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Since the Principles of Attitudinal Healing are relevant for anyone desiring to do spiritual healing, we have included them here:
The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing
1. The essence of our being is love.
2. Health is inner peace. Healing is letting go of fear.
3. Giving and receiving are the same.
4. We can let go of the past and of the future.
5. Now is the only time there is, and each instant is for giving.
6. We can learn to love ourselves and others by forgiving rather than judging.
7. We can become love-finders rather than fault-finders.
8. We can choose and direct ourselves to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening outside.
9. We are students and teachers to each other.
10. We can focus on the whole of life rather than the fragments.
11. Since love is eternal, death need not be viewed as fearful.
12. We can always perceive ourselves and others as either extending love, or giving a call for help. 13
A Self-Taught Healer
Alan Young made a great contribution to the field of spiritual healing when he relinquished his career as an attorney and corporate vice-president to devote himself to his spiritual practice. He read everything he could find about spiritual healing. After two years of intensive study, prayer, and meditation, he began to practice healing himself.
Young summarized his conclusions in a book, aptly titled Spiritual Healing. He is confident that "There are two key points to understanding the spiritual healing process itself, namely Unconditional Love and Complete Surrender."14 Young also did a comparative study of channeled teachings on spiritual healing when he was investigating the phenomenon. These teachings in many ways coincided with his own experience, so he assembled

 
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