Healing

Healing

An introduction

The healing arts are a vast wealth of knowledge and knowing in a wide range of fields. I will, no doubt forget some, as even though who has been studying and healing since I was 16 (oh Goddess that is 20 years ago) there are trends I miss (and dismiss) that will be come the next BIG THING for a while.

I began healing; actually I started doing massage therapy on my Dad and on my sister (the athlete) when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I have always had a knowing with plants and they would talk to me and I would make perfumes and potions as a child.While I didn't really know that was healing until much later, I started "laying on hands" after my Dad (an alternative health practitioners dream) was told by a healer that he was himself blessed with "the gift" and he told me "I bet you have too."

I asked him what I had to do. He said all I had to do was think "Spirit heal through me" and hold my hands above a person. 

That didn't sound difficult. So I did. At that moment my life path changed forever. I heal people in need or pain all the time with dramatic results. I had no idea what I was doing was special or miraculous, to me it was easy. At about this time my "mother" began her counseling therapist course and I read many of the books and understood (if disagreed with) the concepts and idea about human emotions and traumas. I did a short course (a day) about crystal healing during the summer, and again I understood and could see how the crystals affected the energy flow.When I began my medium training at 18 I told them I was a healer and because of my other gifts they laughed at me. Apparently I was only supposed to be able to do one thing, be one thing not many. This irked me. Yet I learned through spirit many ways to heal. Working with charkas, the auras, the spirit body, and the emotional self. I read many books about psychology (especially Jung) and felt I understood healing (except of course for myself).

I continued to heal people in spirit as I got older and I also added ritual to my tool box. As this progressed I started needing to journey with them or for them to find parts of themselves they have lost, stolen or given away.

I remember when someone asked me "when did you first realise you were special?"

I could have wept.

Different? Oh I always knew I was different but that was seen as something awful. Something to punish. 

Reiki

At some point in my late teens early twenties reiki became "a thing." I thought about learning but to me what I knew made it sound like a step backwards not forwards. I had already been healing for four or five years and what I knew and had been trained in was more subtle and yet deeper. I thought it was a fad and would fade quickly. Yup I was dead wrong. However much I have tried in the years following (and  have had reiki sent and given to me over the years) it never sat well with me. It made me very very ill (like the flu) the times I did try.

The attuning thing also made me uncomfortable. Someone's energy to me, is like a note, a string on a guitar. Or even a whole instrument with many different tones. Someones natural vibration is not wrong. It is exactly where it needs to be, or in a ball park. Most people just need to be to be brought into harmony with themselves. This is much less work than it sounds. Yet some people are pianos and need professional tuning with specialist tools. The idea that people need to be "tuned" to someone far away (and now long dead) seems silly to me. Besides people are all different. Some people are tubas, some people are violins. Each sound is unique. Sound is after all a vibration. 

While it would make my life much easier if I had gotten "qualified"in reiki and some practitioners are indeed excellent healers, it is not the only way and it is certainly not mine.

As far as my limited knowledge of reiki, it is the channeling of "light" or "universal energy" through the healer, usually through their hands to their client.

Spiritual Healing

Spiritual healer channel spiritual energies or work with the spirit body of the patent/client. It is usually done through none physical touch through clothes. The type of energy they work with can be varied and many. It can be done through the guides of the individual or directly with the energy of the spirit body.

Spiritual healing is not based on any particular faith and has much in common with many indigenous practices from all over the world.

Distance healing can be done as "distance" and "time" are weird in spirit. This means a group or healer can sit with an empty chair before them and heal the spirit body of the person they wish to heal. Going through the healing as they would if they were there. However they can also send spirit to heal the person where they are. 

Crystal Healing

Crystals vibrate. This unheard sound affects the things and creatures around them. If affects water and other liquids near them too. This affects the physical, emotional and spirit body. Even a non charged crystal (one tuned to it's brightest "note") will do this. However in skilled hands crystals become a choir of unheard music bathing the client in healing noise. Some people respond better or worse to certain crystals. The notes they need or need to be reminded to tune to are different that the notes being played. A good crystal healer and feel or hear this noise. A place where the note is off on the body can feel like pain, or like the sound something jarring (tin foil in the teeth). While certain crystal are generally good for this or that, no amount of reading a book will give you exactly what you need. If you can not hear or feel the energies it won't make much difference. 

Crystals can be charged to do certain things. A single thought or word in a crystal buzzes around it like a bee. It gives the vibration a focus.

Again you can heal someone directly by using something like a candle to substitute for the person in need of healing. Most crystal healing is done through clothes on a couch. Different crystals are added and removed on and around the body until a harmony is achieved. It usually takes about an hour.

to be continued.....

Bright Blessings xxx