HEALING IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY
by: Frank Schuster
Energy Healer
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How does healing occur? One answer is through prayer. What happens when we pray? The act of prayer is mental and involves our thought energy directed toward God. Does God then “hear” the prayer and then act independently to answer? I think not. If healing is to occur, it is through the one praying or acting prayerfully. The willing spirit of the person being prayed for also works in this activity. Of course, God is a part of the healing equation, giving impetus to the process. I submit that it takes all three entities to accomplish the healing act.

The difficulty is that we rely on God to accomplish the healing. The opposite may be true - that God is ever ready to help you and me do the work. We are God’s hands and feet in the physical world. We must accept this responsibility; that’s why we are here – to learn and to demonstrate that we are indeed one with each other and one with God. By accepting this responsibility, we can be the answer to a prayer. How often have you heard the words, “I’ll pray for you.” And the speaker quickly disappears never again to even mention the situation requiring healing.

So, what are we to do? My thoughts turn to the act of touching. Touch conveys so much to the one under duress. I don’t mean to imply that we should not pray, but I am suggesting that a prayer, given as a loving intent toward a person in need, involves our full being – spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. A prayer generates a spiritual arrangement between God, you (the healer or pray-er) and the recipient. God’s healing energy flows through you to the recipient. What better way to demonstrate this than with our hands? We are God’s hands both physically and spiritually. God works miracles through our hands in a loving touch. When we touch another with a loving intent to heal, something happens, and that is healing!

The exemplary figure in history that demonstrated this was Jesus. From studying the New Testament I have come to believe that the most significant way in which the Good News was communicated was through touch healing. These writings only scratch the surface in describing Jesus’ healing work. Clearly, he taught the disciples how to heal with a loving touch and they continued his example by healing people as they went about spreading the Good News. It was primarily for this reason that the early church grew rapidly. They were known for how they loved one another.

In the ensuing years, this healing work ceased. One can only speculate on the reasons. Some say that healing was a special gift of God only to the “early” church leaders. Others say it was intentionally de-emphasized in favor of a centralized control of the church paritioners. Others say it was lost since no written instructions were handed down. Likely, all of these played a role.

My interest focuses on why there were no written instructions for healing. I think it was intentional in the sense that it was known that we have the power to heal. All that is necessary is a belief and realization that you can develop the gift of healing. Any intuitively derived method inspired by a loving intent will do. It then follows that no one person could claim ownership of healing ability and thereby profit or otherwise control its use. In other words, you do not have to be a guru to practice touch healing.