Healing Power: The Methods: One Continuous Sacred Ritual

If we receive our medication surgery or natural remedy and are still in pain there are a variety of psychosocial and spiritual methods that can help us manage that pain skillfully. To this end Dr. Shapiro has created Healing Power a self-help self-healing model he uses himself and teaches students patients and colleagues. Healing Power is a composite of the wisdom of the ages from the sages. It has fifteen methods one hundred qualities wisdom pearls and a variety of religious traction devices--the best of the best a highlight reel of sorts--extracted from great spiritual books teachers and masters and translated into cognitive behavioral mindfulness and meditative practices. The methods are universal and can be practiced by people of all persuasions: atheist agnostic religious or spiritual. The methods are: - Horizontal Axis: People Activities Belief System - Vertical Axis: Affirmations Habit Transformation Breathwork Progressive Muscle Relaxation Contemplation Meditation Prayer Mindfulness Presence of God Service Yoga Transformation of Emotion. When you practice these methods you will: - Increase healing power for body mind and soul. - Learn how to skillfully manage any pain or problem: physical mental emotional interpersonal or spiritual. - Become a better person by cultivating healing qualities such as love compassion forgiveness courage strength peace wisdom and joy. - Exercise and strengthen the mind. - Transmute bad habits into peace strength and contentment. - Reduce hyperactivity and build stillness into your program. - Use stillness as the doorway to higher states of consciousness. - Reduce the negative side of your ego and replace it with the highest wisdom. - Lock love compassion patience and kindness into brain grooves so that these healing qualities become your new mental habits. - Learn how to face anything life throws with courage peace and strength. - Perform anonymous acts of gentle humble service. - Give peace love and joy in word action and vibration to all whom you meet. - View the body as the carrier of higher states of consciousness as opposed to a source of fear and trouble. - Experience a transformation of consciousness to higher states often referred to as nirvana the peace that surpasses understanding ecstasy Divine love The Buddha or Christ Consciousness. Here nothing can touch us and nothing can ruffle us. Liberated from the bondage of fear and insecurity we watch the colossal cosmic drama with calm detachment.