Spiritual Skills

Healing

Healing is fundamentally about our connection to source energy. When I am ‘connected’ with Source, healing is a superfluous concept. I am always in a state of perfection and unity with all that is; all I need to do is remember that and not allow illusions to jade my thoughts or vision.

Healing is not about preserving our physical bodies indefinitely, nor is it about allowing our egos to grow and play in this existence, yet in many prayers and affirmations these seem to be dominant undercurrents. I like the ‘Hicks-Abraham’ terminology about ending this life experience: they call it ‘croaking,’ in as irreverent a way as possible to remind us that we are going back to a wonderful awareness. As a population we seem so reluctant to move to our next experience with pleasure and anticipation. An increasing number of us only want to transition after replacing many of the original parts and relying for long periods of time on outside biomechanical assistance.

Weeks ago, when I started my notes for this essay, I wondered how to address the myriad of healing techniques including use of special props or methods. Besides the standard medical practices in the daily news, picking up a ‘New Age’ magazine and reading through the ads reveals that ‘healing’ is often associated with the following terms: crystals, stones (cold, wet, hot), Reiki, sounds (e.g., ancient – Tibetan bowls; modern soft music), massage (many types), acupuncture, chiropractic, hypnosis, trances, auras, polarity therapy, Rolfing, psychotherapy, magnets, Feng Shui, Yoga (which brand?), meditation (which brand?), prayer (wide variety of approaches), affirmations, special card decks, channeling, charkas (often linked to disease types), truth telling, releasing, Prana, colonics, vitamins, energy drinks, special diets, purging, fasting, mantras, and Tantric sex (finally one that sounds like fun!). This list is not exhaustive. In many cases these techniques are cited as thousands of years old, derivative from lands with mystical connections (e.g., India, China, Egypt, Native American). The vocabulary often appears obscure and confusing to the novitiate.

The common denominator for many these healing approaches is a single primary healing mechanism – to unify our beliefs, thoughts, and mind with source energy. The approaches above are secondary to that main goal, and in some cases may lead someone further afield than they could do with their own focused efforts. Starting far afield from health of body, emotions, and spirit, the right technique may move you in the right direction; however, most seem to stop short of the primary goal. Many focus on healing in one narrow area rather than deal with a holistic entity – promotional vocabulary notwithstanding.

What distorts the image of perfection in our beliefs, thoughts, and mind?

Bruce Lipton, M.D., in his book the Biology of Belief and at the ‘I Can Do It’ Conference in Tampa a week or so ago, proves that your beliefs, perceptions, and thoughts control your cells – your genes – your DNA. He gests that the Placebo Effect works. Memes we learn throughout our life may have more to do with our various states of health than our physiology or chemistry. In other words, we can choose to believe we are cancer prone or caner resistant. Here are a few memes you might have had given to you that affect your health: cancer runs in our family; cancer is hard to cure; smoking causes bad things to happen to you late in life; males (females) in our family die before age 65; you’ll catch the swine flu unless you get a shot; weight is harder to lose the older you get; and on and on. Every one of these is a meme. A belief passed on to you. It may not be true, especially for you. Why embrace such terrible beliefs to the extent that they change your physiology? There are other alternatives.

A point of departure from great health also is our egos. I like Wayne Dyer’s definition of ‘ego’ – Edge God Out. The ego separates you from Source. It relies on those memes and puts doubts and fears into your life. The ego creates Resistance Points to even thinking about good health or an exciting and peaceful transition.

Your ego screams for continued attachment to all the things that define it and make it thrive: status, money, house, credentials, esteemed deeds, friends, family, … things! Our egos often thrive on what spiritualist Carolyn Myss calls ‘Woundology:’ the ability to manipulate others based on our traumas or suffering, so that we get sympathy, compassion, or some measure of power. An ego reliant on woundology for power over others is hardly willing to admit it is having a great day.

Source energy is a tremendous power to have available to you. After all, it is all the power in the universe, all the health, all the well being, … all. When you allow yourself to bask in the power, there is nothing you cannot do, be, or have, including good health, peace, and abundance of any kind you can imagine. This is your true nature.

A Few Points On Healing Based On The Above

• You are what you think you are. You are what you admit into your beliefs, thoughts, and mind. Reality is what you believe it to be. Admit a continuing steam of concern for illness, sickness, medicine, and suffering into your mind, and you may find these undesirable attributes as an integral part of your life. Turn off news or conversation that puts such insidious thoughts in your head. Replace that negative energy with ideas of health and healing.

• Look for what stands between you and Source Energy. Look for the resistance points or what Dyer calls your excuses in his new book, Excuses Begone. Get out of your own way. When it comes to ‘my’ way (ego’s way) or the highway, take the Interstate straight to Source Energy.

• Healing and Health are about clarity of mind. They are seeing and sustaining a solid and unifying connection with Source. Bypass resistance. Be cautious of the gimmicks to making that connection unless they serve you well; don’t let all the myriad approaches to ‘health’ distract you from the connection you really seek. Choose wisely.

• Acknowledge the role your ego plays in the quality of your life. Ego thrives on power, being right, and being better than. When your Earth Suit (as Gary Zukav calls it) can’t live up to the image your ego creates; fear and denial set in. Physiology and emotions start to change. You don’t need to accept this paradigm as the only mechanism and set of emotions for dealing with your health. Call directly on the Source Energy already in you, of you, and around you.

• Share your energy with others. As we give love and compassion, and find those emotions returned to us manifold, also give freely of your healing energy. Touching is an exchange of energy. Give in the spirit of service – in the spirit of healing, and that is how it will be received.

• Remember the Tao’s view of life transitions and healing. You return to the Tao (The Way) when you transition, however, you are there anyway, so it’s no big deal. We come and go in this life – in the flow. In Tao, dying is neither feared nor desired; instead a person simply enjoys living this life. The Tao is about trusting the healer within you – the healer that is already there. You have the healing power within you, a healing power that works on many planes and in many dimensions, if you let it.

Namasté. Be open to the power within.

This website is to stimulate your spiritual thinking in the hope that it will contribute to your spiritual growth. The author invites your comments and critiques by reply e-mail to bob@futuremoons.com.