| For Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry practitioners-the | | | | Assessment is determining what to do. There are |
| simple form of the laying-on of hands is clearly | | | | many ways that you can decide what needs to be |
| described in Scripture. Jesus and the early apostles | | | | done. This is really all about your abilities to listen and |
| and disciples prayed and touched those who | | | | observe with your eyes, and to feel and sense with |
| requested healing. Sometimes they would even anoint | | | | your hands and spirit. These skills develop the more |
| with a healing oil. This prayer, touching and anointing | | | | you use them. |
| actually became common practice among the early | | | | Treatment is being open to the power of God |
| Christian healers. But what exactly is happening when | | | | flowing through your hands and your heart. It is your |
| we extend our hands in faith to heal others? In | | | | being a channel, a conduit, or facilitator for the flow |
| observing Christian healers, I have noted several | | | | of divine energy. Treatment is simply being an |
| "steps" in their healing work. | | | | instrument for God's healing grace. In the simple form |
| Although the steps might at first seem simplistic, | | | | of the laying on of hands we reach out in a spirit of |
| there is a depth to be uncovered for the practitioner. | | | | trust, placing our hands gently either on the shoulders |
| There are basically four steps in performing a simple | | | | or the head of the one requesting healing or hold our |
| form of the Laying-On of Hands: | | | | hands slightly off the body. |
| 1. Centering | | | | Is that all it is? Actually there is much more that can |
| 2. Intention | | | | be said about this simple 4 step method. Science is |
| 3. Assessment | | | | actually explaining what happens on a cellular level |
| 4. Treatment | | | | when we connect into our Divine Source and come |
| It is important to prepare the person who is to | | | | from an intention of the heart to do good. There are |
| receive healing. Get permission to touch, tell the | | | | chemical messengers that circulate throughout the |
| person what you will be doing, and encourage | | | | body making changes in the body's chemistry. From a |
| feedback as you progress. | | | | vibrational standpoint, touching or simply being in |
| Centering and Intention are your interior preparation | | | | someone's energy field does make changes. Have we |
| for doing the healing work. Take the time to breathe | | | | learned a few ways to facilitate healing for someone |
| and remember you are connecting to God, your | | | | in the past thousand years or so? Yes, but in the |
| Source, through your heart center. It is through the | | | | end, it comes down to these 4 steps. Are there |
| heart that we access the healing power of God. | | | | programs in Christian healing that teach how to do |
| Then set your intention for the highest good for this | | | | more than the simple form of the laying-on of hands? |
| individual. | | | | |