Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion
in which figures come and go as if by magic.
Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change.
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 158
My first experience doing “hands-on healing,” was done as part of the service of Holy Communion in church—laying on of hands, anointing with oil, and offering prayers for healing of body, mind, and spirit.
For two decades I have worked full-time hoping to get Healing Touch™ and other natural healing into hospitals. Just recently I read a quotation from one of Plato’s dialogues, in which Socrates was quoting a Thracian doctor’s criticism of his Greek colleagues:
“This is the reason why the cure of so many diseases is unknown to the physicians; they are ignorant of the whole. For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the mind from the body.”
After I underwent surgery to remove a massive ovarian tumor in 2012, my vision has been to bring energy medicine into the churches. In my own (United Methodist) tradition, the Reverend John Wesley was active in addressing the healing needs of people. He was not just about preaching the gospel, but bringing the GOOD NEWS: body, mind, and spirit.
Recently, a woman came to our local healers circle. She is trained in Reiki, one of many of the hands-on-healing methods. She shared with the group her husband had a significant improvement of some symptoms after she gave him some Reiki healing energy last winter (during a storm) when they couldn’t get him out to the emergency room. He is encouraging her to find ways to use her gift of spiritual healing.
Coincidentally, their church is one that I have a connection with, having taught meditation, guided imagery, and creative visualization there. Theirs is a wonderfully open and affirming congregation. I remember the love and respect they gave to me and my healing work.
People of faith already do distant healing work—calling it intercessory prayer. People of faith already know that they are not the ones doing the healing. People of faith already recognize healing happens beyond the estimation and the rationale of modern medicine.
These points are key, and there is sufficient research to support the facts, but the transformation in our medical system may not come from doctors and hospitals alone. The shift from treating symptoms to inviting transformational healing may much more naturally and rapidly come from pastors and people of faith in local congregations.
Let me know if you are interested in introducing (or expanding) a hands-on-healing ministry within your faith community. It has been 2500 years since Plato and Socrates advocated treating the whole person, so perhaps time is a trick and we really are seeing there is a plan behind appearances that does not change….
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Rev.Debra Basham
Within the US, voice or text: (269) 921-2217 Email: debra@scs-matters.com http://scs-matters.com http://ImagineHealing.info http://SurgicalSupport.info Small Changes … Infinite Results™
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