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Sometimes I intuitively feel that a person will die, but spiritual healing is often able to relieve some or all of their discomfort during that process anyway. At other times, I have felt that I could have been more helpful by administering a series of treatments, but it was not possible for some reason. And very often, people become sleepy and fall into a deep sleep, when they had desired to feel activated. From my point of view, this surprisingly deep sleep is often a sign that a treatment is being effective. People are often more willing to allow time for their cars to be fixed than for the healing of their body. |
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It is important to recognize that the purpose of spiritual healing is not the indefinite extension of a person's life. Such extension is neither desirable nor possible. I enter every healing situation with hope for healing, but without any prejudgment as to what the physical outcome is going to be. |
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I most clearly realized that helping ease someone's pain is not always healthful when I once held my hands over a professional runner's painful foot. His pain ceased, and he felt wonderfully energized. I learned afterwards that he had gone out and run another ten miles. Later in the night he was awakened by excruciating pain, and he discovered, when taken to the hospital's emergency room, that he had a torn Achilles tendon. |
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Reflecting back, I believe that often when a patient is not helped, it's related to an inability to get either the patient or me into the requisite state of mind. This can result from one of us feeling self-conscious, or due to lack of privacy, or time pressure. Once a longtime friend was experiencing great pain, but was unwilling to even try participating in a healing interaction. I asked why, and she said that if nothing happened, she would feel embarrassed for me. "Even if I were not embarrassed?" I asked. "Then I'd feel you were foolish, and I wouldn't respect you." "And what if you were helped?" I asked. "We'll never know," she said, ''because then I would be embarrassed, and I don't want to deal with it." |
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Another somewhat humorous experience, when healing results were not appreciated, happened when I worked in the typesetting department of a newspaper. I had an ongoing personality conflict with my supervisor, and the unspoken tension in the office was stressful for both of us. |
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