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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (28261)	1/16/1999 11:25:00 AM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There is an ancient Chinese healing art called Qi Dong (I think that's the spelling) in which practitioners manipulate the body's energy fields with their hands. Recent laboratory experiments in Boston (I think) have been testing the efficacy of Qi Dong on cancerous cells isolated in petri dishes. All the results aren't in yet, but initial reports indicate that a statistically significant change in these cells has been evidenced. The "vibe" thing is no joke. Some well respected hospitals are beginning to offer the services of non-traditional medical practitioners (including Qi Dong, acupuncture, laughter and music therapy, among others--almost all of these approaches dealing with the body on an energetic level) as adjuncts to traditional approaches and finding patients regularly reporting success. Placebo effect? I doubt it, and frankly wouldn't care if it were--healing is healing. If we are able to engage patients' minds in actively participating in their own body's healing processes, the positive results outweigh any scientific pooh poohing of the unempirical aspects of non-traditional approaches.