Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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It becomes very clear on so many occasions that the healing was not a physical need as such. The outward pains, pressures, arthritis, heart conditions, or whatever, very often are the outward manifestation of some inner turbulence, some unforgiven situation, some stress or worry or tension. It is certainly a fact of life that deep emotional and intensive disturbance in consciousness, so often through relationship problems, can produce devastating effects in the physical system.
It is with this thought that we then look very carefully to the counselling aspect of healing. It seems to me that we are not really healing anything if the cause is not healed. It often turns out that it was the person who needed to be healed rather than the machinery-body! So often when these inward conflicts are redeemed, repented, forgiven, released, then the body flows effortlessly and sometimes spontaneously into its natural state of well-being and balance.
A third procedure in which we have been intensely involved on world-wide missions is the Divine Healing Service in a church or hall or wherever a group of people can assemble. My interest has always been to teach and encourage the people to follow through on these spiritual truths. I seek to encourage the dedicated process to be applied in daily living.
I seldom even approach healing without some quite substantial teaching. It would almost seem from a healing point of view that my particular mission is to chip away many of the limitations which prohibit the wellbeing of a person and often help clear away the doubts and uncertainties in relation to prayer and the power of God in action. On all such occasions, therefore, I usually speak for half-an-hour or so and cultivate by recognition an awareness of the presence of God in our midst.
I lead into prayer. I gather up the resources of all the people and intensify them through an expression of love