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The Science of Psychic Healing2008
and then a fine trembling or vibrating movement is communicated to the
hand by the muscles of the arm. The movement is acquired by practice, and
is somewhat difficult at first. It is a most powerful form of treatment, and
the patient feels it like a current of electricity. You must not press upon the
body with your wrist, and no more than the weight of the hand should be
felt by the patient. When the Vibrational Treatment is properly applied,
the vibrations should permeate the region treated, so that if the other hand
be placed under the body, the vibrations should be perceptible. Some
teachers have instructed their pupils in this form of treatment, by placing a
glass of water on a table, and instructing the student to make the Vibrational
movements on the table. When the proper motion is acquired the water will
merely quiver in the centre, and not move from side to side. We urge the
student to give the necessary time and attention to Vibrational Treatment,
as when once acquired it will be found wonderfully efficacious.
The Breath Treatment has been used by many healers with wonderful
effect. This form of treatment, also, has been known from prehistoric times.
Arnobe informs us that the Egyptians used this method in the treatment
of disease with great success, and some claimed that it was superior to
stroking, or laying on of the hands. Mercklin, in his Tractatus Medicophycis,
tells of a case in which a young child, apparently lifeless, was restored to
life and strength, by the breath of an old woman. Borel tells of a sect in
one part of India who cured sickness by this method, and there are in India
today certain priests who breathe on the sick, and seem to impart new
life and vigor to them. Borel (who lived about 1650 a.d.) tells of a case in
which a servant brought to life the apparently dead body of his master by
breathing upon him, and adds, quaintly: “Is it astonishing that the breath of
man should produce such results, when we read that God breathed into the
body of Adam to give him life? It is a fraction of this divine breath which
even today can bring back health to the sick.” In Spain there are persons
called insalmadores, who heal by the saliva and by the breath.