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THE POWER OF SELF-HEALING "That's just a natural part of healing," says DreamHealer, "and if you think about it, it's no different than anything else. In any sport, you have on and off days. You have on and off days in school. It's the exact same thing," he says. "Patience is essential, because there are so many advances and retreats, precious gains that disappear again into painful losses," says Martin Rossman, MD, DiplAc, director of The Healing Mind, author of numerous books and CDs on mind-body medicine, and a pioneer in the field of guided imagery. "Perseverance is essential, because the methods we discover may sometimes work and other times not." Practice is also essential, says DreamHealer. "If you just put five minutes aside before you go to bed … visualizing yourself in perfect health … just putting that intention out there … does increase the probability of that happening." The key word here is probability. On this note, May responds to my encounter with alternative health practitioners who fell into the trap of patient blame, through embracing patient empowerment: "[New Age] 54 massage & bodywork september/october 2009 "We are in an inextricably interwoven, dynamic, living relationship with all that is around us." Mitchell May, founder The Synergy Company wants everything to be under our own desires, under our own fantasy and wishful thinking about how the universe works. If you have the right kind of thought, you'll be wealthy. If you have the wrong kind of thought, you won't be wealthy … It's all about how we can control the universe. I have seen [this ideology] being used in ways that are extremely destructive to people who are suffering, who go seeking assistance because of their suffering, and who end up in a relationship with a practitioner who comes from that point of view." Anasuya Batliner, NC, Dipl ABT, CST, agrees. "In the world of alternative health, there is a little bit more freedom to believe in whatever you want to believe, which is in some ways a good thing, and in some ways goes over the edge … People take their own feelings, thoughts, and opinions and project them, coming up with statements like, 'You're creating this' and 'You need to clear this.' Certainly, there may be things to clear, but who knows? There's so much mystery in the world. Who knows why these things happen? Making snap decisions