Accessing The Healing
Process
by José Stevens, Ph.D.
It is important to realize
that all healing techniques whether they be physical, energetic, mental, or
emotional are an attempt to reestablish proper flow. Blockage or stoppage has
occurred because somewhere, somehow there has been limited perception. The
direction of healing then always moves from the more limited picture to the
big picture, from the personality to the essence.
The key behind all healing
techniques is intention and focus of attention. Since energy follows thought,
all dis-ease is a product of certain thought processes and healing is the
result of certain balancing thoughts. Thoughts without the energy of emotion
however are not result producing.
SOME STEPS TO SELF HEALING.
1. Being present
The most important element of
self healing is the ability to be present with yourself. You cannot begin the
process of self healing while you are preoccupied with mulling over baggage
from the past or actively scripting the future. These activities scatter your
focus and energy to the effect of rendering you powerless to alter your state.
When your focus is blunted and your energy is dissipated by mulling and
scripting, you lower your natural frequency in a way that makes you slow to
respond. This often shows up as the pseudo emotion of depression or the
non-emotion of apathy.
The path of healing requires
your reorientation and focus on the present moment of aliveness. However,
focusing on the present brings up the true emotion that was being masked or
blocked. This usually represents experiencing painful feelings before the
release to joy. Therefore it is usually avoided.
Being in the present moment
means facing the pain that is based on fear. However being in the present
allows you access the higher centers for energy and support that was formerly
blocked. So, as you face the fear, you become privy to a most powerful set of
supports that exists within you at all times.
To become present, pay
attention to the sensations in your own body. Since your body is always
present, you will be guided by it to be present also. You may not however,
like how it feels. It may be angry with you for abandoning it, or it may be
petrified with fear. This you must face if you desire healing. In the event
you are in so much emotional or physical pain that you find it impossible to
be present, then you need the support of another who can help you to become
present more gradually. After all, after a long absence, becoming present can
be a shocking experience.
2. Grounding
One excellent method of
becoming more present is the process of grounding your energetic system to
your immediate locale. Since your body is presently residing on the planet
Earth, the Earth is the most expedient place to ground to. Here is how it is
done.
a. Relax by sitting and
sighing deeply several times.
b. Imagine a connection
between the base of your spine, general area of your instinctive center, and
the core of the earth.
c. Strengthen and clear this
channel by following it slowly
down and then up, once again using the power
of your imagination.
d. Use this channel to drain
away excess energy and any unwanted condition. Send it downward for
recycling.
e. Next, concentrate on
energy from the earth rising through openings in the soles of your feet, up
your legs, into the base of your
spine, and distributing gradually
throughout your body. Since the Earth is always
present beneath your feet, it will have the effect
of immediately bringing you into greater focus
through your body.
3. Establishing an Essence
connection.
After you have established a
sense of grounding to locate and stabilize your body, you are in a position to
bring into it a higher degree of essence. Bringing in greater degrees of
essence accelerates spiritual growth and awareness, and promotes healing on
every level.
Whereas it is not possible to
squeeze the totality of your essence into your physical body, most people
bring into their bodies only a fraction of the essence potential available to
them. You can raise this amount with an act of will and concentration. However
it is important that you do this incrementally to avoid overwhelm. Your body,
if habitually subjected to low levels of essence and energy, may regard
increase of essence within it as an intrusion and a threat. It must get used
to the increases gradually just as you must introduce food slowly after a fast
to avoid nausea. Otherwise the body will react in fear and resist essence
expression.
Here is a method to raise the
level of essence within your body.
a. Imagine a ball of
brilliant energy, perhaps eighteen inches over your head. Postulate that
this represents the totality of your essence, pure potential and infinite
energy.
b. Imagine that through a
hole in the crown of your head, you could draw a brilliant beam or channel
of this energy down into your head; gradually streaming through your head
and face; down your spinal column, branching through your arms and out your
hands; cascading down to the base of your spine meeting the upwelling earth
energy there. Create a mix and distribute this mixture gradually throughout
your body.
c. Expel the excess energy
and unwanted conditions through
the base of your spine down into the Earth.
d. You have mingled essence
here with the physical material that forms your body and comprises your
personality. This is the marriage of the Sun and the Earth. The child is
you.
e. As you reach greater
levels of comfort with practice, bring in more and more of each stream until
you are working with large amounts. Expect an emotional, physical, or
psychological reaction, so do this slowly over a period of days and weeks or
even months. Several times a day for five minutes or a longer sitting of
twenty minutes is sufficient.
f. The increased streams of
energy tend to dislodge blocks and obstacles within your energetic system.
As they are dislodged and removed they come to the surface, so to speak, for
review. You need not become overly identified with them, a simple
acknowledgement will do. However, as these come up, there is a tendency for
you to feel that all these old problems have come back to plague you. Many
people discontinue the exercise at this point because they fear it is making
them worse. Understand that this is part of the process. Presently you will
feel better than you ever have before.
g. You may experience
physical reactions such as trembling and shaking. If these become too
uncomfortable, discontinue and breathe deeply a few times. Bending over from
the waist and touching your toes, without locking your ankles can be of some
help. This helps to unblock the joint chakras and dissipate the accumulated
energy. If you experience intense physical pain during the exercise, you are
most likely trying to go too quickly. Discontinue for the time being and
slow down.
h. This method was known to
Egyptian spiritual practitioners who derived the technique from earlier
forms used in Atlantis.
4. Calling for support.
Power animals and helpers from
the other planes are an important part of any healing process. Although all
healing is self healing, you do not exist in a vacuum. You are intimately
related to members of your entity, your essence twin if you have one, and the
many teachers, friends, and students you have developed over your lifetimes.
These relationships exist whether they are in physical form or not. When they
are not in a physical body, they are in a unique position to help from within,
because they are not distracted by the many challenges of the physical plane.
Therefore when you feel
overwhelmed, ill, or imbalanced in any sort of way, it is appropriate to ask
for help and support. You may not, however, have your lesson removed or
resolved for you. What you get is perspective and guidance. The work remains
yours to carry out.
To enlist the support of a
spirit guide, do the following:
a. Ask for a spirit guide
whom you know and trust, or one that is an expert in the situation you are
trying to heal. Ask and you will receive.
b. Ask them to help you with
some of the healing steps we have outlined so far. Ask them to help you with
staying present, grounding, pulling in higher degrees of essence, clearing
your aura and so on.
c. Ask them to help you with
insights or clarity concerning
the condition of imbalance.
d. Always remember to thank
them for their help. Do not be concerned about directing their activities or
taking charge of the healing operations. If you wish them to move out,
simply state this.
5. Bringing in the higher
planes for healing.
When you have learned how to
bring higher degrees of essence through your chakras and into your body, you
have developed the ability to work with the higher planes.
ASTRAL PLANE: Provides help in
the form of power animals, devas, and some guides that can offer support and
guidance of a more practical nature. Help with emotions.
CAUSAL PLANE: Provides
teachings and philosophies of a higher order similar to this teaching. Help
with beliefs.
AKASHIC PLANE: Provides
information about past lives, parallel lives, and future probabilities.
Instinctive center healing.
MENTAL PLANE: Higher
intellect. Intuitions about the nature of the universe. Understanding
connectedness with all things. Perceiving the truth.
MESSIANIC PLANE: Higher
emotional. Perceiving the nature and feeling of agape or unconditional love.
BUDDHAIC PLANE: Higher Moving.
Perceiving and experiencing the nature of energy. Understanding beauty.
TAO: Connecting with all that
is.
To contact the other planes
for healing, all you need to do is to acknowledge them and ask to feel the
energy of that plane. It helps to visualize the chakra that you wish to bring
it through. For example, for a condition of severe self deprecation or
depression, you may wish to visualize the fourth or heart chakra. Establish a
connection from this chakra to a color or symbol of your own choice for the
messianic plane, center for higher emotional healing. Channel the energy of
agape from the messianic plane through the fourth chakra, for a period of one
minute or less. A little bit of healing from these planes can go a long way.
If you are seriously ill or
wounded you may wish to hook up your third or solar plexus chakra with a
symbol for the buddhaic plane, center for energetic healing. Again, you need
not hold the connection for longer than one minute.
You can see then, how you can
use each plane for healing in its own specific area. The upcoming section
about chakras will explain which chakras to work with.
Very occasionally you may wish
to connect with the Tao through the crown chakra on the top of your head for a
few moments. This will give you a spiritual healing of the highest order. This
is the healing of choice at the time of death.
In order to accomplish this,
follow the same procedure described above. Visualize a symbol or globe of
brilliant white light for The Tao. Draw a channel between that light and the
crown of your head. Funnel that light into your crown for a few moments.
6. Healing with your hands.
Your hands are magical
instruments in that while they are quite physical, they have astral properties
as well. This is because of the chakras that exist in the palms and at all the
fingertips.
Your hands then, are able to
mold and direct energy just as they are able to mold and direct physical
matter. They are most useful tools in the art and practice of healing. Your
hands work in harmony with your intent and your will. Therefore whatever you
intend through your thoughts and feelings can be channeled through your hands.
This is the process behind the ancient art of laying on of hands.
Do not hesitate, then, to use
your hands in self healing or when you assist another. Use your imagination
and concentration to direct light and color to different parts of the body and
through the various chakras. Use your hands to help the flow of energy through
the joints or for clearing obstacles from the aura. Use your hands for
soothing or for closing down that which is gaping too wide. Use your hands to
send away unwanted thoughts or to help bring in desired beliefs or feelings.
Placing your hands over
physical wounds has powerful healing properties. Unfortunately because of your
cultures fixation on germs you have
been instructed to keep your hands away from injured parts. While it is unwise
to touch a gaping wound, it is certainly helpful to pass the hands over it.
Many a doctor, masseuse,
dentist, and even palm reader has effected healing through touch without the
conscious knowledge of it.
7. Steps to healing others.
Remember that all effective
healing is an attempt to help people heal themselves.
1. The first step is to
establish communication with the healee, mentally and emotionally. Note that
they need not be present physically for you to accomplish this. If they are
not present physically it helps to know their name, age, sex, and their
address or location.
2. Establish a communication
link with their first chakra (instinctive center). Greet them and ask their
permission to work with them. Ground them and bring them into the present.
3. Assess the problem by
posing questions and viewing the mental image pictures you receive. You may
sense these instead of see them.
4. Attempt to see, sense, or
feel the problem through the eyes of the client. Walk in their shoes for a
moment without identifying.
5. Focus your attention on the
area of difficulty, not with the intention of increasing its strength, but
with the intention of understanding it more completely.
6. When you get a sense of the
problem and have assessed it to your satisfaction, begin to use practical
images to heal the malady. For example, if something is separated, use tape to
fasten it together. If something is bloated or too full, open a faucet to
drain it. If something is leaking, cork it up. Use your hands even if you are
alone.
7. Next, channel healing
energy from the various planes, not
from your own personality. The best way
is through inspired feeling and images of brilliant
light. You can both visualize this and direct
it with your hands if you wish.
Any tools or steps that you
used for self healing can be applied to others. If you wish, with their
permission, you can channel higher degrees of their own essence into their
chakras or into their crown. You may wish to show them how to do this for
themselves.
This article was excerpted from:
Earth to Tao
by José Stevens
Excerpted with
permission of the publisher. Published by Bear & Co./Inner
Traditions International, Sante Fe, NM. www.innertraditions.com
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About The
Author
José
Stevens, Ph.D., is the founder of Essence Psychology and lectures
internationally on essence and personality, shamanism, and prosperity.
He is the author of Tao
To Earth, Transforming
Your Dragons, and co-author of The
Michael Handbook and Secrets
of Shamanism. The author's website is at www.pivres.com.
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