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Kahuna healing
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Hawaiian shaman system of Huna:
No matter which healing therapies and modalities are used, whatever the system, some people are healed with it, some are not healed with it, and some are healed without it. Each method is just a means by which the actual healing process takes place. What is the common thread in the process?
In Hawaiian, health is equated with energy. Good health is abundant energy (ehuehu), and poor health is weakness (pake), or lack of energy. Illness is equated with tension (ma'i), and healing is the restoration of energy flow (lapa'au). The word for harmony also can be translated as ' a state of great energy' (maika'i), and the word for love also can mean 'to share energy' (aloha). Health is therefore 'a state of harmonious energy' and healing 'to harmonize and energize.' 'Disharmony' (sickness/illness/disease) is caused by 'distress,' meaning excessive stress or tension.
A successful healing method is one that corrects, directly or indirectly, a disturbance of cellular nourishment or cleansing. Because so many widely differing methods can do this, it will be helpful to look at the common factor producing the disturbance: distress. Distress, or excessive stress, constrains the flow of nutrients to the cell and inhibits the cleansing process, primarily through muscle tension. Basically there are only two things to do about distress: either remove what is being resisted, or cease resisting it (change the reaction). All healing methods, even the spontaneous ones of the body, use one of these two methods.
Health is the natural state of harmonious energy that gets covered up or inhibited (disharmonized) by distress. Regardless of method, physical healing will not take place unless the energy flow of the body or cell has been restored. Removing or changing resistance will improve the flow of energy and produce or assist healing. Stress can come from the physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual conditions, and is usually from some combination of these. If treated on only one level, then the healing will be slowed by the distress being maintained by one of the other conditions. A healer ignores any one of the conditions at the peril of the person who is to be healed. Seldom can one healer be all things to one person, but love draws the right healer to the right client at the right time.
Healing can only occur because there is some harmonious state known to the body (or to the spirit of the body) that it loves so much that it will spontaneously move toward it whenever possible. The common thread in all healing cannot be other than love, pure and simple: the love of the healer (recognized or not) for the one being healed, the love of the healed (recognized or not) for the state of harmony and full energy. Love may be used as a method of healing. Love is always the process of healing.
(King, p. 61-64, 80-110, 132)
see:
attitudinal healing
Ayurvedic healing
compassion and healing
healing belief systems
healing power of humor
healing power of meditation
healing power of prayer
holographic consciousness
human energy fields
mind beyond body
Native American healing
psychic healing
quantum healing
search for god
state-dependent learning
Sufi healing
Tai Qi as a healing art
the shadow and physical symptoms
transference and countertransference
yogic view of the human body
footnotes