Spiritual Healing- Nothing Special
Let's be honest. A lot of people think that spiritual healing is
a little "woo-woo." Look at it logically, though, and I think
you'll agree it's nothing out of the ordinary.
Health is your natural state of being. It's your default
setting. As soon as you scrape your knee or cut your finger, you
begin healing yourself. Your blood clots, while tenderness and
swelling warn you to steer clear of the healing area. It's like
a sign outside of a construction site, "Working - Do Not Enter."
Of course, there are often additional things you can do to
facilitate healing. If a cut on your arm is very deep, you might
bandage it or even sew the severed edges together, so that the
healing cells can reach each other. You may apply an
antibacterial to protect the area until the skin grows back to
provide that protection. Whether you realize it or not, even in
these everyday examples, you are cooperating with your spiritual
healing.
Without the spirit that lives in you, as you, all the stitches
and bandages would be completely pointless. Without
consciousness, your skin would not know how to repair a cut, no
matter how long you held it together.
Scientists now tell us what spiritual healers have known for a
long time: There is no time. We've created the illusion of time
to have a certain experience. You heal your leg simultaneous to
breaking it: the healing only appears to take six weeks. The
cast and ibuprofen and traction are all things we've created to
help pass the illusion of time. And if you're tired of how
you're passing the time in your own life, you can use spiritual
healing to change that.
I'm not bashing "traditional" healing. I'm just saying you have
a choice. Since we're here, having a time-bound experience, we
don't need to turn our noses up at the "traditional" methods of
healing. We just need to know them for what they are - props on
the stage of life's play. By tapping into some resources from
the field of "alternative" or spiritual healing , we can choose
different props (hopefully less expensive or painful) or reduce
the time we use our props. As our proficiency grows over weeks,
months, or years, we can eliminate many of our props altogether!
We can also aid our body's natural/spiritual healing process by
"getting out of the way." You may not realize there's anything
spiritual about a good night's sleep and good food, but repeat
after me, "Everything is spiritual!" As the saying goes, you are
a spiritual being having a human (time-based) experience.
No less a teacher than Thich Nhat Hahn has said that rest is
important for the healing of both mind and body. I believe that
much of our discomfort during healing actually comes from our
restless resistance to the healing process. We try to work or
otherwise carry on, as if no healing were going on, when our
body wants its maximum healing power.
Whenever we let go and get still, though, we can watch miracles
of spiritual healing take place - in our bodies and in our
lives.