Spiritual Healing
65In today's world healing is well-known besides all medical therapies. Mostly it is also called natural healing therapy or system. People know about Reiki natural Healing System (known as Reiki Healing in general), Natural Pranic Healing System (known as Pranic Healing in general), Karuna Reiki, Sujok Healing System, Energy healing system and so on...
There is also Spiritual Healing. I have seen books in which mostly all healing systems are introduced under the title of spiritual healing. And no one say NO to these things! How one can say also! Because there are need of alternatives and such healing systems have provided positive things too!
But here we will try to understand these words, Spiritual Healing; and then we will see that what it means in real!
As per dictionary meaning spiritual word is derived from spirit. Spirit means non-physical or emotional seat of the person, which is surviving after death, some time manifested as ghost or super natural being; besides this, spirit is used in a sense of righteousness and positive attitude also. At the same time when we say spiritual it is connected with non-physical, meaning first opposite to material and physical thing. So many times in western countries this word is also used for a reference of ghost like things or bad spirit type things! There is also an association with religion and religious beliefs. There are other meanings, which have sect wise and culture wise diversity, but mostly in western countries spirit and spiritual both the words are used with non-physical as well as ghost and bad spirit concepts at a time!
Let us see one more word SOUL to understand spiritual word. Soul means spiritual or immaterial part of a human, regarded as immortal. It is also known as moral and emotional identity of the person or considered as intellectual energy.
Thesaurus has most of the alternatives regarding the word. It indicates spiritual as unworldly, otherworldly, incorporeal, immaterial, ethereal, ghostly, and supernatural; also mentioned that in spiritual writings this word is used as holy, sacred, divine, pure, pious, devotional etc.!
The word Soul has this type of meanings; spirit, psyche, essence, heart, reason, mind and embodiment; it means divided clearly from the body! There are other touches regarding the usages, such as, energy, vitality, sensitivity, sympathy, tenderness, compassion and understanding too! This clears that there are different perspectives related with the usages of these two words in western culture and societies!
Now let us see how eastern people understand these words: spiritual and soul. As we know that language exchange process has some kind of similarity in meaning and usages will help to translate the word in other language/s and mostly it is done by the concerned persons who know both (or multi) languages! But it is also true that you can not translate the same essence of the word some time. Same example we can give regarding these two words; spiritual and soul. We have tried to understand the western concept of these two words generally usages of them and main thing is these words are their own English language! So when we look these words with eastern references then there would be some kind of similarity we will find, but not the exact meaning: Let us understand with little details. As far as Indian languages are concern, the words indicating similarity with these two English words are Aadhyatmik (spiritual) and Aatma (soul). Aatma means whose existence is fore ever; no one can kill him, burn him, and destroy him. This meaning does not go at all level with the word soul! Aadhyatmik (spiritual) means the things more and more about Aatma (soul) and his relation and connection with the god! These both the meanings and its references are really different than the English usages of these two words Spiritual and Soul! Mostly all the eastern cultures and philosophies have the same meaning of these words in their respected languages.
Now we can try to understand the Spiritual Healing term in the perspectives regarding eastern references and meaning then it will be different than what the western usages are indicating. When healing comes direct from the Aatma (soul) to heal the patient by reaching to his/ her Aatma (soul) means Spiritual Healing: This shows that the activation of the patient's Aatma (soul) is also participating in healing and so recovery becomes fast and healing removes the ailment/ illness!
If we frankly try to understand the deep thing related with this type of healing process; then who has not realized the Aatma (soul) can not do spiritual healing, because how s/he can reach the patient's Aatma (soul) to activate and participate him in the process!
Well, I have tried to discuss this term with a little details of the languages, meanings and references to understand the world wide synchronizing process of culture and thoughts and integrity of the knowledge!
So let us conclude with an understanding that spiritual healing could be done or performed or applied by spiritually awaken persons, who have the humble knowledge to heal the patient by activating his/ her soul!
Shunya 2 years ago
Thanks for raising the issue. I would like to share with you and your readers my own story on this topic, as a healer. I have great respect for Science based medicine and in fact, owe my life to it. But, I think there is more to the picture than that.
I had been doing teaching and healing work for about 15-20 years. For about a year, I had been looking for someone who could take my healing to the next level. I always believed that healing miracles were possible, I just didn’t know how.
I was doing massage and healing work at the local Unity church and I heard they were bringing in a guy from China, Dr. Sha, to teach about healing. I really didn’t pay much attention.
Then one evening I was checking my emails and I came across a flyer reminding me he was coming that night. My partner was in the bedroom, crashed out after work. He had been complaining for a long time about always feeling sluggish and low energy. I had made a lot of suggestions, but you know, there’s only so much you can say to your partner before it becomes nagging! I called out, “Hey, I forgot to tell you. There’s some healer from China coming to Unity tonight. Supposed be a master of I Ching, Feng Shi, Tai Chi, some other stuff. His name’s Dr. Sha.” I figured we’re not going anywhere. Next thing I know, my partner’s standing in the doorway, dully dressed, saying “let’s go!” I was shocked!
That evening, I watched Dr. Sha do healing blessings an a very large woman with no cartilage in her knees who could barely walk with her cane. He did several kinds of healings and by the time he was done, she was walking up and down the aisles without her cane, sobbing at the amazing transformation that was happening in her life. My heart and soul said “yes!”
My partner and I have both studied pretty intensely with Dr. Sha for several years. We have helped hundreds of people and even had some miracles of our own. I have a friend who says that the healing blessing I gave her made her migraines go away after years of pain medication. We have a couple friends who tell us the blessings we gave helped to heal their babies in the hospital – that they saw the difference right away and it kept their babies from surgery, or worse. And a few days after doing a demonstration with one of our colleagues, she came up to me and said, “Thank you for what you did for my friend.” I said, “Ummmm….You’re welcome. What did I do?” She said, “My friend said you just looked at her and healed her.”
Please don’t misunderstand. I know who I am. I am the same guy who believed that healing miracles can happen, but didn’t know how. I know that I wasn’t the one causing those healings. They came from the same place all healing comes from, the Divine (or whatever name you wan to use). And they came from Love. But, those are more miracles than I ever experienced in my practice before I met Dr. Sha. I am so very glad hat I did meet him, that my partner did want to go that night, and that the Divine has shown me this way of working with people.
If you want more information, please visit www.drsha.com