Faith healing

Spiritual Healing (also: spiritual healing, spiritual healing, paranormal healing ) is an umbrella term for a variety of alternative medicine, esoteric, religious or magical treatments that do not fit into the academic medicine or the classic psychotherapy.

History

Religious and magical ideas about the healing effects of divine or other supernatural forces can be up in the early period of the history of medicine traced. Classic examples from the western culture are the Asklepios cult of the Greeks and the cult of saints and the exorcism in Christianity. In Jak 5:14-15 EU disease is moved to the vicinity of sin, so that the " elders of the church " are responsible for the healing. Also in 1 Cor 12:9 EU spirit healer to be addressed.

In cultures in which has survived the tradition of spirit healing, spiritual healer also be consulted at existing conventional medical care. For the Indians of the Navajo Nation 72 % of the surveyed population reported such consultations. One was the statement: " The doctor give me pills for my body, the medicine man give me songs for my spirit. " ( German: "The doctor gives me pills for my body, the medicine man gives me songs for my soul. " ) Even immigrants from tradition-bound cultures that are integrated into the Western world, not infrequently engage in the medical case on traditional healing methods from their homeland back. In Assion of others ( 1999) surveyed 55 psychiatric patients living in Germany with Turkish descent gave 2/3 of the people contacts with one or more Hocas ( magical healer ) to.

Etymology

The term faith healing is spread mainly from 1960 through the translated works of Harry Edwards ( 1893-1976 ). At that time, appeared with the spiritual healing written by Eberhard Maria grains translation of the Spirit Healing ( 1960) work in Bauer Verlag in Freiburg in 1963 appeared with the ways of spiritual healing written by Emma buses translation of the written with the collaboration of Olive Burton work A Guide to Spirit Healing ( 1950). A 1963 book published then bore the name The power of spiritual healing and a 1973 published A guide to the understanding and practice of spiritual healing. Further dissemination of the term used was mainly from the early 1970s. The less widely used term spiritual healing ( spiritual healing ) shows up at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Among other things, in connection with Christian Science and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who in his lifetime " had declared in many of his lectures, disease is the result of mental imperfection, the lack of ability to think well and to give the mind control of the body. "

The term spiritual healing is used in Christian writings long, at least since the 18th century. The term paranormal healing exists at least since the early 1960s.

Treatment methods

Treatment methods that are associated with the spiritual healing, are for example: prayer healing, laying on of hands, Ho'oponopono, Huna, mediumistic healing, animal communication, Prana, Reiki, Shamanism, pastoral care, family constellation, Therapeutic Touch, partly kinesiology.

The Radionics (in the 1980s by Hans Otfried Dittmer coined term ) seen by some as " device- based spiritual healing " because the mental use of the therapist - consciously or unconsciously - plays in their view, an important role in radio engineering methods, even if they should cause more than "cure". Reincarnation therapy is also sometimes cause counted as removal of blockages in energy flow. Parts of Ayurveda can be considered spiritual healing through the use of Atmashakti, the inner force, from a Western perspective.

Contact and distant healing

Examples of treatment methods of spiritual healing with direct contact with laying on of hands, Therapeutic Touch, medical pilgrimages, magnetopathy, healing energy, pranic healing. Partial require personal contact, for example, shamanism, reiki, kinesiology and exorcism. However, you will also attributed to an action at a distance. In any case, for example, discuss, faith healing is also said to have a long-range effect, then this is commonly called distant healing. A distance effect should also possess animal communication, Kassensturz Swiss television an animal communicator who can feel self-reported symptoms at a distance of animals, a test could not successfully are to help the mission.