How to use telepathy to project healing energy

Armchair Travel to Heal the Planet

Review by Heather Mendel

Armchair Travel to Heal the Planet
by Kathy Bornino
Aventine Press (January 29, 2010)
240 pages

At last! Kathy Bornino shows her readers how to move beyond the distressed helplessness we all feel when we consider the political and natural tragedies that plague our planet. We may not have sufficient time or the money to fittingly contribute to relief efforts everywhere, but with this book, we still can support healing and conflict resolution through a process of meditative imaging, which Bornino labels "armchair travel." Intentionality, telepathy, empathy and distant healing are woven together with the power of images in a Jung-flavored exploration of cross cultural imagery, derived from the author's twenty-five years as a psychotherapist and her travels in many global hotspots, including China, Cambodia, the Amazon Rain Forest, Germany, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Israel, Turkey and Afghanistan.

And change is happening. Women in Liberia band together to hold insistent prayer vigils that bring warring parties to the negotiating table. Thich Nhat Hahn spreads healing by teaching the value of meditating for peace and doing simple imagery exercises for healing. Rwandans are now learning that through the positive use of imagery in the media, violence abates.

Imagery has power for the receiver as well as the sender. Instead of feeling greatly distressed after listening to the nightly news, 'armchair travelers' learn to respond constructively, generating positive physiological conditions in their own bodies such as health-enhancing heart waves and brain waves, which correlate with improved immune response, lowered blood pressure, cholesterol and stress hormones and better mood.

Readers may still choose to become activists by supporting relief efforts in causes that touch their hearts, but will be in better shape to do so after reading this inspiring book. 


Heather Mendel
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