How Does One Become a Healer?

This blog began months ago as I was experiencing a spiritual awakening. When an awakening happens, one can either stay alert, be open, and see where it takes you, or choose to turn your back to it and pretend to be blinded by the light you've been shown. I've stayed the course, got lost at times through the mazes, twists and turns, and have enjoyed every second of it. I dropped all of my earlier beliefs I once had concerning the religion I was brought up in. A space opened up, a freedom to seek and discover my inward spirituality. I've spent hundreds, maybe thousands of hours reading and learning about the mystics, explored miraculous stories of the greatest saints, masters, and healers....and I've been in awe of it all. What stunning mysteries of life itself I've discovered. Never would I have dreamed that this was all leading me to my life's purpose.

I am now a practitioner - a Reconnective Practitioner, a healer. If you're wondering why and how, believe me I've wondered, also. So,why me? I've asked myself these questions so many times lately. My answer, the only one I have, is that I was given a gift, one that I could have refused to receive. I could have dismissed the weird, crazy things that began happening to me as just weird and crazy. New bandwidths of energy and information began entangling and connecting with my physical and emotional/spiritual body. Day after day, new frequencies arrived and made it known physically in my body. Electrical currents, subtle ones sometimes, and other times not so subtle, kept me awake at night as they pulsated and flowed through every cell of my body. Like little sparks of light, they would begin in my feet and race throughout my body, up and down like electricity in live wires. And then, SHWOOSH!! Up through my head, exploding outwards like a swarm of fireflies being released. My ears began buzzing, a sound like thousands of tiny, little bees humming. Why didn't I race off to a doctor and ask questions like "Am I crazy?" or "What do you think is happening to me, doctor?" BECAUSE.......I knew I had nothing wrong with me, and I was enjoying the sensations, visions, colors. Once I even experienced a "being" in the room with me; a kind, compassionate, loving being. I welcomed its presence. I was given the message, "Receive". That's all, just the word receive. I KNEW intuitively that these new sensations I was experiencing were coming from something or someone from an unknown dimension, or at least it had been unknown to me until then. Perhaps this something or someone was God, or a Universal Intelligence. How could I turn away from such a gift? How could I refuse to share it with others or turn my back on people who are seeking a higher connectedness with consciousness?

Dr. Eric Pearl, the author of "The Reconnection" book and an amazing teacher at conference workshops across the globe is who I turned to for guidance and instruction. I've experienced firsthand his amazing workshop seminar and have taken with me the knowingness of what I now am: a healer, a Reconnective Practitioner, to be exact. This gift was there for me all along. All I did was allow myself to be open to it, to be a vehicle, to NOT turn the other way and deny it, and to claim it.

I'll be writing more - much more - about my amazing healing experiences with this new bandwidth of healing light frequencies. Also, see Dr. Eric Pearl's website at: http://www.thereconnection.com

The Energy Healing Experiments

This impressive book is one I really want to share with everyone. I've been delving into the world of energy healing, such as Reiki and Shamanic Touch. I know that energy healing works, but I just couldn't understand HOW it works. This amazing book explains it thoroughly. Anyone who is skeptical will be reassured by the scientific experiments that are presented here. I am the type of person who always wants to know why and how things work and I like to be shown proof. This book does that.

Here are some reviews I found from Amazon.com:

"Over the past three decades, an impressive body of scientific evidence has quietly emerged that points to stunning new insights into consciousness and itscapacity to mediate healing. Dr. Gary Schwartz's The Energy HealingExperiments is a stellar introduction to this dazzling evidence, which will transform the very meaning of 'healing.' " ­Larry Dossey, MD, author of The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things

"For more than 30 years, I have known and learned from the truly creative genius of Dr. Gary Schwartz. In The Energy Healing Experiments his courageous odyssey continues with scientific rigor, penetrating insights, his characteristic twinkling humor, and true wisdom. "­Kenneth R. Pelletier, PhD, MD(hc), author of New Medicine and internationalbestseller Mind As Healer, Mind As Slayer

"In The Energy Healing Experiments, scientist Gary Schwartz reveals his thrilling journey to the threshold of 21st-century medicine. There we encounter the promise of new classes of therapies based on the modulation of energy and intention. While we don't know yet exactly how these new therapies work, the fact that they work is being firmly established by Schwartz and others, as reported in this riveting first-person account. "­Dean Radin, PhD, author of Entangled Minds and The Conscious Universe

"This is a lovely book. I congratulate Gary Schwartz, with William Simon, on a very readable and lucid book on the important and complex topic of energy/information healing as distinguished from chemical/nutritional healing. It is highly recommended for all readers because it will significantly transform the public mind-set in very beneficial ways."
­William A. Tiller, PhD, author of Science and Human Transformation

"Through the able hand of a master scientist, this book is a reliable guide to the complex and sometimes perplexing engagement of mind, body, and spirit."

­Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, PhD, Vice President for Research and Education, Institute of Noetic Sciences


Customer Reviews

By Nicole Wilde
While some other reviewers found this information dry, I found it fascinating. I'm not a scientist by a long shot, but when I read about scientific experiments I want to know the details, particularly because there are so many factors involved. Especially when it comes to this type of subject matter -- and I say this as an energy healer -- I want to know that the placebo effect or other factors are not contributing to the results. I began reading this book as research for one of my own books, and ended up finishing it before I knew it. Okay, it's not for those looking for scintillating prose that reads like a novel, but the information speaks for itself and Gary Schwartz has done an excellent job of presenting it a way that the non-scientists among us can understand.
- Nicole Wilde, author Energy Healing for Dogs: Using Hands-On Healing to Improve Canine Health and Behavior


By Jed Shlackman (Miami, FL United States)

This review is from: The Energy Healing Experiments: Science Reveals Our Natural Power to Heal (Hardcover)
I first came across Schwartz' work almost a decade ago in the Living Energy Universe. His subsequent books have been more focused, and the Energy Healing Experiments looks at the research and evidence validating the power of consciousness and intention to guide healing energies. This book provides solid evidence and explores important questions raised by both believers and skeptics. As an energy healer I know what I observe and experience with myself and clients, so I don't need convincing... but for those who lack the expanded sensory awareness to feel and perceive energy healing it's useful to have empirical findings and methodically designed experiments that confirm something is happening that can't be explained in a materialistic manner. Gary Schwartz has done well in collecting this evidence and presenting it within a thoughtful analysis and discussion of its implications. This book is practical and more scientifically-oriented than spiritually oriented even though it does bring up the spiritual and philosophical implications of energy healing. I recommend this for healers who want to have a collection of research that supports their work, as well as the general public and skeptics who wish to carefully consider the evidence regarding this phenomenon.

You - a latticework of energies

My morning ritual is pictured above. Each day I start by sitting outdoors (along with my three dogs and a very special cat on my lap) and I commune with nature. I view nature, people, plants, animals, and everthing in the material world as energy. To connect with this energy, I light a candle, incense, and a white sage smudge stick. I begin by smudging myself by moving the smoke energy by using a feather. I smudge my four legged friends along with the area where we will be sitting. This creates a clean environment that is free of all negativity, and then I envision a pure white light of love surrounding us.

The four elements are being accessed - earth, fire, water, and air. We are all created from these elements and when we connect to them, spiritually and physically, we allow an energy medicine to come into our bodies and keep us whole and well.

In our modern world we live in, it can be a strange, unnatural, stress-filled environment. Many of us have lost our connections to nature. Our immune systems don't recognize this strange environment that our bodies are desperately trying to adapt to. It attacks what it doesn't know. Our chakras become unbalanced, and as a result physical and mental illnesses arise.

Everything is energy, or vibration. When we see this, we can understand why the ancient shamanic healing practices are now being introduced into modern cultures. According to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel laureate in Medicine,"In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy."

When you cultivate your capacity to weave these energies into a part of your life, you can be a more conscious and sensitive instrument of energy medicine than all other technologies combined.

When I enjoy my morning coffee and surround myself with my ritual candles, incense, etc., I am focusing on my body as a living system of energy, and I realize that this powerful energy is already inherent in my hands and in my very being.