Exploring Spiritual Approaches to Healing

What is spiritual healing?

When we begin to consciously reconnect with our essential being, healing occurs. And we become the wise, loving, powerful and creative entity that we are at our core.

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Exploring Spiritual Approaches to Healing

My husband, Charles, wanted to add hands-on healing to what he did. He has always been a reflexologist (working pressure points on the feet and hands). But he wanted to add a kind of healing touch to his experience, so he joined the development class at our local spiritualist church where I sat in mediumship development. He sat in meditation for many years to connect with healing ability.

Part of that included participating in the Healing Service at each church service. He could feel the energy vibrations flowing through his hands while sharing it with a member of the church. Who ever wanted a short session could come up to the line of healers and receive the healing vibrations.

This regular practice gave him confidence in his ability. But that ability was always there with him. He just needed to accept it, use it and let it grow. Many people commented on the power they felt while standing in front of him. And he knew it was expanding within and around him.

At some point, he wanted to take attunements to become a Reiki practitioner. Our minister kept saying to him, to go ahead if he wanted to, but he already had it. He already had the healing touch. He still did become a Reiki Practitioner, and she still kept telling him he already had it. Charles felt the Reiki title gave him more credibility in the mainstream public. And I am sure it did.

What is Spiritual Healing?

Spiritual healing is the practice of restoring the harmony and balance of the Spirit or Soul. This can be done in different ways. Just to name a few:

• Bringing balance to the etheric energy field (around and withing the body). You may recognize this in Alternative or Holistic practitioners. Usually hands-on or hands hovering over the body.

• Those who are Shamanic practitioners will focus on restoring soul and/or curing soul loss.

• Other holistic healers may focus on reintegrating the body, heart, mind, and soul.

• Psychologists and therapists bring spiritual healing to their work in the depth and transpersonal fields of psychology.

Authentic Spiritual Healing

True and authentic healers do not heal anyone. They simply affect an atmosphere of love and balance, so the body can heal itself.

Spiritual Healing is a treatment that involves the transfer of energy through the healer to the recipient. By promoting self-healing by relaxing the body, tensions are released, and the body’s immune system is strengthened. Healing is natural and non-invasive with the intention of bringing the recipient into a state of balance and wellbeing on all levels’ Then the body can heal itself.

Back to Charles and his Healing Adventure: Shortly after he had been attuned to Reiki Healing, we decided to attend the large Great Mohican Pow Wow at the Mohican Forest, Loudonville, OH. It was an amazing event. We spend much time watching the dancing and seeing the vendors.

We were just standing around for a few minutes when a young woman, maybe 18 years old, and her father came by. Being in the countryside, the terrain was very uneven, and the young woman caught her foot in a hole and twisted her ankle. She went down and was in much pain and crying from it. People stopped to help her, but there was nothing they could do but call an emergency group.

I nudged Charles. “Go and heal her. Just put your hands around her ankle.” He looked at me like I was crazy. He thought he should not try to touch a strange woman like that.

I said it again, and included, “You are a healer, aren’t you?” I shamed him, I guess, but he went over to them.

He told the father he was an energy worker and could he be of assistance. The father was glad to help his daughter, so he said yes. Charles then asked the girl if he could put his hands around her ankle.

She nodded. He gently but firmly took her ankle and cupped his hands around it. He held it for several minutes, maybe 10. She stopped crying. And said it did not hurt anymore.

What really looked strange to me was the paramedics running up to her and trying to put on their plastic gloves, asking what was wrong.

The father said she fell and hurt her ankle, but this gentleman has helped her. She’s fine now. They did not know what to make of it!

The two stayed the rest of the day, she walked around normally and had no other problems. Healing can be just that simple. As long as you allow and believe, it happens.

Spiritual healing is a practice that aims to promote well-being. It addresses the spiritual, mental, and emotional aspects of health by using various energy healing techniques.

As positive as spiritual healing can be, there is a dark - opposite - side of healing. you should always be aware and discern what is positive for your well-being.

If you want to find out about the other side of the coin called spiritual healing, then look for the article on Saturdays’ Inner Circle, on May 24, 2025, article about the dark side of spiritual healing.

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Melissa Leath writes A Mystics Journal on Substack. She supplies outrageous metaphysical babble/rant from a modern-day mystic's viewpoint and provides workshops about empowerment and psychic/metaphysical development. Her books Psychic Integrity, The Respected Practice of Modern-Day Mystics (Balboa Press, division of Hay House Publishing) and Does Your Child See Sparkles? are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Melissa’s long-term study includes years of group development, platform mediumship, meditation, becoming a spiritual medium and minister and a BA in Metaphysical Counseling. She has worked with 10s of thousands of clients in USA and other countries, taught development classes for 12 years and settled into online workshops.

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