| Let's be honest. A lot of people think that spiritual | | | | your own life, you can use spiritual healing to change |
| healing is a little "woo-woo." Look at it logically, | | | | that. |
| though, and I think you'll agree it's nothing out of the | | | | I'm not bashing "traditional" healing. I'm just saying |
| ordinary. | | | | you have a choice. Since we're here, having a |
| Health is your natural state of being. It's your default | | | | time-bound experience, we don't need to turn our |
| setting. As soon as you scrape your knee or cut | | | | noses up at the "traditional" methods of healing. We |
| your finger, you begin healing yourself. Your blood | | | | just need to know them for what they are - props |
| clots, while tenderness and swelling warn you to | | | | on the stage of life's play. By tapping into some |
| steer clear of the healing area. It's like a sign outside | | | | resources from the field of "alternative" or spiritual |
| of a construction site, "Working - Do Not Enter." | | | | healing , we can choose different props (hopefully |
| Of course, there are often additional things you can | | | | less expensive or painful) or reduce the time we use |
| do to facilitate healing. If a cut on your arm is very | | | | our props. As our proficiency grows over weeks, |
| deep, you might bandage it or even sew the | | | | months, or years, we can eliminate many of our |
| severed edges together, so that the healing cells can | | | | props altogether! |
| reach each other. You may apply an antibacterial to | | | | We can also aid our body's natural/spiritual healing |
| protect the area until the skin grows back to provide | | | | process by "getting out of the way." You may not |
| that protection. Whether you realize it or not, even in | | | | realize there's anything spiritual about a good night's |
| these everyday examples, you are cooperating with | | | | sleep and good food, but repeat after me, |
| your spiritual healing. | | | | "Everything is spiritual!" As the saying goes, you are a |
| Without the spirit that lives in you, as you, all the | | | | spiritual being having a human (time-based) |
| stitches and bandages would be completely pointless. | | | | experience. |
| Without consciousness, your skin would not know | | | | No less a teacher than Thich Nhat Hahn has said that |
| how to repair a cut, no matter how long you held it | | | | rest is important for the healing of both mind and |
| together. | | | | body. I believe that much of our discomfort during |
| Scientists now tell us what spiritual healers have | | | | healing actually comes from our restless resistance to |
| known for a long time: There is no time. We've | | | | the healing process. We try to work or otherwise |
| created the illusion of time to have a certain | | | | carry on, as if no healing were going on, when our |
| experience. You heal your leg simultaneous to | | | | body wants its maximum healing power. |
| breaking it: the healing only appears to take six | | | | Whenever we let go and get still, though, we can |
| weeks. The cast and ibuprofen and traction are all | | | | watch miracles of spiritual healing take place - in our |
| things we've created to help pass the illusion of time. | | | | bodies and in our lives. |
| And if you're tired of how you're passing the time in | | | | |