New Dimensions in Health

Exploring the Path to Health and WholenessOptimal health is not only an experience or condition it is a process of becoming. It is the result of understanding and living in accordance with the natural laws that govern the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, social and economic arenas of our lives. Whether you are struggling with difficult health challenges or striving to raise your levels of performance and enhance the quality of your life, there are techniques, information and resources that will support and dramatically accelerate your process. This path toward optimal health is also a process of personal and spiritual growth. Growth takes place when we stretch outside of our comfort zone of what is familiar, and explore new possibilities and challenges. In many cases this is necessary if we are to experience true health and healing. The process of healing and building high levels of health is very much a spiritual endeavor, although it may not be presented in religious terms.It’s been said that we not only walk on the path of personal and spiritual growth but that the path itself is constructed as a result of our own experiences. The more we understand this the more effective we will be in growing from the experiences that life sends us. As we started out in life, each of us had a desire to experience the goodness of life in a greater way. We pursued the things we thought would make us happy. Some of those things when accomplished did bring us a measure of happiness and some did not. Many people started out enthusiastic, confident and optimistic about life. However, ill informed, poor choices and wrong turns may have led them to a state of unhappiness, poor health and an overall feeling of dis-ease with the experience of life. Others may have started on their path with difficulty, health issues, family challenges and financial obstacles but by persistence and right choices overcame the liabilities by turning them into assets that created happiness, health and success in all areas of life.Let’s begin by examining the roots and the meaning of the words, health and wholeness. The word health traces its roots back through the old English and German to the prehistoric German word khailaz. The word whole originally meant undamaged, and traces its origin back to the same root word. Other derivatives of khailaz are heal, hallow and holy. (1)The process of creating health and healing is the process of becoming “whole” in all areas of your life. As you truly become whole - physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually - you do, indeed, become holy in the true sense of the word. The process of personal and spiritual growth is the process of developing wholeness and optimal health. The more we understand this process the more effective we will be in charting our course. Much has been written about the experience of walking the spiritual path. However, as we touched on earlier, a key part of the process is learning to construct the path as we move forward on it. In a sense, the path already exists. At the same time, it must be discovered and created within us. Some schools of thought teach that we tread the path by becoming the path. Although personal and spiritual growth is an individual experience, in many ways, the journey is the same for everyone.As we progress, we begin to understand the laws and principles that govern growth. If we understand these forces, we are able to work with them and progress smoothly. If we are ignorant of these principles and forces, or if we unknowingly work against them, our progress will be thwarted and our experience will be fraught with unnecessary difficulties.There are natural laws and universal principles governing all areas of health: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, social and economic. As we live our lives in accordance with these natural laws and principles, we grow in our experience and expression of health and wholeness. When we violate these laws or principles, knowingly or unknowingly, we experience a loss of health and inner fragmentation moving us away from a state of wholeness. Consciously choosing to develop physical, emotional and mental health is an essential part of the process of personal growth. The growth process and adherence to developmental principles lay the foundation for soul awareness and greater spiritual development.
The merger of Science and Spirituality
How important is the role of electricity in health, healing and life? We are beginning to understand the body more and more in terms of energy, and energetic medicine is a promising field. Robert Becker MD, author of The Body Electric, has extensively researched the role that electricity plays in healing and the life process. During the course of his research, Dr. Becker noted that when he amputated the leg of a salamander, it would grow a completely new leg. However, when he amputated the leg of a frog, the frog would not grow a new leg. This puzzled Dr. Becker because the frog is just one step above the salamander on the evolution scale. What was the difference? Dr. Becker then measured the electrical potential flowing across the stump of the frog leg, and the electrical potential flowing across the stump of the salamander leg. This was the difference. Dr. Becker then decided to artificially stimulate the electrical potential flowing across the stump of the frog leg to make it match the potential of the current flowing across the salamander stump. The result of this stimulation process is that the frog grew a new leg. (1)Dr. Robert Miller is a research chemist who has studied the relationship between an increase in growth rate, magnetism, and the energy from the hands of healers. His research on how the surface tension of water is affected by a magnetic field, compared to how it is influenced by the energy coming from a healer's hands, led him to conclude that the energy being emitted from the healer’s hands is magnetic in nature.One of Dr. Miller's experiments involved three groups of rye seeds with 25 seeds in each group. All three groups had identical growing conditions and were watered with regular tap water. The only difference was that the tap water used for the second group was treated by an experienced healer focusing the energy from his hands into the water. For the third group, the tap water was treated with magnets before being administered to the plants. The results? The first group that received the straight tap water had a germination rate of eight percent. The second group receiving the healer-treated water had a germination rate of 36 percent, a four-fold increase. The third group of rye seeds receiving the water exposed to a magnetic field had a germination rate of 68 percent, an amazing eight-fold increase. This experiment, and others performed by Dr. Miller, demonstrates that the use of magnets and other energetic stimulation can dramatically affect the germination and growth rate of plants.In his book Vibrational Medicine, Dr. Richard Gerber cites numerous experiments performed with people who believed they had the capability of healing by the laying on of hands. Was there really any substance to the statements made by people who claimed they possessed this ability? According to the studies gathered by Dr. Gerber, the answer is yes. Phenomena such as a measurable increase in growth rate, acceleration in enzyme reaction rates, a significant reduction in the surface tension of water, a subtle but detectable shift in bond angles of water molecules, and a significant increase in hemoglobin values were observed in the studies conducted. The conclusion of the studies was that the energy emanating from the hands is magnetic in nature, and that the gift of healing is a skill that can be developed.