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Healing
If anyone had told me that I
would be involved in Healing, ten years ago, I would have thought
they were joking. Sometimes it needs desperate situations to put
you in contact with something you are avoiding! Healing is nothing
to do with psychic phenomena, or strange visitations from the other
side, or God suddenly deciding that this or that person should become
well. All Healing is ultimately Self Healing and it is simply opening
up to Love, to your own Love and to the Love of others. I believe
that the true nature of the Universe is Loving Energy and when you
go to a Healer, he or she puts you in touch with that Energy.
One of the most beautiful things
one person can do for another, is to accept that person without
judgment. That is a wonderful gift that allows the other person
to be just as s/he is. Feeling accepted and acceptable, allows everything
within the person just to be, and then it is possible to experience
whatever is there inside one, just as it is, with no pretence. When
there is no judgment within the Healer, the client is able in turn
to exercise no judgment towards him/herself and that becomes a very
freeing experience on both sides.
On a Healing Skills course we
had an exercise to simply observe our partners without making any
judgment at all about what was good, bad or indifferent in what
we saw, or what there was to do to remedy the situation. To allow
someone to observe me with Love was very beautiful, and in the observation
the energy changed and a lot of Healing took place.
To understand a little bit more
about how Healing works, in a scientific way, we need to turn to
the work of Einstein. In his momentous discovery, which changed
the face of physics, Einstein came up with his famous equation E
= MC2. In simple terms, one unit of energy was the same as one unit
of matter multiplied by the speed of light squared. It is phenomenal
to think that so much energy is bound up in one atom and that your
body contains billions of them. In other words, your body can be
viewed in two ways, as matter and as moving energy. Your physical
form may seem solid enough but look at it through an electron microscope
and you will see 99.9% space and the rest just electrons zooming
around. Everything you do, the food you eat, the air you breathe,
the exercise you take, the colours you wear, the sounds you hear,
all affect the flow of energy. And so of course does Healing.
By focusing Loving energy on
the body, the Healer changes the pattern of the electrons. The body
always does its best to come back into balance and Healing energy
aids it in its task. Where there are blocked emotions, they will
be brought out into the light of day, experienced and let go of.
Where there are blockages, manifesting in physical problems, the
Healing will begin to remedy them. So you can see, when the Healing
energy is very powerful, that miracles can happen, spines can straighten,
tumours can disappear.
Occasionally a person can feel
worse after Healing, before she feels better. I explore this concept
in my article "Massage and Emotions". I believe that unexpressed
emotions are trapped inside the body and wait there until the time
comes for them to be released. When Light or Love is beamed into
the body, negativities come to light. They cannot exist in the open,
because basically they are illusions and they begin to come out
of the body. What do they come out as? Original memories. If you
have experienced feeling dreadful in the past and that has been
suppressed and not fully experienced, out it may come when it is
brought into the light through some form of Healing.
You then have a choice - only
if you don't appreciate what is happening you don't know this. The
choice is to buy into the old experience, feel fearful and see the
memory as some sort of relapse, because you might not realise it
is an emotion. Then you just experience it as a frightening physical
sensation to be repressed as soon as possible. The other way is
to see it as a memory and experience it fully and let it go. It
may last for seconds, minutes, hours or days but be quite clear
it is a memory and needs to be experienced and observed without
fear. There may be dozens of memories, one overlaying the other
- all of the same thing, but gradually they will all be experienced
faster and faster until the original suppressed emotion comes out
and then it won't happen again. Moving a lot of energy through Healing
can bring a lot of release and ultimately a great feeling of peace.
I work with Healing in a variety
of ways. My book describes how I opened up through Reiki, but soon
after the attunements I dropped all I had been taught and began
to work intuitively. Since then I have studied Healing Skills both
as in depth courses and experientially in my work, checking always
with my inner guidance that I am on the right path.
I am now acting as course administrator
for a small School of Healing called The Raphael School, which is
non profit making and which offers part-time residential courses
in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside (UK). These are held at weekends
and range from day tasters through to professional qualifications
and advanced post-graduate study. Details of what is on offer come
at the end of this page and should you want further information
please feel free to visit their webpage (Click
Here), e-mail: info@theraphaelschool.com
or telephone 0113 286 1488 for further information.
I also work with Jin Shin Jyutsu, which is a
Japanese form of acupressure,which balances the body and clears
the blockages. (See Links) To qualify as
a practitioner I have to do three residential courses of which I
have so far done one, so at the moment I am practising on myself
and willing volunteers. It is a very gentle therapy, but very powerful,
and its beauty is that it can be easily used not only to help others
but on oneself. In ancient times, in Japan, it was practised within
the family to heal illness. The 26 energy locks which are used,
have lovely names.
There is energy lock 15, called
"Wash Our Hearts with Laughter", Energy lock 13, "Forgive
our enemies", Energy lock 12, "Thy Will be Done",
Energy lock 21, "Profound security and escape from mental bondage"
and Energy lock 22 "Complete adaptation", for example.
I always wondered why holding
the knees in a Healing session was so powerful. In Jin Shin, the
energy lock 1 on the inside of the knees is called "The Prime
Mover" and it balances the ascending and the descending energy.
That gave me the explanation. Jin Shin also showed me how to take
the pulses, twelve in all, to ascertain where the strengths and
weaknesses are in the organs.
I have learned all the levels
of Touch for Health, which introduced me to the meridian system.
Now I am learning Anatomy and Physiology as part of a reflexology
course. Understanding the energy in all these different ways is
very helpful, because it gives a wider picture of what might be
the problem, and the ability to explain to you what is happening,
at the level you can best understand.
One of my main tasks is to help
you to look beyond the symptoms and find the cause of your discomfort,
whatever that may be. Counselling is just as much a Healing skill
as the laying on of hands, acupressure or reflexology. True listening,
like observation, frees you, as the client, and helps you to see
your own issues and to find your own solutions. You have your own
answers inside you. My job is to help you find them.
Remember that true Healing is
like this. You are loved unconditionally by the Divine Lover. That
means you are not judged at all, but accepted just as you are. You
always will be and that will never change. But to experience the
Love and the Oneness of the Lover and the Beloved you need to accept
yourself in the same way as the Divine Lover loves and accepts you....that
is without judgment.
And
so... The Final Surrender is to your own Love
It's
as simple as that!
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