Healing
The healing arts take many different forms including spiritual healing, Reiki, crystal healing, faith healing, sound healing, colour healing and countless others. To heal is to "make whole" and it can happen spontaneously and on many different levels. These methods are based on the fact that we are energy beings and they work to harmonise that energy. Any ritual or resources used are simply catalysts that may trigger a return to alignment with the true self, which in essence is a letting go of resistance.
The teachings of Abraham say that there is only a stream of wellbeing. Therefore, healing is always available and is an allowing of the wellbeing naturally flowing to us.
In my own life, the greatest healing moments have been when I have had a sudden shift in consciousness, a realisation that I have not been seeing things as they truly are. At times of crisis, the point of letting go is the gateway to healing, allowing grace to enter with it's soothing balm.
The practice of Reiki has been a part of my healing journey and will always be a part of my life. It empowers the individual to access the stream of wellbeing that is constantly flowing. Founder Mikao Usui was a Tendai Buddhist from Japan. Reiki spread to the West via a Hawaiian lady called Hawayo Takata, and now there are many Reiki Masters throughout the world. I have attuned many people but it is entirely possible to attune yourself and I don't believe in any kind of closed system. Reiki is for everyone, there is nothing secret about it and it is just about awareness of what is already available to you. You can access free information and a low cost method of learning Reiki by clicking on the banner below.
Ho'oponopono
In order to heal we must take 100% responsibility. When we do this and let go, what is right and perfect unfolds. This is the basis of Ho'oponopono, a healing method from Hawaii. I recently read the book "Zero Limits" in which Joe Vitale tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, or Dr Len for short. Dr Len works only on himself to heal his patients. In fact he is not healing his patients at all, he is healing the parts of himself that allow those patients and their problems to manifest in his life experience. As he heals himself, his experience changes and he sees those patients as healed. The world we see is self-created and so it follows that the issues are with us and not outside of us. This is what captivates me about this story and it attests to our immense personal power, of which we exercise only the minutest part.
I urge you to read the remarkable story below from Joe Vitale - www.mrfire.com
Conversation with Dr. Len by Joe Vitale, Author of “The Attractor Factor” and "Zero Limits" When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane? It didn’t make any sense. It wasn’t logical, so I dismissed the story. However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho ‘oponopono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn’t let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more. I had always understood “total responsibility” to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it’s out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We’re responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does–but that’s wrong. The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility. His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist. He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years. That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit. Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal. “After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely,” he told me. “Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications and those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed.” I was in awe. “Not only that,” he went on, “but the staff began to enjoy coming to work. Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed.” This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: “What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?” “I was simply healing the part of me that created them,” he said. I didn’t understand. Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life - simply because it is in your life - is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation. Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life. This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy or anything you experience and don’t like - is up for you to heal. They don’t exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn’t with them, it’s with you, and to change them, you have to change you. I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho’oponopono means loving yourself. If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal you do it by healing you. I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients’ files? “I just kept saying, I’m sorry and I love you over and over again”, he explained. “That’s it?” “That’s it.” Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world. Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message. This time, I decided to try Dr. Len’s method. I kept silently saying, I’m sorry and I love you, I didn’t say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance. Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind that I didn’t take any outward action to get that apology. I didn’t even write him back. Yet, by saying I love you, I somehow healed within me what was creating him. I later attended a ho’oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He’s now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive. He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my book’s vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve. From Dr. Len: www.hooponopono.org I operate my life and my relationships according to the following insights: Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients–without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate’s chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person’s illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.
© Dawn Dowsett 2009
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