- Principles of
Healing
- Part 3
Themes:
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The Principles of Healing
-
The Nature of
Being
-
Basic Healing Techniques
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The Use of Colour Symbols
-
Protection and The Subtle Energy fields of the Body
- Self Healing
- Distant Healing
- Chakras
- Balancing the Energies
of Places
6.
SELF HEALING
As already stated the body has its own built in
self-healing mechanisms, but these can be assisted by conscious thought,
action and awareness when imbalances occur.
As you progress on the healing path an expansion of your
whole being will take place, highlighting both your strengths and
weaknesses and therefore, from time to time, creating or emphasising
imbalances. This means that you need to spend time working on yourself:
perhaps the greatest challenge for any therapist or healer. There is an
ancient psychic principle "As within, so without", and vice versa (more
about this below): this demonstrates our need to contact and develop a
sense of balance and harmony within if we are to enable these qualities to
develop in other people with whom we are in contact.
Energy balancing the self falls into two categories
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Routine maintenance or re-balancing for the whole self
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Dealing with specific problems
One of the most important ways you can maintain a balance
in your energies is to spend a short time each day in relaxing the
physical body and creating a link through meditation to those deeper
aspects within.
There are many different forms of meditation that can be
classified as either active (Yang) systems favoured in the West or a
passive (Yin) form usually developed from Eastern cultures. Yang systems
work with the mind working creatively to access and balance these deeper
layers whilst Yin systems, like mantra meditations, try to move beyond
conscious thought. Like methods of healing we need to find the system that
best suits us.
When dealing with physical problems enter into the same
state as though you were about to give healing to another, then visualise
healing energy flowing to the part of the body that needs attention. With
cancer cases always imagine that the healing energy is shrinking the
cancer. DO NOT JUST SEND ENERGY. The
use of creative imagination can add greater potency to the healing. For
example with an arthritic knee you could imagine that the joint contains
fine crystals that are causing the problem. Then imagine that you are
pouring oil on the crystals that dissolves them lubricating the joint.
Allow the sub-conscious mind full rein to bring to the fore its
appropriate images.
In dealing with physical conditions it must be remembered
that the underlying cause can lie on an emotional, mental or spiritual
level. This must also be tackled as part of the treatment or the problem
will only re-occur. Once again it must be emphasised that your
Higher-Consciousness knows the underlying cause. Allowing yourself
time to access this part of your inner wisdom will unlock the answer to
many problems.
Specific problems can be helped through self-healing
although success is usually dependent upon the extent of the problem. For
example many healers have successfully speeded up the healing process of,
say, a burn, but a problem that has both a physical and emotional content
such as cancer may be much hard to shift without much additional help.
Such situations need to be tackled on many levels and can best be assisted
by seeking the help and input of others.
There are a number of important indicators on where the
imbalances occur within our life. The first and most important concept is
the ancient psychic principle "As within, so without" and vice versa.
"Life is a mirror to who and what you are."
You only have to look into your outer world to see what is flowing and
what is not. The relationships you have with your parents, friends, money,
partners, employers and the animals, insects & so on around you all give
indications of where your imbalances lie. You are the controller of your
life: what happens to you occurs because of the inner choices that you
make. You need to take full responsibility for the patterns that weave
through your life reflecting the innumerable relationships of our Yin and
Yang aspects.
One of the most important qualities that you should strive
to incorporate is that of acceptance. Illness is invariably the
result of undue resistance to energies that need to flow through us. When
you resist something a tension is built up that can eventually lead to
disease. An electric fire gets hot because of the resistance in the wire.
Your inner electric fire gets hot causing pain and suffering when you
resist parts of yourself. Accepting those energies is 90% of the way to
healing whatever the complaint is.
Underlying this resistance is almost invariably fear at
some level. Acknowledging the fear and moving through it will release the
blockages that hold one back.
One of the first symptoms of blocked energy is tiredness
which is caused by our resistance to change. If this is ignored more
serious problems can result.
Change does not have to be always a long drawn out and
painful process, as cases of spontaneous remission and miraculous healing
have shown. We all have it within us to change instantaneously if we so
choose. This does not negate the help that therapists and others provide,
for many need time to move through these inner transformations.
Everybody has imbalances and nobody on the physical plane
is perfect. Whilst perfection is an ideal to strive for it is important
to realise that this can never be fully achieved.
One of the other important concepts to understand is the
Law of Polarities or Paradox. All
polarity is a relationship between two elements. As such, it is never
absolute, but relative even to a particular pair of opposites. The same
element can be positive in its relationship to a certain pole and negative
in its relationship to another. So, basically, this lets us know that
everything in the universe has its counterbalance and wholeness only comes
when we can accept or see both sides of a picture.
We all hold within us the complete array of human
experience. The teachings of psychosynthesis show that psychological life
may be thought of as a continual polarization and tension between
differing tendencies, and as a continual effort, conscious or not, to
establish equilibrium. The most important psychological polarities
include for example feeling-reason and extraversion-introversion. If we
move too strongly into one set of energies the opposite will eventually
emerge. In Chinese terms, when we become too Yin we will flip
suddenly into Yang.
It is human nature to reject those emotions that appear to
cause us pain and suffering. But as has already been stated we only
experience pain and suffering if we reject them. To experience joy we have
to understand sadness; to be loving we need to acknowledge our propensity
to hate. If we can allow feelings of fear, grief, hatred, greed to flow
through us in balance with feelings of confidence, joy, love, generosity
then we find balance and wholeness. This does not mean that we have to
indulge those destructive aspects of ourselves, but we do need to observe
and accept them as part of us. If we go too much into the light without
acknowledging the darkness we will eventually be drawn into it. Things we
reject become powerful energies that will sooner or later overwhelm us.
By accepting them we are then
free to evaluate and choose what to experience, and how to act.
The person that claims that they are never angry, jealous,
resentful, greedy or whatever is deluding themselves for we carry all
these things within us as part of our common humanity. Qualities we reject
are often then carried by others around us. This is why we need to look
into the mirrors of those people who are part of our lives. How do they
behave towards us? This becomes very evident within families or groups
where one or other person can carry some of the collective negativity of
the whole family and becomes the scapegoat. For such situations to be
resolved the family or group collectively must address the problem within
themselves and not just deal with the individual in question.
When you criticise another you are actually
only criticising a part of yourself.
The Law of Polarities implies that those aspects of
yourself that you dislike or see as your failings must have their counter
balance. For example, as soon as you say, "I am no good at singing" you
immediately invoke the opposite, the potential opera singer, within your
psyche. If you don't carry it then someone else in your circle will. Try
to catch yourself when you make these "put down" statements about
yourself and affirm the opposite. "I have the potential to be a good
singer". Those qualities that you feel least good about hold the
potential for your greatest development.
As well as acknowledging the different polarities within
our psyche; it is sometimes necessary to balance and resolve our inner
tensions by diminishing any extreme thoughts or behaviours - and thereby,
of course, their opposites - which are part of our personal dynamic. For
example, by learning to recognise and avoid an extreme swing towards
optimism or pessimism, we can move towards sustaining a practical realism:
the "happy medium".
The focus of your life is you, and your main reason for
living is to experience and develop yourself. To do this successfully you
have to follow "Your bliss", as Joseph Campbell put it, NOT
someone else's idea of what you should be doing.
To follow 'your bliss' it is necessary to act from your own
centre, with a sense of free choice. This is not the same as being
selfish; but life is made up of both giving and receiving. You need
to do both freely and generously.
Problems that stem from relationships, whether past or
present can best be tackled by exercises such as "Cutting the Ties That
Bind".
7.
DISTANT HEALING
In his book "Clairvoyant Reality" Dr. Lawrence Le Shan
talks about two levels of existence. One is the physical world and the
other is what he calls the clairvoyant world which is subject to a number
of different laws. In the clairvoyant realm time and space do not exist.
It is therefore possible to send healing to someone in Australia and it
will be as effective as though they were sat here in the same room. There
are also cases of healing being received before the time it was actually
sent. This may seem impossible to the rational mind but at a higher level
of consciousness these things are experienced as real.
It is possible to send absent or distant healing to a
client, for example, by carrying out the same procedures as though you
were giving healing to someone present. It is generally better to imagine
that you are bringing the person to you rather than imagine that you are
going out to them. It is also possible to adapt the basic healing process
to a particular form of therapy such as, for example, projecting the
quality of energy of a particular homeopathic remedy.
Absent healing can be carried out individually or in groups
where only the names of the people are read out. This can also be very
effective. If working within a group try and spend time harmonising the
energy between you and the other individuals within the group. The greater
the harmony the greater the effectiveness of the healing.
8.
CHAKRAS - Keys to Healing
The Chakras act as linking points between the spirit or
soul and the physical body.
There is a stepping down of energy frequency between the
spirit and the body and, rather like light waves being broken up by a
prism, different bands on that frequency maybe envisaged creatively as
different colours. These bands have long been recognised by aspirants in
the past. In Hindu and Sanskrit belief they were classified in a way that
perceived a focal point of energy on front of the body that corresponded
to these bands. These focal points were called "chakras". The word
literally means spinning wheel.
Traditionally these focal points of energy were located on
specific parts of the body. In Hindu tradition each chakra had a colour
(not the colours we generally use today), a geometric shape and was
associated with one or other of the Hindu god. They also through
association reflect specific spiritual principles. For example the
spiritual principle of love is associated with the heart chakra
whilst the spiritual principle of creativity with the sexual
chakra.
The concept of "chakras" was unknown in the west until it
was introduced here by the Theosophists at the beginning of this century.
They added a number of their own perceptions to this Hindu tradition, the
most significant being the colour association with the spectrum and the
link with the endocrine system.
Hindu
tradition acknowledged 7 chakras for similar reasons that Newton chose to
divide up the light spectrum into 7 colours. Seven is sacred number in
many traditions and its echoes are still found in the number of days in a
week which were linked to the seven known planets of medieval astronomy.
We still name the days after the Saxon and Roman gods. Yet light waves
are part of the electro-magnetic band of energy that, like a piece of
string, can be divided up into any number of segments. Newton chose 7
because he followed an esoteric tradition but equally we could divide the
colour spectrum into 8, 10, 12 or whatever numbers of colours we choose.
Similarly other schools of thought have chosen to
sub-divide the step down in energy between the spirit and the body into
more sections and you will find some people suggesting that there are 8,
10, 12, 144 or more chakras. This is perfectly valid if it helps the
individuals in question understand the nature of our being. We could of
course go the other way and say that there is only one chakra that is the
sum total of who and what you are at every level.
The 7 principle chakras plus 1 additional chakra at the
feet are as follows:
|
Place in the body |
Sanskrit name |
Association |
Endocrine gland |
|
Crown
of head |
Sahasrara |
Connection to other levels
of consciousness |
Pituitary |
|
Brow |
Ajna |
Intuition and Inspiration |
Pineal |
|
Throat |
Visuddhu |
Thought and communication |
Thyroid |
|
Heart |
Anahata |
Love and protection |
Thymus |
|
Solar Plexus |
Manipura |
Feelings and emotional
response |
Adrenals |
|
Sacral area |
Svadisthana |
Receptivity and balance |
Pancreas |
|
Base
(of spine) |
Muladhara |
Creativity and drive |
Gonads |
|
Root (soles of the feet) |
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Karma, balance and
grounding |
Adipose |
Whilst there is a focus of energy at the centres mentioned
above, chakric energy is actually diffused throughout the whole of the
being, moreover each chakra contains the seeds of all the others. For
example it would be most appropriate to express love through any and all
chakras.
What is generally sensed when these chakric centres are
stimulated is the energy on our etheric bodies. Coming from another point
of view the etheric body itself can be seen as one chakra, with the astral
as another and so on.
In giving healing to the chakras it is most important that
one does so from the point of view of balancing the whole system not just
giving healing to the individual parts. In some cases the particular
balance of a person's energy could mean, for example, that the focus of
the heart chakra energy is not strongly emphasised in the heart area. To
direct a lot of power in stimulating that point could actually cause
imbalance to the system.
Try to see the chakric system as a symbol for the
relationship of the energies between the spirit and the physical body
rather than as an actual reality.
9.
BALANCING THE ENERGIES OF PLACE
This is an extension of distant healing, and can involve
healing places and houses that contain disturbed energy, as well as
planetary healing. The principles are the same as for offering balancing
to a person: sensing which quality is most appropriate and projecting that
energy, ensuring that you are protected as necessary, and drawing on
external sources of energy for the best and the safest results. Setting
the right atmosphere in a consulting room in this way is a valuable asset
to the therapeutic process.
If you wish to deal with specific, more problematic
situations it is generally better to work in groups as sometimes the
disturbed energy in a place can be very powerful. However every situation
no matter how unbalanced will respond to a strong thought of love. Love is
the greatest protector and sending out thoughts of healing to the planet
in this way will greatly assist the forces of light regain a balance on
the planet. Every situation can turn on the smallest shifts of energy. So
every thought helps, no matter how small or insignificant you see your
contribution to be. When two titanic forces of equal strength are locked
in struggle the alighting of a butterfly can tip the scales one way or
another.
If you work within a group, your task first and foremost
must be towards creating a harmony between you. Again to achieve this you
must be open to allowing disharmony to manifest. Everybody within a group
has a valuable contribution to make. No matter how insignificant it may
seem, it is still important. This does not mean that in a group dynamic,
that the group has to follow each perception, but if it is going to be
successful, it does have to acknowledge them.
Groups are made up of individuals. Honouring the
individuality within the collective is the challenge of every group. The
greater the harmony the greater will be your effectiveness.
Adapted from the book:
The Healer Within
Some interesting links to visit with complementary
information:
Working with Earth Energies
Clearing Ancestral Blocks
Psychic Protection
Links:
College of
Healing
Spirit Release
Foundation
National Federation of
Spiritual Healers
- For further information please write to:
David Furlong or Frida Maria
- Myrtles, Como Road, Malvern Worcs WR14 2TH
- or phone 01684-569105
Email:
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