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From: Daniel J. Benor, M.D.
Date: 1/20/2001
Time: 2:54:34 PM
Remote Name: 204.116.134.144
Physicians are invited to join a group of doctors who are exploring the uses of healing in medical practice.
Healing (as in Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, etc.) can help with many problems for which conventional medicine can as yet provide only limited relief. People with arthritis, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), multiple sclerosis, cancer, and other problems may be helped. Pain, stress and other symptoms may be relieved. Patients and doctors have numerous reports of the helpfulness and efficacy of healing.
Research confirms healing is effective well beyond a placebo effect. There are over 200 controlled studies demonstrating that healing can influence water, enzymes, cells in laboratory cultures, yeasts, bacteria, plants, animals, and humans. (Benor, D. Healing Research: Volume I, in press.)
Healing is well accepted by doctors in England, where healers work in doctors’ offices, and some are paid under the National Health Service. Many more doctors are referring patients to healers at the healers' clinics. Some doctors are developing their own healing gifts and may get Postgraduate Education Allowance (equivalent to CME) credits for this by attending approved workshops. Healers work regularly at hospital pain, cancer and cardiac rehabilitation centers.
In the UK Doctor-Healer Network (DHN), founded in 1988 by Daniel Benor, MD, there are healers, doctors, nurses, other health care professionals, clergy, and complementary/alternative therapists who meet every 3-4 months to discuss patients (often those who are treated by doctor-healer pairs), as well as theoretical and personal questions and demonstrations of healing methods. This provides a forum and resource for sharing information and progress in integrating healing with conventional medicine.
The DHN-NA will include doctors who are practicing healing themselves, working in conjunction with healers, or are interested in learning more about healing and research in healing. In periodic regional seminars and an email professional group we willl explore integrating healing with conventional medical care.
Join the founding meeting of a new DHN-NA group March 24-25, 2001 Philadelphia, PA
This group is for doctors who want to learn about healing and to work with healers. We will explore how we can develop the use of healing, and how we can expand and extend the applications of healing in our practices. (If you are a doctor already using healing yourself in your practice, contact Dan for information about the DHN group that started meeting in August 2000.)
Friday: 6:30 PM Informal gathering for dinner at a local restaurant.
Saturday: 9-12:00 Review of research in healing, covering over 200 controlled studies in humans, animals, plants, bacteria, yeasts, cells in vitro, enzymes, DNA and more.
12-1:00 Lunch
1-5:00 Discussion of clinical applications of healing
Sunday: 9-12:00 Experiential explorations of biological energy self-healing approaches
12-1:00 Lunch
1-4:00 Continued explorations of biological energy as healer-healing approaches
4-5:00 Discussion and explorations of further clinical applications and research
Cost: $200 ($175 if mailed before 1/31). Accommodations to be arranged by participants. Sheraton Society Hill recommended --2nd and Walnut (about 5 blocks from Lotus Medical Arts Center) 215/238-6000.
$100 for medical students and residents.
Facilitator: Daniel J. Benor, M.D. is a wholistic psychiatrist. He practices psychotherapy, including elements from meditation, imagery and relaxation, psychoneuroimmunology, dream analysis, healing, EMDR Tapas Acupressure Technique, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Matrix Therapy, intuitive and spiritual awareness, transactional analysis, gestalt therapy, hypnotherapy, and other approaches. Dr. Benor has taught elements from these methods internationally for 15 years to people involved in wholistic, intuitive, and spiritual approaches to caring, health and personal development. He is the founder of The DHN in England and editor of its Newsletter. After 10 years in England he returned to work in Philadelphia and in Medford, New Jersey. Dr. Benor is the author of Healing Research, Volumes I-IV and many articles on wholistic healing and spiritual awareness. He appears internationally on radio and TV. He is a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and on the advisory boards of the journals, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Subtle Energies (ISSSEEM), Frontier Sciences, on the Board of Directors of ISSSEEM, and the Advisory Council of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychotherapy (ACEP).
Dan Benor, P.O. Box 502, Medford, NJ 08055 Tel/Fax 609/714-1885
Daniel J. Benor, M.D. P.O. Box 502 Medford, NJ 08055 Phone/Fax (609) 714-1885 E-mail:db@WholisticHealingResearch.com Internet Address: http://www.WholisticHealingResearch.com ©2000 by Daniel J. Benor, M.D.