From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!jss
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: allergies and faith
Article-I.D.: brunix.1316
Posted: Sun Jan 30 14:47:02 1983
Received: Thu Feb  3 03:18:28 1983


we have two very different, yet somehow related, phenomena being discussed
now. the question of faith-healing has come into the allergy question.
faith healing can work, if you believe that it can work, and if you are
lucky. the 'involuntary' processes of our bodies *can* be brought under
conscious control, to a certain extent.  in an attempt to get relief
from tension headaches, i had bio-feedback training, in the course of
which i learned to raise the temperature of my hands several degrees
using visualization techniques. it was startling and convincing.
i would expect that allergic persons could, iff they believed they
could, control blood circulation or swelling or whatever goes wrong
in the respiratory system. i would also expect that each person has
to go to the kind of healer that s/he expects will be able to heal hir.
that is, some to bio-feedback technicians (as i did), some to Christian
layers-on-of-hands, some to meditation gurus, etc. the outward
explanations are very different, but i believe the mechanisms are
similar-to-identical.
good luck to all.
judith schrier
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