Hello, My name is Emily, tonight I've been to a spiritualist church and I've gotten a message from my late Nana who died 2 years ago. The medium who gave me the reading told me that when she gave me a hug she felt warmth and that I had healing hands. I'm not too sure what that could mean and I was wondering if someone could help me understand.
If it helps I do have a lot of people come to me with their problems and I listen to then and try to help them any way I can, could that be linked to healing?
Thank you.
- Emily
Hello, My name is Emily, tonight I've been to a spiritualist church and I've gotten a message from my late Nana who died 2 years ago. The medium who gave me the reading told me that when she gave me a hug she felt warmth and that I had healing hands. I'm not too sure what that could mean and I was wondering if someone could help me understand.
If it helps I do have a lot of people come to me with their problems and I listen to then and try to help them any way I can, could that be linked to healing?
Thank you.
- Emily
Almost certainly. I also heal with my hands (reiki, massage) and heal with words (counselling, hypnotherapy, mindfulness....even card readings!)
When you were given that message, how did you feel? Excited? Nervous? Worried?
There is much more to 'healing' than having healing hands (which reiki attunement gave me) and being a shoulder to cry on ( I too was always the person people came to when they were in trouble) To really help you need to understand the ethics of healing, and its limitations. If you don't both you and the people you are trying to help could suffer. To be blunt just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. Knowing when it is not appropriate to act is just as important as knowing how to act.
If the idea of healing is one that appeals to you I would suggest you get some formal training. Reiki is the obvious choice ....or you can see if the church offers any training in hands on healing. But with a reiki certificate you will get the basic training not only in how to maximise your healing hands, but also be taught the basics of ethics, understand the importance of a code of conduct, and most importantly how not to leave yourself vulnerable.
But just because you have this gift does not mean you are meant to rush out and use it straight away. It maybe this is something you will pursue later on in life ( I was 57 when I ventured along this path)
Good luck
If the idea of healing is one that appeals to you I would suggest you get some formal training. Reiki is the obvious choice ...
Of course, Reiki is only obvious to Reiki practitioners. To me, shamanism is the obvious choice.
The other point I'd like to make is that 'healing' is not about healing another. It is about creating the space where the person can heal themselves.
Hello, My name is Emily, tonight I've been to a spiritualist church and I've gotten a message from my late Nana who died 2 years ago. The medium who gave me the reading told me that when she gave me a hug she felt warmth and that I had healing hands. I'm not too sure what that could mean and I was wondering if someone could help me understand.
If it helps I do have a lot of people come to me with their problems and I listen to then and try to help them any way I can, could that be linked to healing?
Thank you.
- Emily
Well, I'd take the "medium" reading and the telling that you've got healing hands with a pinch of salt. I have, quite seriously, lost count of the number of people who have been told at spiritualist church that they were a born healer, or suchlike. Sure, we all have the ability to do it, but it's what you choose to do for yourself that matters. Don't just get in to the healing side of things because someone said you can do it; instead do it because it's what you want to do.
As Sally said, it's good to be able to listen to people and to offer support etc. and certainly that's an aspect being a therapist, but there is more to it than that if you want to do it professionally. Like Crowan says, the first thing to learn, whether in Reiki or Shamanism or many others, is to practice it for your own benefit, as often these things aren't about "healing others" but about improving our self.
Hello, My name is Emily, tonight I've been to a spiritualist church and I've gotten a message from my late Nana who died 2 years ago. The medium who gave me the reading told me that when she gave me a hug she felt warmth and that I had healing hands. I'm not too sure what that could mean and I was wondering if someone could help me understand.
If it helps I do have a lot of people come to me with their problems and I listen to then and try to help them any way I can, could that be linked to healing?
Thank you.
- Emily
Amazing things about fads is that most of us don't realize that they are fads..that includes spiritual fads too.
"I have healing" is a massive fallacy and very prevalent in the present day spiritual and alternative well being climate.
It often lead folks to assume that they are being chosen to fascilitate healing in others. So they are led to receive some attunement, attend a weekend course and start dispensing healing....carry the burden of being a healer.
The most beautiful thing about healing is that it does not need healers who can put hands on you or do anything in particular. If a person is open, healing floods in. It does not depend on anyone with skills, qualifications or even gift.
Healing is nothing like the pretentious thing it has become in present times. People have always been balm to each other, been soothing each other, showing the way, easing the pain, changing mind sets...everything you can think of- in way of being there, listening, touching, hugging, grieving together, laughing together, embracing, holding hands, scolding, giving insight, sharing a life experience. A casual smile, a warm hug, even a joke can be a more potent way of healing than the greatest of healer dispensing it on purpose.
We need to learn to be available to ourselves first, to the people in our closest circles, to my community. We are unfortunately more interested in channeling something that is mysterious, spiritual, higher to us. In our aspirations, the essential goes missing. Right here, is someone who could do with us being totally present to them...that is healing. It is ordinary and needs no ritual, no training, no gift, no magic touch.
The magic is in you. In your total availability, something comes alive....when you give and receive with open hands, the flow of life itself becomes the ultimate healing, the greatest benediction.
But people start doing healings where it all goes gross...the magic gets owned, it becomes a cheap trick...
Let the magic own you, rather than the other way round
Please don't feel that you are being dissed here on this forum...May great healing Happen without you doing it.
Many good wishes
Of course, Reiki is only obvious to Reiki practitioners. To me, shamanism is the obvious choice.
The other point I'd like to make is that 'healing' is not about healing another. It is about creating the space where the person can heal themselves.
Fair comment.....but I don't know about shamanism....and there is a link between the hands on healing taught in spiritual churches and what I was taught when I learned reiki....I am just not sure the ethical side will be taught in a spiritualist church...And o me the ethics ARE important
I am just not sure the ethical side will be taught in a spiritualist church...And to me the ethics ARE important
What do you mean by ethical ?.
I'm sure Sally is referring to the legal ethical principles of being a therapist, such as not making diagnosis or prognosis unless one is a qualified medical practitioner etc. I've, unfortunately, come across some 'spiritual' people who are very quick to tell someone what is wrong with them (diagnosis) and tell them what to do and what the outcome will be (prognosis) etc. If they stating these as facts rather than making it clear that it's their beliefs, then they are breaking the law.
There are other ethical aspects to being a therapist and treating people, such as data protection, recognising and dealing appropriately with reportable conditions e.g. suicide attempts, contagious diseases etc. and other things.
I'm sure Sally is referring to the legal ethical principles of being a therapist, such as not making diagnosis or prognosis unless one is a qualified medical practitioner etc. I've, unfortunately, come across some 'spiritual' people who are very quick to tell someone what is wrong with them (diagnosis) and tell them what to do and what the outcome will be (prognosis) etc. If they stating these as facts rather than making it clear that it's their beliefs, then they are breaking the law.
There are other ethical aspects to being a therapist and treating people, such as data protection, recognising and dealing appropriately with reportable conditions e.g. suicide attempts, contagious diseases etc. and other things.
From what I understand of the training course for healers in the spiritual church theses aspects are covered and adhered to.
As far as diagnosing illness, I don't belief that that is the case either.
Some "mental" healing practises (as far as I know not the spiritual church) won't even accept a "material" condition, and therefore will not go down the road of trying to diagnose the cause of an illness. In fact such a rout is considered detrimental to the healing process.
Many naturally wind up in overtly healing professions, such as medicine, psychology, or life coaching. They'll take part in various forms of sacred activism and spend their lives healing the planet, for example, rather than healing people. But some wind up in professions where they may feel like they don’t fit in at all.