Healing Images: Connecting with Inner Wisdom

The Sakamaki Lecture Series with Anees A. Sheikh, Marquette University, author of Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in Health

"When I asked Dr. Albert Schweitzer how he accounted for the fact that anyone could possibly expect to become well after having been treated by a witch doctor, he said that I was asking him to divulge a secret that doctors have carried around inside them ever since Hippocrates.

“ 'But I’ll tell you anyway,' he said, his face still illuminated by that half-smile. 'The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason that all of us succeed. Each patient carries his own doctor inside of him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.' ” --- N. Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness (1980), pp 68-69

Mental imagery has occupied an important place in the healing arts of many cultures. In the West, this approach had been relegated to obscurity for a long time, but now once again it is assuming a position of prominence. Many now feel that of all the recent developments in the healing arts, perhaps the most significant one is an increased understanding of the healing potential of imagery, especially its potential to help us connect with our own inner wisdom. It appears that the most effective healer is not in an office but within the psyche of the individual. Imagery has been shown to be an excellent vehicle for accessing our inner healer. Dr. Sheikh provides an understanding of the healing power of imagery through its connection with inner wisdom and shares a number of imagery techniques that have been used successfully for this purpose.

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