do some qigong healing on her daughter, who is waiting for a skin graft operation(s) as we speak. I had recently attended an Advanced Pranic Healing Course with Stephen Co, which had tremendous crossover with external qi healing. In this course they taught specific methods to heal wounds and burns with intention and color. So I decided to include elements of their process also.
One thing you can practically guarantee with external qi healing is a reduction in the levels of overall pain and an enhanced sense of well being. There is a good chance that the body may also rid itself of toxins and regenerate cells.
I worked off her body for about an hour, doing sweeping movements combined with color-projections over the burned areas, plus holding the hands just off major energy centers.
How did it go? Despite being initially in severe discomfort and barely being able to sleep, she quite quickly went into a trance-like state with a light smile on her face and stayed that way for the whole session. When we were done, and she “woke up”, she said she felt great.
Hard to know, at this point, how much else happened for her, but if her body’s healing capability was improved even five percent I’ll take it! I will be going back to give her more sessions.
Would you like to be able to induce a trance-like self-healing state in someone?
Try this qigong healing method with a partner some time: have them lie down. Sit on their left side. Place your right hand a couple of inches off the center of their forehead, place your left hand a couple of inches off their breastbone. Pulse the right hand just off the forehead gently about twenty times, then hold it in place just above the forehead. Repeat with the right hand over the breastbone area. Now breathe into your right hand and exhale out of your left hand for about two minutes. Then, stop paying attention to your breath and oscillate your attention backwards and forwards from one hand to the other (another couple of minutes.)
Bring the right hand down to the breastbone and cup both hands so they face and send energy in to the heart center. After a minute or so, draw both palms up slowly from the breastbone area, with the right palm circling toward the top of the head, left hand toward the feet. Repeat three times, imagining you are enveloping them in a golden canopy.
The more you practice qigong methods for yourself, the more you will develop a natural capacity to help others feel better, suffer less pain and perhaps heal faster. And believe me, few things feel better in life than sharing your energy with another in this way.
Check out John Du Cane’s Qigong resources here.
Posted by james at March 14, 2005 5:00 AM