Tag: healing

The Healing Method of Jesus

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Voice of the Mystic: Part 5

One outstanding feature of the ministry of Jesus was its healing aspect. “And many followed him, and he healed them all” (Matthew 12:15). While we’re given the impression that he healed by the hundreds, indications of the methods he used can give us some practical insight toward our own healing needs.

In some cases, he simply spoke the word of healing with such authority that the person responded. Healing affirmations grounded in the understanding that the soul is now whole, and this wholeness reflects in the body, can play an important role.

There were times when Jesus simply touched a person, or they touched him, and the healing occurred. In the case of a leper, this would be especially significant since it was believed that physical contact increased the chances of contracting the disease. This indicates that Jesus did not see disease as a power, but as an effect subject to the true power of God within.   

Maintaining a God consciousness through meditation and prayer was probably his greatest healing asset. He obviously had a first-hand awareness of God, which means he would see God in all people. Prayer was the calling forth of the God potential within those he encountered.

In many cases, he attributed the faith of the person healed as the true source of healing power. Faith is expectation. Those who shifted from doubt to high expectancy moved into the condition of wholeness.

Another interesting healing tool was that of the placebo, in his case, mud. Does mud have healing qualities? Probably not, but the belief that it does brought about change in some cases. Perhaps such an attitude can justify medications that help increase our faith.

A final healing element was the forgiveness of sin. Some who associated sin with disease were healed the moment they believed they were free from the scourge of sin. I think Jesus the soul as totally free of the consequence of sin. He was not forgiving sin. He recognized the person already free of sin.   

Any one of these healing elements may represent a tool we can apply to our own healing need.

Healing Light

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This week, the subject of healing has been raised a couple of times, a signal to me that it’s time to revisit this topic. Healing, like prosperity, harmony in relationships, peace of mind, or any desired condition, begins at a specific point that engages all our executive faculties, beginning with imagination and faith. Judgment, will, and elimination also play important roles, but imagination and faith are where we begin.

For many, the thing that occupies the imagination most is the problem we are experiencing. If we have a health challenge, we are likely to hold a picture of what is wrong. With the spiritual approach, we start with a picture of wholeness. At the soul level, we are whole. The soul, being energy, is not subject to physical illness of any kind. We can visualize the soul as a radiant light of wholeness shining through our body, permeating every cell from within. We imagine this light doing the work of love, dissolving that which is not for our highest good and attracting that which is.

We turn our faith to the truth of this picture by affirming something like this: The healing light of my soul is now cleansing all impurities from my body. This is where your judgment comes in. Declare that in truth, this healing process is indeed taking place. This is a true judgment.

What about your faculty of will? Do not try to force healing with your willpower. Simply be willing to accept that healing is now occurring. How do you engage your faculty of elimination? You engage this faculty by releasing all negative thoughts and images concerning this process.

You will benefit by setting aside a special quiet time to do this prayer exercise. You can also do it anytime throughout the day, even when you are busy doing other things. You do not have to memorize the affirmation to invoke your healing vision. In truth, your vision is the affirmation. Jesus said to believe in your heart that your desire is coming to pass, and it will be done for you.

Give thanks that your healing vision is now manifesting throughout your body.   

What is Consciousness?

Question: I hear you use the word consciousness quite a bit. Are you referring to awareness or are you talking about the sum of our belief system? Could you share your thoughts on this subject?

Response: Depending on the context, I, like many, use the term to refer both to awareness and to the sum of our belief system. When someone loses consciousness, we mean they’re unconscious. They’ve passed out. If we say someone has the consciousness to drive a car, we mean they possess the knowledge and skill to operate the vehicle without thinking about it. You have the consciousness for a thing when you unconsciously process all the mechanics involved while you are doing the thing. The musician goes from merely reading and playing notes to making our spirit soar. The painter’s eye is no longer on technique but on the subject that literally dances across the canvas. Nearly anyone can learn technique, but not everyone crosses into that consciousness we associate with true artistry.

When we speak of developing a consciousness for health, prosperity or any desired state, we’re talking about so aligning our awareness with an already established ideal that the expression of this ideal becomes the inevitable result. Yes, the artist learns technique. But learning technique is not the goal. The goal is the expression of an ideal they see and feel at a deep level.

Building consciousness is a two-fold process involving the technique of denial and affirmation. Denial, in this context, is not ignoring or pretending there is no proverbial elephant in the room. Denial is releasing the mental and emotional energy we’re pouring into the elephant, the negative appearance.  We’re shifting from treating the appearance as a power to be overcome, to the understanding that it is our own energy concerning the appearance that is to be redirected. We do not start with an attack on the appearance that we want to change. We start with the ideal we want to express. We do this by releasing the crosscurrents of mental and emotional energy we’re pouring into the appearance, and we seek a deeper experience with the ideal. Otherwise, we end up lobbing affirmations like artillery shells at the elephant. Our consciousness is a house divided. One condition must be eliminated before the ideal can come forth.

I believe Jesus was referring to this principle when he suggested that true prayer is the act of accepting we have already received that for which we ask. To the head, this is illogical. But it is not from the head that we pray. Memorized prayers or oft repeated affirmations do not make true believers of us. Prayer is a heart process, an intuitive, experiential receptivity. It is an understanding that what appears to be true of the body is not true of the soul. The body may indeed be ill. This is the elephant in the room. The soul, however, is whole. In one sense Jesus is saying that we are to make our soul’s wholeness the new elephant in the room. At the fundamental level you and I are whole right now. We release all mental and emotional energy that contradicts this truth and we seek to move deeper into the experience of the soul.

We don’t use spoken denials and affirmations to force a thing to be true. We speak words that realign our awareness with what is already true at the soul level. We release our association with this sickly body and we affirm what is true of the soul. When we say, “I am whole and complete, and my wholeness is shining forth through this body now,” we are speaking the truth. We do not want to deny the condition of ill health, as in pretending that it isn’t present.  We want to release all belief that this condition is some kind of out-picturing  of our spiritual essence.

This principle applies to all negative appearances. The soul lacks nothing. It is our consciousness, our belief system, that runs interference with this truth. We develop a consciousness of wholeness in all areas by first seeking an experience of what is true of our soul. In our quiet times we envision the soul’s radiance beaming out through our body and circumstances until this truth becomes our positive elephant in the room. We shift from a consciousness of belief to a consciousness of knowing that the expression of our soul’s wholeness, in all areas of our life, is the inevitable result.