Basic types of healing

[Brilenus]

First off, healing is not instant. This is one misconception many people have, so I believe it must be addressed before I say anything else. Additionally, I know nothing about Relki, so I cannot say anything about it.

I will not say exactly how to heal, but rather the different methods of healing.

The main difference between Basic and Intermediate forms of healing is that the Basic form views the whole body as a single substance, and just attempts to put it back into the right shape. Intermediate views the different types and tries to put them back into the correct positions.


Basic Healing: Passive Healing

This form of healing is rather common, and also one of the least effective. However, it is still highly useful if you cannot find the problem. The way this form works is that you give healing/life energy to the other person and allow their body to use it. And thats about it here.


Basic Healing: Active Healing

This method is slightly less common than the passive form, but still quite common. This is most commonly used to find an injured area, and then add focused healing energy into it. After this, an attempt is made to directly heal the damaged area. However, this is typically only done in the form of trying to get a cut to close, or skin to re-grow.


Intermediate Healing: Semi-Passive

This is a rather uncommon form of healing, normally done by attempting to re-align the energy pathways in your body, while pumping healing energy through them. This tends to force them to remain in place, while healing both them, and the area around them.


Intermediate Healing: Active

This is one of the more common forms of healing. With this form of healing, you go through the body and find the areas that need to be healed, and then you either directly fix them by rebuilding damaged parts, or replace them with constructed replacements.

[Ness]

I'm sorry.

I don't like this because it is splitting healing into more things than it needs to be. My view is that healing should be healing. If you want to over complicate it, you could split it into three groups; pain, injury and sickness, but I see even that as being pointlessly complicated.

[Brilenus]

There are many ways to define healing, and this is but one way of explaining it. However, it seems to be the most useful way of classifying people here, and helping them decide on new methods of healing.

[Ness]

I still disagree. I don't think it is useful.

But to each his own, I guess. Just wanted to throw my opinion in.

[Brilenus]

*nod*

Everyone has their own way, and all paths can lead to the same result.

[psidan]

I think what Brilenus is trying to do is create these definitions of healing so that himself, and others if they wish, may use them to describe what healing they are doing. Sure this is not necessary for healing on your own since you can 'feel' what your doing. But it is much easier to say a certain word, and if they don't know what it means give them a link to this instead of trying to describe the concept they feel when healing.

This is not at all the only means of categorizing different types of healing. You could create your own or just leave it as healing and just do it.

[Ness]

My point was that this is isn't types of healing. These are actually only different techniques to heal.