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What qualities are needed to become a channel for healing?
Anyone who wishes to help “make better” must develop a deep sense of love and compassion, which is a reflection of one's spiritual self in union with nature and Source. One must be willing to explore his own illnesses and loneliness and welcome change. Through the looking within, we may become truly empty, leaving space to be filled by That which is Above. We attach to and personalize our illnesses, claiming them as our own-my migraine, my cancer, my broken life. It seems the twolegged has a propensity for suffering. We cling to our psychosis and disease. If we give over our pain, what then will take its place?
We must practice surrender in our every moment, in our everyday lives. If we develop the quality of balance and emptiness, we will be working in harmony with the forces of nature and spirit all the time, therefore having a stronger effect for good in the world.
When my hair is braided for the ceremony used to open sharings with my students, my hands move in rhythm to a chant that centers me and helps the ego-self move aside. The left and right hemispheres of my brain become silent. Then Spirit may use my body, my voice. My feeling is one of openness, willingness, and a working together between the world of the physical and the world of Spirit. This is not to say that my being is subject to use by forces that are non-harmonious to my way. What disciplines would you recommend?
The use of meditation and prayer to keep one in touch with humility, the study of philosophy, chemistry, nature, all of these will help.
A great deal of discipline is necessary for channeling healing energies in a conscious way. Learning to center through control of breath, sustaining optimum health on the physical and mental planes, thinking good thoughts
