Recent Incident with Healing for discussion

[The Devil's Advocate]

Roughly 3 weeks ago I severely rolled my ankle. One hour after this I was supposed to be color guard (flag and real rifles) for a local event. Immediately upon rolling my ankle, I flooded my boot with Psi with a very loose programing of 'heal and strengthen and prevent further injury'.

Over the next hour I put a construct up to maintain and target healing around my ankle. It was 'tightly fitted' using the concept of a medical ankle wrap. The above concepts were refined, and the additional conceptual program included instructions to maintain flexibility. All of this was done with concept programing, not step by step.

By the end of that night I was mostly still limping but the pain had greatly subsided. The next morning I was capable of waking on it without excessive pain, as long as I was careful where I stepped and did not try and carry anything too heavy. By the end of the first week the pain was completely gone and since then I have simply been working on rebuilding the strength in the ankle, without the aid of psionics.

A few more details on the construct: It was mostly an energy-based construct designed to assist the processes of healing already in progress. There was, I believe, a TK component, though Healing is the only application of TK/PK I have successfully managed. I do not think that the strengthening/stabilizing achieved by the construct could be exclusively energy manipulation.

Control:
4 years ago, I had rolled my ankle to roughly the same extent. By the end of the first weekend I had healed to the point I was at after 2 weeks with no psionic help. The progress since that point has been a little more difficult to judge. I am back to running somewhat but the correlation is not any where near as direct any longer. (Then again I stopped applying healing after about the first 4 days so seem to have resumed 'normal' healing schedule.

Now: Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Analysis? What may I have mistaken? Do you think this is an entirely psychosomatic response? What might I have done more efficiently? Anything else that comes to your mind...

~The Devil's Advocate

[wolfdancer]

The description you gave includes all of the elements of /psionics/ that I have found to be useful in healing: telepathic suggestion, energy manip & tk via conceptualization rather than specific isolation of each part of the process. I'm afraid I don't have a lot of suggestions to offer since you are doing everything in this field that I would do.


~Wolfd@ncer

P.S. A few aids outside of psionics are also helpful. PM if confused. I'm pretty sure you'll know what I'm talking about DA.

[confuded]

Question:
DA, I thought you said you don't practice TK/PK much and not good at it, so how can you make a construct that has a TK/PK application which, as it seems, need quite a bit of force (TK).

[The Devil's Advocate]

It too me a while to figure out a reasonable answer to that question, myself, Confuded. And the conclusion I came to was, because Healing does not entirely rely on Telekinesis, the abilities I am better with 'enhance' my TK in this aspect. I thought, perhaps, healing had nothing to do with TK at one point, but further examination of what I'm doing appears to contradict that. I can think of no OTHER psionic skill that would have enough impact on the physical to do what healing does, so there must be, at the very least, some small way. At least for me, TK bridges the gap between the physical and the psionic allowing the other skills to do their jobs. Because it is a combined skill, I can use a skill that is otherwise my weakest, to a localized and very specific effect.

My issue with TK is very, very much psychological. I have a rough idea of what I should be able to do, and it terrifies me. It is a block I have not had the time to really put in the effort to overcoming. It's also self perpetuating. It tends to sap the urge to try, but that is an entirely different thread.

~The Devil's Advocate

[innerfire]

Hmm, DA I was thinking, in my experiences in these kinds of issues perception means a lot, I think the more reasonable explanation is that since you thought healing had nothing to do with TK, your block did not effect your healing because in your mind at that time there was no issue percieved.

This fits better since TK I think might be too much of a part in healing for you to heal properly with your block restricting your TK use.

[The Devil's Advocate]

That might fit since I rarely actually think about TK when I work with healing... it's just the whole healing concept together, and that draws whatever skills it draws in. I don't even think "Oh well Telepathy wil have to do this, and energy manipulation will handle this part..." It's "This is the task that must be accomplished: Strengthen and heal, maintain flexibility." Which is actually the long way of putting it. It's a single concept, not even a thought word, but a pure THOUGHT. And I'm thinking I may have lost some folk on that.

~The Devil's Advocate

[wolfdancer]

Actually it makes perfect sense, just like telepathy is not all words but sometimes ideas/pictures/concepts.

I agree with innerfire on the possible reason it works with Healing.

~Wolf