Who and Where: The Healer Within in Various Contexts
Every Citizen
Doctors Other types of health care practitioners: It is envisioned that all the diverse health care provider professions will instruct, encourage and inspire people to practice the health enhancement and self-healing methods in all of the diverse environments where health care services are delivered, both to individuals and groups.
Nurses
Mental Health: psychologists, counselors and family therapists
Health Educators
Hospitals
Health Agencies
Social Agencies
Schools
Churches, synagogues and temples
Businesses and corporations
Communities
Self-help groups
Every citizen of every nation has a remarkable healer within. Each person has the capacity to produce powerful medicines within their own body, mind, spirit interaction. It is the vision and intention of those who foster the "Healer Within" internet site and the publishers of "Healer Within" books, tapes and trainings to support all members of the human family in understanding the value of simple health enhancement and self-healing methods. We are committed to helping these methods become as common in peoples lives as eating, drinking, bathing and resting.
In our new era of well-being based health care and medicine all physicians and health care providers will honor the "Healer Within". It is intended that this be true whether he or she is a primary care provider or a specialty provider, whether in the conventional tradition of Western medicine or the complementary traditions of Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Naturopathic, Homeopathic, Chinese medicine or Ayurvedic medicine. It is envisioned that all people - old or young, sick or well - be encouraged and educated to use self-applied health enhancement methods to sustain and improve health, to complement and enhance medical treatment and to create optimal performance and productivity.
massage practitioners, hypnosis instructors, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists
The nursing community (including medical nurses, prenatal nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse counselors, nursing educators, parish nurses) is one of the strongest, most obvious communities that embraces the values of the "Healer Within". It is envisioned that nurses will take every opportunity to use the self-applied health enhancement methods (SAHEM) in their own lives and share them with their patients, as well as their families.
It has been found that activating the "Healer Within" is one of the most powerful tools in contexts where personal improvement is the goal. With both single clients and groups the health enhancement and self-healing methods will support the helping professionals in the mental health community to potentiate positive behavioral and emotional change in their clientele. The "Healer Within" type methods are particularly useful to begin and end group counseling sessions.
In clinical settings and in wellness or health promotion programs in business, education, the military, etc., health educators find that the "Healer Within" methods are powerful tools for healing and performance enhancement. Health educators are particularly important players in the well-being based health care system that is emerging. It is envisioned that health educators will not only foster the "Healer Within" ideals but also encourage all citizens to educate, share and inform each other - friends, co-workers and family members.
As it becomes obvious that the most important medicine is produced in the human body, hospitals become one of the most likely facilities through which programs in the self-applied health enhancement methods (SAHEM) are being implemented. Foresightful medical providers, hospital executives and members of the board of trustees will carefully weave the "Healer Within" methodologies into hospital programming for both the public and the hospital staff for health promotion and work with targeted risk groups
Foundations, associations and societies that are aligned with various diagnostic challenges embrace the self-healing methods - heart, lung, cancer, MS, diabetes, Parkinson's, HIV/AIDS, addiction, arthritis, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, etc. These agencies have become enthusiatic supporters of community practice sessions. Well-being based programs which include the health enhancement methods are becoming commonplace in these agencies. It is envisioned that collaboration among agencies that were formerly forced to act exclusively, due to the specific and unique nature of the diagnoses of their clients, shall become typical rather than unique.
Agencies that are associated with family services, the justice system and other social issues will use the health enhancement practices as a first step toward overall self-reliance. Teaching the self-applied health enhancement methods (SAHEM) to anyone who is attempting to empower his or her self or to anyone in a program where self-reliance is a preferred outcome is an inexpensive, behaviorally based method for fostering more empowered clients.
When health self-reliance is woven into a person's behavioral nature as a child it is the most likely to be used throughout one's whole life span. Teachers and administrators will recognize quickly that the self-applied health enhancement methods (SAHEM) are useful in numerous contexts: academic improvement, special programming for developmentally challenged students, behavioral modification with discipline problems, mentoring opportunities, health improvement teams and after school programming. When children with ADD type behaviors use the practices (adapted for kids), in brief, planned SAHEM sessions throughout the day, their brain function is modified and their behaviors are positively altered.
The concept of the health ministry is in a powerful renaissance. The healing ministry of our various spiritually based communities is becoming very dynamic after a long historic period of deferring the healing mission to the medical profession. The activities of spiritual groups are particularly conducive to the self-healing and health enhancement methods. Both parish nursing and general health ministry programs are among the strongest proponents of the "Healer Within" movement.
In the business and corporate context health enhancement may also portrayed as effectiveness enhancement, productivity enhancement or a process of continuous personal improvement. The continuous quality improvement (CQI) concept creates a ready made opening for both individual and team based improvement. Simple methods for sustaining health and managing personal energy contribute to health cost reduction and performance enhancement and are becoming the next wave of improvement strategies.
When the individual communities that make up a nation or even a global community are healthy, productive and creative it assures the greatest vitality and innovation, which in turn assures the greatest abundance and peace. The health enhancement and self-healing methods are powerful tools that may be used in diverse settings throughout the community to create optimal possibilities in that community.
Health enhancement and self-healing are the foundation of most self help groups in addition to gaining knowledge and coping skills. The "Healer Within" methods are used by many self-help study and support groups to begin and conclude their gatherings. A self-help revolution is occurring. The old model of helping people to understand the availability of medical services is shifting to a new model where self-reliance and quality of life enhancement are the primary goals.
