Spiritual Healing in Buddhist Tibet Tools for Healing, Relaxing and Awakening

Introduction

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Before the communist takeover, Tibet was a Buddhist country, and Tibetan Buddhist culture still survives somewhat in some of the neighboring countries like Bhutan and Nepal, and in refugee communities in India and in the West. Buddhism is very practical. All of the Dharma is based on Buddha's discovery that suffering is unnecessary: Like a disease, once we really face the fact that suffering exists, we can look more deeply and discover it's cause; and when we discover that the cause is dependent on certain conditions, we can explore the possibility of removing those conditions. Buddha taught many methods for doing that, and the Tibetans have preserved and refined many of them over the centuries.
The spiritual and psychological entanglements that lead to suffering also can result in illness of all sorts. Many Tibetan Buddhist methods and tools for awakening, for removing those entanglements, also promote relaxation and healing. In traditional Tibetan culture, practicing meditation and using prayer wheels, incense, prayer flags and other methods all work together with Tibetan herbal medicine in healing illness and maintaining health.
You can use this page as a way of learning more about Tibetan culture, or you can actually try out some of the techniques to see if they might be useful in improving your own health. These methods of spiritual healing require no training in Buddhist theory and little practical instruction, and the equipment required is inexpensive and available by mail. Meditation is especially simple -- you probably have the necessary equipment already: A human body, awareness, some emotional energies, and an environment are about all you need. 
You do need a little basic instruction to get started, with any of these methods, and this page will lead you to resources for acquiring the tools and learning to use them. The real learning, though,  and the benefits, come from practicing. The more you practice, the more you learn. It's very simple.

"Just do it!"  -- Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

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There's one book I'd like to mention, because it presents a fairly balanced overview of the various healing traditions of Tibet: