Ben Johnson (8)

The author has background in modern medicine, counseling, and alternative medicine. I think he got into alternative medicine "after" having a background in modern medicine, so he is probably unsatisfied with what modern medicine has to offer. He is very open to alternative medicine. My mom is also interested in alternative medicine, and I read this book at her recommendation. The author was trying to help his wife with her depression, and one day he had an inspiration about a 6-minute exercise that will help, and when his wife and his counseling clients did it, they enjoyed astounding healing. So this book is about this 6-minute exercise, and a 9-chapter long explanation on why he thinks this exercise works.

I do think this exercise probably works, since he got so much positive feedback from it. But I'm not convinced on how he says this exercise actually works. Because he's basically saying our fingers can shoot out energy, and when we point our fingers to "the 4 healing centers" of our body, our body...gets healed. He didn't provide much arguments regarding why and how our fingers shoot out energy, or why and how those 4 areas of our body are in fact healing centers.

In the 9 chapters on why the exercise works, he talked about something I felt is not really related to the exercise at all -- He talked about how illness is actually the result of our immune system not functioning well enough, and a compromised immune system is the result of our cells not functioning well enough, and unhealthy cells are actually the result of stress. So at the end of the day, our health problems stems from stress -- and not just stress that we consciously experience, but also stress that exist in our unconsciousness, that we are generally unaware of. On top of that, there's "memory" of stress we inherited from our ancestors in our genes. I think this makes a lot of sense! I can see how we are often adhere to a script in our unconsciousness (e.g. "I am unworthy" ) rather than to what we consciously believe is correct. And his concept of "stress" inherited from ancestors reminds me of the Christian understanding of original sin. I've always wondered why healthy cells would just mutate into cancer cells. And modern medicine does acknowledge that when you continuously do things that stress out your cells in a certain organ, you are more prone to suffer from cancer of that organ. (But I don't see how fingers shooting energy into 4 healing centers can relieve these 3 types of stress. He just said it will, but I can't just believe him on faith :P)

What he does have, as a supporting argument on why you should try to use the finger exercise to relieve stress, is he would ask users to rate the degree a mental picture of a negative memory makes you feel bad. And he consistently finds that after the finger exercise, the users feel better about their negative mental pictures. So my conclusion after reading the book is I guess it doesn't hurt to do this finger exercise, even though it looks really silly lol… (mehr)

I have changed the three stars I gave this book to one star, since no matter how many times I wrote to the author and his firm I got no reply to my questions, except one reply from a member of staff on one point, for which I was grateful. More on this later.

I have revised this review slightly,

I found this to be a rather nebulous book containing several unclarities.

Firstly, the book is called “The Healing Code” but Loyd has founded a company called “The Healing Codes” and the term is used in the plural numerous times. I don’t understand whether or not there is a difference between the Healing Code and the Healing Codes.

I spent a long time laboriously ploughing through the book, waiting to get to the actual Healing Code or Codes so I could start to heal myself.

I found it somewhat boring, to me just blah blah blah. But we were told that doing the codes healed Loyd’s wife of depression and also cured Dr Johnson’s Lou Gehrig’s disease (and this is a serious disease).

It is claimed that the Codes can heal/fix everything, not just diseases/illnesses but anything that is not working in one’s life, everything that is not as it should be.

We’re told that there is only one source of illness – stress. Another problem is our destructive cellular memories. When the head and the heart are in conflict, the heart always wins. It is heart issues that cause our problems and the Healing Code or Codes heal these.

When I finally got to the Healing Codes part, I found that these are not what I would call ”codes”, but four hand positions complete with illustrations showing these.

First we should recite the given prayer, inserting the particular issue for which we require healing.

Each of the four positions should be held for about 10 seconds, and the whole thing should last at least 6 minutes. A “Truth Focus Statement” should be repeated while holding these positions, and this was my first shock; for the reader could not get access to these Truth Focus Statements until he or she had registered their book on the authors’ web site. And I couldn’t do this since I had borrowed the book from the library.

So perhaps I had just wasted a lot of time. However, when examining the site in question I eventually somehow find these Truth Focus Statements without registering any book.

As regards the hand positions, three of these positions are easy to carry out, but the second position I found impossible.

It is directly over the Adam’s apple, and in this case the hands should be placed directly on the body (and not a few inches from the body as is the case with the other positions). Now I don’t have an Adam’s apple but could see from the illustration where it was supposed to be. The big problem is that though my hands are not deformed in any way I just can’t get them into the position shown in the drawing. Here they are lying vertically on the chest – I can place them horizontally on the chest but nothing like in the position portrayed. Only if the hands were someone else’s hands could they lie as shown in the drawing.

I was shocked at this. How could the authors ask one to place one’s hands in an impossible position?

I wrote to the authors several times on several websites/Facebook or whatever, but received no reply until eventually I got one from an office assistant who explained that intention was the key: that even if one had no hands at all one could do the position by means of the power of intention. I could accept that, and that is the way I do this position. But she seemed to imply that the fault was with me, though I had made it clear that my hands were not defective in any way. I wrote again requesting an explanation about the inclusion of an impossible hand position, but received no reply.

Another problem was that one had to identify the feelings or unhealthy beliefs related to one’s issue. I have only physical problems and I chose to work on interstitial cystitis. We’re asked to find a previous time in one’s life when we felt the same way but I could not find any such feeling or memory since my feelings are physical – pain and discomfort. I’m in no doubt that every illness has an emotional cause but I have no idea what the emotional cause of my physical complaints are. So this was/is frustrating.

As regards the Truth Focus Statements to be used with the Healing Code, neither was it clear which ones I could use with my physical problems, so I just chose a few that I liked.

There were twelve categories of Heart Issues that could be the cause of one’s problem. I didn’t know which ones that were; but one of them was Unforgiveness, and I’ve heard that this can be the cause of many ailments, so I used some of the truth statements in this category, though they didn’t really call out to me.

I did their on-line test to ascertain my heart issues but this did not give me clarity or any solution at all.

I have stopped doing the codes since I have received no reply to my questions, questions about the heart issues, the truth focus statements to use, and what to do when one cannot identify the feelings and unhealthy beliefs related to one’s issue.

I do feel that the lack of answers to these important questions take away the credibility of the authors and their Healing Code system.

Also, I question the inclusion of the second position or at least its name. It is termed “Adam’s apple”, suggesting that these truth codes are only for men, though at least half the potential users of the system do NOT have an Adam’s apple

Perhaps in these times when we’re questioning and trying to reform sexist matters, the authors should improve and correct the name of the second position.… (mehr)

This book definitely deserves five stars. The content in it is priceless. Doing The Healing Codes has definitely been helping me. To give you an example, all my life I've hunched severely. I was always told, "Stand up straight," but it didn't feel right. It almost hurt, and I never remembered to keep straight. It lasted a couple minutes at most. I'm not perfect now, but the first night I did The Healing Codes, I wasn't sure anything had happened. I got in the shower, continuing my day like normal, and then I started crying. I realized I was standing up straighter than I ever had and it felt good. I'm so much better than I was. There are so many testimonies in the book: healing of scoliosis, cancer, the pain of being raped, a lizard's crushed skull, incurable diseases.
I know it's helped me tremendously in my own life, as well. I thank God constantly for bringing this book into my life. I've noticed improvements with my vision (I'm pretty nearsighted), my stomach (I have a lot of issues with it), and I even think I've grown a little bit since I started doing The Codes! Every one keeps saying I look taller.
Aside from physical issues, I also have a lot of fear. For another example, if I went out to the store with someone, I was terrified of leaving their side, for some reason afraid that they would leave me behind, or I'd never find them again. Now I'm not only okay with being left, more and more I choose to walk away.
I extremely suggest reading this book. At the very least, it has really interesting information. It's not dry, boring stuff. I found it exciting to learn from, and the authors infuse stories in it. I do my codes every day, after I wake up, before I go to bed, watching TV, sitting in the car, whenever I have the chance. I'm so thankful for the healing codes. I highly recommend you read this book.… (mehr)