Saturday 27 February 2021

Post No. 1,782 - DRAFT healing course [Content Warning: harm, limits of acceptable behaviour, need for consent, need for legal advice, need for psychic protection, ethics]

This is a first rough outline of a course on channelled energy healing, based on a course I delivered at an organisation some years ago.As usual, I've lost my formatting, but I may fix that if I do a future version (or a book).

Healing Course

It should be noted that it is hoped that this course will lead to more people being available and confident enough to undertake healing, and to better quality healing.

Lesson One Notes

What is channelled energy healing?

For the purpose of this course, healing means:

assisting someone to be healthier, more whole, feel better or function more effectively by means of channelling energy from a higher source.

The healing is NOT accomplished using one’s own energy.

In most instances, the healing comes about by either adding healing energy to, or removing or dissolving discordant or negative energy from, the patient’s non-physical levels: the effect of this maybe direct, in the case of a need for emotional or mental healing, or may then manifest on the physical, if that is where healing is needed, or give ease such that the patient’s body can then heal itself. (Sometimes the healing goes the other way: physical tension is eased, which allows the patient to realise better health or wellbeing.)

In principle, this is largely about connecting to a source of healing energy, and being as clear a channel as possible. That is a simplification, of course. What also has to be considered includes:

Ø personal preparation;

Ø establishing (and, ideally, checking) adequate protection;

Ø how to end a healing session; and

Ø knowing what can potentially go wrong, and how to react if something does.

The first of the dot points will be covered in this Lesson, and the others in subsequent Lessons.

Types of energy

There are a few simple points to keep in mind about energy when doing healing:

Ø there are many different levels of reality, each of which has its own sets of energies – etheric, lower astral, upper astral, mental, etc. Healing could occur on any one or several of these levels, which means that, as an example, if your patient needs healing on the etheric level, which you are providing, but the patient’s psychic sensitivities are more attuned to the higher astral, they won’t feel anything. Conversely, the patient could be feeling a great deal of healing on, say, the mental energy level, while you may not feel anything because your sensitivity is more towards the upper astral, perhaps;

Ø as an adjunct to that, there are different types of energies on each level. Suppose your patient needs healing with blue and orange on the lower astral level, but you are best at healing with green on that level: it may be that the patient needs to see someone else to receive the healing they need. In addition, the comments in the previous dot point about sensitivities would apply here as well: you may be channelling the required blue and orange lower astral energies, and feeling nothing because of your greater sensitivity to green, while the patient may feel nothing (perhaps being more attuned to purple energies on that level), or a very great amount of heat;

Ø colour is a simplification of the characteristics of energy. It can be very useful to develop other ways of viewing energy as well – perhaps sound (e.g. musical tones), or scents;

Ø a very key fact here is that energies can be beneficial, neutral and harmful (harmonious, disharmonious) to the patient. There is not necessarily any concern about energies being “bad” in the way that (too much) junk food is generally considered bad for physical health, but the issue of being in harmony or not is, in my experience, often of great importance. This can also contribute, in part, to the variation in results that patients and healers can experience (consider, for instance, if a patient needs some energy that the healer finds incompatible);

Ø another issue that can be useful is developing awareness of the direction of energy flows, which will be elaborated upon in other lessons.

Why protection is needed

Protection is a way of seeking to ensure that only energies of the Highest Spiritual nature are present. When making that statement, it is fairly clear that we do not want Guides of inadequate skill of experience for any particular healing, and that we do not want “negative” energy interfering with what is being attempted.

What is perhaps less clear is that we also do not want energy that is in disharmony with the energy that is needed – which could be an energy that is, of itself, quite positive. This has been discussed in the previous section.

The comments made thus far are fairly clearly referring to psychic protection – which is created by a suitable Opening Prayer. This will need to be made for any private healing sessions. Protection, however, can extend further:

Ø ensuring that one does not pass on, or transfer, any infection or bacteria (e.g., if the patient has a cold and sneezes anywhere near your hands, wash your hands thoroughly);

Ø preventing physical problems such as excessive heat or cold, or allergic reactions (consider, for instance, that some people are allergic to incense, or some types of incense: the solution, as so often is the case, is to ask before using music);

Ø avoiding disharmony in the form of, perhaps, music of a type that the patient dislikes or fails to feel completely in harmony with, or references in the Opening Prayer that are similarly disharmonious (for instance, reference to angels grates with some people);

Ø avoiding doing anything which creates a legal risk (which may require, for instance, only using channelled energy healing at the organisation [using massage without prior permission and appropriate skills/qualifications/experience and aggravating a prior injury, for example, is a legal risk which should be avoided], or having a pair of healers or someone else as back up during any private healing sessions) , as discussed further on in these notes.

Some of this can be summarised as being ethical, or more specifically, following the ethical (and Highest Spiritual Good) principle “first do no harm”, which will be discussed in the next Section.

An example Opening Prayer for private healing sessions is available in the Healing Rules displayed on the walls of the Hall in the healing area. Another example Opening Prayer for private healing sessions is:

May the Creator and the Protective Spirits of this place guide, nurture, protect and heal all of us present here, whatever our form, existence or purpose for coming here may be.

May all energies and Guides present be only of the Highest Spiritual nature, and may all healing that is done, on all levels, be only of the Highest Spiritual nature.

We ask that the protection include a Pyramid of Light about this place, existing in all dimensions, and that it be kept continuously clear of all negative or discordant units, and free of all outside negative influences.

May my hands also be encased in gloves of Light, that only positive and healing energies may flow to my patient.

Amen

An example Closing Prayer for private healing sessions is available in the Healing Rules displayed on the walls of the Hall in the healing area. Another example Closing Prayer for such sessions is:

We ask that our auras be cleansed, cleared and closed. We ask that we be assisted to close down, particularly our chakras, and to centre ourselves, grounding and releasing all excess energy in doing so. We ask that the pyramid be cleansed and cleared in all times, dimensions, realities, levels and spaces. We ask that all positive links, skills outcomes and other things be strengthened. We ask that the place we have been working be cleansed, cleared and closed, but that the protection, healing and guidance continue for the Highest Spiritual Good.

Amen

Homework Exercise No. 1: write your own Opening Prayer for a private healing session.

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Homework Exercise No. 2: write your own Closing Prayer for a private healing session.

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“First Do No Harm”

This is the essence of the Hippocratic Oath that doctors are supposed to follow. It is a good guiding principle for channelled energy healing, although ours may be more appropriately expressed as “act only for the Highest Spiritual Good”.

In the context of channelled energy healing, ways that you can fulfil this principle include the following:

Ø ensuring psychic protection and common sense physical measures (such as washing hands and avoiding extremes of heat or cold) are used;

Ø being as professional in your conduct as you can be, including preparing (to be discussed shortly);

Ø following the organisation’s Healing Rules.

Preparation

The best form of preparation for anything is, generally, thinking about it. Throughout this course, you are encouraged to think and to ask questions of us, your Guides, Teachers and others who you may respect or consider knowledgeable on this topic.

In addition, you can ask your Guides to help you specifically prepare for doing channelled energy healing, including doing some supervised practice, during your sleep state. It is quite likely you won’t recall any of this work when you awake, but that doesn’t stop the sleep state work being effective.

Reading can also be useful.

There are some specific requirements that should be ideally be met before doing healing:

Ø be adequately rested;

Ø be in reasonable health, and not ill;

Ø ideally, receive healing beforehand if you are feeling low in energy;

Ø have water for washing hands and hand towels available before you start;

Ø be neat, clean an free of offensive odour

Having made those points, there are times when you may be required to do channelled energy healing under circumstances that are less than ideal. We will attempt to cover those during this course. It should also be noted that the higher energy at the organisation may enable you to work as a healer successfully, despite being tired before you arrived.

Other terminology, and what channelled energy healing is NOT

This form of healing is often described as “spiritual” healing. This term is appropriate, in that the source of energy is spirit. The term can, however, create an impression that one needs to be spiritual in order to do healing. That is not correct.

Another term that is sometimes used is “magnetic” healing, but that is generally used in the context of forms of healing where energy is contributed from the healer’s aura. This is not what is desired at organisation.

Finally, another term if “faith” healing. This is widely considered inappropriate, as one does not need to have faith in order for channelled energy healing to be effective: all that is required is that one be sufficiently open minded to not block the process.

Where healing is being performed at an organisation’s venue

The organisation has a legal duty of care to people who attend its events. That is, in effect, another way of expressing the principle of “act only for the Highest Spiritual Good”, but it is useful to be reminded that there can be legal consequences from our actions on behalf of the organisation. As part of making sure we are acting for the Highest Spiritual Good (or, as the lawyers would express it, “meeting our duty of care obligations”), this course is intended to outline the organisation’s expectations of those providing channelled energy healing at organisation events.

In addition to that, there are legal obligations we have, as individuals (more specifically, what the law defines as “a reasonable person”, which covers issues such as not setting booby traps for intruders in our homes, and providing reasonable[1] assistance to those in need [e.g. at car accidents]), and as healers.

As healers, probably the main issues to be aware of are:

Ø informed consent;

Ø unwanted physical contact; and

Ø fraud or misrepresentation.

Informed consent

At an organisation’s event, if a patient comes to the back of the Hall during a service and sits on one of the healing stools, it is probably reasonable to assume that they have given consent, in principle, to receiving channelled energy healing. However, in accordance with the announcement, they have the right to indicate whether or not they are comfortable being touched (some people have very valid reasons not be comfortable with being touched), and it is prudent (i.e. – professional, or acting in accordance with the HIGHEST Spiritual Good) to lean over and quietly check with your patient.

It also consistent with acting with the HIGHEST Spiritual Good (i.e. – being professional), to ask – if this is someone you have not healed before – if they have had healing. If they have not, you need to check that they understand what channelled energy healing can – and cannot – do.

As an example script, you might say something like:

“I will be a channel for energy to come from a Higher Source. You may feel some warmth or tingling, or you may feel nothing at all. The healing acts on your non-physical levels, and is probably best thought of as helping your body to heal itself.”

In the case of children, or patients who are nervous, it may be useful to ask them to extend a hand, and then give that hand channelled energy healing for a few seconds to demonstrate.

Homework Exercise No. 3: write your own short script to use in the context of explaining healing to a new patient.

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Unwanted physical contact

The issue of what is acceptable touch in a public situation such as this, particularly with strangers, is personal, and, in the interests of acting only in the Highest Spiritual Good (which also means being professional / meeting the expectations of the organisation, including those imposed on it by legal duty of care / Highest Spiritual Good), one should never waste time or energy judging or wondering why someone has particular preferences around touch – not only is that a distraction from your task of channelling energy, it can potentially act to set up a block to you channelling to that person. In principle, simply ask, and accept whatever the person’s answer is (you should not generally ask such a question unless you are prepared to accept any of the potential replies J ), and accept that they have a legal and moral (i.e., spiritual) right to their privacy.

There is a little more to this issue, however, and that is the potential for patients to feel uncomfortable or threatened around contact that they consider is potentially intimate - e.g., too close to a woman’s breasts. Accepted practice[2] these days amongst those who do channelled energy healings in situations such as working in the healing segment of a service at a Spiritualist Church, is to avoid touching the front of the torso of a woman. It can be prudent to avoid the same for men. Keep in mind that it can take just one patient feeling threatened for legal problems to eventuate,

None of this prevents you from channelling energy from in front of a patient. Also, it may be reasonable to take into account any patient’s statements about being comfortable with certain contact (although you would, obviously, still not contact breasts or genital areas).

Some healers like to work in pairs, so they can have a witness as defence against false claims of impropriety. In the context of working at a public event, that is probably not necessary, but may be an issue to consider if working elsewhere, or on the premises at a time other than a public event.

Fraud or misrepresentation

As a reminder, this course is aimed at providing channelled energy healing at organisation events, or on organisation premises.

All people at the organisation are subject to the laws of this nation, this state, and Council bylaws. Those laws include a ban on gaining financially as a result of committing fraud or misrepresentation. In the context of channelled energy healing, if you were to make a statement guaranteeing healing, or claim to be able to do miracles, you could be subject to action under those laws.

What we are seeking to do is no more than to attempt to ease people’s pain or discomfort, and maybe them to heal themselves.

You’re not doing channelled energy healing at organisation to prove anything or convince/convert sceptics, or for the sake of your ego. Remember that, be modest and humble, attempt to act only for the Highest Spiritual Good, and you should be OK. “Should” because you could always have the misfortune to come across a person who is problematic, so we cannot guarantee unreservedly that you will always, forever and ever, under all circumstances, no matter what, be free of problems or challenges.

Of course, the thing about the law is that it goes both ways, which means that you have the right not to be abused, threatened, harangued or assaulted. If such problems occur, immediately tell the patient that you are stopping work because of … <state the problem>, and contact a Committee Member.

As an aside to this, reputable spiritualist organisations, particularly those focused on healing, often recommend that any channelled energy healing be done in conjunction with conventional medical care.[3]

A lot of this all boils down to consideration – or, as expressed in these notes, acting only for the Highest Spiritual Good. Being considerate of your patients may be something that leads to, for instance, offering a drink of water or tissue if the patient needs it, or assisting them if they have a physical mobility problem, or referring them to a more appropriate healer – or a conventional doctor – if they need it.

There are other issues the organisation has to take into consideration as well, but they do not fall within the province of this course.The organisation’s key expectations should be summarised in its published Healing Rules .

Next lesson, we will consider basic practical skills (e.g. establishing and checking protection), preparation, and start getting energy flowing.

We will also review the homework.

After next week, the lessons will cover the following:

Lesson Three – more practice, monitoring the patient (and psychic first aid), checking, professionalism

Lesson Four – more practise, increasing energy flows, what to do about mistakes (volunteers to receive healing will be sought for this lesson)

Lesson Five – working with other healers, other levels of perception and other techniques; review ethics, attitudes and legal

Lesson Six – practical test (volunteers will be needed for this) and short assessment

Lesson Two Notes

Summary to date

Healing is:

assisting someone to be healthier, more whole, feel better or function more effectively by means of channelling energy from a higher source.

· energy is from Higher Sources, NOT one’s own energy;

· energy acts on patients non-physical levels, and effectively it usually helps them to heal themselves;

· in principle, this is largely about connecting to a source of healing energy, and being as clear a channel as possible;

Energy:

· many levels (etheric, multiple astral, etc);

· patient and/or healer may have sensitivities / energetic needs / channelling on different levels, so awareness may be different (also, capacity to channel may be different, so what feels like a lot of energy to one may feel like little to another);

· energies can be harmonious / disharmonious, which moves beyond the concept of “good” or “bad” (could also be neutral);

· direction of flow can be an issue.

Protection:

· seek to ensure energies / Guides / etc are of the Highest Spiritual nature, and are harmonious with patient;

· also need to consider physical safety as part of healer’s duty of care;

· Opening and Closing Prayers for organisation-run events (e.g., a Spiritualist Church) cover healing, but needs versions for work at other times;

· “first do no harm”;

· follow the organisation’s Healing Rules (likely to change, though, and this course based on what will be proposed).

Organisation Guides cover:

· informed consent;

· avoiding unwanted physical contact (this can be very harmful);

· do not commit fraud or misrepresentation;

· do not expose yourself or the organisation to legal risks (e.g. have two people for private healing sessions [have been problems in the past!]).

Prepare as best one can, and be in a suitable state to do healing.

Last week, we advised that this week, we will consider basic practical skills (e.g. establishing and checking protection), preparation, and start getting energy flowing, and that we would also review homework.

Review of Lesson One and Homework

Discussion, particularly around Highest Spiritual Good and patient’s Free Will.

Beginning healing – what happens

For these sessions, typically have the patient sitting on a stool, with the healer standing behind or to one side of the patient. For private healing sessions, patient could be sitting sideways on a kitchen chair (sideways so that their back is accessible) or laying on a massage table.

At the organisation, typically the healer places their hands on or near the patient’s shoulders / back / head for a few minutes, and moves them to other locations when impressed to do so by the Healer’s Healing Guides / Helpers (who are working with the patient’s Guides to accomplish what is necessary, or at least the best result that can be accomplished). Starting on the shoulders can be useful to help the patient relax, and channelling energy in via chakras can be effective / efficient. That is important, as whereas private healing sessions (or healing during Readings Days / Psychic Fair) may go for 15 to 20 minutes, the healing time during an organisation-run event may be limited to 5 to 10 minutes.

Protection

Before establishing psychic protection, make sure the place you are going to be performing healing is physically safe and comfortable – not too hot or cold, if possible, and protected from interruptions such as mobile phones.

One of the key things with establishing psychic protection, is making sure that it is actually there J In the overwhelming majority of cases, reading your Opening Prayer is enough to make it work, particularly is aided by visualisation, but there may be times it doesn’t. This could be for a whole range of reasons, such as perhaps the Guides knowing there is something underhanded or dangerous about the patient, or the building could be unsafe or there could be an earthquake coming, or the Guides simply want to make sure you are not taking them for granted. In any case, if you are relying on your Opening Prayer, check that you feel protected and safe (which is NOT the same as feeling confident and capable J ) before commencing.

On a case-by-case basis, you may decide to include the patient in the reading of the Opening and Closing Prayer, or you may feel that it is more appropriate to do this mentally, which involves “just” you, your Guides and the patient’s Guides.

As an example of when it may be more productive to not include the patient in the reading of an Opening Prayer, consider when they may be wary, uncertain or even a little sceptical: in those circumstances, including them in reading the Prayer out loud may simply reinforce their notion that they are about to undergo something weird or even a little dangerous.

During an organisation-run event, the basic protection has already been established and checked, but it never hurts to add in your own protection as well.

Practice – including sensing the extent of protection established by others

Other preparation

One of the techniques I use, which is not quite protection, is what I was taught – in the early 1980s - to call “flaming”, but now, post the Internet, try to remember to call “psychic flaming”.

This is use of the mind to create, by visualisation, positive energies. I often use it to cleanse my aura or chakras, but can also use it cleanse an area I am about to perform healing in – which is a little like surgeons disinfecting an operating theatre.

Another little “trick” I sometimes use is to visualise the floor covered in flames of positive energy (I like gold for this purpose), which can be used to dissolve any small quantities of negative energy that my healing may dislodge from the patient.

Commencing energy flows

The main step to commencing the flow of healing energy, once one has asked for it, is to relax and get out of the way of ones Healing Guides. One’s awareness of, and sensitivity around, healing energy will generally increase with practise, but even now, after around 30 years of experience, I largely just get out of the way J I think of it as a little like chipping rust on a ship.

In terms of healing flows, consider the following diagram, which shows that energy may come into the healer at different locations. We will work on this in future lessons.

Moving location

When the patient’s energy state is such that it would be more effective for you to channel healing in at a different location, you will generally, with practice, get a sense or feeling that you should move your hands to another location (always following the guide of back, shoulders and head, when doing healing for organisation events or on organisation premises). In some cases, you may feel the flow of energy slow down or stop as a signal that it is time to move your hands.

If you don’t feel any such sensations, then as a starting guide, you could consider the following:

first two minutes - shoulders

next two minutes –heart and solar plexus chakras

next two minutes – crown and neck chakra

next two minutes – third eye chakra (one hand at the front of the head, one behind can be effective)

last two minutes – wherever the patient asked to have healing

For private healing sessions, double the times.

(This does also suggest that good preparation may include having access to a watch or clock. Some healers find wearing a watch disruptive of healing flows, so a small portable clock may be useful.)

My next trick: stopping …

… as the juggler juggling half a dozen axes, knifes and burning brands said J

As a result of receiving healing, it is very likely that the patient will become more psychically open – their aura will open, and their chakras may become active. In the interests of being professional, it is important to ensure that they are properly closed and grounded, so that they do not take in any incompatible or negative energy which then undoes the work you have just done.

To accomplish this, it can be useful to:

Ø visualise the patient’s chakras shrinking in size and being zipped closed, the patient’s aura being closed by being encased in a positive colour egg shell (I find gold or blue good colours), and the patient being grounded (a diagram of this is given below);

Ø and physical actions such as brushing close to the patient to remove or disperse any ectoplasm that may have been generated or accumulated (often without anyone’s awareness) and to “brush” (almost as if the aura had a skin like a banana skin which had fallen to the floor, and needs to be picked up) or polish over the aura to help close it.

Practice session

Practice – in pairs, under supervision

Next lesson, we will do more practice, and consider monitoring the patient (and psychic first aid), checking, professionalism.

After next week, the lessons will cover the following:

Lesson Four – more practise, increasing energy flows, what to do about mistakes (volunteers to receive healing will be sought for this lesson)

Lesson Five – working with other healers, other levels of perception and other techniques; review ethics, attitudes and legal

Lesson Six – practical test (volunteers will be needed for this) and short assessment

Lesson Three Notes

Summary to date

Healing is being as clear a channel as possible for non-physical energy from Higher Sources to help someone heal themselves.

There are many levels of non-physical energy, which can be harmonious / disharmonious/neutral (which moves beyond the concept of “good” or “bad”), and patient/healer may have sensitivities / energetic needs / channelling on different levels, so awareness may be different (also, capacity to channel may be different, so what feels like a lot of energy to one may feel like little to another).

Important to “first do no harm”, be responsible (duty of care for physical safety and wellbeing) and professional. Use psychic protection (Opening and Closing Prayers, seek to ensure energies / Guides / etc are of the Highest Spiritual nature, and are harmonious with patient) and check that you feel protected, and follow the organisation’s Healing Rules (informed consent, avoiding unwanted physical contact, do not commit fraud or misrepresentation and do not expose yourself or the organisation to legal risks). Typically, healing will be limited to 5 – 10 minutes, so often work on shoulders, head and back through chakras.

Prepare as best one can, including during sleep state, and be in a suitable state to do healing.

Psychic flaming can be useful, but main thing is to relax. If you have a visualisation to commence energy flows, use that.

When finish, close own and patient’s aura and chakras.

Last week, we advised that this week, we will do more practice, and consider monitoring the patient (and psychic first aid), checking, professionalism.

Monitoring the patient

This largely requires you to look at the patient occasionally – are they looking distressed (e.g. pale) or do you have the sense that you should ask them how they are. If you do, it is OK to get an answer that they’re OK, as the Guides may simply be making sure that you’re listening, or just practising their communication with you. Ask your Guides to keep you aware of actual and potential problems.

Patient’s fairly frequently get sleepy, in my experience. If so, be careful they do not either fall or, by jerking when they wake, do themselves some damage.

(Psychic/spiritual) First Aid

If the patient seems to be experiencing problems:

1. stop healing;

2. assist the patient to ground themselves – drinking water or eating something can help;

3. assist the patient to rest and feel more comfortable (e.g., if they feel overheated, put them under a fan; if they feel cold, wrap a blanket around them);

4. if their discomfort persists for more than a few minutes, seek assistance from a more experienced healer or someone else appropriate, such as a Minister;

5. stay with the patient.

Another time to be careful is after healing. If the patient seems poorly grounded, stay with them and encourage them to drink or eat, or rest for a few minutes while they focus on physical sensations to get themselves fully grounded. It is somewhat counterproductive to pour so much energy into a patient that it “fixes” any non-physical problems they have, but leaves them so unfocused that that have a car accident while driving home … At times I feel I should cut back my energy flow for exactly this sort of reason which basically just means I take longer to do the healing.

Always keep in mind that you could be dealing with a physical problem, such as a heart attack or stroke, and therefore be prepared to call an ambulance if necessary.

Above all else, do not leave a patient whose suffering has increased until you can pass them into the hands of someone who can take appropriate action.

Checking

To check whether or not you have finished the healing, you can ask your Guides to fill a visualisation of a bottle to the extent that you have completed.

One of the benefits of working with another healer is that you get an independent check on this.

It is also possible to ask for images about specific issues (e.g., should I heal that shoulder next?). Use non-emotive symbols – e.g. a blue pumpkin for yes or a yellow hippo for no (avoid red-green because of the associations with traffic lights, and the problem of colour-blindness).

Professionalism

In this instance, professionalism is not about image, it is about substance. Think about what you do, try to stay adequately skilled if you wish to work as a healer, and think about improvements.

For those who finish this course, I am considering occasional, irregular practice sessions, and maybe an online discussion group.

Practice

As we practice, keep in mind that energy can flow in two directions. Positive and harmonious healing energy can flow in, and negative or discordant (to the patient) energy can flow out. This tends to accumulate on the healer’s hands, so from time to time you may feel an urge to shake or flick your hands. It is OK to do that, provided you do not flick anything onto another person. I flick into the circle of flame I have created on the floor of the healing space, to dissolve and transmute that energy.

This can also be extended to scraping or removing discordant energy from the patient’s aura.

Practice will also include closing other people’s chakras, checking extent of completion, healing the aura and working with other healers. <Rev. 1>

Next lesson, we will do more practice, and look at increasing energy flows and what to do about mistakes.

After next week, the lessons will cover the following:

Lesson Five – working with other healers, other levels of perception and other techniques; review ethics, attitudes and legal

Lesson Six – practical test (volunteers will be needed for this) and short assessment

Lesson Four Notes

Summary to date

Healing is being as clear a channel as possible for non-physical energy from Higher Sources to help someone heal themselves.

There are many levels of non-physical energy, which can be harmonious / disharmonious/neutral (which moves beyond the concept of “good” or “bad”), and patient/healer may have sensitivities / energetic needs / channelling on different levels, so awareness may be different (also, capacity to channel may be different, so what feels like a lot of energy to one may feel like little to another).

Use psychic protection (Opening and Closing Prayers, seek to ensure energies / Guides / etc are of the Highest Spiritual nature, and are harmonious with patient) and check that you feel protected, and follow the organisation’s Healing Rules (informed consent, avoiding unwanted physical contact, do not commit fraud or misrepresentation and do not expose yourself or the organisation to legal risks). Typically, healing will be limited to 5 – 10 minutes, so often work on shoulders, head and back through chakras.

Psychic flaming can be useful, but main thing is to relax. If you have a visualisation to commence energy flows, use that.

Important to “first do no harm”, be responsible (duty of care for physical safety and wellbeing) and professional. Watch the patient for signs of distress, and to make sure doesn’t, for instance, become so relaxed falls off chair. If problems occur, stop healing, assist patient to close down and ground, offer water (helps to ground) and get help if needed from a Minister, Committee Member or more experienced healer.

Prepare as best one can, including during sleep state, and be in a suitable state to do healing. Be professional - think about what you do, try to stay adequately skilled, and think about improvements. Can check progress with visualisation of a bottle – and can get others to check this independently if working with other healers. When finish, close own and patient’s aura and chakras.

Increasing energy flows

This is largely a case of trying things out to see what works for you. Some suggestions to consider are:

Ø using shiatsu on the lower arm and maybe also the hand;

Ø balancing the chakras in the hand or am joints;

Ø colour visualisation on the arm;

Ø use of sound or other tools;

Ø etc.

By trying a technique on one arm, and then practising on a patient who does not know what has been done on what arm, you can get feedback as to what is working on that day. It may be necessary to try these techniques a few times, so you can possibly work out which techniques work for you in different circumstances.

In the long term, as mentioned last lesson, it is proposed that an online group be established for those who have completed this course or proved themselves at organisation to be good healers to discuss ideas, and also to arrange practice sessions so you can try ideas out safely, before using them on patients.

This will, of course, work best if you keep some records for yourself of what has been tried, and the results. On that, it can also be interesting to keep a track of how man healings you do, something suggested by a former key healer here, Don, whose records show that he once did over a thousand healings in one year.

Next lesson, we will do more practice, and more on working with other healers, other levels of perception and other techniques, and review ethics, attitudes and legal.

After next week, the lessons will cover the following:

Lesson Six – practical test and short assessment

Lesson Five Notes

Summary to date

Healing is being as clear a channel as possible for non-physical energy from Higher Sources to help someone heal themselves.

There are many levels of non-physical energy, which can be harmonious / disharmonious/neutral (which moves beyond the concept of “good” or “bad”), and patient/healer may have sensitivities / energetic needs / channelling on different levels, so awareness may be different (also, capacity to channel may be different, so what feels like a lot of energy to one may feel like little to another).

Psychic flaming can be useful, but main thing is to relax. If you have a visualisation to commence energy flows, use that.

Try other techniques to increase your energy flow, and

Working with other healers

Mutual respect is key here, and it is a major advantage to be able to work with your eyes open.

If you are working with someone who works with their eyes closed, and they do things such as flick energy they have removed towards you, stop healing and move back. When they open their eyes, ask to have a chat in privacy, and during that explain that you stopped as they were putting your wellbeing at risk. If they wish to argue or get defensive about it, do not work with them again: their arrogance makes them dangerous.

If you work with your eyes closed, remember to be considerate of your healing partner, and maintain an awareness of where they are.

In general:

Ø healers often channel slightly different energy, so I have no problems with healers going over each area separately, or even putting their hand over other healers’ hands.
That last point can also be helpful as sometimes it just gives a stronger healing flow.
However, if the person who was there first feels uncomfortable, it is OK for them to move their hand - don’t try to make a point of it by putting your hand on top of theirs again, as you are then being a bully and showing yourself unfit to be healer;

Ø a brief discussion beforehand may help in terms of who works where first - e.g., one person may prefer a particular side or back or front;

Ø this is not about status, seniority, or other such rubbish. If you cannot leave your ego out of it, do not bother trying to work with others. If someone else asks, tell them honestly that you are too arrogant to do so . . . or fix your problem.

Other levels of perception

This is an introductory course on healing, so I’ll leave the topic of advanced perceptions to others - such as the books recommended previously (in Lesson One).

Other healing techniques

In this situation, which has been set up around channelled healing, channelled healing has precedence, and anyone trying to enforce a different healing technique is being disrespectful and disruptive, and you have a reasonable basis to ask them to stop or leave.

However, other healing techniques can be complementary. As an analogy, channelled healing energy could provide healing of one particular colour, and another technique (say, aromatherapy) could provide healing that is equivalent to providing a supplementary, harmonious colour.

In my opinion, those additional techniques are under the same ethical considerations (informed consent, no fraud or misrepresentation, obey other legal requirements, etc), but I see no inherent reason a patient should not consider other techniques.

Review: ethics, attitude and legal

You cannot and should not ever lie and claim an ability you do not have. Always ensure your patient has given informed consent, and do not touch them in a way that is uncomfortable or inappropriate - they are protected legally against sexual assault or what they consider inappropriate behaviour (and none of that “it can’t be assault if it is the same sex” rubbish - it CAN be), no matter what you think of the behaviour.

Having said that, you are also protected against abuse, threats, and blackmail.

However, you have a duty of care towards you patient - legal, moral, spiritual. Make sure there are no risks of slips, trips and falls, or electrocution, or knocking head on low items, etc. This particularly applies if you charge for your healing, as you are taking on all commercial risks and obligations by doing so.

The specifics of legal limits and obligations are subject to the jurisdiction you live in, and thus you must get legal advice for the region you live in - I am familiar with the relevant laws where I live (not enough to give legal advice, though), but not elsewhere. I do not even know where people reading this may live, so the only responsible thing I can tell you is to get proper legal advice.

Subject to that all that, if you cannot do a healing for some reason, say so. Seek help if you consider it necessary.

Be prepared to call an ambulance for problems such as heart attacks, or crisis teams for mental health issues. Have spiritual “first aid” backup organised in advance.

Be prepared to refer the patient to others if you consider it necessary - and do NOT ever advise against conventional medical treatment. Healing techniques are generally best when they work together - I see a conventional doctor regularly, have seen specialists in the past, have had and will have vaccinations, etc.

Next week is our assessment, including a practical test.

Lesson Six

This is intended to be a real life assessment: a description of healing and how to do it, and a practical test.

[1] In this case, it should be understood that the expectation goes both ways: if you have no first aid training, you would not reasonably be expected to deal with injuries – but you would reasonably be expected to ring an ambulance for help if you can.

[2] “Accepted practice” within a particular group is often an acceptable legal defence.

[3] Statements to this effect could be considered evidence of being reasonable, and acting in accordance with accepted practice within the channelled energy healing field. Other areas of healing may have different views on this: those views are not relevant to this situation.

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Saturday 27 February 2021

Post No. 1,782 - DRAFT healing course [Content Warning: harm, limits of acceptable behaviour, need for consent, need for legal advice, need for psychic protection, ethics]

Healing Course

Lesson One Notes

What is channelled energy healing?

Types of energy

Why protection is needed

“First Do No Harm”

Preparation

Other terminology, and what channelled energy healing is NOT

Where healing is being performed at an organisation’s venue

Informed consent

Unwanted physical contact

Fraud or misrepresentation

Next

Suggested reading

Lesson Two Notes

Summary to date

Review of Lesson One and Homework

Beginning healing – what happens

Protection

Other preparation

Commencing energy flows

Moving location

My next trick: stopping …

Practice session

Next

Lesson Three Notes

Summary to date

Monitoring the patient

(Psychic/spiritual) First Aid

Checking

Professionalism

Practice

Next

Lesson Four Notes

Summary to date

Increasing energy flows

Next

Lesson Five Notes

Summary to date

Working with other healers

Other levels of perception

Other healing techniques

Review: ethics, attitude and legal

Next

Lesson Six