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YOUR MIND AS
YOUR DOCTOR
An Interview with Internationally-Known Healer Sharon Forrest
Printed from Uptown Express Dated April 1991
Forrest quotes the Biblical passage: "The sins
of the parents are born upon the child." "It didn't make sense
to me that God would be an all-punishing god and because your
grandmother maybe had an affair with the iceman or your
grandfather stole somebody's cow that the children and
grandchildren would suffer," she states. Her studies of DNA and
RNA led her to a less literal interpretation of
this Biblical scripture. "It's really whatever issues of
whatever fear and belief were deeply embedded in these people,
then they are
also embedded in their offspring."
Forrest's healing workshops are an interesting
blend of alternative techniques centered around
psychoneuroimmunology, the
power of the mind over the immune system, inner healing, self
empowerment, hands-on-healing, nutrition and spiritual
guidance. One workshop exercise involves visualizing a spoon as
a boiling strand of spaghetti until it bends in the hand.
When it was first suggested that she teach spoon bending,
Forrest rejected the idea. It was OK for the amazing Kreskin,
but she was not interested in introducing sensationalism into
her work. But then she found that what seemed to be a
meaningless stunt was a powerful way for students to get in
touch with the power of their minds. "If we tell people that
with the power of their minds they can make themselves ill or
well," she says, "maybe 10 out of a hundred will believe it."
When the student opens his eyes and sees the spoon in his hand
twisted into coils, it needs no further convincing.
Forrest's ideas about the mind/body connection
are no longer in the mystical realm. Using PET scans and SQUID,
researchers have been able to show that when a person thinks of
anger, a certain part of the brain cortex will activate and
specific chemicals are secreted into the body. Thinking happy,
joyful thoughts causes the release of endorphins and other
beneficial enzymes into the body as another part of the brain is
activated.
Forrest's natural gift as a hands-on healer was
the subject of research at UCLA where researchers were
documenting the energy that comes into her body and affects the
movement of bones in people with scoliosis. She is well-known
for her ability to straighten the bones of victims of this
disease by a touch on the head.
The first most dramatic demonstration of her
healing gift occurred when she was in her late teens. When a
woman severed her thumb with a butcher knife, Forrest pressed
the severed member back into place and said, "Blood stop." She
held the thumb in place all the way to the hospital. When she
released her grip for the doctor to examine the hand, the thumb
was completely healed. The doctors |