Dailyrecord.com, NJ
March 31 2007

Energy healer Kandarjian tells how to overcome stress
BY LORRAINE ASH
DAILY RECORD
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Robert Kandarjian, a Morristown energy healer, told 20 people at the
Rockaway Township Free Public Library Tuesday night they could add 10
years to their lives by stopping the mental chatter in their heads at
least a few minutes daily.

His free presentation was "Five Ways to Address Daily Stress."

The 52-year-old Kandarjian, originally from Lebanon, speaks three
languages — Armenian, Arabic and English. He practiced chiropractic
for years but grew frustrated trying to help people solve physical
problems with psychospiritual causes. Like stress.

So 12 years ago Kandarjian, who also earned a degree in English
literature because he loves it, decided to bring his "spiritual bent
to the surface." He trained in healing touch with the American
Holistic Nurses Association and today that’s what he practices. He
helps people, one on one and in gatherings like this, learn how to
calm down.

Why? Because somebody has to do it, he said, and because hardly
anyone in American culture is invested in this type of education. The
kind that reaches caregivers, spouses, workers, mortgage-payers,
parents, average citizens such as those who showed up Tuesday.

Kandarjian told a story about his favorite Manhattan diner where he
savored his omelets in the quiet until the owner installed a
television in each corner.

"I was being forced to watch the news while I ate my eggs,"
Kandarjian said. "The culture is active and aggressive. It is in your
face. We don’t know how to be alone. We don’t know how to slow down.
We don’t know how to be still."

Stop that head chatter, he said, and the voice of intuition,
stillness, God — it goes by many names — will surface in the center
of the self. And it will speak wisdom. Having been raised Christian
in a Muslim district of Beirut, Kandarjian concerns himself with
transcending definitions like Christian or Muslim.

"What my faith helps me know is there is a divine will that operates
in all people," he said. That is the will that counteracts stress.
That is the place to go to make life decisions.

"Be in your head when necessary," he said. But some of the time, he
advised, listen to Mozart, behold the ocean. He led the group in
quiet time. Lynne Mandeville of Flanders said it was difficult.

"My brain is trained to react faster than my center," she said.

The presentation was about retraining. In another exercise Kandarjian
directed the 20 to envision an empty/full gauge in their mind to
represent their energy level. Silently they asked what they could do
to up their energy and then waited for an answer to rise within them.
It was different for everyone.

Dottie Martin of Rockaway Township responded to Kandarjian’s
preference: going to the woods and listening to birds. "That is an
excellent sound," she said.

Other countercultural ideas presented:

– "Being disconnected from your purpose in life automatically creates
stress."

– "If you don’t have faith in a spiritual force, you’re going to play
God all the time and create stress."

Robert Kandarjian can be contacted through his Web site,
He will present a workshop noon-6 p.m.
April 14 at Six Degrees of Wellness, 25 Bloomfield Ave., Denville.