WHERE THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE MEETS THE ART OF HEALING 

Professor Karol Sikora is one of the country's top cancer specialists and I work as a healer. We've known each other for about 35 years ever since he invited me to talk about my work to his medical students at the Hammersmith Hospital in the 1980s. He'd been impressed by what I'd been able to do for a number of his patients. 

As a result of our loose collaboration over the decades he's introduced me to many other wonderful consultants who are supportive of healing. I frequently send my patients to them either for treatment that is maybe not available in their part of the country, or for a second opinion. 

I recently saw a lady who'd just been diagnosed with a tumour in her tongue. Her local oncology team recommended fairly radical surgery that was potentially life-changing. I felt she needed to have an urgent second opinion but didn't know who to recommend. I emailed Karol who responded within in an hour. 

48 hours later, my patient had an appointment in London with a leading oral cancer surgeons. Sadly, he concurred with her local medical team and she really doesn't have any other medical option than radical surgery. But, we tried - and often there is a more positive outcome. 

This is how healing and orthodox medicine should work. My role is not an 'alternative' to medicine but as something to complement it. Doctors can do things for my patients that I can't dream of - but sometimes healers can do something they can't. 

At the end of his email to me last week, Karol mentioned a young woman that we both treat. Three years ago she was suffering from Stage 4 breast cancer but for some time she's been completely clear. "A PET-CT scan carried out last week shows she is disease free," he told me. "She needs to get away from all of us and get a life, go travelling, have a torrid love affair - anything but dwelling on her breast cancer and seeing endless specialists! Easy to say but difficult to do." 

His comments made me smile for days and I've used them here with her consent. All of us believe her success story is down to a joint effort. 

In the Introduction to my book, The Healing Journey, Karol Sikora wrote: "Matthew has a remarkable track record of working at the interface between body and soul. His knowledge is outstanding in both breadth and detail." If Karol ever asked me to return the favour I would say exactly the same thing about him. It's what makes him a healing doctor and me a medical healer. 

 That would be my vision for the future of healing - a situation where we work alongside orthodox medicine for the sole purpose of helping the patient.

TESTIMONIALS

In May 2013, Caroline sent me an anguished email about her 55-year-old husband, who’d just been diagnosed with bowel cancer that had spread to his liver, asking me to send distant healing.

“He is in Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge having just recovered from a severe kidney infection which is why they found the cancer,” she wrote. “Some years ago, you made a friend of mine just magically better.”

On 1 July 2013, she then emailed an extraordinary update:

“Six weeks ago you sent my husband distant healing and something most unusual has happened. His kidneys recovered, the primary tumour was removed by surgery, but on reexamination of the liver secondary with a view to chemotherapy or further surgery, it was found to have shrunk from 16cm to 8cm.
“He has had no chemotherapy so far, nor any other medication that could account for this, and his consultant, Dr Charles Wilson, who has heard of you and is an admirer of your work, gave me a copy of the scan results as he thought you would like to see them.”

A couple of weeks ago Caroline messaged me again to add someone else to my distant healing list. Not having heard from her for 11 years, I was curious to know about her husband’s eventual outcome.

“The tumour completely disappeared from the scan but the surgeon said he was sure it was there anyway and wanted to operate. He went ahead and found nothing whatsoever, except gallstones so they removed his gallbladder. The liver tissue was analysed and there was no cancer - not even any dead cancer,” she explained.
“It was a medical mystery and my husband was quite famous at Addenbrookes for a time after that. 11 years on he is looking forward to his retirement!”

It gives me pleasure when one of my patients is described as a ‘medical mystery’, but even more pleasure to know that all those years later they are still well.

“I ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT BE WHERE I AM TODAY WITHOUT YOU” 

Natasha Baker sweetly left this post on my Facebook timeline the other day - it was an old press cutting that I didn’t have. There’s a lovely story behind her words of gratitude. 

Thirty years ago, when she was just 14-months-old, her mother Lorraine found her paralysed one morning when she went to her cot. “She was like a rag doll. She couldn’t speak or even lift her head off the pillow,” she recalled. 

Natasha was eventually diagnosed as suffering from transverse myelitis, an inflammation in her spine that affected her nerve endings. Doctors could only offer some physiotherapy but had no treatment. 

“I felt there must be something more that could be done and in February 1992, I took Natasha to see Matthew. He put his hands on her back and within five minutes her legs started jumping around. We went once a month and Natasha’s condition improved every time,” said her mother. 

During one healing session I remember suddenly jumping as I moved my hands over Natasha’s knees. It felt as if an electric current had passed through me - but the next day she was able to pedal her bike which she’d previously been unable to do. 

Later, Natasha had four sessions with me over two days. Afterwards she was able to walk unaided the length of her school hall all by herself during a Nativity play. From such a bleak prognosis earlier in the year, her parents were understandably thrilled. 

Ten years ago she wrote to say what a huge difference the healing sessions had made to her life. “Mum and Dad are convinced that I would not be as independent as I now am had it not been for you,” she said. 

“I grew up on a farm and horses have been a huge part of my life. I started riding at my local Riding for the Disabled Association when I was eight years old and have progressed into an international Para Dressage rider.” 

Natasha was left with a lack of strength in her legs so she trains her horses to respond to her voice and to movements she can make in the saddle. She is now a 6-time Gold Medal Paralympic Equestrian Champion and 4-time European champion who has set new Paralympic records. 

Natasha was awarded an MBE in 2013 for services to equestrianism, and an OBE in this year’s New Years Honours, also for services to equestrianism.

SOME WONDERFUL STORIES OF HEALING

September 2022....... 

We receive so much wonderful and inspiring feedback from people who have had personal healing sessions with me, have been to my healing circles - or simply been on my distant healing list. 

These are just three messages received in the past days … 

“I have just returned from the hospital where, as you know, I was due to have an injection in my eye. My pressures are now within correct levels and there has been considerable improvement in my retina - to the extent that they didn’t carry out the injection procedure. The doctor was very pleased and is booking me in for another scan in six to eight weeks time.” 
 

“Mike spoke to his nephrologist this morning as he has not had a blood transfusion since June. Previously he was having two units of blood each week. His haemoglobin is currently at 76. The consultant said that if he doesn’t require transfusions or have any seizures between now and Christmas, we can look at the transplant list in the New Year.” 

“After your healing circle in July, I had a healing experience that may not be dramatic - but it was sure and accountable. I have wet macular degeneration, a condition where you can lose your sight without treatment. But attending the circle slowly removed the dark shadows that appeared in my vision in the evening and morning light. Previously I could not see through them. 

“But they slowly became smaller and almost invisible and are now almost gone. At the assessment I recently attended, I read ten more letters with my left eye and three more with the right eye than at the previous assessment. The medical profession only promise that they may be able to arrest the condition, not improve or cure it.”

“MY ONCOLOGIST HAS DISCHARGED ME FROM HER CLINIC”: A FANTASTIC STORY OF HEALING FROM A WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT 

One of my last pre-lockdown workshops was held in October, 2019, for a small group in a beautiful venue that stands literally on the beach in Porthallow, Cornwall. We had a wonderful time and numerous friendships were forged that weekend. 

People attend workshops for different reasons: some want to learn to develop their own healing abilities, some are drawn because they are ill and in need of healing, and a few join out of curiosity. 

As part of the workshop experience I always do a healing demonstration - participants are curious to see how I work and the energy is palpable. That weekend I chose to work with Brigette. Whilst sometimes there is an immediate and clearly visible result, occasionally it’s only later that I get to learn the outcome. 

“I just wanted to share with you some awesome news,” Brigette wrote yesterday. “In 2019 I was diagnosed with (secondary) incurable cancer. I had previously had breast cancer in 2018 for which I’d had surgery. I saw you in Cornwall at the healing retreat and was chosen by you for a healing demonstration. 

“Since then, I’ve been having every test and scan possible. It’s obviously been a stressful time for me and my family. 

“Today I received the news that the lesions in my spine are definitely benign and my oncologist has discharged me from her clinic. I just want to thank you for the part you played in my journey and to let you know (but you already do 😆) how positive intent, and healing truly works. Gratitude and love.” 

You may have been at the Porthallow workshop that weekend and remember my healing demonstration so it’s wonderful to learn of the positive outcome just over two years later. 

(Because of filming commitments, I’ve got no further workshops scheduled although I am holding regular healing circles this year.)

AN “SOS” FOR DISTANT HEALING 

On Saturday night I received a desperate request for distant healing from a subscriber to the Healing Community pages of my website. Less 48 hours later she sent this wonderful update. 

“Thank you so much for the distant healing you sent my Mum. Her recovery has been miraculous. 

“She’s 80-years-old and on Saturday night was rushed to hospital with a blinding headache, nausea so bad she was unable to move, and blood pressure at over 200 on both the systolic and diastolic readings. She had previously beaten kidney cancer so only has one remaining kidney and it wasn’t working properly. 

“The doctors discovered her sodium levels were dangerously low and were concerned she was having a stroke. I spent over six hours with her on A&E, only leaving after you’d started to send her distant healing. 

“On Sunday morning I was utterly amazed to find her smiling and sitting in a chair when I returned to the hospital. Her blood pressure had dropped back into the normal range, she’d been able to eat and drink - and her blood tests came back with near-normal readings. Her headache was now a gentle discomfort and she could move without being sick! 

“How on earth can someone go from that awful state on Saturday night, to be sitting up chatting and smiling the next morning. It’s utterly unbelievable and there’s no way that sort of recovery could have happened without the healing you sent her. 

“Yesterday morning (Monday) I received a phone call from the hospital saying she could go home.” 

It’s fantastic to receive such wonderful feedback and, as I always say, healing works beyond our understanding of time and space.

HEALING, A VANISHING LUNG TUMOUR, AND A CONFUSED CONSULTANT! 

One of the rewards of my work is the wonderful feedback that I so often receive. A few days ago a lady sent a remarkable account of her husband’s experience after he had been on my distant healing list. 

“I would just like to say thank you. I asked for healing for my husband’s lung cancer. The specialist phoned today to say that it had disappeared. My husband had been for a full scan and that was the result so, thank you. I cannot share this on your public page as our children were not aware,” she wrote. “The consultant was rather confused and said that cancer just doesn’t do that.” 

I was curious as to whether her husband had been on chemotherapy and asked if there had been medical treatment that could have explained the healing? 

“No, it hadn’t got that far. It was on the first two scans, but had gone by the third,” she wrote. 

As a healer I enjoy confusing and confounding consultants - it’s all part of my work!

”THESE RESULTS HAVE NOT OCCURRED BY MEDICAL TREATMENT ALONE” 

I have been working with David, a joyful and positive man, following his diagnosis earlier this year of advanced prostate cancer that had spread to his bones. 

As he underwent the standard “gold standard” treatment for the disease, regular blood tests showed a continual drop in his PSA marker. This test measures the amount of prostate-specific antigen in the blood - it’s a protein produced by both cancerous and noncancerous tissue in the prostate. 

From the outset David told his consultant that he was also receiving healing from me and noticed that this was recorded in his medical notes. 

Having recently completed his medical treatment he had a scan and further blood tests followed by a meeting with his consultant, who told him he was in remission. As they looked at the scans on a screen, David noticed there were still white-coloured areas on previously affected bones. He was reassured to know that it was scar tissue and not cancer. 

As he left, his consultant looked at him and said: “Keep up the visits to your healer because these results haven’t occurred by medical treatment alone.” 

I always maintain that healing and medical treatment should work together and this would seem to be a good example of what can happen when a patient does so.

DISTANT HEALING DURING SURGERY REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE! 

Having to go into hospital for surgery is a daunting prospect for most people and I receive many requests on the Healing Community pages of my website to send distant healing for someone about to undergo a medical procedure. 

“I want to thank you for the distant healing during my operation on Monday,” a lady wrote this week. “I had been struggling with a 21 cm by 10 cm fluid-filled encapsulated seroma for over four years following treatment for breast cancer. I asked you to send me healing as I was frightened. 

“I’m so happy to say that the surgery was a success and I felt as if I was surrounded by what I can only describe as pure unconditional energy of love. I was physically alone but spiritually supported to such an extent that it felt almost tangible. 

“Sometimes, emotions need healing just as much as the body. The sensation of softening into a blanket of healing care was one of the most powerful feelings I have ever experienced. The terror of facing such a daunting procedure was dissolved and replaced by a gentle strength and a feeling of complete comfort. I can still feel this as I continue with my recovery. 

“The pain is manageable, I’m not relying on painkillers, and the hospital discharged me 24 hours later! 

“Thank you from the bottom of my heart. No words can express sensations that are beyond the scope of human language.”

FROM MY ARCHIVES: A TOUCHING STORY FROM A HEALING CIRCLE 

I had been collating boxes full of archive material stretching back decades when I came across this lovely story from the 1990s, from a lady who had taken part in one of my healing circles: 

“One year ago today I participated in your healing circle in Kensington. I remember you saying how much you’d welcome feedback and I have been meaning to write for some time. 

“I had been trying to have a baby for five and a half years and had almost given up hope when a friend suggested I went to one of your circles. 

“During the course of the hour we sat linked together, I had many thoughts. I worked quite hard at constructing positive mental images of people I knew who were ill but then an astonishingly clear picture of myself with a fully pregnant belly, and one even more clear of a wicker cot on which holly leaves were attached just spontaneously came to mind with no effort on my part. 

“My husband is half Chinese but has little contact with his family on that side. I found myself conversing with his Grandfather who had long since died and saying how much I wanted to extend the ‘Lee’ family. 

“After the session I went to buy bread in a department store. The cashier was Chinese. I signed a cheque with my married name ‘Lee’. He commented that it was his name too. When I said that mine was also from China, he held the queue up and wrote the Chinese characters on the back of the till receipt saying that the ‘Lee’s’ were a very big family. 

“Two weeks later I was pregnant. I hardly dared to bring myself to write to you because I couldn’t believe my luck. On November 23rd, exactly nine months after that day in Kensington, our little girl was born. She is absolute heaven and I am totally convinced that this is as a result of your healing circle. 

“For this gift I cannot possibly convey enough thanks. To my mind it is also an extraordinary string of events which can be added to what must be a vast collection of similar such anecdotes from people who have had the benefit of your healing.”

ANOTHER WONDERFUL HEALING SUCCESS! 

I love to receive emails such as this from the daughter of an elderly patient of mine. Diagnosed with lung cancer, her mother was unable to have chemotherapy because of a heart condition and her age, but she writes: 

"My mum went for her lung cancer checkup and X-ray. She had the official results back yesterday and they couldn't see any cancer at all now."

HEALING WORKS AT A DISTANCE 

It's wonderful to get positive feedback from those on my distant healing list, which you can find on my Healing Community pages, and this week I've been sent two interesting stories. 

One lady on my list suffers from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an eye disease that can blur the sharp, central vision needed for activities such as reading and driving. Her treatment involves an injection into her eye every 12 weeks. 

"This last time it went horribly wrong and a massive infection took over my eye, causing incredible pain and loss of sight. The hospital have been injecting antibiotics into the eye," she explained. 

"Thank you for the amazing distant healing yesterday evening. The heat that came through was so incredible as I tuned in that I could feel myself perspiring through the energy. 

"I slept the most peaceful of nights' sleep and my eye now feels much less painful and has lost some of the remnants from the infection." 

Someone else had placed their son's name on my distant healing list but wrote to say: 

"He is now very much better. I think there probably is no need to continue now. It was amazing to know you were helping at such a difficult time." 

Many people believe they have to see me personally to gain benefits but accounts like this demonstrate that healing works beyond our understanding of time and space. 

As well as anecdotal evidence, much scientific research has been carried out with distant healing. For example, a French study showed that people could inhibit the growth of a destructive fungus at a distance of 1.5 meters, using only mental intentions. This study was successfully replicated at the University of Tennessee, using the same organism, at distances of one to 15 miles. 

PROFESSOR  'CANNOT FULLY EXPLAIN' THIS HEALING! 

It's always rewarding to hear of a successful healing - but it's even better when it can't be explained by a doctor! 

This week one of my patients sent me an intriguing message: 

"I've had another Dexa scan (a bone density scan) and I spoke to my professor this morning. Earlier this year my bone density had increased by 15% and this most recent scan shows an increase in bone in the ball joint into my pelvis. All down to you, thank you." 

Although the healing had been attributed to me, I was curious about any possible contribution from medication. 

"I used to have calcium injections for bone growth, before I had cancer in 2014. As a precaution, these stopped in 2015 as I only had one kidney," my patient explained. 

Her professor has now written: "Interestingly, her bone density looked a lot better and I can't fully explain that."