The alternative medicine of Love is a great Healer. Often times when a child is sick, a Mother doesn't know where to turn other than to allopathic medicine. Complementary to and integrated with traditional medical treatments and procedures is love. There have been many "miraculous" turn arounds and healings that have been supported by a caregiver or family member who thru love have held hope and belief that the patient will get well against all the odds. A caregiver's loving touch, prayers and contribution to a positive environment and positive attitudes can help change the course of an illness. Below are some suggestions to help facilitate healing in someone you love.

As a caregiver, you can learn ways to help your "patient's" environment, which in turn contributes to their well-being. The environment that surrounds a sick person takes on the energy of those people that participate in the patient's healing journey. It is imperative to have all those that are working towards the health of the patient to have a positive "can do" attitude. Even unspoken dismay and disbelief permeates the patient's and the environment's energy field, and contributes negative energy that cancels a positive atmosphere. Holding a positive loving attitude creates a subliminal environmental energy support system that inspires the desire to live and to have better health.

Unless medically prohibited, plants help an environment, as do cheerful colors, soothing music, prayer and laughter. Laughter therapy is rapidly gaining ground as a healing modality, like positive attitudes. Create a happy book, wall, or poster board with fun pictures to contribute to positive mental health that assists healing. The power of laughter and positive attitudes both trigger the brain to create chemicals that cause the body to create better immune system responses which is critical when combating illness.

On a physical level, a caregiver can use their love to help the patient's health. (Information for this exercise: you receive energy with your left hand and send energy if you are right handed, and the reverse if you are left handed.) If you are right handed, placing your left hand on your heart and your right hand on the patient's left hand state: "Thru the Love of my heart I send you my life force energy to do with as you so choose on your healing journey." This honors the patient's journey, whether it is being physically cured or healing thru transition.

Another technique is to hold the ball of the patient's feet in the palm of your hands and state: "I send you my life force energy to use as you so choose, and it is my intent to remove any and all excess, unnecessary, toxic, pain and unhealthy energy and to replace that energy with the physically healing, pain free energy of the Christ White Light (or the Universe, or whatever power source that you acknowledge). So be it, it is done." This helps the patient to become more balanced and stabilized. It has shown great results.

Healing and the power of healing on all levels can to be summed up in the phrase "and the greatest of these is love."

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