Re: Healing energy
Originally Posted by
Mups
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Thankyou all, (except silly Malcolm).
I shall do my best and hope I learn well.
Mups
Just a word of caution as I have read a few horror stories about people getting into some of these practices (inc Reiki).
I advise you to be true to yourself at all times. You should imo know where any healing is coming from and be able to explain it. If you can't you are merely participating ignorantly in someone else's practice and doing what humans invariably do, copy other humans.
The positivity of the end result is not a good enough reason to remain attached to any given practice. Evil people can help and heal others if they so chose. Jimmy Saville was regarded as almost an angel yet we now know what lay beneath.
The desire to heal someone else is a natural instinct we all have. But there are forces in this world, good and bad, which we can not seen or understood. Messing with those forces without truly knowing what they are is a bad idea imo.
If I wanted to help you get over an ailment, I might make you a cup of nice tea made with fresh ginger, cinnamon, green tea, sage other herbs. Every ingredient in the tea would have a specific purpose and benefit and I would be able to explain each one to you.
I would categorically never ever concoct a pot of tea made of strange ingredients which I couldn't recognise or explain their purpose and usage.
So too it should be with all healers and healing processes used by them.
Standing over a person, having them sit or stand in a certain position, placing your own hands on them and then imagining you are channelling some mystical energy from somewhere is both silly and dangerous. Can you explain what that energy is and how it affects humans? Can you explain where that energy is coming from? Can the people you are politely allowing to mentor you explain it either?
If they can not or will not then imo you would be better to not get involved. You are doing the equivalent of giving someone that pot of herbal tea filled with herbs and plants you have no idea about. It's both irresponsible and dangerous. Again I stress that the end result is not sufficient reason to put yourself in that ignorant and liable position. My pot of tea might heal you but even so, if I gave it to you in ignorance of what it actually is and how it worked I would be very much in the wrong and acting both irresponsibly and wickedly.
Most of the charlatans and scams out there rely on the same simple premise. The premise that weak minded people can always be convinced to believe in something that has no examinable evidence.
From your various posts on the forum I don't believe you are a weak minded individual and I am not saying that any of the practices you are talking about are right or wrong. I'm simply saying that if you are going to try to heal someone you have an absolute duty to understand how that process works and where the healing source comes from.
Beware also the very classic pyramid structure of human conditioning programmes. They are prevalent everywhere. You will know them instantly when you start asking searching questions and the answer you get back is "don't worry, you will understand it all better once you reach the next level". The system of "Levels" and reaching some kind of stepped progression stage is just a classic psychological method of underpinning compliance. Look at the pyramid structure in Freemasonry for example. You start at levels 1,2,3 (Apprentice, Fellow, Maser) each time being afforded a few more teasing clues about what is really going on, enough to make you want to keep progressing, yet beneath there are many many levels, some say 33 others say many more. Your own ego and false pride are what drive you to strive for the next level and to reach some kind of "mastery".
Truth is always simple and beautiful and resonates within your very being. If someone will not explain to you how their healing process actually works but still wants you to participate and sets out before you a series of levels to attain, imo, just walk away. You are being socially conditioned (duped) using very age old techniques. They will play to your ego, giving you encouragement, telling you that you have the gift, you have a natural ability, you are somehow special. That will progress to psychological control with typical reinforcement mechanisms where they will have YOU believing that you would be letting them down and letting yourself down if you walked away. There was a heart rending TV programme recently about Scientology and exactly these kind of psychological control mechanisms being used on some women whose lives were sadly shattered by it.
Be true to yourself.
It takes far more strength and character to listen to your inner reasoning and rational logic than it does to put it aside and believe in something that no-one can satisfactorily explain to you.
Good luck whatever you choose.