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| The Rev. Dr. Laura Dunham recently was looking for office space with
a Chapel Hill realtor whose back hurt so much he couldn’t stand up
straight. “We were standing in a parking lot,” she recalls, “and I asked him if he would mind if I sent him a little healing energy. He seemed surprised but was open to it. I placed my hand a couple of inches off his back in the area of the pain and almost immediately he felt a tingling sensation. In less than two minutes, he straightened up, turned around, and said, ‘It’s a miracle!’ He was pain free. He had resisted going to his doctor because he disliked taking pain medication. Now he had learned first-hand about another way of treating pain.” “I used a gentle, simple, but powerful energy healing modality called Arcing Light that day,” Dunham recalls. “While I’m glad it was helpful, the pain may return unless the underlying causes are also treated. Releasing stuck energy and enabling it to flow freely is how I try to help clients through a variety of means and on a number of levels. Healing is a process of shifting consciousness and creating wholeness and wellness through an integration of mind, body, and spirit. Ultimately, each of us is responsible for our own healing.” Three Careers Dr. Dunham achieved considerable success with careers in higher education (a college professor, dean, and vice president), financial planning (often quoted in major publications), and the ministry (now retired) before establishing her Graceful Living Wholeness Center two
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years ago. Although based in Chapel Hill, the Center is intended
to reach people seeking a higher quality of
life wherever they are located through
distance learning and healing. “The work I do now,” Dunham says, “is to help people become more conscious, to open their hearts and minds and come to a deeper understanding of how they can connect with the Divine and tap into that tremendous source of power, love and light. All of us have the potential to live more fulfilling lives and certainly healthier ones. The Graceful Living Wholeness Center According to Dr. Dunham, “Graceful living is about expressing and manifesting Divine love and light in all dimensions of life, in harmony and balance with the natural order, through our work and service, and within our human relationships. Living with integrity and wholeness, with a sense of purpose and an inner peace, is graceful living.” To that end, Dr. Dunham’s Graceful Living Wholeness Center has half a dozen key components:
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“People can enter the Wisdom School from any knowledge base or belief system and begin the process with a spiritual autobiography intended to encourage reflection,” says Dunham. “Unless people can reflect on their lives and articulate the life lessons they have learned, I find it’s hard for them to move forward.” “The Wisdom School encourages participants to explore four key components: Knowing the Self in its many dimensions, which is absolutely essential; Imaging and Experiencing the Divine, intended to broaden their concepts of and experience with the higher power; Understanding the Interconnected Web of Creation, which in addition to spiritual interconnections exposes them to some of the basic new science, such as quantum physics, microbiology, and systems theory; and Developing and Expressing Your Gifts, focused on how we offer loving and enlightened service to others and to the world. That, after all, is what it’s all about.”
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