Stormer,
THese are great questions.
I have heard of qigong helping people with hearing problems. I have myself felt ear blockages clear up inside my head as I do the SFQ.
And I think that the important thing about energy healing, is it works on a spiritual level.
In other words, the important thing is the spirit of the healer.
I do know what you mean about the inspiration and motivation of the healing stories.
I also know that to focus on the problem is usually not the best healing message.
Anyone who does SFQ regularly will benefit from it.
I hear your "if" and "then" conditional and that might indeed work. Even better, would be to just introduce him to it anyway.
I think it might be too much pressure and focus on the problem to set it up in your mind.
Maybe first, for now, watch the miracles in your body, mind and spirit. And then as you become inspired, you will know what the next step is visa vis your friend.
I encourage you to have the positive message of healing that you talk about here, and to even better, let go of any "before too longs" or "Small, but noticeable, improvement". SOmetimes, to the mind, it can sound a little too much like bargaining and can sometimes get in the way of even better progress.
I have made a lot of progress and I even made some "noticeable" progress "before too long". When I did that, I was in such pain and suffering that I committed to about 3-4 hours a day for months!!!
Most people either do not have that much time, the motivation, the energy, or all of the above. And they too will make progress and experience healing. It just may take a little longer.
Or the opposite can happen: some people, they need to do just a little bit to get into it. THey feel energy right away. Or they don't, but they somehow open up blockages right away. Maybe they cry, maybe they laugh, maybe they sweat, maybe they fart
, maybe they belch, yawn, or shake. Maybe not. But in any case, they experience healing relatively quickly for whatever reason.
I can tell you in my limited experience that if one is set on healing in a short calendrical cycle (weeks, months, years), then it can often help to do more time on a daily basis, or at least a regular short practice with periodic personal "retreat days" where you "supplement" the shorter practices with these periodic "marathon" sessions of 2 hours or more.
When I conquered my migraines and acid reflux (among other things), I was sick of the medication, sick of the pain, sick of the suffering and I was motivated (as you are) to experience this healing "before too long" and I wanted it to be "noticeable".
So, in the middle of the night, shortly after I first met both Shawn here and Master Lin, back in November of 2007 in San Francisco, I got up in the middle of the night with a terrible migraine and I did 7 hours of SFQ! It was kind of 4 hours, a short break and then 3 hours. That included SMall UNiverse meditation and maybe even a Self-Concentration in there as part of the break.
And I had a huge break-through. Ever after, I have been off of migraine medication and acid reflux medication. I can usually heal myself from all kinds of problems in way less time now. Sometimes, 5 minutes. Sometimes it takes longer depending on what I did to myself to bring on the suffering (staying up too late, too much not-so-good food etc).
Now, I am not saying that you are anyone has to do this to have significant healing. I
AM saying that there is a kind of proportional relationship between what the conscious mind wants and how much we are willing to invest in our spirit and unconscious mind.
Let go of specific goals. Or rather let "before too long" and "noticeable" results be a surprise. And/or make a commitment to even more time to practice. Other wise, you set up an interesting yin/yang game inside your mind between "how long" this will take and "how long" do I have to practice this for "how long" it will take... etc
Bottom line, healing happens and can happen with any condition. And the condition as teacher, goes when the lesson has been learned. And no one can set a clock or calendar to that. It can be any unit of time, including a life time and/or life times. And all during those cycles, if one devotes solid time and intention to a spiritual/energetic practice such as SFQ, there will be all kinds of healing going on. And some of it is likely to surprise you no matter what. Quite often, we work on x and actually we find, when we heal y, that that was more of a block to our progress in life than x was! And only then, does x heal also!
I hope this rambling discourse made some sense to you.
Anyway, it helped me a little to write it.
