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ThetaHealing (also Theta Healing) is the registered trademark for a method of meditation created by Vianna Stibal in 1995. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ThetaHealing claims to change a practitioner's brain wave pattern to the theta pattern , allowing them to explore how " emotional energy " affects their health, and develop "natural intuition".
Many approaches to energy healing exist: for example, “biofield energy healing”, [2] [3] “spiritual healing”, [4] “contact healing”, “distant healing”, therapeutic touch, [5] Reiki, [6] and Qigong. [2] Reviews of the scientific literature on energy healing have concluded that no evidence supports its clinical use.
[4] [13] [14] [15] According to Krieger, therapeutic touch has roots in ancient healing practices, [16] such as the laying on of hands, although it has no connection with religion or with faith healing. Krieger states that, "in the final analysis, it is the healee (client) who heals himself.
Advocates of quantum healing assert that quantum phenomena govern health and wellbeing. There are different versions, which allude to various quantum ideas including wave particle duality and virtual particles, and more generally to "energy" and to vibrations. [1] Quantum healing is a form of alternative medicine.
Crystal healing is a pseudoscientific alternative-medicine practice that uses semiprecious stones and crystals such as quartz, agate, amethyst or opal. Despite the common use of the term "crystal", many popular stones used in crystal healing, such as obsidian, are not technically crystals .
The practice of claiming to use intuition or clairvoyance for medical information dates back to Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802–1866), whose intuitive healing practice began in 1854. Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) was known as one of the most well known medical clairvoyants. [ 2 ]
The technique has been popularized by some of the six men who observed him at work, including Oswald Rentsch, an osteopath [6] whose interpretation has become the dominant, but not unchallenged, form. [5] Learning this technique requires 120 hours of instruction, [7] or as little as a weekend workshop. [8]
For spontaneous recovery to occur, the conditioning of the memory that is recalled later needs to be stored in long-term memory. It is a process where the semantics and associations of the certain memory are so ingrained that they can become habitual, or automatic to the person. For example, all the procedures needed to ride a bicycle are not ...