Joseph
B. Stephenson was a master of creative vision and with this vision
manifested the modality we know today as Creative Healing.
Excerpted
from the writings of Joseph B. Stephenson:
“All my desires and goals
in life were based on three great principles:
·Wisdom(not
education)
·Power (not dominating power but the power to heal the sick, the
power to restore hope where it was lost)
·Love(love that would embrace all the human race).
These
are the things for which I have lived.”
Joseph B. Stephenson
born in England in 1874, had an inquisitive mind, and experienced many
unusual events in his childhood.At
age 5 Joseph healed his own father of sciatica.He knew from a very early age that his life would someday be
devoted to Creative Healing.At
age 49, after many years of working on friends and neighbors in his spare
time, he began his practice full time from his large 3-story home in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His work with Creative Healing came very
naturally to him, as though he had always known how.According to records kept by his wife, he treated as many as 60
people a day.
From 1922 –1944
Mr. Stephenson made his livelihood working on the sick and hurting.
He was the first to receive license for Massage Therapy in the state of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Stepehnson retired in 1944 at age 70 to Long Beach California where he found the
students to whom he would teach his work.Stephenson predicted before he died in 1956 that his method would
not be widely accepted for 50 years.
The
"creative" part of Creative Healing is the powerful image in the
mind of the practitioner that their hands intend to create changes or
remove blocks within the body that allows the body to heal itself
using the four principals.
The above is a summary of a history
of Creative Healing taken from Creative Healing the Stephenson Method
of Natural Health Care by Patricia Blain Bradley and the Joseph B.
Stephenson Foundation. You can find this book in our bookstore.
Much
of the present information that we have about Creative Healing we can
attibute to John Hunt who was Mr. Stephenson's first pupil. John
learned all of his treatments first hand and was also a Master instructor
and taught many of the people who have handed down the information as we
know it today.
John Hunt is the instructor you will follow on the
authorized DVD that we have available. He is assisted by John and
Patricia Bradley.
Disclaimer:
Anyone
using these techniques as treatments or therapy must already have the
appropriate license to do so, depending on their location and
application. Just taking the class does not qualify a person
to use this work for compensation without proper licensing.
Many
persons have taken the classes however to be able to work on family
and friends.
For
diagnosing or prescribing medicine for a cure for diseases, a medical
doctor should be consulted at all times.
Joseph
B. Stephenson was a master of creative vision and with this vision
manifested the modality we know today as Creative Healing.
Much
of the present information that we have about Creative Healing we can
attibute to John Hunt who was Mr. Stephenson's first pupil. John
learned all of his treatments first hand and was also a Master instructor
and taught many of the people who have handed down the information as we
know it today.
