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Lessons on Becoming a Healer

With their kindness and patience, they taught me that helping the soul to heal while also helping the body to recover at the same time, can bring my patients to a deeper level of healing.

It has always been a dream of mine to bring chiropractic care to the world. My dream came true in December 2009. I, along with 8 other chiropractors, journeyed to Dheradun, India to serve the Tibetan refugees. I went with the purpose of bringing quality care to a population whose culture had been completely destroyed. Being my first trip out of the country, I had no clue what to expect, yet I was hopeful to make an impact. After spending two weeks serving this community (3 Tibetan elder homes and one Tibetan orphanage) I realized that their culture left more of an impact on me, than I could have ever given to them!

Before I went on this mission trip I was very focused on the physical body and it's function. Being a chiropractor, my work is incredibly physical and my patients come to me with physical complaints. In general, I have found our society as a whole is very focused on our physical bodies wether it be our appearance, how we feel, our weight, etc. The Tibetans on the other hand, have very little awareness of their physical condition and instead live in a much more enlightened and spiritual state. They do not let the limitations of their physical body hinder them at all and they spend most of their day in prayer. 

It was such an honor for me to have the opportunity to bring a bit of physical awareness to this population. In return they taught me how to become a true healer. With their kindness and patience, they taught me that helping the soul to heal while also helping the body to recover at the same time, can bring my patients to a deeper level of healing. I now incorporate the lessons that they have taught me into every one of my patient visits!

Kristofer Noceda (Editor) January 15, 2013 at 05:25 pm
Thanks for sharing, Kristin. I look forward to reading more of your posts.
Tom January 15, 2013 at 05:30 pm
A fine uplifting article for a change. Thank you and good luck!
Leonard Vinci January 16, 2013 at 04:05 pm
Oh my...Thank you for warning me in advance. When I throw my back out or I have pain in my shoulder, I will go to my Chiropractor in Danville and not a Faith healer.
Steve January 16, 2013 at 09:42 pm
Blah blah blah
Leonard Vinci January 17, 2013 at 12:12 am
Steve...very intelligent statement. I'm assuming there is a message in your statement or was that comment from your new born child?
Steve wake-up...little Steve is trying to say more.
Robin Barben January 18, 2013 at 10:46 am
Kirstin, It's nice to see your compassion and dedication to healing the public. I also have discovered the healing power of prayer. One of the things prayer does for me is to help me listen to of listening and figure out what is going on when I am having pain, or some kind of ailment. Often pain and sickness signals a need for change, and prayer helps me to tune in and get to the root of the problem by pointing me to the changes needed. Without changing, illness and stress can reoccur, and the cost of treating symptoms repeatedly can be expensive. I think for anyone in the healthcare industry, adding prayer, is like adding a whole new box of tools. For me prayer has been been crucial in my relationship to wellness, because my health isn't something that just happens to me, it's something I participate in.
Leonard Vinci January 18, 2013 at 03:09 pm
Hello Robin, Very Interesting comment. I wish you and others that feel the same as you all the best now and into the future. Prayer can be a great relaxer of stress and other emotional issues...But I would still consider a little western medicine as a supplemental remedy for physical hurts. Bless you....
Robin Barben January 18, 2013 at 04:00 pm
Yes, everyone has to do what they are comfortable with. I would never want to dissuade someone from doing what they are doing to stay healthy if it’s working. But for me prayer isn't simply words that I utter in hopes of getting better, but it rather describes my ability to stay connected (or reconnect) and be sustained by the natural wellness of my own being, which is a spiritual component.
Prayer is my connection to this spiritual component, which has helped me to be completely free of pneumonia, and a break in my kneecap without having to suffer the trauma of side effects from medication, or invasive surgery. I guess the challenge for everyone is to be able to move as quickly as we can out of dysfunction in the body and mind, no matter what form it takes. Prayer just has always helped me to do that faster. I am happy you have something you can trust. We all need that.
Barbara January 18, 2013 at 04:45 pm
She most deffinately has the gift from her SOUL it isn't just healing it is exactly as she discribed. I have the ability to help others (WE) dont heal we teach. and share. Great article hope to see more and other people pay close attention to the GIFT God has aloud us to have. My ability has been confirmed by and seen by other's such as two physicians that praise me and validate my gift. We dont cure we heal the soul and mind. As they both ask me a specific question KRISTEN . How did I feel as a child AND how was I with animals. GOOD question. Animals is where I discovered my gift which confused me over the years something wrong. Well I thank God every day . Kristen I respect your courage to share, I am always reluctant to do so, thinking most people would look at me as (wackey) I'm not. I am in the process of wanting to learn more and share my gift with those who need it. I am researching how to touch those who need it. My hands are the healing point they get very hot, people can feel it. Good work just trust, all of you out there. Doesn't hurt, cant hurt so try it you may be surprised.
Barbara January 18, 2013 at 04:51 pm
Robin, very true the sperit is what we all need to believe in. Prayer is priority in my life.
and believing that God uses many of us as a vessel. Hope you agree.
Barbara January 18, 2013 at 04:56 pm
Leonard I certainly dont think you read the article correctly. Kristin isn't advocating she is a FAITH healer she has received knowledge from a culture that we all should believe is possible. HOW CAN IT HURT ANYONE? Your hands are your gift and your knowledge. She isn't operating on anyone, she is touching. THINK about it.
Robin Barben January 19, 2013 at 11:16 am
Yes Barbara, and Spirit includes things like learning to give and accept love. It includes our outlook on life and our attitudes, Spirit includes how we gain the inspiration to express more of our intelligence and even to surpass physical limitations that we never thought we could, like running a marathon for the first time, or overcoming a fear that allows you to try something totally new. There's more to overcoming disease than just fixing the body, because illness is linked with the fears that paralyze our ability to take action and our ability to handle stress. Illness is also linked to our beliefs, (remember the placebo effect?) Reading people's accounts of life after surviving cancer for instance, will reveal a greater capacity to enjoy and appreciate the moment, a greater ability to participate in life, and a greater ability to recognize the love in their relationships. These are all attitudes and aspects that can be seen as spiritual but are very practical components of health and wellness. For me, prayer in my dialogue and communion with things like inspiration, love, and hope, so that I don't have to survive an illness to find them later. Prayer, and contemplation on spiritual things like love, helps me to see who I really want to be, and then it gives me the courage and strength to be it. And yes Barbara, I do believe the source of Love, intelligence, inspiration and hope and all things spiritual, to be God. .
Rich Buckley January 19, 2013 at 01:37 pm
Kristin's approach makes sense to me.... follow what works... with an open mind... I admire her professional approach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM4MlZOIpyc&feature=youtube_gdata_player As a member of Kaiser, I find this is even Kaiser's new mantra. 
Robin Barben January 19, 2013 at 02:39 pm
I admire Kristin's approach as well and her compassion, her vision and her courage. Thanks for the link, Rich, it's nice to see a more open approach to wellness is already happening in the mainstream medical arena.
Barbara January 19, 2013 at 05:07 pm
Leonard I agree with your obsovation of MR STEVE good reply
Barbara
Rich Buckley January 19, 2013 at 05:09 pm
I caught Gregg Bradon's presentation some months ago and have heard nothing else since:
http://youtu.be/GUbEgg6GklU I am very interested in consciousness studies, healing techniques, spiritual attitudes, the power of love, compassion, forgiveness, placebo effect and for the past few years have been drawn towards learning their use in service to the power for good. If this world is to be saved, it will likely be in no small measure linked to this transformative energy in the hearts of so many of us.
Robin Barben January 19, 2013 at 07:01 pm
I watched the video you sent and I loved this remark Gregg made: "It's only a miracle until we understand the science, then it becomes a powerful internal technology." That's a great way to say it. I have studied this science and have been healed many times by understanding even a little of it. For me, the science is a spiritual understanding of man's natural wholeness and perfection. Seekers and healers everywhere touch on this all the time. But until it's seen as a science that already exists, it can be illusive. I think its a science if it's provable over and over. But you are so right! The consciousness of love heals and brings us into health, (as shown by the healing of a knee injury in the first link.) And consequently, it is the consciousness of fear that diminishes health, (as shown by the second link.) Both links shows examples of overcoming fear, and through a new consciousness, finding healing. (The examples of healing in the second one are largely in the comment section below the article. ) Good to talk with you Rich. Thanks for the links. I love seeing how seekers everywhere are connecting with the consciousness of love, no matter if we call it waves, energy, consciousness, or spirit.
http://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/hs68zk9crs?s=e http://lissarankin.com/the-nocebo-effect-how-negative-thoughts-can-harm-your-health
Rich Buckley January 19, 2013 at 11:58 pm
Barbara, 
You seem to have accepted your beautiful healing gift as your purpose. Be strong. Please look over a nonprofit website I serve on and email me your comments. I would be very interested in anything you have to say on the subject. My email is Buckley.Rich@gmail.com  Our website link is www.PeaceAndConflictResolution.Org.  Please take special note of the page listed on the side-bar we are developing labeled: "Healers Prayer Chain"

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