The Need For - Life Healing Community

Natural healing is the oldest form of treatment known. Three out of four people around the world rely on natural healing. It is believed that the body can heal itself when the right environment is provided. We create and maintain this environment at Life Healing Community. As trends in health are changing, so are the behaviors of those who seek health care. Current studies indicate that many people throughout the world are searching for alternatives to their traditional medical care to treat illness. Recent studies have shown that greater than 60% of people in the United States are seeking and utilizing complementary and alternative therapies such as Reiki, herbal medicine, and Mind ? Body Medicine) along with conventional medical treatments. (Eisenberg, DM, Davis, RB, Ettner, SL, Appel, S, Wilkey, S, Van Rompay M, and Kessler, RC. (1998). Trends in alternative medicine use in the United States, 1990-1997: results of a follow-up national survey. Journal of the American Medical Association, 280(18):1569-75.)

The majority of those who use complementary medicine are those with chronic medical conditions such as cancer, HIV/AIDS. It is believed that one reason people seek complimentary alternative medicine therapies is dissatisfaction with conventional medical care, alternatively it may be to enhance medical care. (Eisenberg, DM, Kessler, RC, Van Rompay, MI, Kaptchuk, TJ, Wilkey, SA, Appel, S, and Davis, RB. (2001). Perceptions about complementary therapies relative to conventional therapies among adults who use both: results from a national survey. Annals of Internal Medicine, 135(5): 344-51.)

A New Sphere of Healing

Historically, the sphere of biology and medicine has only encompassed medications, treatments and surgery as the correct approach to the treatment of disease. Spiritual methods and alternative or complementary methods of healing fall outside this core model and are not made readily available to the public.

We believe that a new more encompassing model must be realized: where self healing and a healthy style of living are central to a person?s own well being and where the role of the environment is seen as having an impact on one?s own healing process. Life Healing Community demonstrates the role of environment to each visitor and provides a blueprint of the ideal lifestyle for mental, emotional and spiritual healing. In this new model, medications and surgery take a more peripheral role in the healing process and complementary therapies are taught and experienced as an alternative way to produce and maintain a healthy mind and body.

The results of the teachings and healings at Life Healing Community also deserve scientific attention and evaluation to bring this new model of healing to every human being and our own research facilities continue to document the healings that take place at Life Healing Community. We hope to be a front runner in establishing this new model of health care: where education and self empowerment become central to the modern day healing process.