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done by a healer. For me, prayer is not about getting any thing  but it usually involves getting filled with peace, which in turn melts the barriers between one person and another. I like the concept that prayer is the fulfillment of oneness. It is an experience of being loved.
My concept of God is infinite consciousness, with aspects of power, truth, love, and presence. I do not ask this nonlocal mind that I know as God to heal a patient's body, or to save his life. I do not ask for any specific outcome on the physical plane of form. Instead, I seek to be in the same state of awareness that Buddha, Ramakrishna, Lao-tzu, and Jesus spoke of. When acting as a healer, I ask to be used as a window or channel of this awareness, so that a patient might also experience it. I ask to be assisted in being helpful. I seek a state of both receptivity to God, and attunement to the patient.
Love
A healing interaction is initiated by an impersonal, nonemotional, caring intention of a spiritual healer  a willingness to help. I believe that this attitude of willingness to be used as an avenue of help by a primary healing consciousness is what spiritual masters have called "love," "compassion," and "charity." The motivation behind my willingness to practice as a spiritual healer is my belief that we are all connected at some level: We are one great mind that reveals itself through us when we allow it to do so. The practice of spiritual healing involves surrender, or the cessation, of my own desires and thoughts (self-less-ness), so that the harmonizing, balancing life force can flow through me. Anyone can decide to do this. I hope more people try it.
The Role of Meditation
I also believe that the practice of meditation is useful to other people as well as to the meditator. In meditation, a quiet, thoughtless mind creates an opening for expanded consciousness or wisdom, or what some people call the "light of God," to be released into our world of physical forms. The regular practice of quieting my mental noise and directing my attention

 
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