by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext
Love reconciles and connects, it inspires and inspires, it inspires and fulfills. She makes you happy. What’s more, it can heal. Its tremendous therapeutic power uses spiritual medicine. Since 2007, the therapy camps run by the Ways Out Charity have demonstrated just how much she can achieve with this.
Worn out by constant abuse, some expressions are so rhetorically hollow that one would like to ban their further use. In this way, politicians have trespassed on “social” and “liberals,” the online everything networker Facebook on “friendship,” advertising food manufacturers on “enjoyment,” FIFA on “Ethics,” Fact-checkers on “Fact” and “Truth” – and one Coalition of exuberantly infatuated people, songwriters from the pop industry and aloof esotericists on the concept of love.
It is all the more difficult for us to admit: We love the people who come to the therapy camps of our Ways Out Charity one like the other – the externally disfigured, mentally retarded, physically disabled in the most extreme way as well as the people with epilepsy shaken by convulsions and the hyperactive, aggressive child; stressed, quarreling, demanding parents as well as grumpy, unreasonable, uptight, self-righteous, cerebral, ungrateful adult patients and distant, suspicious, know-it-all relatives. And that’s precisely how the vast majority of people who confide in us feel: At the end of a week of therapy, they rave about the excess of love they experienced with us. Do both sides, helpers and those seeking help, urgently need tutoring in semantics?
The vast majority of those who confide in us feel the same way: at the end of a week of therapy, they rave about the excess of love they experienced from us.
Term misused?
Love is the strongest affection and appreciation that people can have for one another; it is shaped by an intimate, deep connection that exceeds its usefulness. Even in ancient times, poets and philosophers distinguished three types of love. In the sense of the first, Eros, we are consistently unloving: We certainly do not feel connected to the participants in a sensual and erotic way through passionate desire. However, we do have a connection between philia – the friendly form of love based on mutual recognition and understanding – and agape, which is selflessly promoting the well-being of our neighbors.
In what way? Like all psychological states, love is associated with certain feelings, attitudes, and forms of expression. And in each of these respects, the term certainly fits our intimate relationship with camp participants: We connect emotionally with them through sympathy and compassion. Our attitude towards them is characterized by unconditional appreciation, sincere interest, empathy, and care. We don’t hide either of these things, but express them at every opportunity in everyday camp life – through statements during healing sessions and counseling appointments, in group meetings and conversations outside of the daily program, as well as through non-verbal signals in facial expressions, gestures, postures and behavior that neither cost us nor follow some calculation: smiling friendly at the participants, holding their hands in between, hugging them is by no means difficult for us.
“Can work miracles.”
We see much more in this than just a wellness-promoting accessory to therapeutic work – it is an essential part of it. Because we are firmly convinced that love heals. In this, we agree with holistic doctors, therapists, and healers who have strongly emphasized this aspect (1). A literary manifesto of this attitude is the collection of essays What is Healing, published around 1990? (2). An American author duo, Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield had 28 famous healers, sympathetic doctors, and scientific experts explain in short essays what they believe to be the essence of spiritual healing. “Love is the healer” is how the editors sum up the basic tenor of most of the articles. “Love is considered the lowest common denominator underlying all successful healing and supporting all effective healing modalities. Without love, there is no true healing.” (3) “It is love that heals,” teaches Pamela Sommer-Dickson, one of the most prominent healers in the therapist network of the Auswege Foundation – “a very strong but also very finely vibrating energy that can touch us when we are willing to open our hearts and accept ourselves (…) Then we experience how it can work miracles.” (4)
Psychologie plus Paraphysik
But how should love be able to develop a healing power? It does it on both sides of the therapeutic relationship: Helpers who love are incredibly motivated to do their best. Help seekers who feel loved trust, open up and cooperate more.
In addition to these psychological aspects, there is probably a paraphysical one – exactly what healers mean when they assert that thoughts are “vibrations” in the “subtle” and those loving thoughts are their highest. After more than a century of parapsychological research, such speculations are no longer unreasonable: Countless tests and experiments, including many at a higher scientific level, meanwhile indicate that mental events, processes, and states can trigger measurable physical changes: in “blind” test subjects, in animals and plants, in fungi and bacteria, in cells and cell components, even in the inorganic material. (5) And some studies have shown that loving intentions make a unique difference: They synchronize brainwave patterns (6), they accelerate the growth of plants (7) – as hobby gardeners with “green thumbs” have always known – and they change the structure of water (8), which is of great medical importance since the human body consists of two-thirds H2O, the brain 85 percent, blood plasma even up to to 95 percent.
Love heals – that’s also why what happens in our camps is healing.
Remarks
1 See H. Wiesendanger: Fernheilen, Volume 1: The variety of methods, chap. “The lovers – distant healing with the highest of all feelings,” p. 286 ff.
2 Original: Healers on Healing, ed. R.Carlson/B. Shield, Los Angeles n.d.; the German translation appeared in 1992 under the title What is healing? Famous healers answer.
3 loc.cit., p. 10
4 in H. Wiesendanger (ed.): Spiritual healing for a new era – from “miracle healing” to holistic medicine, Munich 1999, pp. 17-30, and in the same (ed.): How to heal Jesus. Spiritual Healing: An Act of Christian Charity, 4th rev. Edition, Schönbrunn 2008, pp. 305-315.
5 I present impressive research results in Distant Healing, Volume 2: Case Studies, Research, Objections, Explanations, Schönbrunn 2004, pp. 115-210 and in The Big Book of Spiritual Healing – Possibilities, Limits, Dangers, Schönbrunn 2002, pp. 259- 304
7 In the late 1970s, a leading parapsychological Journal reported on an experiment in which a healer worked with two groups of 19 radishes each; he devoted one to “loving caring thoughts” for 15-20 minutes a day for a month, ignoring the others. Both groups of plants had the same physical conditions in terms of light, warmth, watering, and soil. At the end of the trial period, the “mentally” treated radishes had a statistically significantly higher weight. Chris Nicholas, “The effects of loving attention on plant growth,” New England Journal of Parapsychology 1/1977, pp. 19-24.
8 The Japanese parascientist and alternative medicine doctor Masaru Emoto – he died at the age of 71 in October 2014 – made sensational contributions to the phenomenon of “water memory”: According to him, it can store the influences of thoughts and feelings, changing its quality. Experiments in which he exposed water samples to either positive messages such as “thank you” and “joy” or negative messages such as “hate” and “war” prompted him to do so – partly using written slips of paper that were immersed in the water or attached to the container wall, partly through purely mental attempts to influence it – and then froze; he photographed and interpreted the emerging ice crystals using aesthetic-morphological criteria. “Positively” influenced water, he found, always forms extremely harmonious, mostly symmetrical forms, while “negatively” polluted water develops malformed, amorphous structures. However, critics hold Emoto up to sloppiness during the investigation and the “analysis.”
(Harald Wiesendanger)
This post contains excerpts from the book by Harald Wiesendanger Auswege – helping the sick differently (2015)
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