About Walter Weston

I am Walter Weston the developer of Emotional Release Therapy. I am a United Methodist clergyman. I have practiced spiritual healing for 40 years, healing thousands of people through prayer and touch. Here are the important events that have shaped my life as a healer.

When I was 30 years old, I prayed with a dying man in the hospital and he was completely well during the five minute prayer. During the prayer I had a peak experience of God and felt a powerful energy descend upon my head and shoulder and flow down my arm into the man’s hand. The experience surprised me because I had paid no attention to healing. It taught me that I was a healer. The healings continued. About half the persons I prayed with were healed.

I traveled to India in 1989 to work with healing researcher Ramesh Chouhan, MD, who had a grant from the Indian government to study healing and the changes in the human energy field at JIPMER hospital in Pondichery. Using a low light video camera, we videotaped the changes in the energy field when I practiced touch-healing prayer. We scientifically proved several theories of healing.

We proved that it took only 89 seconds of healing contact to light up the whole body with healing energy. We proved that a healers inner sensing of what is happening in the clients body is scientifically valid. We proved that the healing energy imparted to a client made her whole body glow for 48-hours before she was healed. We proved nine other theories of healing

I earned a doctorate in healing research in 1991. My faculty advisor was Dr Bernard Grad, a research biologist at McGill University who is known as the father of healing research with more than 200 studies of the effects of healing touch on plants and animals to avoid the placebo effect in healing humans.

My first book, “PrayWell, a Holistic Guide To Healing and Wholeness,” 1994, 440-pages footnoted, was taken from my doctoral dissertation and presents a comprehensive scientific look at healing.

I discovered Emotional Release Therapy in 1994 and have practiced it with more than 500 people. I have taught more than 4,000 students in the United States, Canada, India and South Africa in my Emotional Release Therapy workshops.

In 1996, I traveled to India to teach Pranic (Hindu) Healers to practice Emotional Release Therapy. Before the workshop, they complained that they had very few healings and none were permanent. After the workshop, they excitedly phoned me to tell me that after doing ERT, everyone they worked with was healed and healed permanently.

It was then that I realized why some people were not healed. It was because if you are filled with emotional pain, somehow this blocks the effectiveness of all healing techniques. You must first remove emotional pain with ERT before any form of healing can heal effectively.

My books in 1996, “Healing Others” and “Healing Yourself” were practical guides to healing.

In 2000, I was invited to South Africa by a non-profit group that provides a free education to 80,000 rural Zulu children every year. I taught rural Zulu school teachers and social workers so that they could educate others in the practice of ERT on the millions of rural children orphaned by AIDS. They were the most effective practitioners of ERT of all the students I have taught.

In 2006, my book, “Emotional Release Therapy” was published. Readers proclaim it to be the best book I have written.

In 2006, I developed a web site for promoting my book, “Emotional Release Therapy,” and my DVD using all the words I say in my six hour workshop.