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Can Art Heal?
The Healing Power of Music (Part 1 of 4)
By Adriana Paredes -Staff Writer
Creative expression can make a powerful contribution to the healing process and has been embraced in many different cultures. Cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien shares that shamans and medicine men believe that the moment a person stops singing and dancing that person loses touch with his or her soul creating stress and unbalance which can result in the appearance of disease. Throughout recorded history, people have used pictures, stories, dances, and chants as healing rituals. This four-part series will explore the healing power of artistic expression and its relationship to metaphysics.
Engaging in artistic activities either as an observer or as an artist can enhance one’s moods, emotions, and overall psychological state. Creative activities contribute toward reducing stress and depression and can serve as a vehicle for alleviating the burden of chronic disease. Over the past decade, health psychologists have begun looking at how the arts might be used in a variety of ways to heal emotional injuries, increase understanding of oneself and others, develop a capacity for self-reflection, reduce symptoms, and improve behavior and thinking patterns.
Music, Health & Metaphysics
Music is the most accessible and most researched medium of art and healing. Music therapy has been shown to decrease anxiety and short term pain. Music therapy programs can help to restore emotional balance as well. Music can calm neural activity in the brain, which may help to restore effective functioning in the immune system partly via the actions of the amygdala and hypothalamus.
Music has been used with cancer patients. According to the American Cancer Society, there is evidence that, when used with conventional treatment, music therapy can help to reduce pain and relieve chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. It may also relieve stress and provide an overall sense of well-being. Some studies have found that music therapy can lower heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate.
Studies have shown that students who take music lessons have improved IQ levels. In particular, listening to music composed by Mozart produces a short-term improvement in tasks that use spatial abilities as the music produces more activity in certain areas of the brain. This has been famously called the “Mozart effect.”
Music has been an essential part of metaphysics. According to internationally recognized clairvoyant, and spiritual teaching Barbara Y. Martin, “When I listen to an inspired piece of music, I see wonderful spiritual energies of various hues connected to the musical ideas. If the music is particularly uplifting, there will be these incredible musical thought-forms. Not all music has this. Some has a neutral spiritual effect and other types of music unfortunately have a debilitating effect. The quality of the music has a lot to do with its spiritual power.”
Dimitri Moraitis, spiritual teacher and executive director of Spiritual Arts Institute adds, “Music emanates from the vibratory activity of life, sometimes called The Word of God. It is part of the spiritual as well as physical spheres. From ancient to modern times, metaphysicians have well-known the spiritual power of music as a tool to elevate the soul. Listening to uplifting music or even better, learning to sing or play an instrument has a wonderful effect on the consciousness.”
It is never too late to engage in a musical activity by doing so you may be uplifted and find another beautiful way to express your soul.
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We’re ecstatic to announce that Barbara and Dimitri’s celebrated book,
The Healing Power of Your Aura, has just been released in Romania!
Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award , The Healing Power of Your Aura is an essential guide to health and healing. In it Barbara demonstrates how your aura is the spiritual support system to your physical body and shows you how to tune into your own energy field to help restore your body to its natural state of health and well being.
The Healing Power of Your Aura has specific healing mediatations for more than 80 types of physical conditions ranging from headaches to cancer, and over 16 pages of colored illustrations to aid the reader in visualizations.
We are honored to share the Light work with the world, and are truly blessed that our contribution has been so readily received in over 30 countries around the globe.
Click here for the Romanian copy
“Spiritual Energy ~
Is the single biggest key to building and sustaining health.”
~Barbara Y. Martin
With remarkable insight and clarity, Barbara Y. Martin’s award winning book, The Healing Power of Your Aura, demonstrates how your aura is the spiritual support system to your physical body and shows you how to tune into your own energy filed to help restore your body to its natural sate of health and well-being.
“The aura is a crucial part of healing because the aura is the place where you generate the spiritual energy to manifest health. The aura is the individual expression of the universal life force. Your aura is the spiritual blueprint that expresses how you’re using god’s eternal light.
To change any condition in your life, you need to generate the spiritual power necessary to make that change. The place where you generate that spiritual power in in your aura. Health manifests in the aura First.”
With meditation and prayer, we can actively draw upon universal consciousness to effectively and peacefully change our mental, emotional, and physical conditions.
In The Healing Power of Your Aura we learn:
- What health and illness look like in the aura
- Extraordinary details on the chakra system and its part in healing
- The single biggest cause of illness and how to counteract it
- Keys to identify the spiritual roots of many physical distresses such as how disappointment can cause a heart attack and frustration ca cause liver disorders
- How to relive stress, and boost your vitality
- How healing brings you closer to God
Purchase your copy of The Healing Power of Your Aura today and gift yourself, and your loved ones, with spiritual growth and health!
We are delighted to announce that Barbara and Dimitri’s award winning book, The Healing Power of Your Aura, was released in Japan on Oct. 4th!
In 2009 Barbara and Dimitri were asked by Natural Spirit to visit Japan and present their groundbreaking material to the medical and holistic health communities. Both Barbara and Dimitri were greatly impressed by awareness and receptivity of our Japanese brothers and sisters who, to their great joy, readily accept the role spiritual energy plays in our health and our mental/emotional development.
In their own words:
“With the release of The Healing Power of Your Aura, our prayers continue to reach out to Japan . Many blessings in your journey to health.”
–Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis
Your Healing Aura!
Saturday, July 30, 3:00pm-4:30pm
Saturday, July 30, 3:00pm-4:30pm
Join us in a FREE workshop
at CoLoft, Santa Monica
at CoLoft, Santa Monica
Join aura expert Barbara Y. Martin for the latest information on the aura and health. Discover how spiritual energy is the single biggest key to manifesting health. Barbara, along with Dimitri Moraitis, will guide your through aura meditation techniques to help heal physical, mental or emotional distresses. This is one of Barbara’s most popular workshops!
Learn:
- What health and disease look like in the aura
- The single biggest cause of illness and how to counteract it
- Keys to identifying the spiritual roots of many physical distresses
- How spiritual healing is the key to healthy living in all aspects of life
Includes a meditation
and demonstration of aura readings!
Date: Saturday, July 30
Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Held at the CoLoft
920 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, Ca 90401
FREE, but space is limited.
Call Spiritual Arts to Register:
(800) 650-AURA (2872)
Don’t live in the Santa Monica area?
Join us from the comfort of your home via teleconference! Email us at info@spiritualarts.org for the call in number.
By Jaqueline Marie – Staff Writer
Can prayer heal?
For centuries metaphysics has advocated the power of prayer as a key means of healing. Now science is beginning to understand what the mystics have known all along – prayer heals.
Not long ago science scoffed at the idea of prayer and meditation having an effect on the healing process, but due to the surmounting evidence suggesting otherwise, the mainstream medical community is taking note. Research into the healing power of prayer has doubled in the last 15 years. Dr. Mitchell Krucoff, a cardiovascular specialist at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., has been studying prayer and spirituality and its links to healing since 1996. Medicinenet.com cited him as saying,
“We’re seeing systematic investigations — clinical research — as well as position statements from professional societies supporting this research, federal subsidies from the NIH, funding from Congress. All of these studies, all the reports, are remarkably consistent in suggesting the potential measurable health benefit associated with prayer or spiritual interventions.”
In the Handbook of Religion and Health more than 1,200 case studies on the relation between prayer and health are documented. Some of the findings include:
- Heart patients were 14 times more likely to die following surgery if they did not participate in a spiritual practice or religion.
- Hospitalized people who never attended a spiritual gather have an average stay of three times longer than people who attended regularly.
- Elderly people who never or rarely attended a church or participated in spiritual practices had a stroke rate double that of people who attended/practiced regularly.
- In Israel, religious people had a 40% lower death rate from cardiovascular disease and cancer.
It’s exciting to see the medical community beginning to acknowledge the power of prayer in healing, a truth metaphysics has been practicing all along. According to metaphysics, when you pray and meditate you are accessing a spiritual power that accelerates the healing process. It is this spiritual energy that is sustaining the body.
By working with the aura, your spiritual blueprint, you are directly accessing the source of your spiritual power. This spiritual energy can then be directed to any area of your consciousness that needs healing or transformation, mind, body and soul.
The way you draw spiritual energy into the aura
is through mediation and prayer.
Healing is a proactive, spiritual process. Health consciousness is a key factor in healing. When we meditate and pray we align ourselves with God, bringing ourselves into a greater awareness of God. Renowned healer and teacher Joel Goldsmith understood this spiritual principle and achieved extraordinary results because he was able put his mind in a state of consciousness where illness does not exist.
While science has not yet definitively pinpointed why prayer is helpful, it is already demonstrating that the very act of prayer is healing. To quote Dr. Krucoff,
“We’re looking at whether in all of the energy and interest we have put into systematic investigation of high-tech medicine, if we have actually missed the boat. Have we ignored the rest of the human being — the need for something more — that could make all the high-tech stuff work better?”
Your responses and feedback are welcome!
Source: medicinenet.com
Image by Irina Patrascu
It is our great pleasure to share with you the work of one of our students, Shon Prem Bon Soeng. Shon is a student in the Teacher Training Program and is certified with the institute as a spiritual healer. She recently began participating in a clinical study at prestigious hospital in Israel as to the beneficial effects of aura healing with cancer patients. Shon is revolutionizing the medical field. May Mother/Father God bless her work~
I have been a student of Barbara Y. Martin and Spiritual Arts Institute for several years and recently was certified as a spiritual healer through the institute’s Practitioner Healing Program. Although I live in Israel, I have been taking the program online, as well as attending retreats in Southern California.
Since December 2010, I have been participating in special two-year study being conducted at Rambam Medical Center, one of Israel’s most prestigious hospitals, where they are exploring the beneficial effects of alternative therapies with cancer patients. This research aims to find out how complementary medicine affects the quality of life of oncology patients, particularly regarding the symptoms of the secondary effects of chemotherapy or the symptoms of the disease itself in the physical, mental, emotional or spiritual aspects.
In this study, I am practicing the Direct Healing techniques learned through Spiritual Arts Institute in a clinical environment. After only six months of work, I would like to share some of my extraordinary experiences with you.
Rambam Health Care Campus is Northern Israel’s largest hospital, housing Rambam Medical Center, a European Society Medical Oncology Center (ESMO) of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care. It is now the 8th year that oncology patients of Rambam Hospital can choose to receive complementary medicine sessions in the Oncology Supportive and Palliative Care Unit alongside their chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other treatments traditionally received in conventional medicine.
The Supportive Care Unit, where I conduct the spiritual healings, is located in the Oncology Day Care Ward, where people with different types of cancer and at every stage of the disease come to receive their chemotherapy treatments. Patients that choose to receive spiritual healing sessions or other complementary medicine sessions within the Unit can also take part in the ongoing research conducted. Patients who agree to participate in the research start the spiritual healing sessions are at different stages of the disease and treatment. Spiritual healing sessions are also being given to patients who are considered to be at a terminal stage.
Overall, patients who take part in the research receive 6 sessions of spiritual healing, 45 minutes each, once a week. As of this writing, more than 100 spiritual healing sessions have been given in the Supportive Care Unit. Results of the research will be published in an internationally renowned scientific magazine in 2012. While the healer is not informed of which patient is taking part in the research, all patients give their direct, spontaneous and immediate feedback.
Patients that have been receiving healing are from 24 to 72 years old, and come from different social backgrounds and beliefs. For those with a religious background, patients have shared they have been praying to God to heal them and are so moved by the fact that these spiritual healing sessions are offered in the hospital. For them it is God sent. As a consequence, they are very open to receive the healing Light.
Some patients are atheists. They say they do not especially believe in God; even the word ‘God’ creates some kind of resistance in their minds. However, they keep on coming back to the healing sessions, saying they feel comfortable and interested by our talks, with which we open every session, and that the healing makes them feel better. Believers or non believers, they want to be healed. My job is to help facilitate that by bringing the person into a state of consciousness where they are relaxed, open and ready to receive the Light.
Examples of Spiritual Healing
Here are three stories of the effects on patients during and after healing sessions:
- A patient with pancreatic cancer with metastasis in the liver and lungs who was surgically operated on a few times to remove cancer reported a sensation of deep serenity and peace from the first healing session. After his 4th healing session this week, he said he felt a huge relief in breathing difficulties. He had also shared he could feel different sensations with the various light rays. In his early sixties, he never knew about spiritual healing before we started a few weeks ago. The same sensation of relief in breathing after a healing session was reported by other patients with lung cancer as well. (At least 3-4 lung cancer patients reported the same sensation of relief in breathing.)
- A 43 year old woman with colon cancer shared how she is entered into a state of deep serenity and relaxation when we start the direct healing session. She received 8 healing sessions. In the process, I could see her mental and emotional bodies being lifted from negative states of sadness and fear to happiness, courage and hope. From pessimism to optimism, from negative to positive speech, from tears to smiles, from fatigue to vitality and growing energy. Her blood counts were lifted, as well, from low levels of thrombocytes (where the chemotherapy treatment cannot be administered) to balanced blood counts after a healing session.
- As a part of a medical staff exchange program, a group of nurses from Thailand came to see how the supportive care unit is working, in particular, that day, how the Spiritual Healing session goes. I received them both in the treatment room for about an hour to explain what spiritual healing is.Then I did a 10 minute “demonstration” of a healing session to each one of them. The first nurse said that she had felt the heat of my hands and a deep relaxation sensation, as if she is going to fall asleep. The second nurse said that she was in a deep state of calmness and could see green, yellow and orange lights moving in her abdomen area, feeling as if something had been cleaned and left her body
Reactions to Spiritual Healings by Medical Doctors
A few months ago, I was asked to give a short lecture about Spiritual Healing in a day seminar for the Medical Staff of the Oncology division of Rambam Hospital. The medical staff was divided to 7 groups. At the end of one lecture, after demonstrating the direct healing technique, a social worker commented with teary eyes, “I had some terminal patients that had just been told they only had a short time to live. Some have young children and very sad family stories. They asked me questions and I didn’t know what to answer or where to send them to. I wish I knew that I could send people to these sessions when they are asking me existential questions and I don’t know what to say or where to send them, now I know.” She said with relief.
Another doctor asked me “How are these sessions helping the patients when they only have a few more days to live and anyway they are going to die”? I spoke about the continuation of the soul and the work on the astral body, about preparing them for an easier transition, as well as simply receiving them with love and compassion, listening to them, allowing them to ask any question they might have and helping them to connect with the higher.
Just before the closing circle, the senior doctor (who is the director of the supportive care unit, the initiator and responsible for the research on the effects of complementary medicine on cancer patients), asked for a healing session for himself. He laid on the treatment bed for a 15 minute healing session. It was in the big hall in the presence of other medical staff and participants in the seminar. When he got up off the treatment bed he said he had had a leg pain before the session, which he didn’t tell me about, and that it had passed during the session.
To finish, the chief nurse of the oncology division, responsible for all the therapists and the patients of the supportive care unit (She was participating as a member of the first group of the medical staff groups) shared with me in the presence of the other members of the group that she is sending the most difficult cases to the spiritual healing sessions and that the patients are reporting to her that they are very pleased with the healing sessions.
A Story of Personal Healing
There are many more stories of the effects of spiritual healing on cancer patients I could write about. Every day of work in the oncology ward is rich with people’s moving life stories, but the last one I chose to share is not someone else’s moving life story, it was happening at home. It is the story of my own mum.
My mum is in her mid-fifties, a school principle in Israel. Six months ago she was diagnosed with lymphoma cancer in advanced stage. It was growing fast and spreading everywhere through the lymphatic system. She was quite shocked at the diagnosis and afraid of what she was going to go through. She knew all that so well, as her own mother died from cancer at the age of 49.
She was prescribed 8 cycles of chemotherapy and biological treatments. When she returned home after her first treatment, I started doing healing work for her as well as ask for the healing support of Spiritual Arts Institute. After the second chemotherapy treatment, we did more direct healing and there was a special moment. While she was praying strongly to God to heal her and I was holding my hand above her hermetic center, we could both see the atoms leaving her body and being dissolved.
From that moment on, she knew she was going to be healed.
When she reached the 4th cycle of chemotherapy, she was taken to do a PET CT scan to see the progress of the disease. The results of the scan were amazing! Although she was only half way through the conventional treatment, there were no signs of cancer in her body whatsoever, not even a trace of the disease that usually takes some time to disappear from the body even after chemotherapy treatment is finished, but here nothing!
Our joy was immense, but she was now faced with a decision whether to continue the difficult chemotherapy treatments. She decided to finish the cycles. Another PET CT scan after the 8th treatment confirmed, once again, she was indeed completely healed and there was no trace of cancer in her body. We were all so grateful.
I can very clearly see how the healing principles helped save my mum’s life and are helping to save other people’s lives. I am deeply grateful to God and the Higher to be able to do this work and to Barbara and Spiritual Arts for all that I have learned. All patients are someone’s mum or dad, daughter or son. It is always the same healing method and technique that I am practicing while at work in the hospital. It is always with the same level of consciousness that I enter the healing room and receive the patient for their healing session, always keeping the vision of their divine image in which they are already healed.
Shon Prem Bon Soeng is a certified psychotherapist and an officially authorized Zen teacher. Her spiritual healing work is certified through Spiritual Arts Institute. She lives in Israel and is currently opening a healing center where she will conduct clinical psychotherapy, spiritual healing sessions and classes in metaphysics and Zen. You may email her at: One@SpiritualSpring.org
Connecting with Your Higher Self
Saturday, April 9, 3:00pm-4:30pm
Saturday, April 9, 3:00pm-4:30pm
Join us in a FREE workshop
at CoLoft, Santa Monica
at CoLoft, Santa Monica
Your Higher Self is the emissary to the Divine. It is through your Higher Self that spiritual energy and inspiration reaches you. In this workshop, Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis will introduce effective tools to enhance your spiritual connection with your Higher Self to help you fulfill your life’s purpose.
Learn:
- What the Higher Self looks like and how it works in your aura.
- Meditations to build a stronger connection to your Higher Self.
- Understanding how to work with divine guidance and rightful direction in any aspect of your life.
- Techniques to release mental and emotional block that interfere with your spiritual reception.
- How your Higher Self is the key to raising your consciousness to new levels of awareness
Includes a meditation and demonstration of aura readings!
Date: Saturday, April 9
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
CoLoft
920 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, Ca 90401
FREE, but space is limited.
Call Spiritual Arts to Register:
(800) 650-AURA (2872)
“Almighty and Everlasting God, our hearts and prayers go to Japan and everyone who has been affected the by earthquake and tsunami. We ask that the healing light of God go to all the injured, the lost, the homeless and to help ease those souls who have made their transition. May the peace of God envelop all who are shaken and distress so that they may feel that God is with them always and that their fellow brothers and sisters are praying for them and ready to help in any way.
“We pray for God’s help to contain the situation at the nuclear power plant. We ask that the angels and archangels of Divine Light can contain the situation and bring everything to a safe conclusion. May the golden ray of wisdom and courage go to the leaders to help them make the right decisions and to be responsive to the guidance of the divine. May the protective light of God surround all souls who are in potential danger; to rescue workers, medical workers, and those who are working at the nuclear power plant so that they continually receive the blessings of God and the Holy Ones.
“May the love of God bless this planet as a whole, so that all the kingdoms of the earth are blessed in God’s eternal light and to bring us peace and compassion and that we may use this as a time to draw closer to God. In this hour of need, let Thy goodness and grace come shining through. Amen.”
In Light,
Barbara Y. Martin & Dimitri Moraitis
copyright 2011
Excerpt from Barbara and Dimitri’s book, The Healing Power of Your Aura:
“Healing is not complete without love. love is he cornerstone of all successful healings. Spiritual healing is not an intellectual process: True Spiritual healing comes from the heart. Love connects us to God and the creative process of life. It gives you the compassion to be effective in your healing work. If you are cold and clinical, you will not gain the full benefit you seek in your healing efforts Approach your healing work with care and compassion, and results will flow much more easily. Through love, hold to the Divine in yourself and others, and watch your healing work flow in beauty beyond compare.”
Copyright @ 2006 Barbara Y. Martin, Dimitri Moraitis
