This past summer, NBC Bay Area did a segment on The Reconnection. We are delighted that mainstream media is taking an interest in the phenomenon of spontaneous healing, and we are grateful for all the time and effort that the news team put into covering this story. As you will see in the clip below, this segment opens the conversation about whether it is possible to heal in ways that fall outside of conventional means like pharmaceutical and surgical remedies.
While those in the world of alternative medicine may balk at the undertone of disbelief in the clip, we understand and encourage a dose of healthy skepticism. It is true that the alternative health world is primarily unregulated. While this freedom allows one to explore the possibilities of health outside of a rigid model, and while we believe that freedom is a good thing, it also can backfire when practitioners make false claims – which in turn can exploit patients who are desperate for a cure and willing to pay anything for it.
We get it.
The key, we believe, is developing the power of discernment – utilizing one’s intelligence, intuition, and inquiry, to verify whether a claim is true. In addition, we believe that one must use this power of discernment not only when it comes to the holistic health industry but also when it comes to conventional medicine, which has its own trappings of false promises and financial exploitations.
As part of our new blog launch, we are springboarding off this NBC clip — panning the lens wider and taking this conversation deeper, through posing the following three questions for discussion:
- What is healing?
- What is the litmus test for knowing that a treatment is effective?
- How can you tell if a healer is authentic?
Kahndi
Dr. Pearl,
I am grateful you are using this platform to expand the discussion about Reconnective Healing and encouraging the skeptics to use their own discernment.
Love and Gratitude,
Kahndi
Diane Sommer
After many years of suffering my healing was not overnight, is also continuing, however I have had constant improvements, considering how normal gp just want to shove prescriptions onto you! as they have targets to meet! cant get rid of you quick enough if you dear question them! I am positive most conventional medical people are feeling threatened as more people are turning to natural remedies. With longer lasting positive results. WITHOUT the side effects
Nevena
Healing looks like a journey into the distant past and back to the future, while healing we are stepping into finding out who we are… Healing is the joy of creation, the moment when the raindrops merge with the ocean … the moment when a raindrop extends into the ocean….
Bethani
It’s so vital just to get the truth of energy healing to as many people as possible so all will know that we are all energy healers, and so this interview is invaluable in that way. Viewers who are ready will respond. Hopefully, other healers and energy workers will also be interviewed, and obviously, people who have been healed by you and them, or by themselves, energetically.
If NBC is going to state that healings have been claimed, why didn’t they talk to the people who have been healed? And their doctors? The piece is unsatisfactory in that way. Poor follow up on the part of the network and the whole report is based on hearsay.
Ginger
I think the questioning is great! Media attention will bring more and more of the truth to light. I’d love to see some main stream media types interview some of the scientist who have researched this! It’s a start or rather a restart in the states. Good to see.
Sarah Ziegler
Hello,
I am Sarah Ziegler and I never went to any seminar of “The Reconnection”, but I have made my own exploration according health and being in balance. I experienced through light and soft movements, Yoga and Ayurveda, that you can heal yourself. For me is health a balance between body, mind and soul, too. And when I move and massage people, I discovered great things, the movements get softer, lighter and the body got more relaxed through less movements.
After a couple of this experiences, I got inspired of the twin heart meditation and I used this energy to make positive shifts in others. People got really happy after my massage and movements, I think it does not matter how you call your way to be there for others, your intentions towards anybody are important. My intentions are love and that is the most important thing in life. Love has the strongest power to make a different in your own life and others. Love brings my soul, body and mind in balance. It is more worth as any chocolate box. I think we do need more people, who like to share their own creative being with others and the base of it is love, patience and acceptance.
When I am truly in the moment I am happy, because I did share my love.
Rodrigo Gutierrez
El doctor Eric Pearl en estos años ha dedicado su tiempo a ser el profesor que se sentó en un peldaño de la escalera de sus metas con un cojín y una manta (la que tanto critico en su propio libro)
Ragnheidur Juliusdottir
Healing means the world to me.
Sveinbjörg Eyvindsdóttir
An honest healer is open about what he is doing and what he knows about it. He doesn’t feel the need to defend himself or falls into traps designed by aggressive media attack.
Jane
Eric,
Don’t listen to this nonsense; let them count how much money you make, let them talk about you; this is your “MARKETING”.
Continue doing your job, people love that you have to offer, so THIS PART is the most important. They are talking about regulations….my advice is to ignore it, and if possible in a future avoid this kind of interviews (this is your choice). Refuse to give an interview if you suspect or have intuition that they are going to talk about how much money you make or that RECONNECTIVE HEALING hasn’t been regulated.
Please be strong and continue doing your job. Remember always how many people around this world grateful to you, this is priceless.
Thank you
Jane
Eliza James
In laymen’s terms Healing is an improvement (subtle or drastic or complete) of an ailment to the point where the sufferer feels better or complete again.
With regards to Litmus test – With RH both the practitioner and the client feels, experiences, knows that something has happened. One might not be able to put it into words, but true reflection on the session quickens the heartbeat again, brings the experience back and strengthens the knowing. For both parties – there is no need of proof.
Authenticity is something that shines through from within – it is reflected by the practitioner and FELT by the client. One cannot prove authenticity or intention – one can only prove results. When the intention is sincere, GOD draws near – it just is so.
Tim Emerson
I have a “healthy does of skepticism” about what passes for “investigative reporting” these days. A college student could have learned what she’s gathered here with a few phone calls. Yet, the key point, her doubt about healing, was never investigated–what about the people healed of far more than the ability to raise their arms over their heads? Surely they’d have been happy to share. But that she never covers–and that would have been meaningful reporting.
Tim Emerson
I have a “healthy does of skepticism” about what passes for “investigative reporting” these days. A college student could have learned what she’s gathered here with a few phone calls. Yet, the key point, her doubt about healing, was never investigated–what about the people healed of far more than the ability to raise their arms over their heads? Surely they’d have been happy to share. But that she never covers–and that would have been meaningful reporting.
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SERGIO CABELLO
About the first question “What is healing?”, I think the healing must be a complete body experience, not just with the physical body but with the mental, emotional and spiritual body. That´s what Reconective healing does instead of making the convencional medicine.
Cindy Okumura
When I attend the Level I/II & III seminar I was overly delighted to see that this is NOT a “cult” with crazy people looking to find the next fad and guru. I met physicians, psychologists, people from NASA, educators, scientists, etc. When I chatted with people I found that we all have a common thread in that we are all compelled to do this work. It’s sad that the media carefully orchestrates the stories they would like us to hear. They may try a releasing a story on the actual research.
Theresa
I agree with Tim. I think the interview was short sited. I was referred to a Reconnective Healing Practitioner by my M.D., and had a dramatic healing after two sessions. The exhaustion I had been experiencing for over a year completed lifted and my sleep improved. Nothing I had tried previously to RH (including alternative and convention treatments) worked or had lasting results. It is important to note that results vary and depend on the person, and may look different than what the client anticipates. For instance, someone can be dying and have a healing that allows them to reconcile with a family member and pass more peacefully. Were they cured? No. Did they have a healing? Yes.
Healing is a return to balance and restores us to a place of wholeness. We may have the “cure” we want, as I did or our healing may look completely different. Fortunately, there are many physicians who now support alternative medicine. I am grateful mine does!
Alexandra Mundt
Hi!
I like the questions!
Healing for me is an underlying force in life that brings you back to source, where there is only wholeness. Everything you encounter in life is meant to heal you. There is no random effect, no coincidence. An underlying loving force guides you gently back.
Problem: we do not always remember, struggle and want to go into another direction. That´s when we feel, it is not gentle at all…and maybe even not for our best. It´s about to learn to trust in this source again.
What I like about reconnective healing is, that you just do this. Connect to the source and trust.
There are no “techniques” or “regulations” to live a life either.
And the source will help you. It will always help, but the more you trust, the more it helps. At least that´s my experience.
Is there a litmus test for a successful healing ? I don´t think so. This would mean, that we could know the meaning of everything and that´s not possible.
An authentic healer: I think the more you trust in the source the more you become authentic. So at least that could be some kind of litmus test for a healer! (-:
Thank you.
Konstantinidis Leonidas
Healing is a personal fact during our life and is very difficult to explain to others what happened. Sometimes there are some clear evidences (x-rays … etc) before and after the healing…AND still there are people that don’t believe the results…like in the NBC film above…The hands of the person were positioned differently than at the end, so it was easier….
)) If that person doesn’t believe the results then i would expect MORE in depth investigation by NBC of the healed person and look for evidence….Don’t look on an ipad the healing session and have a conclusion. GO IN THE SEMINAR, if you are sure for your self. Don’t spread the doubts and then you stop the investigations…If NBC wants to be HONEST with ALL of us FINISH your investigation… you might LEARN something NEW that medicines have limits… 
. OTHERWISE you have MADE a HOLE in the DEEP WATER…. ERIC pls ignore them and CONTINUE WHAT YOU ARE DOING BECAUSE YOU BRING LIGHT INTO THIS PLANET… 
Claudia
“Maybe the truth does it’s own marketing!” How comfortable can one be! Love it!!
Sue Wileniec
Once you own these frequencies, there is no turning back. You begin to evolve in unimaginable ways, connecting you to the Divine within. It truly is possible to experience heaven on earh, even during these accelerated days of chaos. All answers are within us to discover. I believe that those who discredit this work are being kept at a lower frequency. To bring in the issue of greed is frequency control…fear, lack and limitation. Love, light, prosperity, oneness, wholeness, knowingness, Divine beings of love and light with dignity, purpose and direction all go against frequency control! Prepare for the chaos to come and keep bringing light to all who will let you! We can make a difference! We are co-creators of our future. As a species, we will either evolve or face extinction. There are many who are assisting us. We are so much more powerful than we could ever imagine!
Jennifer Gonzales
I was introduced to Reconnective Healing many years before I had a shift that allowed me to be open to the possibility of it being real. The Universe kept working though to create the perfect environment for me to finally be accepting of the possibility of healing.
In 5 short months, I have not only experienced incredible healings of mind, body, & soul, but have also had the honor of becoming a practitioner so that I may also share this modality of healing with friends & family.
I firmly believe, that when the Universe says the time is right for the individual, their shift will come and the skepticism will fade just as mine did.