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The ABCs of Healing

Summer Renewal and
the ABCs of Spiritual Healing

"Practice your ABCs and Face, Embrace and Replace often," Apollon says. "They are the tools that lead to healing."

If you're thinking it all sounds a bit too touchy-feely for you, don't. Apollon says these spiritual healing techniques work, even if you're a cynic. Feeling good is your birthright. Indeed, you've probably experienced the essence of spiritual healing at some point in your life – when you're so immersed in a project that you lose all sense of time and place, for instance, or when you're with friends or family and feel a surge of joy and gratitude and "rightness."

"Spiritual healing is often experienced as a state of harmony, balance, greater well-being and joyfulness," Apollon says. "Athletes call it 'the zone.' It is an awareness that in our being authentic and unconditionally loving, we are in a sense able to connect with all others who are experiencing the same thing. Being at peace and authentic, we can and do align with the same energy of others, drawing this equally balanced energy to us. And that's when we start to get the life we long for on a deep 'soul' level."