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means that the person praying for healing must hope for a nonspecific "best outcome" for the patient. Or, a person could pray for harmony to be manifested in another part of the All. Anything specific beyond this, LeShan thinks, would lead to a division and separation of the parts from the whole  disrupting the transpsychic (nonlocal) way of being in the world, and returning one to the sensory reality of the physical body.
A spiritual healer need not, and probably could not, consciously will the healing energy or information to flow. It's more about evoking an ever-present potential. The connection is already there  if one removes the barriers to that awareness. Some call this nonemotional state of awareness of our connectedness "love," or "compassion." My concept of love is unity consciousness, which cannot occur in the presence of fear, nor without trust.
Actually, the fastest learners of spiritual healing in my experience have been parents of injured or ill children who are suffering. When medical intervention is either unavailable or insufficient for healing, and people are in pain or failing to heal, their loved ones often become highly motivated to seek out a nontraditional healer, and to take part in a healing process to which they may not have been previously receptive. They already have a mind-to-mind connection with the patient, and their passion to help someone they care about directs their attention away from themselves, and enables them to focus their mind. They are surprised to find how effective their selfless, focused attention can be when they ask a power greater than themselves to use them as an instrument of healing. In Chapter 8, I describe an incident in which this occurred, and mention it again to show that in actuality, little or no study is needed to do spiritual healing.
Change Your Life, Change Your Mind
Psychiatrist Gerald Jampolsky has developed a system of mind-training that one could use to become a spiritual healer, because it's based on helping people to remove their mental barriers to the awareness of our inherent connectedness. In his classic book Love Is Letting Go of Fear, he describes a system of "Attitudinal Healing," which is an approach to consciously choosing to change attitudes of anger, conflict, fear, and resentment in order

 
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