How Spiritual Healers Channel Energy to Promote Healing

. The Therapeutic Process in Spiritual Healing: A Comprehensive Guide by a Spiritual Healer

Spiritual healing has become an increasing choice as complementary therapy. Many people who undergo spiritual healing, find that this offers an openness and abides some transformative element. They find solace away from the material world and embark on a lifelong path of spiritual growth. Though rigorous and committed, undergoing spiritual healing should be an enjoyable and pleasant journey for the spiritual healer and client or patient. Most spiritual healing will involve dialogue, meditative contemplation, and silence, as well as guidance and counselling. Sometimes, the healing processes might include other techniques such as breath work and physical or emotional exorcisms. In this article, we describe the steps and phases of spiritual healing, detail the role of the spiritual healer and consequently the therapeutic process in spiritual healing. Some questions you might have about spiritual healing are answered too.

Understanding Spiritual Healing

What is Spiritual Healing?

Spiritual healing works on the whole person – the mind, body and spirit. This honours the ancient wisdom that ‘man’ can only be totally well when he is united spiritually with his fellow human beings and part of all life. When we say this, people often misunderstand and think that spiritual healing means interfering with something outside of the body. But the practitioner of spiritual healing works in a subtle area of energy that is not physical. In spiritual healing, the energy is tuned into the principle of wholeness – objects can be described by their interaction with the universal background.

The Role of a Spiritual Healer

A spiritual healer is a person who helps you to heal using positive energy. Drawing on intuition and a host of spiritual practices, spiritual healers can sense the imbalances in your energy field, thus they can help to rectify these imbalances with different techniques crafted to address the issue. Techniques such as Reiki, meditation, prayer and energy work are applied to help you heal and transform your aura.

The Therapeutic Process in Spiritual Healing

Initial Consultation and Assessment

After an initial assessment or consultation during which the spiritual healer has ‘connected’ with the client, the healing process involves an in-depth discussion of the client’s physical, emotional and spiritual issues, and an assessment of the client’s energy field. Blocked or imbalanced energies may then be meditated on and cleared during treatment.

Setting Intentions

Once the evaluation has been finished, both participant and healer design intentions for the healing process. These intentions become a map, guiding the therapeutic process, and both participants are clear on the outcomes we are aiming for. One of the first steps in this process is being able to clearly identify what it is we want to work on. For healing work to be most effective, it needs to be clearly focused and purposeful.

Energy Cleansing and Balancing

A key step in many forms of spiritual healing is ‘cleansing the energy’ or simply to ‘balance’ the energy of the client. A spiritual healer will draw upon a number of techniques to clear any stagnant or negative energies that are caught in the aura or the chakras. Smudging, or the use of crystals and singing bowls, is used for this purpose. Cleansing the energy of the client can release emotional blockages and helps to reduce stress levels. You will be left feeling calm and centered.

Deep Healing Sessions

Deep healing sessions are more pervasive with intensive energy work and at the spiritual level. At the spiritual level, deep healing sessions, being more intense, require a client to be able to sit still for hours, and have some kind of meditative or Visualisation skills that will help calm their mind and stay in the treatment until a deeper level of work can commence. Reiki is often used as an energy healing tool to move universal energy through the spiritual healer’s hands to the client. Visualisation techniques and meditation are used to bring the client inward and to an experiential level that can support stronger and deeper levels of healing.

Emotional Release and Transformation

These may be the practice equivalents of the emotional release, even transformation, that many clients say takes place as the healing progresses. This can be a very intense experience for clients who are dealing with that part of the healing process — the surfacing of buried emotions, sometimes the very traumas that may have led to the illness that prompted them to seek healing in the first place. In many cases, the client feels that the healer provided a safe space to work through extreme emotional reactivity, sometimes triggered by the notion of forgiveness itself. One client, a therapist, recently described a session with a colleague who had been sexually assaulted by her father as a teenager, a major trauma in her past that has undoubtedly caused her great suffering. As she left the session in which she finally felt the release of her rage at her abuser, she declared: ‘Ain’t no more angels singing in heaven tonight!’

Integration and Empowerment

The final phase is Integration, in which the client is able to incorporate the experiences and insights from the work into everyday life. In this phase, the spiritual healer helps to teach the client ways to maintain a sense of balance, encouraging empowerment and growing self-awareness, perhaps with practical suggestions and spiritual practices to continue the work begun in the healing sessions.

The Benefits of Spiritual Healing

Holistic Well-being

Spiritual healing recognises that balance and harmony between mind, body and spirit are the pathways to a full, dynamic life. It fosters healing, calm and peace that alleviates illnesses causing chaos and discord in a person.

Stress Reduction

The stress and anxiety-reducing effects of the therapeutic process in spiritual healing stem from some divinely bestowed and subtle qualities of the energy cleansing and balancing techniques. The most prominent ones include a quietness of the mind and a softness of the body, which leads to inner peace and tranquillity.

Enhanced Self-awareness

Spiritual healing practitioners help their clients develop more consciousness of how they think, feel and act, enabling them to grow and become empowered to make necessary changes in their lives.

Emotional Healing

Spiritual healing can create a space for emotional healing, affording those seeking it the freedom to process and purge unresolved emotions and traumas so they can become more empowered to build resilience and healthier connections with others and the world.

Spiritual Growth

One of the major benefits of spiritual healing happens to be spiritual growth. As a person undergoes therapy, they learn to connect more and more with their higher self and with God. They learn to be imbued with a purpose and an alignment that comes from being on the spiritual path.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is the role of a spiritual healer in the therapeutic process?

The role of the spiritual healer is facilitative and grounding, as she transmits good energy and provides intuitive insights, and generally her healing practises remove imbalances in the client’s energy field. The role of the spiritual healer is to work with her clients and accompany them during the process of healing; she empowers the client to find her own way, without supplying answers or advice.

How long does a typical spiritual healing session last?

How long does a spiritual healing session last? A spiritual healing session usually lasts between 60 to 90 minutes but the first consultation may take longer to ascertain the client’s needs and do an assessment.

How many sessions are needed for effective healing?

The number of sessions it takes to heal any one person will vary but the spiritual healer will monitor the outcome until the client’s condition consistently improves until a healing plan is agreed. From then on, depending on the circumstances, ongoing therapeutic support may remain an option.

Can spiritual healing be combined with other forms of therapy?

Yes, spiritual healing can be complemented by other therapies such as conventional medical treatments, psychotherapy and complementary therapies: you should make sure that all the practitioners you are seeing are aware of what other help you are receiving, so that they can all work together to help and heal you.

Is spiritual healing suitable for everyone?

Spiritual healing is available to all, whatever their age or background, but you need to be open to its possibilities and willing to work with it. If you have severe psychological disorder or illness, always check with your health-care worker before doing spiritual healing.

What can I expect to feel after a spiritual healing session?

After a session of spiritual healing, sensations can include feelings of serenity, clarity of thoughts and lightness of being, and for some there is often a release of emotions or sensation as the energy flows. People often experience a deep sense of relaxation and wellbeing.

How can I find a reputable spiritual healer?

Finding spiritual healers who will conduct a practice with integrity and not exploit your vulnerable state of mind is a minefield. Research, word of mouth and recommendations are the obvious places to begin. But the devotion of many healers means that they see their practice as a calling to channel a higher energy. For this reason, you might simply need to take the time to find someone who inspires your confidence. To find someone who resonates with you. As always, trust your intuition.

Conclusion

Ultimately, spiritual healing is a process that places this holistic approach in the hands of a skilled spiritual healer. Individuals can heal the mind, body and spirit in cycles of assessment, energy work, emotional release, and integration through the care of a spiritual healer. The result of a person engaging in spiritual healing is holistic wellness, stress reduction, and profound spiritual growth.

For seekers embarking to do this, having familiarity with the difference between a spiritual healer and the therapeutic task and the evolution of this path of self-discovery and spiritual consciousness can be the beginning of such a process.