Healing came into Rosemary’s life when she and her boyfriend, Red, tried to heal an injured two-year-old Spanish girl in the ‘All for Anna’ story. Since writing that book in 2006, CJ Chesterton has been thinking about its potential in real life. Being a logical scientist by training, he reasons as follows:

1. Homeopathic medicines sell well all over the world, yet they only contain water. ‘They can’t do you any harm because the active ingredient has been diluted away’ is the claim. In scientific double-blind trials, these medicines always fail to show any effect. However, when folk buy them and drink them, their health improves – that’s also a proven fact. Why – BECAUSE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THEM. (Note that in double-blind-trials, participants do not know what they are taking – the drug or a placebo).
2. It has also been shown in trial after trial that folk who have happy contented stress-free lives are much healthier than those that don’t.

CJC reasons therefore that there is good evidence proving that the mind can control the body’s homeostasis (that’s the way it keeps its complex functions in balance) and can prevent ill-health in ways unknown to medicine as yet.

That being so, he has come up with an idea for healing (which may or may not be original – let us know). If that power the mind has over the body is transferable, and since we do not understand it this may be the case, then it could be used to heal others. In Anna, there were only two healers. What if more, up to SEVEN, the perfect number of healthy people took part, each first relaxing and clearing their minds of stress and troublesome thoughts and then asking for the peace and health power within them to flow into the patient by touch? Wouldn’t the chance of success be that much greater? He calls this: THE WHITEROSE METHOD.

CJC is a retired scientist and scientists are always eager to test their ideas by experiment. You may feel the whole thing is zany and ridiculous but don’t forget, most radical new ideas are thought to be crazy when first muted. Anyway, he's willing to give it a try and anyone interested in this harmless method of healing is welcome to contact him through: whiterosepress@yahoo.co.uk

CAUTION! Please note: as stated in ‘All for Anna’, CJC feels that any involvement of money or publicity will kill the healing process stone dead. Please do not try to get involved if you are interested in making money out of it (go for banking instead!). If anyone asks you for money: RUN!