What Is Spiritual Healing?

THE FUNDAMENTAL ASPECT and the fundamental focus of all metaphysical teaching is probably spiritual healing. What, really, is spiritual healing? Most people think of spiritual healing as faith healing, but it is not. Faith healing has to do with an unquestioned belief in some great God “out there” or some vast power — also “out there.” Sometimes it takes the form of a shaman, a person who isempowered to produce extraordinary, magical effects in the world of the person who believes in him. All this is variously called shamanistic healing, psychic healing, or faith healing.

In Africa, the Philippines, and other parts of the world there have been individuals who perform a kind of faith or psychic healing called psychic surgery. In psychic surgery, the operator, usually a medium, appearsto perform all kinds of alleged surgery on the so-called etheric body — an aspect of the body that is supposedly above or within the physical body. This is an interesting phenomenon, but it is not spiritual healing as we understand it. There is no element of the rational mind or of the logical consciousness brought into the situation.

Spiritual healing is the restoration of wholeness orwellness to one's experience.

It is recognizing, accepting, and realizing the atmosphere of God, or the perfect spiritual idea of being, in the individual. It removes the toxins of distorted self-acceptance that appear to have separated the person from wholeness.

In the spiritual mind healing process, we do not deal with unquestioned belief in any holy person, religious rite, sacred place orobject. We deal directly with the truth of Being. We should understand that Truth is something we perceive and accept as part of the underlying Reality of Life. Spiritual Mind Treatment is the way to neutralize and dissolve inner patterns that bring about outer experiences of disorder, disease, and disturbance of the human condition. Universal Law is the process which brings about health. It is theresult of the Law being used in the correct way. Disease is always the result of using the Law of the Creative Process in a distorted way. The inner patterns of consciousness inevitably appear as an outer world of experience.

In spiritual healing you become conscious of the truth that your life is the Life of God, or the Great Spirit. You know that there is an infinite, eternal, ongoing creativeIntelligence that moves through a creative process that produced you. It is a human being's destiny to be creative. Much use of the Creative Law is constructive, but too frequently it is negative and destructive.

How can we uncover the essential Truth? Through recognizing, understanding, and appreciating the logic of a primal Harmony. When we perceive the reality of wholeness, then Truth takesover our lives. Mental/spiritual treatment must come after a spiritual awakening. We are the administrators of Truth in our own lives. And Truth is always the sovereign and total remedy for all apparent difficulties, problems — and, yes, in harmony.

The magnificent ancient Chinese classic I Ching, or Book of Changes, makes a penetrating statement: “Even a single passion still lurking in the hearthas power to obscure reason.” A single distorted opinion, or belief and acceptance, can express as an attitude or way of relating to life that will cover the Truth within and adulterate the purity of the Mind-force within the individual. We are all splendid entities through which the Power and Presence of Truth called the Great Spirit can flow and express Itself."

What follows can be calledseven essentials in the practice of Spiritual Mind Healing. I am not describing the treatment technique but seven essentials that you can incorporate in your thinking before you practice Spiritual Mind Treatment. Then you will move from “faith” healing, or a blind belief comprised of hope and fear, to confidence, assurance, and a state of mind that says “Yes” to life.



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