Modern medicine is going just the opposite direction to evolution because natural healing skills mean less need for medical care. Weak immune systems mean more drugs, more doctors, and more profit for the entire health care industry. Natural healing means off the shelf drugs, less intrusive care, and down sizing the health care industry. Health care should be more like it is in the military, where you’ll do anything possible to avoid it. That way people will use the experts for the things they are best at, and depend more on the inherent disease coping mechanisms of their own bodies.
One of the paradoxes about practicing muscle relaxation and the other basic medication techniques is that while you become more aware of sensations in the major muscle groups in the body – wrists, back, ankles, etc.. – you also become aware of the lack of sensation; a kind of numbness. This is entirely natural – it happens to me all the time; all I do is exercise the muscle group in question and the numbness is gone. I have a theory that most people never notice stress collecting in their body, and it stays there and causes permanent damage – arthritis, cancer, migraine headaches, etc.. – so the more you do to recognize and get rid of this stress (and a part of the program is knowing what events cause stress, so you will be on the lookout) the more healthy and long living you will be.
Long ago the early religions had to get people to focus on higher ideals by disassociating them from worship of nature. They made nature look evil. Religions still do. If you want to develop your natural “powers” you must return to the past and learn a healthy respect for nature. A good way to do this is to introduce some simple energy conservation ideas into your lifestyle. The first chapter in the abridged edition of my energy conservation book, Retrofitting for Energy Conservation, has a long list of ideas to get you started. There are more ideas in the real book, linked from the opening page of this web site.