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To my surprise, my colleague Russell encouraged me. "I don't pray as you do," he said. "But if someone asked me to pray for my friend, I would do it. Give people the chance to know how sick your brother is, and let them decide for themselves." So I did. And it was definitely worth the risk. |
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I went to see my brother the next day. When I arrived at the house where he was resting, his girlfriend Sandy came outside to meet me. She said he seemed better, but he was still very tired. She told me it was wonderful that I had called his friends several of them had telephoned, and their caring voices really cheered him up. Then she told me that the previous night, something very remarkable had happened. I include her story here in her own words: |
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He went to bed right after dinner, before I did. I was getting ready for bed, and he called out to me that he could hear his heart suddenly start to pump, and that he could actually feel his heart valves working. He exclaimed, "It's so loud, it's going to keep me awake!" I became very concerned, and wondered if he was all right. I went over to him, and I was going to put my head on his chest. Before I even got there, I could hear his heart pounding! Boom-boom; boom-boom. Like a tom-tom drum. My face was still at least twelve inches from him. It was that loud I didn't even have to put my ear on his chest! It was fast and loud. |
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We went to sleep, and we could still hear his heart pounding. When we woke up, we didn't hear it anymore. It was just that one night that we heard his heart beat so loud. |
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This was my most profound experience of distant healing to date and it seemed to be the turning point in my brother's recovery. What my brother and I experienced that day during a healing interaction was also quite amazing. |
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My brother felt comfortable watching a football game on TV as I began my healing meditation sitting cross-legged on his bed. He continued to watch the game while I held my hands near to his body and cleared my mind to attune to him. It took many minutes to calm my mind because I had been |
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