Contents: The nature of healing -- Profiles of selected nursehealers -- Strengthening the body-mind -- Discovering the light within -- The role of intention -- Recovery from wounding -- Attunement with the natural world -- Joy and empowerment through service -- Caring for others as an extension of the self -- A sense of purpose -- Outward expressions of the inner light -- Characteristic behaviors-- Expressions of healing -- Breathing and relaxation -- Visualization and imagery -- Music -- Meditation and prayer -- Spirit and magic: healers in antiquity -- The age of faith: medieval years -- Reason and science: the renaissance -- The advent of Holism: contemporary healers -- The creative practitioner