Starting Out with Spiritual Healing

Spiritual Healing and the Sources of Healing Energy

Spiritual Healing is an ancient art of healing. It is a system of healing that uses energy to bring health and wellbeing to all levels of the individual. Healing energy can be described as bio-electromagnetic energy because it seems to carry an electrical charge to have magnetism and to be produced naturally by the human body.

The sources of healing energy are broken down into three categories of healing energy:

1) Personal Energy – the energy generated by the body, also known as Chi or Ki.

2) Psychic Energy – This is the ability to focus the power of the mind and to direct and concentrate energy through thought.

3) Spiritual or Mystical Energy – With mystical energy you are working with God, Spirit, and the power of prayer. Here you are going beyond your own personal power and tapping into the power of the Universe.

The Aura

Everything in the universe is composed of energy and everything has an energy field around it. Plants, animals, minerals, trees, even humans have an energy field around them. This energy field, although invisible to the naked untrained eye, extends outward from the object and is called the aura or auric field. The aura in many ways is much like the earth’s atmosphere: densest closer to the surface, then becoming progressively less dense the farther it extends outward. All energy fields have many levels, just as the earth has many atmospheric levels.

In people, this energy field can be felt from one to three feet or more outwards from the physical body. Depending upon a person’s energy level and level of spiritual development the aura can extend outwards over 50 feet from the body. The energy of a great master or teacher can be felt at even greater distances. Most of the paintings of holy people, saints and spiritual leaders depict a bright glow around their bodies, especially their heads. This glow perfectly depicts a well-developed energy field or aura.

The aura can be detected in several ways, including thermography, aura readings, kirlian photography and dowsing devices. Each of these methods of detection confirms the existence of an aura around the body. Thermography is a traditional medical procedure that creates an exaggerated colour image by measuring the subtle heat patterns around the body. A healthy body emits a specific colour pattern. When a person is ill or diseased, distortions and dis-colourations in the colour pattern can be detected. These colour differences give clues to the degree and location of an illness such as cancer, long before it can be detected in the physical body by other traditional diagnostic methods.

Kirlian photography generates a specific type of photograph taken within an electrical field which helps capture distinct energy fields on film. This process is so sensitive that it will even pick up the ‘memory’ of phantom energy image of a limb that has recently been amputated or the image of the removed portion of a leaf that has recently been cut in half.

Dowsing rods and other dowsing devices also can be used to sense the auric field around the body. In the hands of an experienced dowser these devices are extremely accurate. Dowsing rods can also detect subtle shifts in someone’s energy field as their thinking changes. If they are thinking happy thoughts, the aura expands. When they are thinking negative thoughts or they are sick, sad, angry, or depressed, the energy field will contract.

Aura readings can also be done my those with psychic or intuitive sight. By reading breaks, distortions and dis-colourations in the energy field, some psychics can with a great deal of accuracy detect and predict what type of illness will develop, how soon it will occur and even estimate what its severity will be.

The aura can develop holes, breaks, tears, and areas of dark, stagnant energy, much like the smog, pollution and holes in the ozone layer of the earth’s atmosphere.

It is best if the auric field is periodically cleansed and mended, especially after a person has experienced a trauma, such as surgery or an accident. This will repair the breaks and tears that can cause energy disruptions, imbalances, and leakages.

We can strengthen our body and energy field through meditation, prayer, affirmations, good diet, and exercise. The energy field can be cleansed by receiving an aura cleansing or receiving healing work. You can also cleanse your own energy field by taking a hot bath with either a cup of apple cider vinegar or a cup of Epsom salts added to the bath water. These help to neutralise negative energy and to balance the energy field.

Activating Your Hands to Create an Energy Circle or Ring in Spiritual Healing 

To activate your hands in Spiritual Healing, you need to open a minor chakra which is found in the middle of each palm. When open, it allows healing energy to flow either into or out of the palm. These energy centres can be used to receive energy or send energy.

The left hand is for either receiving positive energy from the universe or drawing negative energy out of a person. The use of the left hand can change during a healing session. The right hand is for sending and directing energy. In terms of polarity, the left hand has a negative electrical charge, and the right hand has a positive charge.

Quite often, your hands will activate themselves naturally as you get ready and prepared to heal. You can rub your hands together or clap your hands to activate the energy although this is not necessary but may prove helpful until you develop your own approach to activating the flow of energy.

You can create an energy circle or ring in Spiritual Healing to create an energy flow. This can be accomplished with two people, even if neither one has ever had any previous experience of working with energy. Larger numbers of people also can create an energy circle or ring.

The participants should be comfortable on the floor or in chairs. It is possible to stand, but the process can continue for long periods of time and standing can be tiring.

Each person starts by activating their own energy. Then the left hand is held palm up to receive energy and the right hand is held palm down to send energy. If two people are doing this exercise, they face each other so that each right hand is directly above, but not touching, the partner’s left hand.

Choose one person to start the exercise. While the second person holds their hands stationary, the first person raises and lowers their hands, keeping 1 – 12 inches of space between the pairs of hands. Sense the energy building between your hands and your partner’s. How does the energy feel? Move each hand separately, first the right hand and then the left. Is there a difference in the way each hand senses the energy? Allow each person plenty of time to feel the energy. Then reverse roles and allow your partner to raise and lower their hands while you hold your hands still.

Next create a continuous energy circuit by having both partners send energy out from the right hand and receive energy with the left hand. This energy loop can be intensified through moving the energy visually. Sense the energy and see how strong an energy field you can create. This can be done in groups of any size.