SPIRITUAL HEALING
This is a form of Medimship which is natural, is gentle, and works.
General Healing
A general definition of healing is any positive action, word, or thought directed by one person to another with the intention of helping them. A caring touch, a kind word, attentive listening or a smile are all forms of healing. In medical care prescribing drugs, performing surgery or giving advice to benefit the patient, is therapeutic and is healing.
Spiritual healers work with this positive intention in a deliberate way. They will focus their attention to the highest source of Peace and Love in the universe that they can imagine. This is called attunement to the universal source and is similar to meditation. It is a state of heightened awareness - being totally present and at the same time having an attitude of detachment.
The healers then consciously direct this experience of union with the universal source through themselves to the patient. This is called channeling, where the experience of love is directed through the healer and is not from the healer him or herself. This type of healing with a patient present is sometimes called 'laying on of hands', although the hands are sometimes held a short distance away from the body. At the end of a healing session healers will consciously break the connection they have made with the patient and resume their normal everyday conscious state of being.
Absent Healing
Spiritual healing practiced when the patient is not present is called absent healing and is similar to prayer. It can be practiced in groups or individually.
Healing at The Progressive
The Church Healing Group holds a Healing Service every Sunday from 8.00 p.m. until 9.00 p.m. All of our Church Healers are S.N.U. registered, either as qualified healers or trainee healers.
Healing is normally carried out by the laying on of the Healing Medium's hands, although healing at a short distance from the patient's body can be given if the patient requests this. It typically lasts for around ten minutes.
Patients are requested to note the following points -
* if you are currently receiving medication you must continue to take it according to your G.P.'s instructions,
* you do not have to "believe" in either God, the healing power or the ability of the healer. All that is requested is that you remain open to the possibility of Spiritual Healing being able to improve your situation,
* Spiritual Healing and Spiritualist Healers do not aim to take the place of conventional medicine. Our healing must be seen as complementary to it.
For more information about Spiritual Healing, or if you wish to have information on becoming a trainee healer within the Church, you can talk to the Church Healing Group Leader, who will be happy to help.
