WHAT IS HEALING?
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEALING AND CURING
CLEARING THE MYTH
by
JOYLINA GOODINGS
Many people ask, “What is healing? How can healing help? Doctors heal, what is the difference?” This article will try to answer some of these questions. We will be looking at the difference between healing and curing, and how the whole body is connected. I believe we as humans are made up of more than just our body. We are spiritual, emotional, mental and physical beings. These levels need to be in balance for a full and healthy life.
What is healing?
Doctors diagnose problems and diseases in the physical body and then treat those diseases in various ways so the body is cured. But why do we get those diseases? Our body is obviously not well - why is it trying to tell us something more? Are there other in-balances of which we are not initially aware?
We are connected to the earth through our feet and the universe through our head. The earth has its own energy and so does the universe. We as humans can connect to both and this is the energy healers connect to and channel to others.
There are many different types of healing, too many to mention individually. This article is concentrating on what is known as energy healing and the subtle energy system of the body known as Chakras.
The
Chakras The word itself is Sanskrit and means “wheel”. Chakras are more like spinning energy vortices, which are funnel-shaped. The wider, spinning end interacts with our auric field whilst the stem appears to be embedded in our spine. (The aura is an energy field that radiates through and around all living things. Humans, animals and even plants have an aura which surrounds us and is visible with the aid of aura imagining cameras). The vortices go in both directions through the front and back of the body with the centre of the funnel joining the centre channel, which runs through the centre of our body.
Chakras act as step-down transformers, converting subtle energy – known in India as Prana, in China as Chi, and in Japan as Reiki, (universal cosmic energy). This energy is used by the hormonal, nervous and cellular systems of our physical body. We take in air and food to fuel our molecular building blocks. The aura and chakras take in the subtle energy, which is also fundamental for life. As well as being linked to the physical functioning of our bodies each chakra holds a key to understanding our relationships, our strengths and weaknesses and our sense of who and what we are in the world.
It is important for all the chakras to be energised and functioning efficiently for the all round well being of the individual. Blockages in any of the chakras can cause problems on any or all levels, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual
You will hear about many different types of energy healing systems. All with different names such as, Spiritual Healing, Vortex Healing, Reconnective Healing, Reiki, (with all its subsets of Tera Mai, Seichem, Karuna, Angel RayKey, Sufi Reiki, Colour Reiki, Crystal Reiki) to name but a few. Each method will have its own ways of connecting to the energy and performing a healing, but they are fundamentally the same connecting to the same source or universal energy. Most systems breathe in the energy through their crown chakra (at the fontenella on the top of their heads) and let it flow out of their hands. Some systems have the hands touching people’s bodies; some just float them over the client in their aura. It works just the same.
How
Healing works
The objective of a healing is to bring all the auric bodies into balance - the spiritual body, the mental body, the emotional body and the physical body. I believe that if there is an in-balance in any one of the bodies, i.e. either the spiritual, mental, or emotional body is dis-at-ease for any reason then it will appear as a disease in an appropriate part of the body. The doctors then try to cure this problem. But I believe if the in balances in the other parts of the system, spiritual, mental, emotional, are not dealt with as well, then the disease will recur.
Healers assist the client in bringing balance back into the entire system by connecting to the universal energy of unconditional love and acting as a channel. This allows the client to draw whatever energy they need to heal themselves. In my experience the less ego a healer has, i.e. the less they try to do anything specific for the client, the more they let go and allow the energy to flow, the more it works on whatever level it is needed to restore balance to the client. When the person is balanced then the body heals itself.
A healer, therefore, is channelling healing to a client for the client to do with whatever they wish for their highest good. The energy is passed to their soul, spirit, higher self, (call it what you will). The client’s soul then uses the energy in whichever way is best for the client from an overall perspective. We as people may think we know what we want but we may not be totally consciously aware of the whole picture of our life from a spiritual perspective. If I chose to experience death by cancer in this lifetime that is what I will do and no amount of healing or doctors interventions are going to stop it. But the healing will most probably make it easier, allow me to express my emotions and fears to my family, become a lot closer and have want many people call a good death. Also, my family may then have done most of the grieving process with me and be able to move on into their lives more easily. I may of course, have agreed to experience a number of emotions in my life, such as grief and loss. If I have not dealt with them, if I have buried them, perhaps they start to eat away at me, in the form of disease such as cancer. If I am able to let go of these stuck emotions, I overcome cancer as well. When the dis-at-ease on the emotional level is healed then the physical level can heal as well.
There are many healing stories, some very remarkable, some less so, where healers have helped people without them even necessarily being aware of it. It allows people to move on in their lives freely. It is not difficult, it is not something special. It is something everyone can do, and as we have said there are many methods being taught to do it. I believe it works on the power of unconditional love and if we connect to that energy and pass it to others freely, we help people change their lives in a positive way. It is up to each individual soul how they use the energy they are given, whether to bring balance into their entire spiritual being or to reject it. It is not for us as healers to question. Just to pass on the energy where possible.
Spring 2006