Power Of The Higher Mind: Spiritual Healing in meditation and Hypnosis

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background of the research1

Purpose of the research2

Aims of the Research2

Problem Statement3

Theoretical Framework3

Significance of the Study3

CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE5

Sweden Borg and American Religious Thought5

Swedenborg and Unorthodox Medicine5

Meaning-Making6

Franz Anton Mesmer7

The Marquis de Puysegur9

Mesmerism and Medicine9

Mesmeric Healing: Fluidic, Psychological, Spiritual11

CHAPTER 3: METHODS13

Research Technique: Qualitative Or Quantitative14

Primary Research15

Literature Search15

CHAPTER 4: FINDING AND DISCUSSION16

Spiritual Healing In Meditation16

Treatment16

Self-help literature17

Effectiveness18

Spiritual Healing In Hypnosis19

Relationship between Spiritual Healing And Mediation21

CHAPTER 5: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION24

REFERENCES26

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the research

It seems that this relationship is currently being defined. Mindfulness, and present center awareness are concepts that date back thousands of years in Eastern cultural and religious tradition, yet American culture as a whole is just now beginning to grasp, utilize, and integrate these concepts into the field of Psychology, and mental health. In my mid-twenties I found myself fascinated by the integration of Eastern philosophy and Western medicine. I continually found myself thinking that there can be a bridge between these two worlds, and that the best of both worlds can be melded together to create an ideal conceptualization of the self, psyche, and emotional body in treating clients psychotherapeutically (Meckel 2002).

Over the past 30 years there has been an increasing interest in the field of clinical psychology to integrate Eastern meditation, mindfulness practice, and somatic awareness into psychotherapy. Over the last two decades, psychologists, biologists, and neuroscientists have developed new schools of thought and modalities that allow therapists to enhance their clinical practice by utilizing mindfulness techniques and meditation practice. In the currently emerging frontier for health care, spirituality is included within the bio-psychosocial model of medicine.

Meckel (2002) suggested that medical treatment, psychological intervention, and spiritual counseling utilize similar methods of action and can be equally effective. He described adaptive, explanatory meaning-making as one key similarity across modalities, and recommended using the various modalities to complement each other. Integrating multiple treatment approaches tends to confer additional medically relevant benefits. Such integrative care is critical for people facing chronic, painful, or life-threatening diseases.

Purpose of the research

Little research has been conducted to date on the physical health effects of using spiritually oriented interventions with hypnosis survivors. Hypnosis is like daydreaming: a form of relaxed concentration. What is relaxed is first the body and second, the conscious part of the mind. Some hypnotherapists believe our everyday sense of reality is actually a trance. That we need to awaken, to de-hypnotize from the myths of what we think is real. Religious and spiritual issues are important to the large majority of hypnosis patients, and most people use their spirituality to help inform their sense of meaning and ...