FAQ's
     as seen on Adam, Dream Healer http://www.dreamhealer.com/links.Health_Research.41.htm
and on Bridging Heaven & Earth

Brent Atwater's Hopes and Goals:
Atwater states, "As a pioneer in the USA in evidence based art medicine and art for health by having the healing benefits of my Paintings That Heal™scientifically and alternatively documented, I  believe that we are offering a new healing modality which will be physically effective, emotionally, mentally and spiritually therapeutic, and easy to administer without pain or side effects and medical complications. 
The healing power of art is enormous, and art becomes the therapy in art that heals.
 I also hope my Paintings that Heal inspire others to activate their talents and encourage those that are aware that they already demonstrate some of these abilities to become more accessible to the people
that can benefit from their artwork. Paintings that Heal  are particularly supportive in facilitating health for children, the elderly, and those in critical, chronic, degenerative or delicate health situations."
  
Benefits of Paintings That Heal™
   ●  A Healing Energies vibrational frequency"generator" for specific needs
●  Are physically non invasive and produce no adverse side effects
 ●  Assist and amplify other healing treatments, procedures and prescriptions.
   ●  Facilitate ongoing and continuous positive energies and Healing benefits in the environment.
     
Paintings That Heal™ &  Healing Art for Children™ were first documented in 2004.

Why do these work?
As a Medical Intuitive, I determine the issues each Painting needs to address. As a distant Energy Healer, I channel the Healing Energies for that specific issue and I direct those Healing Energies into the canvas.  As an artist, I am instructed which images, textures and colors to paint.
The combination of essential Healing Energies mixed with the vibrational frequencies of the colors, textures, and  specific patterns all activate physical healing responses in the body.  Each light ray consists of colors that have different wavelengths and vibrational frequencies which affect your brain, your cells, and your body's chemicals differently.  By receiving this additional color information and vibrational input, it intensifies the channeled Healing Energies and the brain directs the various bodily functions to respond accordingly. The final Painting represents "I AM HEALED", thus becoming a visible reminder of each client's healing journey.
 
Research information
   
Are Paintings That Heal™ the same as Art Therapy?  No
Just being in the presence of the combination of energies of a Painting That Heals™
is what actually alters & 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. Art therapy work is not infused with channeled Healing Energies. According to the American Art Therapy Association, art therapy is based on the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life enhancing.
    
What could one expect to experience with Paintings That Heal™
In most cases there is an immediate response both visually, and energetically when a Painting is first viewed. Documentation shows that this response can occur in as little as five seconds. This occurs in two ways:
1. The disease pattern triggers a release of old ideas, fears, limiting beliefs and emotions that have contributed to your disease, disorder, or dysfunction.
2. Simultaneously, the Healing Energies in the Painting, through the principle of harmonic resonance, activates your own inherent healing abilities.  The combination of focused Healing Energy added to the vibrations of the colors, images and textures in the finished Painting, activates the brain to trigger chemicals, and the body's cellular system to trigger internal frequencies that facilitates the body in repairing itself.  This process is like removing the layers of an onion. In the early stages of your healing, you may experience some varying levels of discomfort while the dysfunctional  energy is being removed.  However, this phase is followed by the reharmonizing and balancing of your energy on all levels. The long term effect of your Painting is that it continually reinforces your healing journey.
Each Painting is generator of living energies and positive vibrational frequencies!

Can Paintings that Heal™ be used as a diagnostic tool?
We are still researching the reactive response as an energetic diagnostic tool, and welcome inquiries.
Emails to us continually confirm that people are drawn to Paintings that represent what was, or either is presently or potentially in their energy field. People with multiple strong issues usually respond to several Paintings.  When we put these Paintings in a room, and on the Internet, people are continually confirming and responding to them, like "that Painting makes me feel weird” or all sorts of other emotional and physical reactions.  Example: One specific Painting made a woman feel "uncomfortable". The Painting was of the breast cancer disease. Later we learned that she had actually had breast cancer.  She related to that Painting with no idea of why she disliked it.
When a client's energy field has an adverse reaction/ response to a specific Painting,  that response is generally indicative that a diseased energy could  have been or is starting to be or is entrenched in their auric field or beginning in their physical body. 
When we put 5 Paintings in the room at one time, they shut down the computer programming. We could only have one Painting in a room in order for the computer program to continue working.
 
Is there a scientific principle behind these Paintings?
Yes.  A healthy body resonates between 62- 68 MHz.  Disease is created when the physical body vibrational frequency is lowered. The combined Healing Energies of these Paintings raise the viewer's bio energetic frequency which promotes health and healing.  As part of the healing process, it is also helpful to keep in mind that laughter raises energy by 20+ MHz, negative thoughts lower your body's bio energetic frequency by 10 MHz.

How is this possible?
     All matter is made up of subtle energy including humans, animals, plants, minerals, etc. This energy operates at a unique vibrational frequency. This is true for a rock and even for different colors.  As a human, you have a specific frequency range when you are in a state of wellbeing.
Disease and disorder change this vibrational frequency in various areas of your subtle energy field and in your cellular physical body.  
     When that specific frequency is lowered in a cellular area, or overall in your entire bioenergetic field, the disease/ disorder or dysfunction, can be pinpointed by the changes in the patterns of your energy's vibrational level.  These patterns can be scientifically  and alternatively recorded.
     To correct the disease/disorder/dysfunction, one must remove, stabilize, repair, regenerate, raise, recharge and balance the unhealthy frequency back to a healthy frequency resonance. 
     The physical body often responds to Healing Energy work directed at an individual’s subtle energy field.  Energy Healers act as a conduit and director of  placing and establishing higher frequencies into your physical body and energy fields, in order for those higher energy frequencies to help restore, repair, realign and balance your body’s own vibrational frequency. 

The same Healing Energy that would be directed to your body during a channeled healing session, is directed into a Painting That Heals™  paint and canvas. The Painting becomes an energy generator for your body.  When you are within its "range", ( usually 5 to 10 feet depending upon the size of your canvas) you are in the energy field of the artwork, and are being "charged up to a higher level of energy", as is your environment.  This higher level of energy, helps you reestablish a higher level of energy in your body, which allows the body to heal itself.

Thus, the Healing Energies for a Paintings that Heal™  is channeled to heal your particular health problem.  The combination of focused Healing Energies added to the vibrations of the colors, images and textures in the finished Painting, activates the brain to trigger chemicals, and the body's cellular system to trigger internal frequencies that facilitates the body in repairing itself.

What is Healing Energy?
Healing Energy is energy that has been transmuted from a higher power, focused by intent and directed to repair damage that has occurred in a person’s energy levels or to places that have manifested into physical problems by raising the cellular vibrational frequency. 
The study of energy medicine and the part Energy Healing plays in health recovery continues to gain ground in the West. It has been an accepted part of Eastern Medicine practices for over 6,000 years. 
Healing Energy modalities that seem to have gained the most acceptance by health professionals and in traditional hospital settings include Healing Touch, Reiki and Acupuncture. These modalities, along with other Energy-based Healers who channel energy, continue to be the focus of complementary alternative/ integrated medical research.  This acceptance and use of Healing Energy in perplexing cases to diagnose and aid in the recovery process, is considered to be on the cutting edge of integrated medical research

Are there any cultures in the world that use paintings as a traditional form of healing? 
The most well documented use of healing art is that from Ethiopia. This is what the Medical Museum at the University of Iowa has to say about their art and its use in medicine:
 
Art That Heals: The Image as Medicine in Ethiopia will introduce the American public to the boldly graphic healing scrolls of Ethiopia, which challenge traditional definitions of art and its potential. The West has historically treated art and medicine as separate, but in Ethiopia they are intimately linked. Ethiopian scrolls are not passive objects, but active forces; their power to heal believers demonstrates the interrelation of perception and aesthetics, art and the body. Drawing loans from public and private collections in the United States and France, Art That Heals will present approximately 60 works of art, many of which are used by clerics of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to heal the sick. The exhibition includes parchment scrolls from the 18th to the 20th century, church frescoes from the 15th to the 20th century, processional crosses, drawings, codices, and icons. Additionally, the exhibition presents contemporary Ethiopian talismanic paintings which draw upon and further the aesthetic and conceptual legacy of Ethiopian healing scrolls.

The parchment scrolls in the exhibition are exceptional for their artistic quality, visual impact, and the powerful ideas they embody. In Ethiopia, when a person is ill, he or she commissions a scroll. Using a complex iconographic system, a cleric paints arresting images and prayers on the scroll, which combat the forces causing illness. The images which appear on the scrolls range from religious symbols, the story of King Solomon, lions, birds, and abstract talismanic patterns to the most frequently depicted symbols, colorfully-rendered eyes. The patient looks fixedly at the scroll and enters a healing trance; by staring at the scroll, the patient is penetrated and cured through
his or her eyes.
Art That Heals is a timely and innovative exhibition, which examines a little-known and frequently misunderstood African culture while urging American viewers to think about the universal issues Ethiopian art addresses. What is our relationship to art? Are we only passive admirers of aestheticized objects, or might we be affected and changed by the objects we create and live
with?
Further, Art That Heals addresses issues of current concern in America: art and the body, health care, and the museum as a space of heightened visual awareness and receptivity. At a moment when the impact of AIDS has inspired contemporary artists to use the visual realm as a place of memorial, testimony, and spiritual healing, the Ethiopian tradition of healing scrolls provides an opportunity to reexamine the power and potential of art.
Text courtesy of Mercier, Jacques. Art That Heals: the Image as Medicine in Ethiopia. New York: Prestel Books and The Museum For African Art, 1997

How did Paintings That Heal™ evolve to become part of Brent’s healing practice?
Many of Brent’s clients wanted "something" to reinforce their healing path after their consultation with her.  She decided to take the discovery she made with the IBS painting and began channeling Paintings of her client’s or their pet's physical disease or their environment's disorder and the related Healing Energy, thereby becoming the founder and originator of Paintings That Heal.

What do I do with the Painting when I am well/healed?
Keep it as a souvenir of where you have been, and a reminder of where you are!  It will continue to resonate with your cellular and subconscious energy levels, and to raise the energy in your environment. FYI, You can also photograph the Painting and make it your screen saver.

What is the process to have a Painting created for me or as a gift for someone else? 
Go to the Purchase or Commission a Painting Page
 
Can you give me an example of another Medical Intuitive that creates Healing Paintings?
Probably the closest example to the type of Paintings That Heal™ created by Brent Atwater are healing paintings created by Polish artist, Elisabeth Poll-Sokolowski, who resides in Haan, near Düsseldorf in Germany. Like Brent, she has the combined skills of being an artist, medical intuitive and healer and uses these gifts to create paintings that have healing properties for her clients.

Are all Medical Intuitives also Energy Healers?
No. A Medical Intuitive can aid in diagnostics.  A Healer uses additional gifts to help transform the energy from a place of disease, disorder, or dysfunction to enhanced health and wellbeing.