1-17-16 Readings: Spiritual Healing for Self

What is Spiritual Healing? What is Esoteric Healing? What is the cause of disease? Who can be a healer?

Why is there so much sickness? What are my healing goals for 2016?

Spiritual Healing involves the recognition of a Divine Sourcebeyond our own intelligence. Magnetizing and radiating Spiritual Energy from its Source to someone who needs it is called spiritual healing. Many spiritual scientists report that 80 – 90 % of problems and dis-ease have their root in spiritual difficulties or emotional disturbances.Esoteric healing, occult healing, energy healing and energy medicine are other names used for spiritual healing and are considered complementary and/or alternative healing methods. (Patsy Fine)

Esoteric Healing is an art and a science calling for the use of the mind, but not the emotions, in the service of the intuition, for the purpose of transforming matter with life energies to bring about a change that will benefit the whole. Esoteric is a word that comes from the Greek, esomeaning “within,” esoteriko, “from within.”

(Alan Hopkins, Esoteric Healing,21-22)

Esoteric Healing – Law I: All disease is the result of inhibited soul life. This is true of all forms in all kingdoms. The art of the healer consists in releasing the soul so that its life can flow through the aggregate of organisms, which constitute any particular form. (Alice Bailey, Esoteric Healing, 539)

Esoteric Healing comes through mastering an exact science of contact, of impression, of invocation, plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle, (525). All initiates of the Ageless Wisdom are necessarily healers, though all may not heal the physical body. The reason for this is that all souls that have achieved any measure of true liberation are transmitters of spiritual energy, (2). Any man or woman – given real interest and prompted by the incentive to serve – who thinks, and loves, can be a healer. The entire process of healing is thought-directed; it concerns the direction of energy currents or their abstraction, and this is another way of speaking about radiation and magnetism. (601) [Impression: A subtle awareness of thought or idea touching one’s min, gradually etching itself into consciousness. Invocation: A prayer, statement, or intention used to call forth a higher power.]

There are three ways in which healing can be brought about, and all three ways have their place and value, dependent upon the point in evolution of the subject being healed.

First, there is the application of those palliatives and ameliorating methods, which gradually cure disease and eliminate undesirable conditions; they build up the form life and foster vitality, so that disease can be thrown off. Of these methods the allopathic and homeopathic schools, and the various osteopathic and chiropractic and other therapeutic schools are good exponents. They have done much good and constructive work, and the debt of humanity to the wisdom, skill and unselfish attentions of the physicians is great. [Medical model]

Secondly, there is the appearance of the work and methods of the modern psychologist, who seeks to deal with subjective conditions, and to straighten out the wrong attitudes of mind, those inhibitions, psychoses and complexes, which bring about the outer states of disease, the morbid conditions, and neurotic and mental disasters. . . . The tendency to combine psychology with the outer physical treatment is sound and right. [Psychological model]

Thirdly, the highest and newest method is that of calling into positive activity a person’s own soul. The true and the future healing is brought about when the life of the soul can flow without impediment and hindrance throughout every aspect of the form nature. It can then vitalize it with its potency, and can eliminate those congestions and obstructions, which are such a fruitful source of disease. [Spiritual/Esoteric Healing model]

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The questions is often asked: Why is there frequently so much illness, nervous trouble, and various pathological conditions found among the saints of the earth, and among those who are clearly oriented towards the light? The answer is that the strain put upon the physical vehicle by the shift of the forces, is usually unduly great, and so produces these undesirable conditions. These again are often augmented by the foolish things done by the aspirant, as he seeks to bring his physical body under control. It is, however, far better for the undesirable results to work themselves out in the physical vehicle, than in the astral or mental bodies. This point is seldom realized, and hence the emphasis laid upon the idea that sickness, ill-health, and disease, are indicative of individual error, of failure, and of so-called sin. They can of course be all of these things, but in the case of the true aspirant, who is endeavoring to discipline and control his life, they are often not due to these causes at all. They are the inevitable result of the clash of forces – those of the awakened energies, which are in progress of elevation, and those of the center into which the energies are being raised. This clash produces strain, physical discomfort, and many distressing kinds of disorders. (Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, 544/5)

Speaking generally, the diseases of mystics are caused by the energy of an awakened and active lower center being transferred into a higher one. This is done in three stages, and each stage brings its own physiological difficulties:

a. The stage wherein the energy of the lower center becomes intensely active prior to rising upward. This will produce over-activity of the organs in the physical area governed by the center, with consequent congestion, inflammation, and usually disease.

b. The stage wherein the “processes of elevation” are taking place, producing intense activity in the higher center, and a lessening of activity in the lower. A fluid period intervenes, in which the forces swing back and forth between the two centers, accounting for the uneven life of the mystic in the earlier stages of his/her unfoldment. This is particularly the case in connection with the solar plexus. The energy is rejected at first by the higher center, and is then re-absorbed into the lower, only to be elevated again and again, until the higher center can absorb and transmute it.

c. The stage wherein the energy is raised definitely into the higher center. This leads to a difficult period of adjustment and of tension, again producing ills but, this time, in the are controlled by the higher center. (547/8)

Many of the difficulties of mystics and occultists today, are due to the fact that they are literally “playing with fire” and are not aware of it; that they are not preserving the right or ordered sequence of development. . . . that they are following practices for which they are not ready, which have not been modified to suit the occidental type of body, and which they blindly follow, without any understanding of the process or results. Unless the basic rule is grasped, that “energy follows thought”, it is inevitable that dire results must eventuate. (596/8)

The more determined the person is to submit his/her personality to soul control, the more intense will be the conflict, with consequent physical conditions . . . (EP II, 548)

What are your spiritual healing goals for 2016? Develop a plan to make consistent but measured spiritual progress in 2016. Be sure to work with a mentor or a spiritual buddy to help monitor your progress and ensure safe practices are in place.