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About Healing
Energy Healing
Spiritual Healing
Human Energy Field
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Spiritual Healing
Traditionally, spiritual healing is healing in which the healer is felt to be
an instrument of the divine, allowing the power of the divine to heal through
him or her. The healer acknowledges that he or she does not do the
healing. In
a sense, the healer is only the instrument through which the person seeking
healing surrenders to the divine.
Many healers who do not call
themselves “spiritual healers” acknowledge that they do not do the healing –
this has become a well understood idea in healing -- but to really live that
fully is truly radical. Joel Goldsmith’s classic,
The Art of Spiritual
Healing, provides a taste of what spiritual healing is when lived fully
and taken to its full conclusion.
A Course in Miracles also
embodies this radical perspective.
Energy Healing vs. Spiritual Healing
There
is no standard definition for spiritual healing or energy healing and
often they are
considered to be the same thing. Both terms can refer to widely varying
practices, and there are many ways in which they overlap.
Since
everything is energy, energy healing can simultaneously affect all levels of
life – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Depending on the
leanings of the healer and client, an energy healing session can have a
spiritual focus and impact. On the other hand, what a spiritual healer
does may look exactly the same as what an energy healer does, and can also
affect all levels. What, then, would distinguish energy healing from
spiritual healing, and vice versa?
An
exploration of this question is actually quite complex, and it becomes clear
that our current institutions and language do not adequately describe the
tremendous variety of emerging healing practices. The understanding that
everything is energy points to the impossibility of separating out the
spiritual from the material. Energy healing truly bridges the gap
between science and spirituality, and yet our institutions are either secular
or spiritual. A healer who works purely with energy may may feel more aligned with either the scientific/medical model or a
spiritual/religious model.
Spiritual Healing
The key feature which distinguishes spiritual
healing, at least in the traditional usage, is that the healer is seen as a
vehicle for divine intervention. Many healers, however, also feel that
they are divinely guided (regardless of the language used to describe this),
and so even this key feature may not serve to distinguish spiritual healers
from energy healers. Nevertheless, it could be said that spiritual
healing in its purest form relies totally on the intervention of a "higher
intelligence" -- the healing occurs spontaneously without the healer
making conscious choices. Usually a spiritual healer would not use
particular techniques which are chosen based on some rationale of what
technique works for a particular condition.
Spiritual healing often
simply involves the use of prayer. Many miraculous healings occurred
during the "miracle services" of renowned evangelist, Kathryn Kuhlman.
Kuhlman never touched or even looked at those who received these healings.
She didn’t know anything about human anatomy. From her point of view,
she simply opened to the Holy Spirit, and had complete faith that all would be
accomplished through this. A clairvoyant who observed one of Kuhlman's
services, however, was able to see how her aura flowed out energetically and
interacted with the energy fields of those who were healed. This
happened with out any specific intention or knowledge on Kuhlman's part.
The spiritual healer would not be able to say how the healing occurred, except
to acknowledge divine intervention. The healer may even take the
position that he/she sees only divine perfection in the one who seeks healing,
and so would not even see disturbance or disease.
Spiritual Healing vs. Spiritism
Sometimes spiritual healing is
very specific about the form of the divine which is being accessed for
healing. Some spiritual healers refer to their work as coming from God
or Source (or some other name for the divine). Others may say that
angels and spiritual beings intervene. Yet another group of healers say
that "spirits" of powerful healers who are no longer alive work through them.
Both Rubens Faria and John of God, famous Brazilian healers, are said to
channel spirits. Some would call this "spiritism" rather than true
spiritual healing.
Energy Healing
Energy healing, on the other hand, usually
involves some conscious use of knowledge of the human energy field, as well as
specific techniques to address disturbances. Programs which are based on
the medical model will have an assessment of the energy field, and techniques
will be chosen that address the disturbances found. After the energy
healing is done, the healer would re-assess the field to discover the outcome
of the treatment. These programs, however, recognize the importance of
intuition and usually allow for intuitive work on the part of the healer.
They also include the spiritual aspect of a client's life in the overall
treatment and recognize that the energy field has "spiritual layers".
Cultural
Bias Separates Science and Spirituality
The fact that the question would even arise as to what
distinguishes energy healing from spiritual healing points to a cultural bias
which separates the scientific from the spiritual. As we grow in our
understanding and experience of the one reality which underlies these two
seemingly different viewpoints, this separation should be bridged. Most
people recognize the necessity of integrating complementary healing arts with
our conventional medical system. This integration necessitates the
development of a new paradigm which unifies what are often seen as
contradictory approaches.
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, by Joel
S. Goldsmith. This book is a
classic on spiritual healing.
-- students of this course will find it is a teaching in spiritual
healing.
by
Jamie Buckingham. The only authorized biography of healer, Kathryn Kuhlman. This is a
captivating story with a great deal of insight.
by Kyriacos D. Markides.
Fascinating reading about a spiritual healer from Cyprus.