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Healing, Helping, Fixing and Serving
My own experience of the Healer's Journey
By Norma Gentile
[/b][/size]My own experience of the Healer's Journey
By Norma Gentile
Ma'at Magazines
The Inner Light Issue
October 2009
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When I began to study energy healing, it was through a group known as The Emissaries of Divine Light. Some of you know this group through the writings of James Twyman. Their founder, who went by the spiritual name of Uranda, referred to their practice of energy healing as Attunement1. This is not to be confused with Reiki Attunement. These are two separate energy practices. In his writings, Uranda explained that the term Attunement was chosen because it reflected the potential of each human to be in alignment or attuned more fully to Spirit
As I trained in this style of healing, I took for granted many of the most basic principles behind the energy work. The writings and teachings Uranda left behind simply made sense to me. Looking back twenty years later, I am just now seeing how broadly and fundamentally different the practice of Attunement is from many of the healing modalities I see in the world today.
One aspect of Uranda's writings was his language. He deliberately chose certain words and phrases, often ones that were not common or that didn't exactly "roll off the tongue". He insisted that those who studied Attunement were Practitioners or Servers. Ideally the practice of Attunement was a shared experience. Nowadays many healers consider themselves practitioners. But to consider yourself a Server puts a different spin on the healing process.
Serving a larger spiritual picture was a principle theme. There was no final healing goal in the process of an Attunement. In one story Uranda mentions being offered a large sum of money if he would heal a man's daughter. He refused to do so, or to even try.
When I first heard this story I felt badly. "Why didn't he at least try?" I wondered. I understand now that it is possible to fix someone temporarily in a way they want to be fixed. There are energies that will do that. But it is never possible to guarantee that their soul has chosen the same path that their personality has chosen. To assume that you or I know best what someone's soul has planned for them is ludicrous, and even dangerous. Even in the most difficult moments, healing is helping someone's personality or little self learn to follow their Soul and Higher Self. Never the reverse!
Rachel Naomi Remen talks about the difference between helping, fixing and serving in a marvelous essay, "In the Service of Life"2 In writing about fixing, she observes that "When I fix a person, I perceive them as broken, and their brokenness requires me to act. When I fix, I do not see the wholeness in the other person or trust the integrity of the life in them."
I was, and still am, keenly aware that the quality of energy available during a healing session depends a great deal on the quality of intention that both I and the person requesting the healing session bring into focus. When someone's intention is to fix or change a particular issue, that greatly limits the energy available. It often causes my spiritual vision to close down. This is an indication, to me, that change needs to be addressed in a seemingly unrelated area of the person's life. And in order to do that I must readjust my own inner focus to their soul, not their personality.
In such situations my job is to help the fear, anxiety and distrust of their personality and little self find the support, love and connection with Spirit offered by the Higher Self. Then the real issues can be addressed. Sometimes this will include what was originally the target concern or issue. Other times the original issue is not directly addressed, but begins to shift a few days, weeks, or months after the energy healing."Our service serves us as well as others. That which uses us strengthens us. Over time, fixing and helping are draining, depleting. Over time we burn out. Service is renewing. When we serve, our work itself will sustain us.
"Service rests on the basic premise that the nature of life is sacred, that life is a holy mystery which has an unknown purpose. When we serve, we know that we belong to life and to that purpose."3
As I heard these words of Rachel's read aloud one day, I kept thinking of my own service as being my own healing journey with others. What if service were merely another word for healing? That brought me full circle in my path, through channeling and many other disciplines and spiritual practices, back to where I began, as an Attunement Server.
Now in healings I know that my service is to the soul's journey. I use a person's soul and the guides and angels connected to their soul as my reference points during a healing session. Hopefully that means the person will feel better after an energy healing session. But perhaps not. I do not know what encouragement they may need to follow the prompting of their soul. Some people's personalities seem to respond only to "pointy sticks". My focus is on healing as a service I render, not an action that I do,
INSTANT HEALING — A STORY
A few years back I was at a new age expo. There was a world-famous healer in the booth next to me. Every day a crowd would gather for a public demonstration of his healing ability. It was impressive! I found the situation rather curious as a healer myself, to have to heal someone on demand.
Each day the Healer chose someone from the assembled crowd, and in under 3 minutes (because this was often being done as part of a live TV broadcast) the Healer was able to cure some physical ailment.
I use "cure" here because as I watched, my own spiritual vision saw no guides or angels. Each day I looked close in as well as far away, 10 feet, 20 feet and even 40 feet away from and all around the Healer and his subject. My energetic sight saw nothing. Seated next to the Healer in my booth, I could overhear the conversation between the Healer and the client. My normal physical hearing and sight saw no discussion of what the ailment might be related to in the person's life or why this might be happening to their body.
After a few days of this, I decided to watch the smaller energy shifts within the Healer's body during a healing. I returned to my spiritual sight, and looking closely, saw the Healer's third chakra was very active. I looked between the atoms, a sort of inner sight, and saw some grey energy moving through the Healer out into the client. Several years later I realized this was related to a sort of energy that likes everything to be in a straight line, all tidied up, and in accordance with its own rules.
I saw the physical bodies of the people the Healer worked on change and become cured of their physical aliments. But internally I did not feel it. When true healing happens, there is a wave of energy, often experienced as a deep sigh, a release, a sense of uplift or a sudden enlightenment around a personal issue. This wave passes out to all those physically present, those psychically connected to the disease or imbalance, and to all those people who are connected to the person who chose a healing path.
To this day I am convinced that the particular type of energy work I witnessed was not true healing. Perhaps it was useful for many to see that energy can be an important aspect in their life. If instantly curing physical illness helps grab people's attention, maybe it is useful. But it is only a starting point. Without honoring the free will we each have, and the soul's journey, this type of energy work can also be a distraction from Spirit.
My inner sense is that when healing is done out of any imbalance, it is not true healing. It is fixing. If someone expects me or the energies that may be present during a healing session to address particular illnesses rather than address the issues presented by their soul, which are the casual issues of an illness, they are seeking to be fixed. Sometimes when this happens I feel empowered for a moment, as if I can indeed fix them. This sensation is short-lived, as I know when that attitude comes up within me it is my own little self wanting to step into the shoes that my Higher Self alone can wear. Those shoes are just too big and they fall off of my little self quickly!
In her essay Rachel makes a distinction also between helping and service. Again, what if the word "service" were replaced by "healing"?"Serving is different from helping. Helping is based on inequality; it is not a relationship between equals. When you help, you use your own strength to help those of lesser strength… When I help, I am very aware of my own strength… Service is a relationship between equals." 4
Many healing modalities can be used to help and fix. These same modalities can be used to share sacredness, and to honor Spirit. Knowing when we are stepping into a sacred space of service or into a non-sacred space of wanting to help, fix and take away pain is the healer's own journey And it may take a life-time.
My blessings to all who join me upon this journey.
Norma Gentile
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1 This practice of Attunement was first developed by Uranda in the early 1920's as a hands-off energy healing modality. A number of chiropractors associated with the Palmer College of Chiropractic. Joined him n the 1950's. It was actually Albert Ackerley DC who named the resulting technique Attunement.
2,3,4 — In the Service of Life by Rachel Naomi Remen Reprinted from Noetic Sciences Review, Spring 1996
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Copyright 2009 Norma Gentile. www.healingchants.com
Copyright 2009 Norma Gentile. www.healingchants.com
