Five Great Healers Speak Here

Author(s): Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
Is a healer tired or refreshed after a treatment?
The act of healing should not tire a healer. Instead he should be invigorated because he has been used as a channel for the passing of energies through to the patient, and so would have received inner strength and vitality himself. Since the healer does not heal but is simply the conveyor of healing, then there is no reason for him to be fatigued through healing, unless he is using his own bodily and mental strength when he should not.
A healer can deplete himself if he is deliberately, even subconsciously, directing strength from himself into a patient. When a healer is conscious of being depleted, it means that he has been giving from either his reservoir of magnetic energies-this is the flow, as with magnetic healing-or he has been directing his own physical and mental strength to the patient. This he should not do. A healer should know that the healing effort comes through him and is not of him. Every healer should learn the way in which to restore depleted energies by characterized breathing, consciously taking into himself the cosmic energies that are there for his benefit.
It should be noted that at times a healer feels that he is consciously experiencing the symptoms and painful conditions of the patient. He receives these impressions through his state of attunement with the healing intelligence and the patient. Because of his state of affinity with the patient, who is recording his painful conditions as an experience of his mind, it follows that when the healer is in a state of affinity or attunement with the patient's mind, then the healer's mind can become conscious of what the patient is experiencing, and thus the healer receives a mental impression of the patient's suffering. These feel very real to the healer, but of course they are not factual. As a rule, as healing develops, then these experiences do not come.