What Is Healing ?

Healing is a return to wholeness or wellness and involves the energies and actions of curing, restoration, and transformation. However, healing does not always mean that the person gets immediately better. Sometimes healing produces a worsening of the condition before it is alleviated, and can even result in a quickening towards death, if that is the will of the person’s soul. This is because the elements that caused the "disease" must be fleshed out and brought to the conscious mind before true restoration can occur. Healing follows a pattern of tension, crisis, and emergence—the worsening effect is exemplified by the "crisis" and the restoration aspect by the "emergence."

Health or wellness is the clean interplay of energies and the right interplay of forces. Health is also the result of the free interplay of energy between the etheric body and the physical body, which works through the seven chakras or energy centers, the endocrine system with its seven major gland groups, and the nervous system. Health occurs when the building energies of the soul are active and disease occurs when the builders or devas of the lower centers are in control and when there is an over or under stimulation of the chakras.

All disease is caused by a lack of harmony—a disharmony that exists between the form (body) aspect and the life (spirit) aspect. The soul, which is the union of the form and life aspect, expresses this lack of alignment, and all disease could be said to be the product of inhibited soul life. When the life of the soul is expressed, and there is harmony between higher and lower self, subjective and objective reality, and energy flows unimpeded and through right channels to its related gland, then the body responds and ill health disappears.

Most causes of diseases arise from our astral and etheric bodies because these are where most of humanity is focused. Disease is the product of three influences—the person’s past life karma, their inherited karma and that which is shared with humanity, and the karma that their soul imposes on them. Disease is ultimately a process of liberation—that which frees what are static, crystallized, concretized thought forms that result in tumors, cancers, and the like. A shift in the inner attention of the person being healed can produce freedom from physical ills, or an intensification of those reactions which result in death, disease, or discomfort in the healing process.

There is much that we can ourselves do for our own healing. Physical vitality and wellbeing begin with our willingness to be responsible for ourselves—our thoughts, feelings, and actions, which are exemplified by the basic metaphysical premise that form follows thought. If our thoughts and feelings are disharmonious, then our bodies will reflect those states of disharmony and become diseased. Our outer reality is a reflection or mirror of our inner state. The Buddha knew this truth and taught his followers the Middle Way—neither to be attracted nor repulsed by anything in life. Because of their adherence to the Middle Way, Buddhists embody vitality and wellbeing.

Integral to our good health is the development of a Witness. It is difficult to be responsible for ourselves and our health without one. We must become ever watchful of our negative thoughts and emotions and nip them in the bud to prevent disease—and to do this, we need a strong witness. The Witness is our neutral observer, the part of us that observes events truthfully and impartially. The Witness lives in our core (the pillar of divine light that connects all of our chakras, the Sushumna), mainly in the head and heart centers, and is undeveloped in the average person. So if you want better health and wellbeing, begin now by invoking your Witness. Several times a day ask your Witness to come forth, be with you in each moment, witness your internal states, and inform you of them. Diligently watch your thoughts. When negative thoughts and emotions arise, replace them with opposite thoughts or thoughts of harmony, peace, joy. The choice is yours, and the power is within you.