<p id=”par-1_69″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/elvis-presley/”>Elvis Presley</a> was a talented performer who captured the hearts of millions of fans with his <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/music/”>songs</a>. He had a highly successful career, but he yearned for greater achievements. Elvis grew fascinated with finding his purpose in life, which he believed would lead to spiritual fulfillment. He even believed he held certain metaphysical powers. He once used these to try to take pain away from a woman in labor.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-elvis-presley-tried-to-help-a-woman-in-labor”>Elvis Presley tried to help a woman in labor</h2>
<p id=”par-2_32″>In 1975, Elvis and his girlfriend, Linda Thompson, visited her brother, sister-in-law, and their new baby in the hospital. While they were there, Elvis noticed a woman in labor entering the hospital. </p>
<p id=”par-3_50″>“The next thing I know, Elvis has stopped the emergency charge toward the delivery room and starts talking to the lady,” his bodyguard Dave Hebler said in the book<em> Elvis: What Happened? </em>by Steve Dunleavy. “Here she is in labor, but Elvis comes along and she starts flipping out despite the pain.”</p>
<p id=”par-4_47″>Elvis believed himself <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/priscilla-presley-claimed-elvis-capable-spiritual-healing-touch.html/”>to be a spiritual healer</a>, and he told the woman he was going to try to take away her pain. Hebler was typically highly suspicious of Elvis’ claims he could heal people, but the woman seemed to believe the singer was taking her pain away. </p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” width=”1200″ height=”953″ src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg?strip=all&quality=89″ alt=”A black and white picture of Elvis wearing a striped shirt and sitting outside.” class=”wp-image-3632191″ srcset=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg 1200w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg?w=630&h=500 630w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg?w=768&h=610 768w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg?w=1024&h=813 1024w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg?w=441&h=350 441w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg?w=213&h=169 213w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg?w=200&h=159 200w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg?w=638&h=507 638w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elvis-co-star.jpg?w=76&h=60 76w” sizes=”(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px”><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Elvis Presley | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-5_112″>“Anyway, as he sees her in pain, he lays his hands on her stomach, and he starts saying serious in a sort of mystical way, ‘Now, there, it won’t hurt any more. It won’t hurt any more. Everything is going to be fine. You’re not going to hurt any more,’” Hebler said. “He’s laying on the hands and taking the pain from her. Well, that might sound pretty ridiculous for a woman in labor, but the funny thing was she is saying, ‘You’re right, the pain is gone, you’re right.’ Well, the doctors there are doing flips. They want to get this lady into delivery, and Elvis is doing his psychic healing.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_25″>Elvis then requested <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elvis-presley-snuck-delivery-room-stranger-giving-birth.html/”>to join the woman</a> in the delivery room. While the doctors ultimately refused, the woman pleaded with them to let him join.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-elvis-presley-often-tried-to-heal-his-friends-ailments”>Elvis Presley often tried to heal his friends’ ailments</h2>
<p id=”par-7_35″>Hebler didn’t find this scene in the hospital all that surprising, as he had seen Elvis <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elvis-presleys-bodyguards-believed-blessed-god.html/”>try to heal people before</a>. Another bodyguard, Red West, avoided talking about his persistent back pain for this reason.</p>
<p id=”par-8_137″>“Whenever he knew I had the pain, he would ask me to sit down in front of him, and then he would lay on his hands, telling me over and over that the pain would go away, that he was drawing out the pain,” West said. He would then tell his boss that the pain had gone away just to appease him. “He would give me one of those little secretive smiles that told the world that he had these powers, and he would walk away pleased with himself. I would walk away and my back and neck were still hurting like hell. It was a case where I didn’t want to tell him that he was kidding himself, because he really had the best of intentions, but he was convinced that he had fixed me up.”</p>
<p id=”par-9_38″>In some instances, Elvis’ insistence he could heal injuries could have done more harm than good. Once, one member of his entourage fell while skiing, and everyone worried he had broken his leg. Elvis tried to mend it.</p>
<p id=”par-10_69″>“Then old psychic healer Elvis comes along. He starts laying on the hands and grabbing the leg. Poor old Dean is nearly passing out with pain,” bodyguard Sonny West said. “But Elvis is convinced he is fixing the leg. Now, as it turned out, it wasn’t broken, just a very bad bruise, but if it had been broken, Elvis’s fooling around and grabbing it could have got it worse.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-priscilla-presley-firmly-believed-he-held-healing-powers”>Priscilla Presley firmly believed he held healing powers</h2>
<p id=”par-11_22″>While Elvis’ bodyguards did not believe in his healing powers, Priscilla Presley did. She said Elvis fixed her headaches on multiple occasions.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” width=”1200″ height=”811″ src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?strip=all&quality=89″ alt=”Elvis and Priscilla Presley hold hands on their wedding day. He wears a tuxedo and she wears a dress and veil.” class=”wp-image-3638261″ srcset=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg 1200w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?w=150&h=100 150w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?w=640&h=433 640w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?w=768&h=519 768w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?w=1024&h=692 1024w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?w=518&h=350 518w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?w=250&h=169 250w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?w=200&h=135 200w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?w=750&h=507 750w, https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Elvis-Priscilla.jpg?w=89&h=60 89w” sizes=”(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px”><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Priscilla and Elvis Presley | Bettmann/Contributor via Getty</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-12_27″>“He was capable of spiritual hearing,” she wrote in her book <em><a href=”https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/elvis-and-me-priscilla-beaulieu-presley/1102157227?ean=9780593639566″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Elvis and Me</a></em>. “One touch of his hands to my temples and the most painful headaches disappeared.”</p>