Echo Bodine

[jennybee]

Echo Bodine she says shes a psychic, and a healer.

Not sure if shes been mentioned on here before. But anyways, she has this thing on her site where you can get free distant healing and if you want you can send five bucks to get a "healing hankie". Now personally my Mom has done the distant healing. Heres her story.. My Mom had cancer years ago and from the surgeries and everything it messed her all up. She has lymphedema in her left leg. She works on her feet all day for 10-12 hours and her leg can get pretty huge from it. Anyways she requested the distant healing and during the 15 day healing time her leg actually wasn't bloatin up like it normally does. And she was still workin her normal 10 to 12 hours a day five days a week. She personally told me, when I ask, that her leg actually felt better. Now I'm not saying it actually works cause I honestly dont know what to think. It could of been that it was just a good two weeks for her. Who knows. I thought about requesting it, to find out personally. But I can't think of anything that I could actually see with my eyes improving, you know what I'm saying. Anyways check the site out.

www.echobodine.com/

[fluffet]

Hi Jennybee ,
First off sorry to hear your mums been unwell and im glad she's had a better spell recently .
Absent healing i feel personally can largely be put down to the placebo effect .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
In short the power of suggestion can create a theraputic effect even though the therapy itself is ineffective due to the person expecting a change in their symptoms .
Its nice to think of people sending you healing energy and wishing you well just as its horrible to think there are people who are against you or wishing you ill .
The same sort of idea is involved when you think about the ole gypsy trick of saying if you dont buy this trinket i will put a curse on you .
If you believe they can actually create bad luck and karma for you then your mind is telling you that this will infact happen and you start to believe it and pick up on every bad thing that happens to you after placing more importance on those instances of bad luck ignoring any good things that may also have happened since .
Its kind of the same in reverse with absent healing , you are told people will send you healing , you want to believe that of course (who wouldnt if they were ill and suffering ) , the idea of this wave of good thoughts and luck sends prompts that will lift your mood and feelings and you may pick up on improvements that you feel are a result of this rather than just chance or unrelated improvements .

I have to say if in this case the absent healing is free and there is no demand for money then as long as your mother does not rely on it as her sole resource for getting better or becomes reliant on the need for further exploration down the alternative route and continues to seek proper medical help and advice then i cant see how it could be too determental in that she isnt being fleeced or brainwashed into dropping proper professional medical treatment .

However i would say make it clear to her that taking it further or seeking alternative therapies of other kinds is not advisable , often this offer of free healing is nothing more than a fishing line to get people into the fold and to use the other services (usually for a substantial price ) that some of these sites offer .

I was as a very young child quite badly burnt down the side of my face and was hospitalised for over a month , it was thought initially that there would be considerable scarring and the docs thought a skin graft may be necessary .
Although at the time i was unaware ( i was five ) my father asked for absent healing .
Something i wasnt aware of until many many years later .
I made quite a remarkable recovery without needing the grafts according to what my parents tell me and i do remember having endless streams of young docs and nurses brought in by the consultant to see me as he apparently couldnt quite believe how well my skin had healed .
The thing that interests me most is if i was unaware of the absent healing , and was pretty miserable understandibly for the duration of my stay there the placebo effect would not have been applicable to me .
However inhindsight after discussing it as an adult with my parents and an ex-boyfriends father who was a consultant in a hospital the fact i was in one of the best burns units in the country , the treatment they gave me was most probably at the time a new approach , and the fact that i was so young and my skin was more able to heal quicker all made for a seemingly miraculous recovery and scar free future .

Either way im grateful for any kind thoughts or support that were sent my way whether they helped or not physically they certainly may have given some support to my poor parents who were out of their minds with worry .

[jennybee]

I understand what your saying. when you pointed out the placebo effect it made me think of the book The Secret. The power of suggestion, the power of postive thinking whichever way you want to put it. One of the stories (actually I'm not sure if this was in the book or on the site) there was a woman who had bad eye sight and used the "techniques" the secret teaches. She said she woke up the next morning being able to see without her coke-bottle glasses. Okay she didn't say coke-bottle glasses. But I was like, what the heLl-o? how is that possible. Only explaination I could come up with is maybe some angels visited her in the middle of the night and did some holy lasik on her. Anyways if the secret really works wouldnt that make us all healers?? Along with that, if its real, please excuse me while I go ask the universe to make snickers and pepsi a diet that makes you lose weight.

So let me try to get back to the original subject here....These people they only emailed once after it was over just to ask about it, and that was it. They never during or after tried to get her to buy anything. Do I think that makes them 100% legitimate? no and I'm not trying to defend them. Maybe they really think they are helping people? At least it was free. You know if you think about it the people who are doing the "healing" are students of Echo Bodine maybe they are being lead to believe they have these "powers". I guess that would be another story to get into.

As for my mom, I discussed this with her and she said she wouldnt rely on something like this. And that was her first and only time ever doing something like that. She knows fully well that this is something she will more than likely live with the rest of her life, unless doctors tell her something different. But I'd rather see her requesting a free healing than buying another sylvia browne book and putting more money in that big brown cows pocket. I'm still trying to convince her that Sylvia is a fake. ANYways before i go on about her... I see your point and I do agree with what you've said. And the fact that it never hurts to have some one out there thinking postively or sending prayers your way. just knowing that lifts peoples spirit.

and Sorry if I repeated anything you said, its been a long thanksgiving week here. And sorry im a rambler, just be glad you don't have to be here having a one on one conversation, it would never end.

[fluffet]

No need to apologise , im a fellow rambler