Jyotisha Practice

Healing Consciousness

Key points of awareness on the path of spiritual Healing

Wrodzimierz Tetmajer's "Koronacja"

Coronation of the Virgin Mary with the Trinity above Her - c. 1900, Poland

• What is a Healer?

• What is healing energy?

• What is an"out of control" healer?

• Being a healer is a burden

• "Feelings" about a person or object - crazy, or psychic?

• A small sacred space in your home

• Healer must commit to tAke care of themselves first

• "Aware" or "Unaware" of healing powers?

• <>Compassion, not Sympathy

• <> Overspending

• <>Crazy as a Loon

• Meditation and/or *non-petitionary* prayer, is the key skill of all healers

• Let go and let God

• Christ Consciousness

In psychic terms, "healers" are beings who are driven by the need to make things more 'complete' or more 'whole'.

Healing is not limited to humans. Animals can be tremendous healers. Trees, bushes, rocks, and bodies of water can host spiritual healing agents (devas). (Think of talking bushes in Hebrew Bible and radiantly holy rocks at Mecca.) There are healing forces at every level of nature. Beings without bodies, spirits, can be spectacular healers. The Supreme Being is the Supreme Healer.

• Healers have the gift of repairing imbalances, filling in the gaps, sewing up tears, replacing lost parts, fixing broken things, and every possible way of making their perceived reality " whole".

• Healers channel and concentrate the divine healing energy which is surging through all existence at all times. Healers can direct their healing energy toward themselves, at other people, animals, communities, societies, the Earth, the Galaxy, or the Universe.

• Healers may possess conscious healing intent (such as medical or religious professionals). Or - more commonly - they may be instinctive, unconscious fixers, meddlers and do-gooders.

What is healing energy?

It is natural to want to help.

Caring for others is a human species-survival instinct. When we see that a fellow human being's energy reserves are dangerously low due to injury or deep need, we are moved to share our own energy with them. We know instinctively that healing energy is self-replenishing.

• Most societies have a cultural ethic which praises and supports those who help the less fortunate or those in immediate survival need (such as after a disaster).

• When the impulse to help another occurs, the gifted healer feels a surge of energy in their body. They feel a desire to give their own life-force energy - which is loaded with their hopes, dreams, anxieties, projections, unmet needs, and desires - to another person. The feeling of 'donating prana' is like donating blood for transfusion to an injured person. At first the healer is slightly weakened, but the body quickly and naturally replenishes the blood supply.

• The strongest channels for healing energy in the human body are the classic circuit maps described as nadi, chi/qi, prana etc. pathways or "rivers".

• However, healing energy is absolutely everywhere and it does not have to run on the main channels. It can be very diffuse and subtle and it is amenable to highly creative patterning.

• Healing energy is very cool.

Even least-conscious healers are usually aware of the strongest healing power which runs through the hand chakras. They may also be aware of other streams, locks, and gates of the healing energy river system.

Healers have beautiful, pure, and socially ethical motivation: the desire to help others.

• However, when healers 'give too much', because the core motivation is anxiety rather than neutral compassion, the practical effects of their healing actions may be surprisingly counterproductive.

A 'good' healer avoids the pitfalls of unconsciously giving too much.

A healthy healer learns how to turn their healing energy flow 'on' and 'off'- like a faucet, or river-lock.

• A functional, successful healer replenishes their own healing energy supply through meditative connection with the Divine, reflective awareness, and non-petitionary prayer (prayers of praise and gratitude, which are enormously replenishing).

• A functional healer is consciously connected to the Divine source at all times. A functional healer knows where healing energy comes from, and to whence it returns.

• A functional healer is never deluded that healing energy 'belongs' to any one person, group, ideology, religion, or set of methods or practices.

• Healing can never be an ego-based practice. Of course, the ego will try to take credit because that's what egos do. However the true healer laughs at the suggestion that they are anything more than a channel for divine energy. It is a huge privilege to serve as a channel.

• If the ego interferes by trying to control or direct or manipulate the outcome of a healing, the healer realizes that the transaction has become 'ungrounded' and they stop the healing flow.

Healer heal thyself. he first priority of a functional, beneficial healer is self-care. Walks in nature, eating and sleeping well, and a lifetime practice of deepening trust will all enrich and stabilize one's own healing energy supplies.

The supply must be adequate to the task.

A spiritually healthy healer can 'store up' a certain amount of healing energy in their body, and release it as needed to help self and others.

• A functional healer 'checks the tank' to see how much energy they actually have available *before* they do a healing. Before they promise to attend an event, help with homework, do heart surgery, or write a donation check, they check to make sure that the skills, resources, and trust are all in place.

• to avoid the terrible drain of " over-healing", healers must self-check quite frequently.

• Psychic healers often prefer to operate in teams with a designated "control" or gatekeeper, who monitors the energy levels of the healers while they are flowing. In highly skilled psychic healing settings, the "control" healer is watching for exhaustion, resistance, and inappropriate ego involvement.

• If the controller notices interference, they will stop the flow.

Sick, manipulative healers:

When the healing energies flow impulsively, without conscious control, the flow is erratic and permeated with the healer's own anxiety and fear. The healer is not aware of how much energy they are releasing from their own reserves. They get drained. Result is spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical weakness, leading to system-wide illness and exhaustion.

• This type of chronically drained " sick healer" cannot survive unless they find some way to replenish their own severely depleted reserves. They need to hook up with a supply of outside energy

• go around looking for problems to solve. If they can't find anything broken, they create a disaster so that they will be needed. They become manipulative and controlling. The beneficiaries of their donated energy feel toxic and invaded.

• Whether the results of healing actions are helpful or hurtful depends on the scope of the healer's awareness, comprehension of natural process, perception of their own motives, and appreciation of the power of divine love.

• With awareness, a gifted healer can give new life and help others move to higher levels of consciousness. Unfortunately, without awareness, healers can be manipulative, self-destructive meddlers who make trouble for themselves and their loved ones.

• Healers are sensitive, spiritual people who also have high levels of anxietyabout the natural realities of uncertainty, incompleteness, and meeting theneeds of others.

The difference between a "good" healer and a "bad" healer is their level of awareness of that anxiety, and their of skillful "flow control".

When healing becomes bondage

When healing energy runs constantly, the healer becomes drained and debilitated.

The habit changes from the 'good' kind of healing that gives a bit of help where needed and moves on, to a 'bad' kind of healing which seeks to control the healee and keep them in healing bondage.

The needy person becomes a nutrient replenishment 'source' for the weakened ego of the out-of-control healer.

English words "heal" and "health", related to "holy" and "whole":

-- www.etymonline.com

Heal:

• O.E. hælan "make whole, sound and well,"

• from P.Gmc. *khailaz (cf. O.S. helian, O.N. heila, O.Fris. hela, Du. heelen, Ger. heilen)

• lit. "To make whole," which is also the source of O.E. hal

Health:

• O.E. hælþ "wholeness, a being whole, sound or well,"

• from PIE *kailo- "whole, uninjured, of good omen"

• (cf. O.E. hal "hale, whole;" O.N. heill "healthy;" O.E. halig, O.N. helge "holy, sacred;" O.E. hælan "to heal").

the nativity features powerful 8th-house healing planets and the native professes a strong Christian orientation.

I have been able to "heal" people, apparently, through a caring look or touch, since I was small. But I don't like it when they say "thanks, you healed me." That can't be right. Plus I believe that the only real healer in this world is Jesus Christ. So what do you mean, that I am a healer and this is a good thing. I feel pretty crazy, and I am running about 100 lbs overweight. I wish my "gift" would just go away.

Q<>: You say I am a healer. But I feel like I have some type of social, emotional, or mental illness - or a combination of all three.

I have been able to "heal" people, apparently, through a caring look or touch, since I was small. But I don't like it when they say "thanks, you healed me." That can't be right. Plus I believe that the only real healer in this world is Jesus Christ. So what do you mean, that I am a healer and this is a good thing. I feel pretty crazy, and I am running about 100 lbs overweight. I wish my "gift" would just go away.

A: Being a healer is a burden to most folks who have the gift, until they learn to genuinely "let go and let God" control their path of development.

Plus, our hyper-rational society discounts intuitive information from the "inner voice" as childish or mentally-ill fantasizing. But in fact, intuition grounded in sincere faith is the key to all happiness and success.

• It's interesting that you tried to start a Vedic remedy and panicked when you detected its message.

• However, you might at some point hear a strong, clear intuition that it's time to start the Vedic remedy again.

This intuition might arise in a dream, while driving on the freeway, taking a shower, or washing the dinner dishes... Just be willing to listen to it, allow it to be persistent, don't automatically suppress or invalidate it as non-scientific.

• The day may come. But also, you might hear that the remedy wants to travel - it might become a gift to a friend, or a donation to a charitable cause. Just wait and see what it tells you.

Irrational "Feelings"about an object or person - crazy, or psychic?

Lewis Bostwick, one of the great American psychic master teachers of the 20th century, used to give a lecture called "You're Not Crazy - You're Psychic".

• His point was that many people are sensitive to subtle astral communications embedded in objects, or dreams, etc. and that recognizing one's talent is the first step toward claiming the "psychic" label and dumping that "crazy" label for good.

• The object involved in the remedy *does* speak to you because objects are material vehicles for psychic messages of all kinds. The objects that 'talk" to you have been programmed by a long chain of their previous handlers. Many people have the capacity to pick up the psychic programming attached to important objects.

• For example most people who are antique fanatics are picking up these signals from the previous owners of the antiques. Why else would people pay thousands of dollars for an old wagon wheel :)

• Folks who pay high prices to acquire a work of art similarly are picking up the deep inner spiritual consciousness of the artist - a signal which connects them to the divine through a deep and compelling spiritual channel.

• Most of these art-collecting people would rather lose their home and all its contents than lose their precious work of art.

• Like these collectors, you have highly sensitive antennae for psychic messages. You are gifted to perceive a more subtle level of information than the average Joe. Objects - and auras - talk to you. But if you wish to proceed on the path of conscious spiritual healing, you must accept responsibility for handling your gifts with maturity and control.

The remedy choice may have been too impulsive to really benefit you. You likely picked up a strong signal from the prescriber, who knew you in a past life, that you were looking for a spiritual channel-cleaner, and he/she was spiritually and commercially happy to serve your need. The remedy prescriber is probably a good person doing the best they can.

However your need - the purpose for which you want the remedy - is not yet fully articulated in your own mind. Like many emerging-into-consciousness healers, you may have fallen victim (in this occasion and others in the past) to the confusion of hearing a cacophony of exciting spiritual information and not pausing to sort it out completely, to decide which - from the tidal wave of psychic data coming into your antennae - is the right message for YOU.

this skill of pausing, as in meditation and/or non-petitionary prayer, is the key skill of all healers.

Without it, being a healer can be a terrible disability. One can waste an entire incarnation acting impulsively on poorly interpreted psychic information.

• A budding healer who lacks spiritual context, rational understanding, the habit of meditation, and grounding in their faith can be swept away by the intense, constant inflow of psychic messages.

• The y can fall into self-doubt, not trusting divine guidance, because they essentially doubt (unfortunately) that psychic gifts can be used in the service of God.

• However, if there was ever a gifted healer it was Jesus Christ. If you take him as your model you can be confident that you are on a superior path!

A small sacred space in your home

As a healer, you may find it helpful to create a small sacred space in your home where you can "pause" momentarily to consider which actions are most helpful on your spiritual path.

• Many people create an altar or small table with sitting cushion in a corner of their home. On their altar they place objects of beauty (to make the altar a center of gratitude) and also objects signifying the problems they seek to solve (such as a photograph of a difficult relative). Then they sit briefly (five minutes is fine) in an attitude of relaxation and prayer, to allow their intuition to speak uninterrupted so they can get a clear inner answer.

• For example, in the case of the inappropriate remedy, it might have been good to place a sheet of information on the remedy, on your small altar for a day or two *before* acting on the psychic signal, to restfully determine if this remedy is helpful on the path bringing you closer to God.

• Sometimes one will need to "sit with" a question for only a minute or so. Other times, a clear answer might take months or years, while one's faith in the truth of the answer matures.

Overspending as a result of psychic overload

Healers are driven by the need to make things more 'complete' or more 'whole'.

• Overspending, or buying things to meet needs one does not actually have, is a healing responseTo meet the needs of others.

• span Healers may find themselves caught in chronic debt because they are unconsciously, impulsively following their instinct to meet the needs of others.

• result of psychic overload.

• The healer picks up many signals from others, including the consumer-object vendors. It can feel extremely urgent to act on that message.

• However, reflective awareness will prevent overspending and impulsive actions of all kinds, by providing you a calm private space in which to hear your excellent intuition which will say yes, or no, or yes with conditions, or no with conditions... etc.

How to correct the 'overspend' impulse

• The word 'spend' in English originally meant 'offering'

• Understand that spending energy in any form has its original impulse in the urge to make a religious offering

When you are attracted to an object such as a vehicle, clothing, work of art, book or video, home furnishing, or packaged 'experience' of some type such as travel, fine dining, entertainments etc. -take a skillful pause.

Allow the item, or the idea of the item, to speak to you. Place the item in a clear bubble, and have a brief, neutral conversation with it.

• Ask it why it would like to join you during this journey in life.

• Ask it what it would like to contribute to your success and whether it will bring more value and stability into your life, or whether it would create debt or other psychic overload.

• Will owning this object reduce your total workload by solving an important problem?

• Or will it create further maintenance (including debt maintenance), storage, or other material management workload?

Ask it to show you its role in your life.

You may notice that the energy of the vendor is vigorously present in the object of sale. For example, a car salesperson will infuse an energy of urgent need

Acknowledging your psychic healing gifts means committing to take care of yourself, and not be led astray by the bewildering variety of signals you are picking up. Healers must strengthen their auras and provide themselves a reliable quiet sanctuary space for psychic rejuvenation. That is the healer's responsibility to themselves, to learn to turn the incoming signals on and off.Once you have control of the signal flow you will be a hands-on spiritual healer of tremendous capacity.

• Overweight and various medical problems also a result of psychic oversensitivity and unconsciously allowing other people's suffering to enter your own body.

• Your body is too much "open" through your natural generosity and caring for others.

• Ancient traumas remain from past lives, and these trauma points continue to attract new pain. Vulnerability can be healed through conscious healing of the aura, so be sure to ask for specific help on these body issues when you join the psychic healing community and start exchanging healings with other spiritual healers.

Sincerely, BP Lama

Q: Do you think I would I have been better off to REMAIN "unaware"? ... I don't want to get "swept up" in something I don't understand and can't control...

• "Have the right relationship with God, finding your joy there, and out of you "will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38). Be a fountain through which Jesus can pour His "living water."

• Stop being hypocritical and proud, aware only of yourself, and live "your life . hidden with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3). A person who has the right relationship with God lives a life as natural as breathing wherever he goes. The lives that have been the greatest blessing to you are the lives of those people who themselves were unaware of having been a blessing."

A:Be "Aware" of divine and "Unaware" of ego-attachment

We might have to look closely at that word *unaware* and see what interpretation works and what is misleading. If they mean *unaware* in the sense of stumbling ignorance unconscious, I'd say definitely not. But I don't think that's what the person describing the Happy Healer is shooting for.

I'd guess they're trying to articulate what the Buddhists call compassion. Compassion is an ego-detached state of awareness of

1. fundamental sameness of one person to another

2. Temporary suffering of one person noticed by another

which is the recommended motivation to have when helping another person.

• This sense of unaware would be "ego-unaware", or as the Buddhists say *unattached* to pride in the fruits of the action, getting big-headed (or small-headed if it apparently fails) etc.

• In this perspective, being "aware" would be the same as being "prideful" or erroneously thinking that one personally had done the healing -- the opposite of what we want in healing, which is a state of total surrender to the divine.

• Using compassionate mind, it's quite clear to the healer that they merely opened themselves up as a channel to divine energy which flowed through them at the rate and intensity chosen by the divine. Compassion never misleads us into thinking I Myself the Great One had anything to do with it!

So from the more Buddhist perspective I totally agree that "unaware" is the ideal healing state.

Compassion, not Sympathy

• A genuine healer's motivation is always compassion, not sympathy.

• Christ healed from compassion, which is the mindset of seeing God in everyone.

• A compassionate mind recognizes that I am essentially you, and you are essentially me. Since this essential force is identical with God, then I "am" God -- and you are God too.

• We are vessels for the Christ Force (the power of the anointed). After we've been practicing spiritual healing consciously for awhile, even that sense of being a "vessel" drops off. Eventually one simply accepts that one IS the Christ Force/Christ Consciousness - in the purest way.

Crazy as a Loon

• Now it's easy to see how the "aware" (in the ego-attached sense) person could really go off the deep end saying they are God and thinking the healing energy comes out of them personally. If a person says they're God while they're still stuck in that primitive ego-attachment habit, they are crazy as a loon and likely to cause trouble such as starting a cult or mowing down a line of kindergartners because God told them to do it.

• It's not a "fine line" between authentic healing and this type of dysfunctional-ego-insanity. It's a big, clear, obvious-as-the-day-is-long linebetween light of *surrendering* to channel divine energy versus the darkness of *possessing* or *manipulating* that energy. Healing energy can't be trademarked, it doesn't belong to anybody, and it will eventually annihilate the person who misuses it. But still, owing to a weakness in our religious education (being trained from infancy to believe God is a personality outside of us instead of an intelligence permanently within and around us) otherwise good healers still do fall into this totally obvious trap.

• Sympathy looks OK at first glance but it gets healers into big trouble. Sympathy means feeling someone's pain for them. Sympathy usually tricks healers into thinking that they "have to" fix this hurting person's pain right now and according to their own ideas of what that fix should be. That makes a big mess because here the ego is in control. Avoid acting from sympathy or pity. Avoid any action based on "should".

Let go and let God

With compassion as the motivation, healers can "let go and let God" make the choice of when and how or even if healing power is going to flow. The ego is completely unhooked. The healer has no responsibility for the success or failure of the healing. It is understood that the Lord helps those who help themselves. If the person receiving the healing lacks faith in divine power or lacks willingness to enter into partnership with the divine, the healing may well fail - but this does not reflect on the healer. The Ego stays out of the whole process.

• Baba Ram Dass used to tell a funny/sad story about him and his brother. Ram Dass was a nice Jewish Harvard psychology professor before he went to India and found a guru who showed him divine truth. So Ram Dass comes back to the USA to tell all the nice American young people in the mid 1970's how to "be" divine truth. He told everyone to channel lots of loving, healing divine energy to be happy. He had a HUGE influence on me. I was in high school, deeply disappointed in organized religion but still passionately seeking truth.

Just realize, Ram Dass said, that you are God - nothing else is real, only God. You are God, you are perfect, Be Here Now - what a rush! But in case folks didn't get that message on the right spiritual vibe, RD told the weird story of his brother in the insane asylum. It turns out that two Jewish brothers were both sure they were God.

• We had Ram Dass right there on stage, telling us the why's and where-fore's of Being God. He was sane, funny, believable, and hugely uplifting. However, while Ram Dass was enlightening us, his brother was withering in a padded cell. Apparently, his brother claimed he was Jesus Christ!

• Obviously that would be a problem in a Jewish family, but also RD's brother claimed he was the ONLY Christ - all others were impostors. He thought "he" was creating the Life Force! Of course this guy was no kind of healer. He was a megalomaniac paranoid schizophrenic, without a drop of healing energy running through him. He was keeping it all the good stuff for himself, trapped in his ego - on the fast track toward going completely nuts.

• So to be "unaware" - in the working healer's sense - would be for the healer unaware of false ego boundaries to say, Sure, I'm God. And you're God too. And you there, and you over there, and you with a different complexion, and you who smell badly, and you with hate in your heart, and you the opulently rich and you the desperately poor - we're ALL God. That is, the healer surging with Christ Consciousness would be deeply and genuinely unaware of the superficial differences between people. They'd be seeing only their bond through Divine Love.

Christ Consciousness

That's the way Jesus saw things. That's the energy running through Jesus' hands when He raised up Lazarus from the dead. That's why Jesus said, leave all your old cultural junk behind and Follow Me. He just saw God in everyone. Of course, when we meet a person like that, we see this magnificent sparkling white aura and we say, He's God! And true it is.

• But He's not the only one who could run that energy. We can run it too. All we have to do is Follow Him.

• Don't worry too much about reading books or figuring it all out astrologically.

• Just follow your intuition, try to remain in a constant state of reflective awareness, seek the community of spiritual healers, and you'll be on your way To learn to turn the incoming signals on and off.

~ Ram Dass

Caring is a reflex.

Someone slips, your arm goes out.

A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push.

You live, you help.