TESTIMONIALS IN FULL

• Jacklyn Hopkins, Esquire (Distance sessions for son, Clint): My 13 year old son recently suffered through a life changing illness. Because he had been diagnosed with ADHD when he was ten years old, we have tried various modalities to help him feel successful in school. He had been receiving benefit from distance sessions with Maria for about 6 months when he started becoming jaundiced.

Blood tests showed that the bile made by his liver was not entering the bile ducts as it should. X-rays, Ultrasound and an MRI of his abdomen did not show stones or a structural problem with his organs. We were referred to Stanford University by the department director at Children’s Hospital.

At worst, this was a life threatening illness. At best, he would permanently need investigational medications, and might need to have a liver transplant and his colon removed in the future. The middle ground included the possibility of other surgical procedures. Upper and lower GI endoscopies with 20 biopsies and 3 liver biopsies were all normal. Fifty different blood tests were run to rule out obscure causes. He lost 30 pounds and became anemic due to the biopsies and repeated blood testing. To their dismay, his doctors were unable to pinpoint the root cause of his illness.

After about three months, my son decided he was tired of feeling sick. He asked Archangels Michael and Raphael for help. The next day, the improvement in his health was dramatic and obvious. The transformation I saw in a very short time was remarkable. With a positive attitude, he has made consistent, steady progress since that day. His blood tests have returned to normal, and he has regained his health and strength. The illness subtly changed and matured him in ways that are very real yet difficult to describe.

Throughout the four month roller coaster ride of this illness, I spoke many times each day with Maria. Distance healing sessions were performed as directed by my son’s Higher Self. Maria was always assisted during these sessions by many beings in the Archangel realm. She frequently received messages from them regarding his healing. My son and I repeatedly called on the angels for healing during this time. With Maria’s assistance, we both felt their loving, healing presence. The angels helped me to find courage, strength, optimism and clarity I was not aware I possessed. Our story truly shows the existence of a divine, loving, higher source that does listen to our prayers. This journey would have been even more petrifying without the help and guidance we received from Maria and the angels. I am eternally grateful.

• MJ Jirik Wong, californiasurfstickers.com (Distance session for her cat): I have a cat, Precious, who is ten years old. Not young, not ancient. She suddenly lost a LOT of weight and started projectile vomiting. We’re thinking now that it is very similar to the animals that suffered from the bad pet food incidents last year. We were in and out of the vet and hundreds of dollars later, all I knew was that she was in kidney failure (duh. Pretty obvious.) The vets were so negative about her prognosis that I had to speak to them about the tone they used around my cat. She kept eating, even though she threw everything up, so it seemed like she was trying. For weeks, we went back and forth to the vet as she deteriorated. At one point, the vet said, “I don’t know what to do, her tests are ambiguous, maybe just trust your instincts with her.” (I have 25 years shelter/foster pet experience).

The vet prescribed IV fluids once a day at home. He said even if she lived, she would probably never regain the weight, and always be sickly. He prescribed a bunch of symptomatic medication, all of which she immediately puked up, so I stopped giving it to her. Precious laid on her side on a blanket on the couch and barely moved except to eat, drink, pee, poop or vomit. (Lovely...) I could pick up her dehydrated skin and it just stayed peaked. Her breath smelled like death. At one point, she just peed where she lay and I had to put puppy pads underneath her. It was bad.

I decided to do a few things. She seemed constantly cold, so I put her on a heating pad on low. The vet said this can be dangerous because sometimes they can’t get off when they are dangerously overheated. I kept an eye on her. Second, I upped her fluids to three times a day. Third, I started force feeding her about five times as much as was recommended. She was down to four pounds, a skeleton. It really didn’t look like she would survive. Fourth, and I believe most importantly, I called Maria, whom I’ve known since we were kids, and asked her to please send some healing Precious’ way. I’m not very experienced in the spiritual healing area, but was familiar with some of Maria’s successful work with animals.

Within a few days, Precious turned a corner. She had been really, really sick for over two months. The projectile vomiting stopped. She started perking up when she heard the cat food can top pop off. She started retaining the fluid I was giving her. Yay!

It’s a few months later now. Precious is getting downright chunky. She is playing with the new kittens we rescued and crawling on our laps on the couch. She eats like a champ, purrs in the sun spots, and has shiny fur.

I sincerely appreciate the efforts of my buddy Maria in helping my cat. I would recommend her services to anyone who needs a little more help than the vet can give.

Thanks, Maria!

• Stefan M. (Distance session for sister): I have been visiting my sister about everyday and today has been the best yet. The nurse said she is doing fine and her chest/breathing problem is pretty much gone; her blood pressure is pretty stable and they have cut back almost completely the drugs to get the blood pressure up. This is REALLY good news! Her eyes look clear and skin color looks normal. She is able to talk (a little bit!) and seems almost like her 'old' self again. I'm quite amazed and VERY grateful!!!

This is a complete turnaround from being in a coma, pneumonia, and near kidney failure. I would recommend Reconnective Healing to anyone willing to be open to alternative healing.

• Ronda Allen, Certified Massage Therapist: “You took the thorn out of my paw.”

• Angie Rockett, Professional Weaver: "Maria Benning changed my life! I told her about some health problems I was having that forced me to take a medical leave of absence from my job…a job I wasn’t happy in.

For many years I pushed for my dream job in the arts and yet I always seemed to hit a wall. Maria facilitated a long distance healing for me because of my health issues, but two days later I received a phone call that changed my life. I now have my dream job and am thankful every day for Maria's help."

• Sharon S., Software Engineer: “I did not have any expectations going into the reconnective healing session. I guess I was hoping for more of a sense of peace and purpose in my life. The session was very interesting. I could feel energy currents at different times coursing through parts of my body. It was calming. For a few days afterwards, I continued to feel palpable energy currents, like mild electricity, in my hands.

I have not had any miraculous kind of breakthroughs in my life since the session, as others have. However, I do have a sense of being more in tune with a higher consciousness, and am more willing to ask for guidance from a higher power. I've allowed my life to slow down drastically, to try and uncover areas of hurt that need to be addressed. I'm not as afraid of this as I used to be.

There are still times when I can feel the energy currents. For me, this usually occurs during times of prayer.

Maria has also done long distance healings for me. There have been times when she's done sessions on my behalf without my knowing, and has told me later. When she's doing these sessions, sometimes thoughts of her pop into my head, although I'm not consciously aware she's working on me. I feel a connection to her through this energy system. It's rather hard to explain, but it's there.

I don't have a magic answer to all my problems since The Reconnection, but I think I'm more open to the possibilities of healing the parts that need to be healed. The Reconnection is part of my journey towards that healing."

• Benjamin J.: "When I saw and read an article about Dr. Eric Pearl in East West Bookstore’s catalog, it sounded too good to be true. Heal yourself and heal others? I had to check this out. I've been suffering the last 3 years from the effects of heavy metal poison which gave me tremendous joint/back pains and chronic fatigue. As I sat there in the front row during the demonstration, I felt an energy course through my body. Dr. Pearl was demonstrating a healing on someone else but somehow, the energy made its way to me from just sitting in the audience. The next morning, I no longer needed to wear my custom orthopedic shoe inserts that I've been wearing the past year, nor did I need to wear my biking shorts/girdle to support my lower back. I feel better and I am able to walk in balance for the first time in years.

I figured that if I can get a healing from being in the audience, I should be able to get more of a healing from a personal session. I went to see Maria for a Reconnective Healing session and the Reconnection. The sessions in and of themselves were quite an experience—I felt tingles in my hands and feet; I felt something caress my face, forehead and body like static electricity; I saw beautiful colors in 3-D fashion like watching a kaleidoscope, but with my eyes closed. And I felt a sense of calm and peacefulness come over me that I wasn't familiar with.

What I noticed after my sessions with Maria is that my mind is more clear and open. My chronic fatigue and brain fog, which had been slowly getting better, is now almost gone. I now experience mental clarity and my short term memory has improved greatly. As a result, I have more energy throughout the day. I also noticed I sleep better thru the night and I've been dreaming more often and more vividly. Maybe this comes from sleeping better but my mind is definitely clearer. When I do my daily 15 minute meditations, I now see the colors that came thru during my session with Maria. They actually look like the aura colors around Maria's photo on her website. And when I read articles on spirituality that I connect with, I often feel tingling sensations in my hands."

• Susan Coggins, Aura Imaging: "On Valentine’s Day 2007 I had the pleasure of meeting Maria at our Aura Imaging offices in Redwood City, CA.

I have a very painful condition, fibromyalgia, which I’ve had for many years. I have constant stiff, aching muscles, neck aches, shoulder aches, headaches, chronic fatigue, sleeplessness and all over low energy.

Maria performed her Reconnective Healing by moving her hands through my aura for about 20 to 30 minutes. I sat in front of our WinAura Aura Imaging machine so we could see how our auras looked in real time on camera during our session.

My aura is usually a deep dark blue, but immediately when Maria put her hands in my aura I could see the color changes, especially around her hands. They were surrounded by light white, light green and violet energy. My aura lightened quite a bit during the session. Maria asked me to close my eyes but I didn’t want to! I was mesmerized seeing all the changes in my aura!

In addition, I felt a warm sensation inside my body which is unusual since I always feel cold. After the session, I started to feel energetic on my walk back home and I noticed a sharp pain in my neck gradually disappearing. I’d had this same neck pain for the past two days. Over the next several days the neck pain disappeared completely and I felt quite a bit more energetic. I started walking twice as far on my daily strolls—two miles instead of one.

Also, another benefit I received is that I finally got responses to an ad I posted on Craigslist which I had been reposting over several months with no luck. Within one day of my session with Maria, I sold the items from my ad. It was like she opened some kind of door!

I feel like Maria gave me a blast of positive energy which I am still feeling almost two weeks later."

• April W.: "Thank you for your work with me. I talked to you on a Wednesday. The following Friday I was due to come up with over $6,000 for my mortgage. The sale date for foreclosure was set for the following Monday, March 26th. I actually got all the money by Saturday, March 24, around 11:00 a.m. and forwarded it to the mortgage company.

The whole time I was working to get the money, I was aware of Jesus standing by my side to my right, comforting me, saying 'Your house is safe.' I attribute that particular presence to your work, as well as my constant prayer and support from friends and family helping me—even down to the fact that a friend had $3,000 in her house in $20 bills the day I needed it.

I am in another batch of woods these next two weeks and again, I don't know how I am going to get what I need, but I still have Jesus at my right side. I am working on becoming less fearful."

• Betty Austin, Artist: "After receiving The Reconnection from Maria, I stopped smoking—a 46 year long habit! Also, within a month of that time, a large warehouse of anger was downloaded into the dump without harm and a new space for evolution appeared. This is an ongoing spiritual journey that has just begun. I recommend it to everyone."

Maria K Benning | 10300 Jollyville Rd | Austin TX 78759 | 512-340-0082