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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
do “street time," we find many innovative and creative ways to help heal, not only people but situations as well. Most healers have several methods and will often use several ways until the problem is solved. However, some healers may have more understanding and power in one area than others. Can anyone be a Healer? Is healing an inborn gift or one that a dedicated student can acquire?
Healing is innate within most of our natures. It is society that closes us off to inborn abilities. When we wish to enhance the world through healing, we must become dedicated students of light within and without. When we are involved in an act of healing, we must be responsible to the one who is in need. Therefore, we should not romanticize or be egotistic or attached to the doing. We serve, and that is all we do. We serve as a channel, a vessel, emptied, surrendered, to be filled by power beyond our own understanding. We can work to enhance that which is inborn. Some perhaps have more innate abilities than others, yet it means nothing if it is not used and refined.
There are instances where healing powers have suddenly appeared later in life, often to one who had had no exposure to healing or spiritual ways. My greatgrandmother once told me that talent, like singing, was a reflection of one who had been close to Source, the gift being given to remind people of the beauty of the Creator. It does not belong to the singer, and will be taken away if it is not used for the good of the people.
Many are born to walk the path of healing. My spirit was invoked to form in ceremony and born into a ninesided star, drawn in crystals, because my greatgrandmother and father conspired to set me firmly on this path. My feet were washed in the great waters of both oceans before my third birthday; my name designed to tie me to the power and need of Mother Earth.
