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SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF
HEALING Synopsis I have come to believe that all healing is spiritual. I believe that my work as a touch healer is spiritual. When I touch a person with loving intent, something happens. That may not be total relief from physical, mental or emotional distress, but something within changes. My premise is that love and touch brought together as a loving intent to heal will, at some level of being, cause a true healing process to begin. This is spiritual healing. Healing is the process of restoring balance to the mind/emotions and body. Healing takes place based on our intuitive insight and knowledge of universal principles. To heal is to restore oneself to health, soundness or wholeness. 1 Most recognize that one cannot restore health from the outer being. True restoration comes from within the being. Some would say the body heals itself through the power of the immune system. A strong immune system is vital, but the body is only part of the equation. Physical symptoms are only outward manifestations of an imbalanced condition affecting our multidimensional being. Healing involves the physical, mental/emotional and spiritual aspects of our being. Changing of physical symptoms may be the last to occur as these result from inner conditions of energy imbalance. We must look to underlying causes to find real solutions. What is the nature of this power residing within? It is, of course, spiritual – our God connection. When we are open to the conscious/energetic nature of All That Is, we can restore balance to all aspects of our being – spirit, mind, emotions and body. There is more to us than a body. We are spiritual beings. Spirit is defined as the vital principle or animating force within living beings. Therefore, we could state that the mind and body is in the control of a spiritual power. This power is called the soul, or higher self, which is connected to, or one with God. The soul is eternal.
Through our own consciousness, we can effect this ever-present connection. Negative emotional and thought energy will cause imbalances, which eventually manifest as a physical, emotional or mental condition. Since we have free will, we often unknowingly misuse our connection to the infinite. Sometimes this occurs through the influence of parents and the society in which we live. We carelessly allow these patterns to develop. Although we may not have realized it, in the past you made a choice to believe something about yourself or your environment that allowed certain things to occur. Later we see undesirable behavior or physical conditions and seek relief. Our choice is to continue to focus on the symptoms and medical assistance or we can search for the source of the problem and transform it. So let us discover how to accomplish removal or reversal of these energy patterns.
Recognition of the need to be healed at a deep intuitive level is of primary importance. Many just want relief from unpleasant symptoms, but this does not lead to understanding that will bring about elimination of the underlying condition. One must then create a desire to make the necessary changes in behavior or lifestyle, which caused the condition to manifest. A self-guided process of introspection leads to discovery of the underlying emotional attachments contributing to the condition. Assistance or intervention of some type is often used here. It could be simple and informal as support of family and friends, or a formal process led by a professional healer or counselor. At this point, one then consciously releases the mental/emotional attachments determined to be the cause. To accomplish this we may need to release old ways of relating to ourselves and surroundings. This can only come by a full recognition that an entrenched force exits within that will resist change. A willingness to love and forgive ourselves will allow us to be free. After the release has occurred, one can see the need for acceptance of personal responsibility for creating the desired condition. Victor Frankl wrote in his classic book, Man’s Search for Meaning: The experience of
(concentration) camp life shows that a man does have a choice of action.
There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that
apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Man can preserve a
vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible
conditions of psychic and physical stress. We who lived in concentration
camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number,
but they offer sufficient proof that every thing can be taken away from
a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose
one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s
way. The way in which man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails,
the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity –
even in the most difficult circumstances – to add a deeper meaning
to his life. 2 Issues Regarding the Healing Process The process of healing must deal with one or more of the basic misconceptions that relate to every situation: •The illusion
that we are separate from everything, including God. Einstein said it another way in the following quote. A human being is
a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”; a part limited
in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as
something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us
to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature
in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but the striving
for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation
for inner security. Our effort must then include getting in touch with our inner selves to discover love, harmony, unity and oneness with God. Balance will then begin to return to our being.
In his book, Healing
With Love, Leonard Laskow, M.D. gives a systematic process to assist one
in working through what he calls Holoenergetic Healing TM using breathing
techniques, relaxation and meditation. 3 He defines Holoenergetic
Healing TM as “holo” meaning “whole,” that is,
healing with the energy of the whole, with the synergy of the whole, which
is greater than the sum of its parts. This model is based on expanded
awareness, love and the empowerment that comes from making a conscious
choice for change. The guiding principles are (1) knowing, which locates
and illuminates what we want; (2) loving, which links us to what we want;
(3) willing, in which we act upon what we want; and (4) spirit, which
guides our knowing, loving, and willing. 4 Unconditional love is the most readily transmittable of all the universal energies. Any information or energy pattern, any thought or feeling, that is conveyed or linked with loving energy will have a greater effect than any other transmission of subtle energy. Thus, its multidimensional pervasiveness and its capacity to serve as a universal vehicle for information, makes love the most powerful of all healing energies. 5 He further states that love has three aspects: awareness, feeling and action. Unconditional love, first of ourselves and then of others brings light and harmony into everything. Out of this flows all the goodness of life. Dr. Laskow further states: “When we embrace our whole self – not just the rational/objective mind as opposed to that vast ocean that is human consciousness – there is power in our presence that has the potential for healing.” 6
The exemplary figure
in history that demonstrated the power of touch healing 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.
Perhaps Jesus did this to show us that we also can help others to heal. The healing occurred on two levels - one is the healing of prejudice, condemnation, taboos and restrictions that so commonly plague the human condition and the other was to affect a cure of the symptoms. I can imagine the voices of the bystanders warning Jesus not to come near the leper, much less touch him, but through all of the clamor and prejudice, Jesus reached out in love and touched him. He cancelled all the taboos, all the fear and said, ”I am willing. Be cleansed!” We know from the
New Testament that Jesus spent much time healing others and taught his
disciples how to heal. He instructed them to heal others while they were
spreading the Word. The Gospel of Mathew states: “He called his
twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits
and to heal every disease and sickness. ‘Heal the sick, raise the
dead, and cleanse those who have leprosy; drive out demons. Freely you
have received, freely give.’” 8 There are many examples of
these healings in the scriptures.
Touch is the demonstration of love. It is love in action. We have been given a very special gift in our hands and the ability to touch. There is great power in touch. Intent determines how this power is used. If the intent is to convey love, healing will begin. Healing is the consummation of love and touch. We may not be able to cure a leper, but we have the God-given power of a loving touch. We can reach out to a suffering one with a loving touch and in doing so make God’s love real to that person if only for a moment. Perhaps that is enough for healing to begin. Through touch, we can communicate hope and proclaim the Good News of God’s unconditional love for everyone regardless of appearance or social status. Clearly, Jesus 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 much they loved one another. A loving touch accomplishes a number of significant things: •Promotes health
and healing In her marvelous
book, Hands of Life, healer Julie Motz writes: Amazingly, these factors summarize the concepts of spiritual healing and how healing is appropriated from within one’s being. We begin to see how the merging of unconditional love with human touch brings forth the spiritual energies for healing. From such complex interactions of spirit, mind/emotion, body comes a simple, yet mind boggling idea that human touch – one human being touching another with a loving intent – brings everything together in one beautiful package labeled: Love is all there is! "Whenever we
reach out to touch the world, our driving force should be love, enthusiasm,
joy, trust and empowerment – so that we help people to help themselves,
to discover their own power, their own capacity for love, awareness and
responsibility, their own vision for the future. We will then truly help
and inspire them. We will play a role, each in our own unique way, in
co-creating a better world. It is in our hands!"
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http://www.spiritualhealing.org/meta.htm, Jim Harmon, CSH
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