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I was already depressed as a child. My father was often violent toward me. I was always very quiet and anxious, and I slept poorly. When I was nine years old I was molested. My family knew about it, but didn’t do anything to stop it. When I was 16 years old, I tried – unsuccessfully - to kill myself by taking an overdose of tablets. At school I failed in all subjects. That made me hate myself even more, and I believed I was good for nothing. When I was 18 I moved away from home. Starting at 22 I spent over four years in psychiatric treatment. I didn’t take any medication because of the side effects. My marriage broke up after three years, and the psychiatrist treating me told me he could do nothing more for me. I went through an odyssey of psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, hospitals, spiritual healers and healing practitioners. Every childhood memory was accompanied by physical break down. I would hide and had severe panic attacks as if I were having a heart attack. Then I would lose consciousness for hours. I kept the doors locked and cried myself to sleep for years. The depression, anxiety and panic attacks simply became too severe, and in the year 2003 I was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. After tests I was put on medication (Cipramil, later Avanza = Mirtazepam) which also helped. I thought that everything was then all right, but there was still something in my soul that cried out loudly. In the year 2005, with the help of a psychiatrist, I tried to discontinue the medication. When I reduced the dose to one tablet (30 mg) the withdrawal symptoms began. I had fits of perspiration, pain, anxiety, trembling, nausea and claustrophobia. I decided to continue taking the medication. They prescribed sleeping pills and Valium against the withdrawal symptoms, but when I raised the dosage to 60 mg of Avanza again all the withdrawal symptoms stopped. That was a great disappointment for me because I then saw that I was very dependent on this medication. I had the feeling that I would spend the rest of my life in therapy and with doctors. The depression was so severe that I continued to cry a lot, had pain all over and wanted to end my life. The suicide was to take place on July 1, 2007.
On Friday, June 29, 2007 I knelt down on a bridge in a busy part of Melbourne and asked God to help me. If I received no sign I was going to commit suicide on July 1, 2007. The next day a girlfriend who was unaware of my problems called me up. She asked whether we could meet for coffee and then told me of a film about a healer. I asked God to show me the right path and saw the film on July 1, 2007.
During the film “The Phenomenon Bruno Gröning” I had to cry. My heart was open, and I felt warmth and love. An eyewitness described in the film his healing from stomach cancer, and he spoke from salvation. That moved me profoundly. I felt the Heilstrom moving through my body. At the end of the film I was happy and felt the energy. At that point it still wasn’t clear to me that I had received the healing, but I was grateful that God had heard my prayers. I got better day by day. I did sports again. After awhile the medication even had a contrary effect when I took it; that is, I became depressive after taking it. After attending a conference of the Circle of Friends in Sydney in April of 2008, I got severe Regelungen, needed a lot more sleep and had headaches. After the Regelungen I no longer had depression or withdrawal symptoms. The anxiety and panic attacks had disappeared. I then attended the community hours regularly and since then have been doing einstellen to the Heilstrom twice a day. I was liberated and am now free from pain, dependence, treatment, doctors and the feeling of being tormented. I thank God and our friend Bruno Gröning that I have my life back.
Already in her youth Ms. Zenel had developed a
recurrent depressive disturbance with suicidal tendencies
as well as a chronic posttraumatic disturbance with
avoidance of bad memories and simultaneous flashbacks,
disassociation, anxiety, jumpiness and sleep disturbances.
Attempts with various psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological
treatments did not lead to an enduring improvement of her condition.
A sudden change on the experiential and behavioral level after
contact with the teaching of Bruno Gröning is from a psychological
viewpoint not to be explained and is very extraordinary.
A spiritual healing can be assumed here.
R. B., Licensed Psychologist
In 1999 I developed physical problems. It began with a stabbing pain in my right arm. Later came a continuing, gnawing pain which got worse on using the arm. My family doctor thought I had “tennis arm”. He prescribed physical therapy, which, however, brought only short-term improvement. As this wore off the pain spread through both hands and arms. It was similar to the pain described above. Because of the pain I was no longer able to do my housekeeping - washing and vacuuming, among other things. By April of 2002, these problems had become so severe that I was also unable to handle my job. Life became more and more difficult, I felt exhausted and didn’t feel like doing anything anymore. I could hardly move my arms anymore. So, for example, I had to prop up my hand when brushing my teeth. My legs hurt when walking and also when I lay in bed. I simply couldn’t keep my legs still when lying and had to keep changing my position. Because of this I slept poorly at night. My body hurt continually with all my daily chores. I could no longer do anything on foot and could only get a little exercise by cycling since it didn’t hurt so much. But the problems got even worse. By 2003 I couldn’t even lift a cup of coffee anymore. I was declared 100% unfit for work and from April 2003 on received a pension. During this period I went to a rehab-center as an out-patient. There they told me I would have to learn to live with the ailment and the related pain. Now and then I went for physical therapy because of the pain in my neck and shoulders, but that only made the pain worse. For fear of dependence I didn’t want to take any medication against this ailment; I only took a painkiller when the pain became too severe.
One of my friends already belonged to the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends. She told me about the teaching and the community hours of the Circle of Friends. In October of 2003 I went to an information lecture. During this lecture all kinds of things happened in my body. I perceived the Heilstrom in my whole body and an indescribable feeling of warmth and love streamed through me. This feeling was proof for me that I had found what I had sought for so long - connection with God. I am impressed by the fact that a few weeks before this lecture I had prayed to God for help. I regarded this guidance as an immediate answer to my prayer. I had to cry during the entire lecture. I felt as if I was being liberated.
After my introduction there was a complete change in my life. I began to do einstellen every day. I felt lighter - the heaviness had disappeared. I had more energy and began to experience joy in many things again. A month after my introduction I had an examination at a hospital. Fibromyalgia was diagnosed. However, I trusted that God helps and heals. Strengthened by absorption of the Heilstrom, I was able to cope with life more easily. I didn’t concern myself with the pain any longer. It seemed to me as if it was gradually decreasing. Four months later I started to work again as a volunteer helper in a psychiatric outpatient clinic. And I began a training program. Six months after the introduction my youngest son asked, “Mama, how is it going now with the rheumatism and pain?” I said, “Now that you ask, that’s right - I don’t have them anymore. It’s all gone!” I had obviously unknowingly separated myself from the ailments, no longer had pain in my neck and shoulders, and no longer need psychotherapy. Today my movement is no longer restricted. I can once again lift up a cup of coffee effortlessly, brush my teeth with one hand completely normally and can sleep well again. I can move my arms again without pain and do my housework all alone again. Since the summer of 2005 I have been taking part in the hikes of the Circle of Friends in the Austrian mountains with no problems. Now, six years after my introduction, I am still very well. I have found something which shows me the way. That is what I have been looking for all my life. I couldn’t receive a greater gift, and I thank Bruno Gröning and God every day.
Intensive long-term therapy by doctors, physical and
psychotherapists can mitigate the pain of fibromyalgia.
In the case of Ms. Morina, the therapeutic measures failed
and a disability pension was granted. Her complete liberation
from the illness which had impeded her life greatly is
inexplicable from a medical viewpoint.
M. K., M.D.
Berlin (hb): There are seemingly endless numbers of beauty, style, and fashion magazines in an ordinary magazine shop. For just a little money you can read about the latest “beauty sensations,” the “hot and trendy,” “today’s look,” how to “be beautiful forever,” “melt that fat away” or “shape your figure in two weeks the Hollywood way”. Month after month the glossy covers present new slogans around a beautiful model’s face. Schoolgirls with their schoolbags, women with briefcases or prams stop, turn the pages, look down at their body, tousle their hair or check out the other women.
Fashion, “looking good” and being “in” are very important to most women, but especially to the young. With schoolgirls it often begins at the age of eight or ten. It is important in school, where classmates set the peer-group trend. Then of course in adolescence the other gender comes into play. Parents are often perplexed or can even set the example for these trends themselves. Later it continues on in occupational training, higher education or at work. You look to see how the other women are dressed, what kind of figure they have or when they last went to the beauty parlor. “Do people find me pretty?” “What do they think of my figure?” “Are my stockings straight?” “What can I do to be more attractive?” Such are the questions occupying the minds of girls and young women. They discuss them with their best friends, look through catalogues and go on lengthy shopping tours. It is not without good reason that so many “beauty magazines” are able to stay on the market.
But what do young Bruno Gröning Friends think about fashion, beauty and attractiveness? Do they regard these matters as unimportant, or do they just have some other way of dealing with them?
I. D., 19: “I am interested in what is ‘in’. I do look at the fashion magazines, but I only buy what I like. You really can get lost in the whirlpool of self-doubt, but you can get support for your ‘true self’ through conversing with parents or other young Bruno Gröning Friends. That’s what counts.”
S. B. 20: “It is wrong to just hanker after an ideal because if you aren’t satisfied with yourself you will never be beautiful. What I wear and how I wear it is a matter of my inner attitude. Do I buy a t-shirt because someone else wants me to, or do I buy it because I like it?”
N. M., 25: “When I was 16 or 17, I wore darker and darker clothing until I was only wearing black. It was partly due to the people I hung around with at the time, among other things. This trend continued three years or so, and then I did just the opposite. The more colorful, the better — not to conform, but to stand out at all costs. I have now been in the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends for two and a half years and don’t have to dress in an unusual manner to be sure to stand out. For me there is only one thing important about fashion — to be oneself.”
S. B., 38: “There were also definite trends 20 years ago, and it had to be a certain fashion label - and of course they were very expensive. The label was a status symbol you had to have and strive for. I wore black clothing because it “makes you slim”. The pressure was so great that I couldn’t say no even though I was dissatisfied. It just didn’t suit me. Today I have the strength to stop the striving. If I like something on sale I buy it.”
L. H. 18: “When I was 13 or 14 I developed a conscious interest in fashion. Since that time I only go shopping with my two girlfriends. Every two months I buy one or two fashion magazines and determine for myself what I like and don’t like. In addition, I am very open and creative, but also an individual person. Thus I have sewn my own tops or made over pants to my liking. It is unimportant to me what others think of me. If they like it, it is a nice side-effect - nothing more.”
S. K. 15: “I still like to go shopping with my mother because it is important to me what she thinks. Of course I also go shopping with my girlfriends, and then we give one another advice. We are entirely honest with one other, but we also accept the other person as she is and not as we want her to be. That’s the way real friends should operate.”
L. H. 19: “Fashion trends were never a big thing with me. Earlier I would think for a long time about what I wanted to wear, and it was a tedious process to decide what I wanted to buy for myself. Shopping tours are tiring for me, not only because your feet hurt, but because the erratic fashion trends are misleading. What is ‘in’ today is already ‘out’ tomorrow. For me, my clothing has to give me a good feeling and be practical yet chic. For me fashion is a form of expression of the individual self, not of society. Although all the girls and young women who have their say here have something in common, they nevertheless don’t wear a uniform. Each one is entirely individual. They have realized for themselves the need to be true to themselves and do what is right for themselves — not to be the tool of a particular newspaper, label or opinion. Therefore last year’s jeans can be just as wearable as the summer dress or a folk dress once in a while for dancing. As long as you feel good in it, stand up for yourself and say ‘yes’ to your own body It doesn’t matter if your dress size is 38, 40 or 48. With the right self confidence you are ‘trendy’ in a different way. That’s also good for the masculine side, but we’ll address that next time.
To be continued.
Ludwigshafen (rm): Ten years after the founding of the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends by Grete Häusler, a number of articles on Gröning and spiritual healing — mostly positive, some with negative aspects - have appeared in various newspapers and magazines.
“Good thoughts made me well” was the title of an article on the healing of bank employee Marie-Sophie Riekhof in “Die Berliner Boulevardzeitung”, April 9, 1992. A second article described how one can absorb the wonderful healing energy which had freed the 36-year-old woman from five ailments. Thirty years after Bruno Gröning’s death, the “miracle healer” who had attracted worldwide attention from 1949 to 1959 was once again in the news. People could scarcely believe it when hearing of the new healings that were occurring; even though the man from Gdansk had long since passed away. Many older people, however, could remember the mass healings that had taken place back then in Herford and Rosenheim, as well as the legal proceedings against Bruno Gröning and his healing activity. When he died, most people assumed that his death would end this strange capital from the early days of the Republic of Germany. And now this!
“I will not be dead after I die,” quoted the “Glücksrevue" of May 7, 1992, Bruno Gröning in the second article of its series on “miracle healers”. And then the article went on, “When people call me, I will come and help.” He has kept this promise, which he had once given Grete Häusler”. It is no wonder that the article stimulated interest in the then 13-year-old Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends, even though the author inserted many untruths in the rest of the articles. It would appear that some journalists feel the need to spice up their otherwise factual articles with a strong dose of negativity.
This was not necessarily the case with a report in the “Dill-Zeitung” of May 31, 1989 entitled “The greatest transformer of divine energy is buried in Dillenburg.” The article begins with a section on folk-healers in the former Soviet Union who were even consulted by the powerful, then continues with Bruno Gröning, whose urn was buried in Dillenburg. The author says something that makes you sit up and take notice, “His healing methods are today also recognized by the medical side”. Unfortunately, he had apparently misunderstood a statement of Grete Häusler, then leader of the Circle of Friends, thus passing on misleading information.
An article in the “Linzer Rundschau,” of September 17, 1992, also appears to be unbiased. In it a disabled veteran tells of his healing from pain of 49 years’ duration. The man had heard of the teaching of Bruno Gröning from his daughter. “I was afraid that my daughters were in a sect and took a look at the whole matter. But instead of finding a sect I was healed. The pain is gone, and I can even move my hand,” he said. The article concludes with a statement of Bruno Gröning’s substantiating this man’s skeptical attitude, “Don’t believe me; you have the duty to convince yourself in your own body.” A report in the “Lenne-Hunau-Kurier” of November 3, 1989, caused a flood of letters to the editor. The author had visited many healed people and then reported on his findings in a comprehensive article. He spoke of the simple teaching of Bruno Gröning and the medical documentation of healings as “the basis of the Circle of Friends’ credibility.”
The readers of “Das Goldene Blatt” were spellbound by its 1991 six-part series “True Miracles”, which told of many healings in the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends. “Even the doctors spoke of a miracle,” and “the doctors treating the former ‘hopeless cases’ were speechless”, the journalists reported enthusiastically of the fascinating events. And then “Das Neue Blatt” and “Die Aktuelle” followed suit. All three magazines made an effort to present the happenings in unadulterated form without negative distortion. “Die Aktuelle,” for example, began its “Sensational health“ series on “Germany’s most unusual nature-healer” with these moving words of a healed person: “I have thrown away my crutches — I don’t need them anymore.”
The subject was also addressed in the press of the Netherlands and Belgium, where medically inexplicable healings had taken place. A healed person named Loek Neisz said in “De Limburger Vrijdag,” “I had facial pain. The doctors couldn’t do anything more for me. They told me I had to learn to live with the pain. But thanks to Bruno Gröning I am well again. I am working again as a cabinet-maker. Nobody knows how it happened. The doctors say I was born under a lucky star. In their eyes I was very lucky.”The two-page article tells of other people who regained their health and well-being thanks to Gröning’s teaching. “He is my best friend,” says a former miner who had become disabled due to the extremely hard work underground and had voluntarily given up his disability pension after his miraculous healing. Another miner told of his healing after a bad accident in the Hückelhoven coal mine in 1974. A large hook had fallen from the ceiling, hitting him on the head and damaging two vertebrae. “The doctors could do nothing more for me. I only got my health back with the Bruno Gröning friends. Suddenly I was able to move my head again,” he said.
In an interview with another Dutch weekly, Loek Neisz made it clear that he didn’t owe his healing to a sect. “No compulsion, no money; you aren’t obligated to do anything — total freedom,” he commented. Next to his healing and the regular absorption of the Heilstrom, these are the main reasons why he is still an active, helping member of the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends.
The reporting on inexplicable healings back then brought many people to the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends, where they could become well and experience valuable help in their everyday lives. The printed word and impressive pictures had their effect, and the readiness of certain doctors to document and comment upon the healings further strengthened the public interest in the as yet little-known subject of spiritual healing. There were also television reports on healing in the Circle of Friends showing people who could hear or see, although the doctors had diagnosed their handicaps as congenital and irreparable. The spectacular healings were substantiated by audiograms and visual acuity tests before and after introduction to the teaching of Bruno Gröning. The test results were so definitive that no false interpretation was possible.
Of course there were also some newspapers, magazines and radio programs that didn’t want to accept the positive message. They would look for something dubious behind the changed lives of the people, and if they didn’t find anything negative they would talk about a “secret society” and dig up the old fairy tales about Bruno Gröning from the fifties.
To be continued.
Altfraunhofen (ao):Singapore, late September. The seven helpers of the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends had to brave lightning, thunder, streaming rain and tropical heat as they distributed their flyers on the “Body-Mind-Spirit“ Festival in the various parts of the city-state of 4.7 million inhabitants. But fortunately the storm disappeared just as suddenly as it had appeared. Nothing should stand in the way of letting people know of the possibility of healing on the spiritual path through the teaching of Bruno Gröning. Weeks before, contact had been made from Germany with magazines, newspapers, medical associations, doctors and members of other helping professions in Singapore — a lot of work for the volunteer public relations workers of the Circle of Friends.
It was the first time the Circle of Friends had taken part in this annual event held in the International Congress and Exhibition Center “Suntec City” in the center of Singapore. Andreas Ottl, one of the organizers, commented, “It was worth the effort. The many people who attended the two physicians’ information lectures on October 2nd and 3rd showed great interest, and even more people after the lecture wanted to learn more about the teaching of Bruno Gröning. The booth, too, was very busy. Thanks to our good location in the four-storied Congress Center, we were able to have direct contact with many exhibition participants. Books, music-CDs, film-DVDs and informative literature on the Circle of Friends were displayed on two tables. Despite the many other attractions, the visitors’ openness to the subject of healing on the spiritual path through the teaching of Bruno Gröning was astonishingly great. They were especially moved by the fact that the whole activity is financed by volunteer donations and carried out by active volunteer helpers.”
Josephine Brandt, Director of Public Relations Work for Southeast Asia, remarked, “Out of a total of 47 exhibitors — almost all from parts of Southeast Asia — we were the only ones from Germany. That was indeed something special. In the foyer of the Suntec City Congress and Exhibition Center two large screens over seven square meters in size had been installed on which the Picture of Bruno Gröning appeared every seven minutes with a message. That was very impressive and went down very well with the visitors. I am very happy about the numerous contacts. They will facilitate the further expansion of the Circle of Friends in Southeast Asia.”
