Archive for 20 Questions Series: People Making a Difference
Spiritual Healing Anyone?
What is spiritual healing?
Over the years this question has been a constant. One I put to groups of students often in various forms.
What is the relationship between mental, physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of yourself or life in general?
Responses reveal the different paradigms or perceptions people have of life. They also reveal how people process information and learning strategies or styles. For example someone who sees the world more visually, such as an artist, will most often give a pictorial explanation, while someone with a mathematical, logical preference may show the relationship graphically. Social science types may show a flow chart over time or a mind map with notes to differentiate each aspect. People with differing religions may draw a picture of Buddha meditating in his lotus position or Jesus preaching.
For me these are all intertwined. One aspect is intimately integrated with another. For example, someone who has mental toughness and yet has no relationship with God (infinite intelligence) will only ever operate on the physical plane and when his mental (and often physical) toughness fails, he will collapse.
In recent decades in Western culture the focus has been on physical and mental teaching. This can easily be seen with the typical school syllabus
- maths
- science
- reading/writing
- physical education
There has traditionally been no allowance for encouraging the development of emotional intelligence. Previously spiritual intelligence may have been encouraged through religious education in school however over the years there has been an absolute decline and largely due to the failure of the teachers in this area – ie the flawed religious leaders getting in the way of the personal relationship between the individual and God.
I am an advocate for a holistic view of life to incorporate mental, physical, emotional and spiritual teachings. I also advocate developing your financial intelligence. How are we able to help the poor if we are one of them. Of course one person can make a difference however burn out is a natural consequence for us mere mortals who have to work to earn a living then add various volunteering tasks on to a busy work schedule, running a household, family and other day to day responsibilities. Why not become wealthy and employ others to also help, perhaps begin your own foundation or duplicate yourself such as with the Pay It Forward phenomena.
With more money we are able to help more people. Although the purpose or passion comes first in many cases, then the money will come. Or as in the Kevin Costner movie ‘Build It and They Will Come’. While others spend the first half of their life accumulating wealth and the second half giving it away – an extreme example of this is Bill Gates of Microsoft fame, who has given millions to various charities including running his own foundation with his wife.
So spiritual healing, I believe should be right up there. When we are still and go within, we can recognize that there are usually two voices in our head – one is the inner critic who rears it’s ugly head when we are out of balance in our lives. The second is the encourager who tells us we CAN do it! Depending on your own paradigm, we may even say the good one is our guardian angel while the other is the little devil trying to get us into trouble. Anyone ever been around two little boys getting up to mischief – perhaps you can understand this one 
When we listen to our higher selves, our guardian angels or our encourager we will know what to do and know if it is the right thing to do.
I am pleased to announce that very soon on this site will be available the inspiring interview with Mr Dominique Bourlet, who not only lives and breathes healing on an international scale through his practice and training workshops and his books, but also his commitment to lifelong learning and honing his craft to the absolute highest level. For me, the reason he stands out apart from so many others is his commitment to spiritual healing.
In this interivew, Mr Bourlet, shares his story and background of his transformation into a gifted healer and his experiences with Phillipino and Balinese spiritual healers.
Full audio is now available **click here**
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For a taster see a short excerpt where Dominique explains his unique ASIFU technique of healing.
Your thoughts?
