What is Healing... the goal of all work I do with people, and of everything I teach, is the attainment of a Quiet Heart.
I consider all of my work with people to be a form of teaching, intended to empower the client/student to self-heal. The result of the healing encounter is the attainment of a Quiet Heart, an inner oasis, and a quiet center within oneself.
In Egypt, at the end of life, our hearts were weighed against the feather of Ma'at, Goddess of Truth and Order. The prayer of the supplicant began, “ Heart, oh my Heart, do not find me wanting in the balance.” In present time, we each must be true to our own innate pattern. To know one's pattern is the end result of the achievement of a Quiet Heart. Then we feel healed, at peace, satisfied with ourselves.
All healing is self-healing. The relationship of the person to him/herself is the real variable that determines the outcome in healing work. Can the person encounter him/herself deeply, purposively, and in a loving manner? Can the person remain in that relationship to Self for as long as the healing requires?
In the ancient world, all healers were also priests or priestesses. The person seeking healing traveled to a sanctuary where they made appropriate offerings, prayers, incubated dreams, and underwent various treatments prescribed by the healer.
In the Egyptian world, the healers were initiates of the Goddess Sekhmet, whose name means Powerful. The “therapeutes” of the Greek world were pledged to Apollo, the God of the Sun. Their role was as attendant to the person in the healing process. Our word therapist really has to do with that process. We attend a person's process. We are not the cause or author of a person's healing.
The ancient world recognized the importance of solar energies and reflected that in the status of the Egyptian God Re, and the Greek God Apollo. Egypt or Greece, these Gods of the Sun were worshipped as the Light, the Source of all that is. The priests went out every morning to sing and laugh, welcoming the rising of Re in the morning.
In the tomb paintings the rays of the sun are depicted in many ways … rays streaming from Re to the crown of his daughter Hathor … rays streaming from Re to Akhenaton and then from Akhenaton to his family.
All things are light. We live in a world of variable light frequencies measured in amplitudes that range from the very slow to the very fast. We 'hear' radio waves. We 'feel' microwaves as heat. We 'see' the visible light frequencies. We 'see through' matter with x-rays.
Light energy is available to us all. We can harness the light energy and use it for clearing, activating, and healing ourselves.
Reiki energy healing harnesses life source energy by means of symbols to specify the frequency of the energy. Reiki uses a sequence of hand positions to direct the energy into bodies and auras. Any system of healing named “Reiki” attunes the healer to the frequency and color associated with the Heart chakra, the mid-chakra of our chakra system. This medial frequency and color is Green. It has a calming and balancing effect on our physical, emotional and mental energy fields.
Other healing systems utilize full-spectrum light, white light, visible as a Rainbow. Specialized systems utilize frequencies such as Gold, Violet, or the White Crystalline light of the Angelic Realm.
In Egypt and later in Greece, when in search of Healing, the seeker traveled to a sanctuary and performed rites of purification and prayer. Part of that ritual included the incubation of dreams that could reveal the source of the problem and point to the solution. The dream work was often the beginning of the treatment in the sanctuary, and based on the dreams, a treatment was prescribed by the attendants. In the ancient world, those treatments included propitiation to a God, offerings, amulets, herbal medicines, massage, color therapy, and healing with the hands.
In modern times, the encounter with the Self, Individuation, as Jung calls it, progresses through a series of dreams and energy shifts. Classical Jungian work is dream-centered. Dreams bring to consciousness what has been hidden and unconscious. The work of the dream is as bringer of Light. We experience the progress of dream therapy as a series of insights, a sense of feeling lighter, a dawning of awareness, and ultimately a coming to know and accept who we really are.
As one comes to know, accept, and love one's self, a quiet state of harmony within one's heart, one's Being, and a harmony with one's environment is the result. To be in a state of harmony, peace, and in loving relationship to self and others, that is true healing.
