While surfing the net I came across an interesting article that I wanted to share. It talks of how energy medicine is getting out there to the masses. I posted the first few paragraphs here but linked to the rest below. Enjoy!

When Elena Gillespie's dog Yiannis was dying of lung cancer, she let a friend talk her into visiting an energy healer for advice. The healer told Gillespie, an emergency medical technician, to touch her dog the same way she touched her patients. Gillespie hadn't mentioned that, along with the medical procedures she administered, she would sometimes put her hands on a patient and project love and calming thoughts while they rode in the ambulance. But figuring that it couldn't hurt to follow the healer's advice, that afternoon she tried the same technique on the Tibetan mastiff's chest for about 15 minutes. Then she left for work.

"When I came home, the dog who couldn't even get off the floor earlier in the day was standing at the door, waiting for me!" she says. "I took him out and he ran around. I was stunned." When the vet took an X-ray of the dog's chest two days later, the tumor was gone. While it could have disappeared on its own, Gillespie believes Yiannis recovered as a result of her healing touch.

Gillespie's hands-on application and treatment is an example of energy medicine, which is one of the most widespread of alternative-medicine disciplines, according to Wayne B. Jonas, M.D., former director of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine, now the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Therapeutic touch and acupuncture are the most popular therapies, but others, such as homeopathy and Reiki therapy, are making inroads into the mainstream via complementary or integrative therapy centers at medical schools, hospitals and clinics throughout the country.

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