Spiritual healing (Harry Edwards, Healing Trust)

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield · Harry Edwards · 1946 · Surrey, England

What it is

Spiritual healing in this tradition is a non-diagnostic, non-invasive complementary practice in which a trained healer, seated or standing beside a fully participating client (in person, by telephone or video, or at a distance), "attunes" to what the Trust calls the Source of Healing and acts as a…

Format

• The Trust does not publish its full session sequence; the phases below follow SFHCNH25, with Trust specifics where published. Session length is not published.
• Feedback and aftercare at the client's pace; clear aftercare information.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Introductory event: prospective students are encouraged to attend a tutor's introductory event to judge fit with that tutor.
• Year 1, Part One "Understanding Energy": what spiritual healing is, what makes a healer, history of healing, chakras, the human energy field, grounding and attunement, self-healing, distant healing.
• Year 1, Part Two "Developing a Professional Approach": breathwork and relaxation, the healing environment, the Code of Conduct, risk assessment, healing with the client seated, client records and GDPR awareness.

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Evidence status (one line). The Trust cites a research compilation; spiritual healing is not an established treatment for any physical or mental disorder, and nothing here presents it as treating cancer or other disease.

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Does it involve intense or unusual breathing? Have you been told about the medical conditions for which that is not advised?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• How do you and the practitioner understand what is happening, in spiritual or cultural terms? Is that a source of comfort, worry, or both?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• : families seeking a cure; the healer's own grief.
• : frailty, fatigue, family pressure on the patient.
• : recording health claims or "energy findings" as if diagnostic.
• : using healing to avoid your own personal therapy or supervision needs.
• : clients delaying medical care; pressure from family; your own wish to help overriding limits.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.