Paintings That Heal™ are original paintings created by Brent Atwater, a medical intuitive and healer, that emanate Healing Energy which facilitates physical healing for those with health issues and disorders. They are demonstrating the valuable role that artwork can play in enhancing the healing process, and are creating evidence based art healing modalities that encourage and support further research and investigation into the beneficial effects of artwork used in healthcare and public environments. The efficacy of the healing benefits of Paintings That Heal™ is scientifically and alternatively documented. This artwork has Healing Energy that actually changes the physical, mental and emotional energy fields of the viewer. Being in the presence of the energy of a Painting That Heals™ is what alters and heals both the viewer's physical and energetic body. The ART of healing is being taken to a new level... see http://www.PaintingsthatHeal.com

"THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IS finally acknowledging that we cannot root out every disease through molecular biology and gene mapping alone," says Dr Richard Lippin founder of International Arts-Medicine Association. Medical researchers can tell that art's healing effects are linked to the interplay of one's visual input and thoughts, and the chemical and cellular reactions they create in your body. (example: What the Bleep*!) Today's individual wants to be participatory in, and directive of their health care, not a victim of health care decided by others. A person wants to have a disease experience (from dis-ease to health), rather than to "be" the disease as their identity.

Why do these work? I direct the same healing energy into the canvas that I use to facilitate healing in my clients. I channel the images and colors that I use. The combination of focused healing energy, the vibrational frequencies of the colors, and the specific patterns all activate physical healing responses in the body. Each light ray consists of colors that have different wavelengths and vibrational frequencies that affect your mind, cells and body chemicals differently. By receiving color information through our eyes, these frequencies communicate to our brain to direct the various bodily functions to respond accordingly. Not only are you what you think, your visual input matters too! Color energy and vibrational input are constantly working on your cellular and subtle energy bodies at an unconscious level. The principle of dress for success, painting your environment (home and workplace) and decorating an environment to promote well being all lend credibility to the fact that subliminal visual input affects all of your health systems.

Are Paintings That Heal™ the same as art therapy? No, just being in the presence of the energy of a painting is what actually alters and heals the viewer's physical and energetic body. In contrast, the healing response in art therapy is generated by the patient making a piece of artwork.

How were these documented? Initial double blind studies using Biofeedback document that in as little as five seconds of exposure to the energy of an individual painting positive changes occur in a viewer’s heart waves (HRV), respiration rates, body temperature, brain waves (EEG) and other vital signs. State-of-the-art Gas Discharge Visualization Cameras, and the Heart Math system used by many Fortune 500 companies and by various departments of the federal government record that positive changes also occur in their bioenergetic or subtle energy fields.

As a diagnostic tool, findings are continually confirming that people respond to a specific painting which represents a disorder or issue that either was, or is presently or potentially in their physical body or energy field. Some People with multiple issues respond to several paintings.

Over the last thirty years, research indicates the cells of the body communicate via "light" which is made up of many colors. Fritz Popp discovered that cells in the body communicate with each other using small particles of colored light called photons, suggesting the concept that the language of the cells is colored light. In Russia, the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine scientists have proven that the body's energy meridians are affected by colors and can conduct those colors throughout the body via "light" for healing. In our research, the bioenergetic conditions recorded in the GVD photos corresponded to the symptoms our viewers were presenting before exposure to the paintings. After viewing the paintings, the post-GVD images of colors and energy patterns substantiated that the paintings positively affected those conditions.

Although our research has yet to be conducted in a clinically controlled environment, scientific and alternative methods used to document and verify results with these paintings are:

1. Traditional Biofeedback.

2. Vocal Emission Analysis, a computer program reflecting subtle energy imbalances in the body.

3. The GDV (Gas Discharge Visualization) Camera. It is the first device in the world which measures the distribution of energy around a human body. There are approximately 400 cameras in use worldwide and most are used to do research work. The GDV Camera photographs an individual's energy fields through image sensors that utilize state-of-the-art optical technology to read energy levels from an individual's fingertips.

4. The HeartMath System's Freeze-Framer is an interactive computer-based heart rate variability monitor and real-time pulse wave recording that gives a scientific measure of your physiological readings.

To date, there are only a handful of distance healers around the world that have demonstrated the ability to channel, capture and infuse Healing Energy into the canvas. I first discovered the powerful phenomenon of Paintings That Heal™ in March 2004 while creating a commissioned work, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), for the cover of the University of North Carolina Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorder's annual report. My client asked me to paint a picture of the disorder. When finished, I was inspired to channel the Healing Energy for IBS into another layer of the painting which I placed on top of the original image. Amazingly, a year later the painting still retains the same powerful Healing Energy, and continues to be a source of healing on a deep cellular memory level for those battling this disorder.

To maximize the benefits of a painting, it should be placed to receive optimum ongoing exposure to its Healing Energy on a daily basis. Once the painting becomes part of an environment, an individual continually benefits from it energetically by means of harmonic resonance. A person's own energy field will regulate the appropriate amounts of energy that they receive on an ongoing basis. You can not be overexposed.

What can an individual expect when they are exposed to a painting on a long-term basis? At present, there are no specific guarantees regarding a measured timeframe and the healing properties of Paintings That Heal™. Research results vary with individual situations. However, we are able to document definite positive changes in the individual's bio energetic fields for extended periods of time. With that given result, we hope to generate more interest in expanding our long-term research program for the energy of Paintings That Heal™.

What does the future hold for these paintings? We believe that Paintings That Heal™ will have multiple applications, from therapeutic screen savers (a client on medication for anxiety attacks used his Painting as his computer's screen saver, and was able to reduce and later eliminate his meds) to healthcare and public murals. We envision "get well" cards and children's picture healing books whose illustrations contain Healing Energy. The Heavenly Express, my bereavement book series for children, will address the issues of death, and contain illustrations infused with Healing Energy to facilitate support for those who have suffered the loss of a loved one or friend. Imagine prints in a nursing home that create a positive atmosphere, or artwork that soothes in hotels and waiting rooms, or a deck of cards that facilitates a healthier bio and electromagnetic field for the user. The paintings uses are almost endless. Wherever there is artwork or a design or a surface to be painted, the potential for healing is available.

We welcome opportunities to work with licensors, designers and decorators, galleries, healthcare practitioners and facilities, public environments, and researchers in order to further explore and document the potential of this modality. I'm anxious to expand our research into broader test samples by using more types of monitoring equipment and controlled environments. It is my intent for my paintings to be an integrative bridge between alternative and traditional allopathic therapy.

Paintings That Heal™ are created for or commissioned by individuals for themselves or their environments, and are created to address their specific healing needs.

© Brent Atwater, 2005, All Rights Reserved
Disclaimer: There are no guarantees about the healing properties of this artwork. Results will vary with individual situations. We can only state that positive results have been documented for individual clients and research in this area continues.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brent Atwater is a Medical Intuitive, Healer, Artist and Author. As a child, Brent was in the pioneer NC Gifted Student Program (1-12). Her intuitive and psychic abilities were studied by Duke's pioneer ESP Research team headed by Dr. J. B. Rhine. Her Medical Intuitive and Healing Energy work has been studied by and/or documented at Duke Center for Integrated Medicine; the ARE: Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment, Dallas Center in Atlanta, Georgia; and North Carolina State University's Veterinary school. At 16 she was selected to be in the pioneer NC Governor's School for the Gifted in Art program, and one of her paintings was chosen for the NC Museum of Art's permanent collection. Brent graduated with a degree in Art and teaching certification from Hollins University. Brent established the "Just Plain Love" Charitable Fund for children and other worthwhile causes, to give back and do "my part running carpools." She attended Wake Forest University Law School and is a non denominational Ordained Minister.

Through the 80’s and 90’s Brent was a highly licensed, collected, exhibited, televised, and widely sold American photo-realistic and impressionistic artist. "PBS" did a national program on her artwork, and she has been featured on "PM Magazine" in a national special, on "Crook and Chase" and others. Her work can be seen in many major national magazines ("W", "Town & Country", "Robb Report", et al), retail stores and catalogues, and newspapers. Today, Brent blends her classical training with artistic spirituality. Her award winning paintings hang in world-class public and private international collections and galleries, and mirror the spirit and soul of her subjects, creating intimacy, healing, personal awareness and palpable experiences within each viewer. http://www.BrentAtwater.com; http://www.paintingsthatheal.com or, theHeavenlyExpress.com Email: Brent@BrentAtwater.com or call: 910-692-5206 for information.