SOME MEANS OF HEALTH

- You are unique through your inner self, God and others

- God invites you to face yourself and recognize your inner capacities and your fragmentation.

- Love and appreciate yourself even though you might be terribly wounded

- Your heart is never fully satisfied by being self absorption

- Reflect on experiences, listen to your silent steps of God, learn and desire to lead you to greater communication with God, and others.

- If you take one step towards God, he takes two steps towards you to heal you. He is compassion and love

- A surgeon can cut your body, but cannot order the wound to heal. Your readiness to cooperate with medicines accelerates the healing process

WHAT NEEDS HEALING?

· Childhood: - stressful pregnancy, painful experiences of childhood, trauma, physical and verbal abuse, violence, neglect, these wounds need healing.

· Broken heart: - love life disrupted, dreams and hopes shuttered, love betrayed, you are suffering silently.

· Guilt: - taken wrong turns, made wrong decisions, and choices, you feel guilty, regret your mistakes, and blame others and yourself.

· Loss: - loss of a loved one can be most devastating, something within you dies and you can’t or do not want to love anymore. Grief humbles you until you heal.

· Unfulfilled dreams: - many years trying to pursue a vocation, goal, and not yet reached. The dream has remained only a dream. Disillusioned, devastated you need healing and help.

Healing is a complex matter, you may meet an excellent healer, but healing has to start from within yourself. (Physical, mentally, emotionally, spiritually)

+ learn to love yourself and enjoy inner peace and calm

+ acknowledge your pain, discover the causes; and choose to integrate the fragmented pieces. It’s a choice, not a chance that determines healing.

+ forgive yourself and others. Vengeance poisons your body, mind and spirit. Forgive the perpetrators and your own self, let God work through you and for you.

Sicknesses are hurdles on your journey of life. The secret of healing is communion. God can’t be sick. He heals you. He holds your fragmented self together and heals. Illness is the result of interference with healing activity. Healing is nothing but a harmonious integration of every part of you. The secret of health is communion with the cosmic healer.



HEALING PRESENCE

When you connect to the source of all healing, you heal. The more you dispose yourself to accept his healing presence the quicker the healing. God doesn’t impose himself on you. He asks, “What can I do for you?”



See God at work in nature, the song of the bird, laughter of children, in the music you hear, carvings, paintings of artist, intelligence of scientists.



God is in the person who disagrees with you, in the so-called ugly things of life. Look for God everywhere, because he is omnipresent. He is even present in disease. You need to acknowledge his presence. When you ask him, he heals.



IMAGINATION

Imagination works in different levels. What you imagine influences you. Undisciplined and negative imagination vitiates your energy. Imagination can be a tool for healing, growth, relaxation and creative life.

Jesus can enable you to forgive others and he forgave from the the cross, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”



HEALING IS POSSIBLE

God heals and saves. He heals in spite of physical and mental conditions. You are in constant presence in divine presence that heals. Love is not selfish. Love is the intense desire for well-being of the other person. The source of this love is God himself. This love flows in you and through you to others in order to heal, to reconcile and bring about harmony and peace.



HEALING PRESENCE

Getting into God’s way and allowing the eternal good to flow into your life. Psalm 60:1 “Be still and know the Lord”, God s as approachable as our electric supply. You only need to plug in for connection and communion. You need to choose consciously to collaborate with God.

You have self-awareness, reason and the power of choice; you can use these faculties or let them lie dormant and under-developed. You and you alone are responsible for reaching safe harbour.

Your stubborn refusal to receive healing is a disease. Your fear, anger and sadness cause diseases.



RELAX

Become aware of your body. Attend to each part of your body from your head downwards. As you travel down your whole body, notice if there is tension at any place. Make a note of it in your mind and proceed further downwards. After this scan of the whole body, come to the tensed parts of your body. Be compassionate to each such part. Make it a little tenser and then relax it. Repeat the process of tensing and relaxing until the tension disappear.



MUSIC

David played on the harp when Saul was troubled, music heals. Classic music, sit on a sofa and imagine you dancing to the tune. After a few minutes, get up and begin to sway gently to the rhythm of the soft music. Let go in a relaxed way.



FANTASY

Relax and be rejuvenated, you can use it for healing.

Beach: - sitting watching blue sky and gentle waves. Listen to the waves and gentle breeze. Think about your nagging anxiety, bundle the worries in a neat box, place it in a small boat. Let the waves take it far into the sea.



DIALOGUE

Writing, empty chair therapy, can resolve many problems. Imagine Christ seated or standing in front of you. Recall your painful experience. Narrate it and tell him your hurt feelings. Imagine him listening to you compassionately. Have an imaginary dialogue with him and request him to heal your body, mind and heart.

INNER DIALOGUE

In the depths of yourself. Two opposing sides of yourself. Struggles, repressions, conflicts, inner tensions.



WRITING A LETTER

- Pain and anger need full expression in words to let out the poison from your system.

- Recall any painful incident in your past. Take a few sheets of paper. Write a letter to your close friend or to Jesus. Narrate the whole incident, your feelings and your thoughts. Be quite open. Share all you feel. Read the letter aloud to yourself. If you want to add something more, feel free to do so. Place the letter at the foot of a crucifix. Imagine Jesus reading the reading the letter, wait in silence and listen to Jesus when you are calm and peaceful, destroy the letter.

COMPASSIONATE TOUCH

Is touch physical? It goes beyond the physical, emotional/spiritual. Children instinctively seek physical contact whenever disturbed or happy. As we grow we discover that touching embarrasses us because we start associating sexuality with it.



Your body is a biography. Your body contains your experience it has stored the past in specific places within itself. The health of your body, mind and spirit depends on you.

The name Jesus means “Yhwh heals”



Sit erect; be aware of your body. Begin from the top of your head. Feel the sensation on your forehead. Become aware of your eye brows and eyes. Slowly go down, becoming aware of each part of your body, shoulders, chest, arms, elbows hands, fingers, upper back, lower back, stomach, abdomen, thighs, knees, calves, ankles and feet. Become aware of your body as a whole. Be still in that awareness for a while.



Become aware of your breathing. Let your every exhalation be a cry for healing. Ask Jesus to heal you. Repeat this name with love and with faith in his healing power. Live in the compassionate presence of Jesus and be healed in your body, mind and spirit.

Finally thank Jesus for beginning the process of healing in you and be grateful to your body for its cooperation in the healing. Gently open your eyes.



Touch is vital to us. Hugging and a good sharing can lw away the blues. Hugging releases a hormone (oxytocin) which arouses a caring response in us. To touch is therapeutic. Hug a grief stricken person and you do not have to say a thing. You hug conveys it all. Embrace make you feel better.

- Close your eyes and think of your most peaceful and healing moments. What comes to your mind? It is either your mother’s hands on you, or the arms of your loved one around you. Recall the moment, relieve it and relish it.

FREEDOM OF CHOICE

Do you think that others make you angry or sad? You blame them for it. Blaming is an escape from taking responsibility. If you react to persons, you are acting like a robot. You have self-awareness, imagination, conscience and an independent will. They create a gap between your reaction and your response. They make you an adult.



MATURE RESPONSE

You are not a baby. People expect you to be reasonable and responsible for your life. Your words and actions show what you are.



MEDITATION

Quietening the senses helps in letting go of what disperses and divides our attention. It frees our energy and increases our openness to life itself and to the divides.