God's Provision for Healing

Making A Demand On God''s Provision For Healing

Healing begins when we acknowledge honestly that something is wrong, that we cannot ignore or accept the imperfection that we feel, and that we choose to be healthier. It is in God’s gift to facilitate this process, and yet the real power to heal depends upon our own input. For thousands of years there has been a small minority who go against the mainstream and affirm in their different ways a perception of life as fundamentally spiritual and good. Today they say No to certain doctors and pharmaceutical corporations when they want to treat symptoms – not causes – with habit forming side-effect drugs.

Making A Demand On God''s Provision For Healing

We have to imagine a future in which we enjoy improved well-being; we have to give appropriate attention to what needs to change in our approach to life, and to explore options, possibilities and avenues that previously were unknown to us. If the old way doesn’t work then we have to try another way! In today’s world there are new understandings about how to open up to the process of healing and teaching. Ancient wisdoms have been remembered, rediscovered and reworked into contemporary techniques. Often these are nothing more than terminology updates, sometimes they are new dimensions of worn-out methods, whereas some new systems seem to be entirely seminal and some a blend of several others to form a powerful admixture that cuts across barriers of limited, partitioned understandings.

Making A Demand On God''s Provision For Healing

The heart is the centre of everything; such is true physically and spiritually. Love heals the heart, and from this all else becomes stronger…love of self, love of life, love of another, love of humanity. Love heals. God knows that is true! From one point of view healing is teaching and teaching is healing, because it’s understood that all physical problems have a psychological basis – even the broken bones that punish those with an accident-prone mentality. Esoterically, the mind is the father of all our experiences, the creator of all perception including our perceptual responses to what happens to us seemingly independently of our will although in essence because of it. So to heal ourselves fully we need to learn how the mind works, and this is something that can be taught. It is also true to say that the proper functioning of the heart centre can be taught. Many of us will know greater joy as we learn more of this.

Making A Demand On God''s Provision For Healing

What has passed is gone. The single most obvious factor that holds us in an unloving, unhealthy attitude to life is dwelling on the past, often with guilt, blame and resentment clouding the heart with a shadow. We must move on, and this involves courage and thrust. Teachers and healers proliferated since the Sixties and are now sufficiently respected to have a major part to play in all walks of life. Yoga and massage are provided by corporations, which indeed fund courses for their managers based on methods developed 20 years earlier by ageing hippies. “Green”, only recently part of the lunatic fringe, is now top dead centre on the political landscape. Of course there are charlatans and wannabes; where money flows, there will always be chancers. Caveat Emptor “let the buyer beware!” applies to life in general not just high street bartering.

Making A Demand On God''s Provision For Healing

The future unfolds out of the expectations we hold in the mind. Are these optimistic or pessimistic? One causes life, joy and health; the other is painful and distressing. Simply put: optimism is the essential morality. We can learn this or we can suffer! Let’s go beyond the facetiousness of commerce to the higher levels of our inner being where sacredness lives. In all teachings it is made clear that it is quite simply because we forget to remember sacredness that we suffer at all. Sufi mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan says all suffering is due to an error of perception. If we perceive ourselves to be separated from God, separate from each other and independent of Mother Earth, then of course we will suffer. Don’t we know that yet? Meditation and prayer are life-giving remedies.

Making A Demand On God''s Provision For Healing

So how do we heal our pessimism, blame, guilt and resentment? There is a simple answer: forgiveness. It works as a powerful healing, and if
God would ever withhold the healing power (a strange concept!) it is only because the healing cannot get through the thick defensive wall of self-importance, which forgiveness can dissolve. Above all else, we need to let go of the poison of resentment, guilt and blame. Such feelings are entirely unhelpful and the likeliest cause of all illness and wrong-headedness. Resentment is healed by forgiveness. All the great teachings would have us be gentle in our response to those who cause us inconvenience and pain. Buddhism teaches compassion, Christ taught of forgiveness, Islam’s central tenet is Bismillahirahmanirahim – the doctrine of mercy, as a loving heart experience.

Making A Demand On God''s Provision For Healing

What then emerges is trust. Then we can allow ourselves to receive the life-force, allow it to flow unrestrictedly through all the levels
of being, and do its thing: eternally to bring life and wellness into every inch of the infinite universe…body and soul. Beyond even forgiveness is surrender – just let it all do its own thing. Accept what cannot be changed. Live and let live. Go with the flow. The body becomes relaxed and easy, the mind is at peace, the heart knows joy and the eyes become bright and sparkling!

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