Healing from the Heart

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian Studies at
Concordia University and an avid outdoor recreationist. She is also the
author of The Mountain Is Moving: Japanese Women’s Lives, Kurlek, and
Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Hom

The authors start with the premise that health is a harmonious balance
between the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of the
self and that healing aims at restoring imbalances. The
author-practitioners find in Christian scripture and liturgy a rich
history of healing. They put forward their beliefs, their ideas, and
their evidence for readers to weigh.

Graham is a physiotherapist as well as a certified healing touch
instructor and practitioner; her focus is Christian healing. Flora Litt
teaches and practises therapeutic touch and meditative practices. Wayne
Irwin, a minister in the United Church, has been active in a healing
ministry for 15 years. Although the authors have different backgrounds
and approaches, all believe that healing practices work. While
collaborating this book, each took a lead role in writing specific
chapters.

These practitioners move easily between theory and practice as they
consider such questions as what is health. (Graham defines health as
“a fluid experience of wholeness, of balance and harmony.”) Topics
covered include the biblical basis for Christian healing, the body’s
wisdom, the power of prayer, and the destructive power of “negative
prayer” or vibrations such as anger or jealousy sent by antagonists.

Healing from the Heart is an impressive exploration of the complex and
deeply important issues of illness and healing.