Five Great Healers Speak Here

SR No.: 006995
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House
Total Pages: 166
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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casions where treatment at a distance will have beneficial results after one session. Often in faith healing especially, healing takes place immediately. Will the healing process continue if the healer stops treatment?
The healing process will continue. However, my belief is that once we share this space of feeling with another, treatment never stops until the sick one is indeed made better. Can reasons be given for the failure of a treatment?
It is almost impossible for me to associate healing with failure. Again, it is only a way of thinking in terms of judgment that says this is failure, this is success. Each will progress according to his or her own individual needs. Those needs are not always met by the body's clinging to this life. Does the healer visualize the illness and then visualize it as cured, or does he visualize a perfect and healthy person from the start?
Visualizations play an important part of healing, even in the allopathic world of medicine. My learning always led me to first see the problem as it is; then to let it go, having been freed of its vibrations by recognizing, then discarding it; then to see the person whole, well, clinging to this visualization until the problem is solved. Is the touch of the healer's hands necessary? What purpose does it serve?
We touch with our hands in many ways. When passing my hands through the fields* of one who needs to be made better without touching the physical body, my experience is of touching in a more subtle manner. When healing at a distance, my hands have no contact in the
*Subtle electro-magnetic emanations from a person's body.