Spiritual Healing with Vinny Pinto
Training & background page. Vinny Pinto is a spiritual healer, also sometimes known as a subtle energy healer or non-local healer.He is highly intuitive and offers non-contact, nonlocal spiritual healing..
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Open Letter to Other Healers, Intuitives, and Spiritual Teachers/Coaches
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Vinny turned 50 years old in springtime 2001, and at the same time received a strong inner message from Holy Spirit and his angels to devote more and more of his time to healing and coaching work in the inner realms of healing, heart and spirit. In particular, he was guided to concentrate on offering his work as a spiritual healer and coach to others. Vinny's
ancestral lineage
is Italian on his father's side and part Welsh, Scott, Virgin Islander
and English on his mother's side, with some family tales of Native
American
bloodlines there as well. Since an early age, he was very
intuitive
and empathic, which often produced confusing and dramatically
contrasting
experiences for him as he matured, as he was also very bright and
gifted
in various areas in the sciences, engineering and
electronics. Somehow, he has never had much trouble juggling
and nurturing both the
intuitive/spiritual and the more linear, logical and "scientific"
aspects of his nature.
This page will offer some information on Vinny's formal training and experiences. If you are interested in a broader overview of his life, his spiritual "roots" and the various teachers and authors with whom he feels a resonance, you may also wish to read the page on this site entitled Spiritual Roots: Thoughts on Healing . However, you are strongly urged to finish reading this page before moving on to the other, broader page. Vinny has trained and practiced consistenty and voraciously in a number of inner meditative practices and traditions since age sixteen. He has also trained academically in the sciences, in psychotherapy, and the related fields of health and exercise, at the graduate level. He has also trained in acupuncture at the graduate level. He has trained, since 1979, in numerous energy healing systems and in various systems of alternative healing. He has also worked as an electronics design engineer, an engineering manager, as a scientific research consultant and adviser, a psychotherapist, a director of a busy crisis center, a health and mental health researcher, and a research /software development director in mental health services in the corporate world. As a sideline, Vinny also became certified, via ACE, as a personal trainer in 1993, and worked as a personal trainer and exercise/fitness coach in the early 1990's. He has also trained as a pilot, and passed examinations for his commercial pilot's license in 1980. Vinny has trained extensively over the years in the realms of spiritual spiritual healing, inner disciplines, meditation, intuition, heart-centered spirituality, energy healing and alternative healing (and also raw foods nutrition), and at times he has practiced, taught or coached many of these modalities. He also holds a Master's degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1992) in a broad field encompassing psychotherapy and health sciences research. However, he feels that the spiritual healing work that he is currently guided to do fits none of the pervious categories, and transcends all of the previous particulars of his studies, training, or work. He sees his present work as a spiritual healer as a deep prayerful state with inner connection to Holy Spirit, while centered in his heart. Vinny has been a meditator and intuitive since 1973, and over the years has trained in and practiced:
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He
has trained and practiced in a number of energetic, therapeutic, subtle
energy and and spiritual healing traditions, and inner disciplines for
over 18 years, and those traditions have included:
Background in Healing and Spiritual Traditions In the late 1980’s and the early 1990’s, while Vinny was in graduate school, he was guided to start a small energy-healing practice, largely in western Pennsylvania and southern New York State. The work at this time was largely specific and very intentional and guided. In other words, the work was often intended to address specific health problems or emotional issues, and often involved direct client contact, usually for the purposes of kinesiological testing or for “pulling” energy thru meridians and other points, while treating allergies, balancing energies, and shifting blocks. The work sometimes involved teaching other practitioners various energy methods for dealing with problems and allergies. Vinny eventually created his own energy-based system called Transmutational Bioenergy System (TBS), which he practiced and taught to other healers in the early 1990's. He performed succesful work with a number of clients until he was internally guided to temporarily cease all energy healing work in 1991 (he was guided to take a hiatus from all forms of energy healing, and was advised that he would eventually be guided to return to practice as a "spiritual healer", operating on a much different level (this did not happen until late 1999.) Vinny has also trained in conventional psychotherapy, and part of his major in graduate school was a clinical psychology program. His graduate school training in psychotherapy included training in NLP (although he does not agree with most of the tenets or principles behind NLP and refuses to use it), in Ericksonian hypnosis (much as with NLP, Vinny does not agree with some of the tenets of this work, and does not employ it) and in modern Gestalt Therapy. Vinny’s Master’s degree was awarded in 1992, in a broad interdisciplinary area including psychotherapy, wellness, exercise, longevity and research methods. During the completion of his Master's degree program, Vinny received the revelation that while he was meant to have received training in various methods of psychotherapy, he was not meant to use in in practice with humans, but rather, would eventually be guided to offer a deeper form of "intervention". In the early 1990's, Vinny trained, for one year of a three-year graduate-level Master's degree program in acupuncture, at an acupuncture school on the East Coast which specialized in Worsley's 5-element tradition of acupuncture. At the conclusion of the first year of schooling, Vinny left the program due to the rather extreme expense. In the subsequent two months after leaving acupuncture training, it was revealed to him on an inner level that while he had needed the afore-mentioned exposure to formal training in acupuncture and particularly the Worsley five elements tradition, he was not meant to work on people (or animals) with needles, nor even with talk psychotherapy (mentioned above), but rather would eventually be guided to offer another, more global means of intervention that was deeply rooted in spirit. In 1998, Vinny also took a brief training in New York City with well-known energy healer Mitchell May, whose work appears to be primarily spiritual and subtle-energy in nature. Since 1995, Vinny has trained extensively in several heart-centered spiritual traditions, including the Heartmath work and the work of Lester Levenson (an American spiritual teacher, now deceased.) In 2001, during a sabbatical from the corporate/managerial world in which he had been immersed for eight years since finishing graduate school, Vinny was again guided internally by Spirit and his guides and angels to resume working with people and animals, but this time the guidance was unmistakable as to direction and style: the work was to be totally heart-centered, very broad an deep, and only on a spiritual level (some have called this "subtle energy healing" versus "energy healing", but Vinny prefers the term "spiritual healing".) Thus, during the spiritual healing session there is usually no intention or attempt to heal, cure or “fix” any specific ”condition”, whether it be spiritual, mental, emotional or physical, but rather, a very easeful effort is made to enter a heart-centered spiritual “space” or “field” and to share some aspect of this Grace and Love with the client. For many levels of Vinny's healing, any or all of his 43 angelic helpers may also be involved, and some levels also employ the service of the angel Azrael. Since receiving this guidance in 2001, Vinny commenced slowly winding down several business involvements and commitments, and starting to again practice healing work, albeit on the more "refined" or "subtle" level of spiritual healing this time. He found that this this latest incarnation of the work felt like an evolution and a progression, and feels strongly that only this type of hands-off non-local spiritual healing work is most congruent with his deep spiritual sense and his heart-centered approach to life and people. However, despite the guidance he had received, he was reluctant, for many reasons, to try to start practicing this work nearly full-time. |
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Several times since receiving the inner guidance to start focusing more and more on spiritual healing work, Vinny tried to ignore the message, since the work ahead seemed somewhat more ambiguous and ill-defined than a number of his previous professions, and also held the possiblity of lower income as well. A primary concern was simply the pragmatic fact that such work might result in an income far lower than that to which he had become accustomed, and that he needed to meet financial commitments incurred during graduate school and subsequent training. Instead, he tried to re-immerse himself again in his old corporate-type work (managing information systems (IS) projects for companies), but this time for companies offering spiritual products and self-help. However, he was told on an inner level after several months in this field that the full-time work in the outside business world would need to wind down to make room for a renewed focus on spiritual healing. Several times, Vinny tried to resist this message, if only for the sake of financial security and stability, but each time, jobs and projects ended rather abruptly, leaving him free to pursue the spiritual healing work. | |
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Finally,
Spirit told Vinny that he simply would not be allowed to work full-time
in the business and managerial world anymore (where he had spent much of
the previous eight years since graduate school.) Indeed, by late
2001, Vinny found not only that he had lost interest in working in the
business world, but that every possiblity he explored would disappear.
Further, he was reminded every day by Spirit that it was time to transition
more fully to inner and spiritual work -- work which would "make
his heart sing". Each day, his heart and Spirit reminded him that
his true task, insecure and fanciful as it might seem, was to be transitioning
to the role of a spiritual healer, coach and teacher. Such was the
forcefullness of the inner message that Vinny was even instructed to spend
less time in his research laboratory, a work very dear to his heart, and
even more time on developing his inner capability and spiritual healing
practice. Luckily, Vinny began receiving several comfirmatory messages
from the outside world which affirmed the new direction, including confirmation
from several persons (intuitives, clairvoyants, healers) and events in
his life that this was to be his new direction.
Drawing on his previous training (both practical and academic, including graduate-level studies) over many years in the sciences and electronics, Vinny also spends a very small portion of his time in his privately-owned and operated non-profit research laboratory, performing research , much of it in the areas of the effects of deep heart-centered or healing states. The primary focus of his research work is studying the physical effects of certain states which may be entered by a spiritual healer, heart-centered meditator, or mystic. In brief, we know that many spiritual and energy healers, heart-centered meditators, and mystics, when they are in that "special" state of connectedness with God and Spirit, which we often call "increased coherence" or "high coherence", emit a field which affects many physical phenomena around them. Some of the physical effects of the states which seem to occur near spiritual healers and heart-centered meditators during these inner states, and which Vinny has investigated, include:
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We assume that you have already read the introduction to Vinny's work on the home (main) page. For a fuller explanation of the spiritual healing work which Vinny performs, and of the typical effects, please see the page on this site named Details of Vinny's Method & Work , and also the Frequently Asked Questions page as well. However, it is possible to briefly address in an oversimplified manner the intention and effect of the work as follows: |
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If
there is a felt intention and a felt effect in Vinny's work as a spiritual
healer, it is to bring greater ease and flow into the client’s life.
Some clients may report a decrease or shift in symptoms or problems.
Some may report more dramatic positive results. Some clients
report definite results, and others report none. This is a very common
result for spiritual healers and subtle energy healers. Vinny does
not guarantee any results. He does not wish to persuade anyone to
try his work. Rather, he asks that anyone who is considering a session
go to their heart and spirit and “know” from there whether this work is
right for them at this time.
Vinny lives and practices in Frederick, Maryland. He practices both in-person non-contact spiritual healing, as well as remote spiritual healing, also known as distant healing arranged by telephone. Please see the contact page on this site for contact information and notes. For a Much Lighter View of Vinny
A Few Questions and Answers Why don’t you try to heal
or “fix” specific conditions?
But why aren’t you more
aggressive about wanting to fix or change illnesses or people?
"I've never met someone who said that they want to make a difference who was easy to be around." Somehow inherent in the view
that one “has a mission” or “must make a difference” is a rigidity, a drivennes,
and the arrogant assumption that something or someone is broken and it
is one’s mission to fix it or them. I cannot assume that. Rather,
I choose to remain in heart and spirit, and I love and appreciate the world
and people exactly as they are (yes,of course my mind gets cranky and critical
at times!).
Well, then, why do you
do this work?
Why don’t you touch people
in sessions?
Does your work have anything
to do with spiritualism?
Is a live, in-person spiritual
healing session more effective than a remote session organized by telephone?
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Do
you work on animals?
Yes! Sessions with animals may be shorter than those for humans,and will usually average one-half hour or less. Is this spiritual healing
work more effective than the focused energy healing you once did?
Are you perfectly healthy
yourself?
Will you want me to eat
any special kind of diet?
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Do
you ever encounter possessing entities in clients?
Occasionally, yes, but this is not a large part of my work, nor a primary focus. The more I work on inner levels, and the more I practice, I seem to learn that as we allow more and more love and light into our lives, minds and bodies, any entities will gradually leave or even dissolve as a matter of natural progression. When such entites are encountered, this is not something to build into a “big deal”. I almost always choose to ignore them unless a client insists that we look at the entity. I feel that most entities do not pose an "emergency", and will leave or dissolve in the natural courseof things as a person opens to more love and grace. I have never yet encountered an entity who was truly evil, but rather each has been a misguided or lost being or soul fragment who entered the person at some time. I do not believe in forcibly “evicting” or exorcising such entities, but rather approaching them in love and kindness, and helping them to leave and go the where they best belong. I feel nothing in common with the traditions of forcible exorcism of entities. I have, however, trained in several traditions that facilitate gently helping possessing entities to leave the body/mind. All are gentle, compassionate, heart-centered, non-invasive and non-violent methods, done with love. However, I almost never feel a need to employ those methods anymore, as I feel very secure in the global spiritual work which I currently practice, and trust its process. To learn more about my spiritual and experiential background, as well as the systems, authors and teacher with whom I feel the most resonance, you may wish to see the page on this website entitled Spiritual Roots: Thoughts on Healing .
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Vinny always has time available in his active schedule for anyone who sincerely desires to allow healing in their life. direct-dial phone 301-694-1249
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