Absent Healing is where the client is not present in the room with the healer and yet still receives energy work from them. Classic absent healing requires only a name or a photograph of the person requesting the healing. The energy healer will “intend” a healing response, or perform some variation on mediumship (channeling). In the low-technology days (before email and Skype) this was the only option open to many looking for spiritual healing. Although now a somewhat dated approach compared to distance healing via teleconferencing, an absent healing session still remains an option.
My own first experience of the psychic world was a classical absent healing. At thirty years old I had received surgery for the removal a cancerous tumor, and was contemplating a prophylactic – and risky – course of radiation therapy. I don’t remember how I found this wonderful English spiritualist medium who worked with her father, a physician. She took my name and information over the telephone, and said her father would “take a look at me” and report back to her on my health.
Her father had died ten years previously.
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For my scientific brain at the time this was almost too much to accept; I was not the best candidate for accepting a spiritual medium at face value. Nevertheless, one week later I found myself calling her back for the results of her dead doctor’s visit with me. “My father says you are clear of cancer, and there will be no further problem with it.” Her warm and confident words melted away the icy fingers of fear that had been locked around my heart since my surgery. As a professional healer I never give any medical advice (it is practicing medicine without a license) and yet I still remember the impact of her words. Something shifted inside me, on that cold English evening long ago, when I knew with certainty that I would not die an early death. Faith healing? Not really. I had been touched by spirit.
It would be five more years before I would move from my meditation and martial art practices into the fledgling beginnings of my own spiritual energy work with others. This experience of an absent healing was the first step in my opening to the spirit world. Perhaps, like myself, an absent healing (minus the medical diagnosis and advice!) can move you in the right direction; to open up your mind beyond the rational medical system, and to accept the support of spirit.
Classical absent healing usually costs a minimal amount, enough to compensate the healer for their time. And how much had my first English medium asked, for working with me?
No money at all.
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I much appreciate the article … knowing your beginnings into healing helps me to feel good about where I am in my own.
My sister Maria has a rare form of cancer that is considered uncurable. It has spread throughout her body. She has a large melon size tumor protruding from her upper back with additional tumors in her lungs so large they push out into her esophagus preventing her from eating or breathing correctly. She has cancer in her legs, pelvic, back, spine, colon. She may also have cancer in her throat as she looked in her mouth the other day and the back was beginning to turn a gray color. She is in constant horrible pain yet she still manages to get up every single morning without complaint to go to work to support her family. Please help us. I believe there is a miracle for Maria.
Hello Nina,
Yes, I will send absent healing to Maria. There will be no charge.
Good luck to you, and to your family.
Hi Dean,
I have lived my whole life without having any real boundaries. people have always said strange things to me like “oh you dont know who you are”, or, where are you, or they have been angry at me for “being in their space” and lots more. I have studied psychotherapy trying to help myself by becoming a therapist, I have done other things to change how I am. over the years I have been able to not give myself such a hard time about my “patterns” anymore, but still, I feel like I have not changed. And while I am writing this I am noticing how confusing it all is, for me, and so probably for you as well. I dont know if you can help me, or if you maybe “pick” up something that could be helpful for me….and when I read Ninas letter about her sister Maria, I think I have no problems whatsoever and I am just whinging. I hope not.
regards, Petra
i have been through cancer treatment which has left me wth some side effects,these are extreme shortness of breath,tiredness and pains in the joints and recently a poor memory.also i have torn the cartilage in my left knee and i have severe facial spasms.can you sene me as much healing as possible please.thanks