Healing Ourselves to Heal Others

When someone asks us to assist in his healing process, we are first and foremost being called upon to serve as a reflection of Divine love.  This is a tremendous honor, a calling for us to dig deeply into our own Divinity, beyond the limits of humanity, to create a safe, respectful location for healing.  Prayer, meditation and service to others are the lessons which move us toward that sacred place, to the remembrance that we are all one in the body of God.

Prayerful meditation can change, not only the way you feel, but physical reality as well. This phenomenon can easily be explained as we explore the mechanics of physical being. As we meditate, the electromagnetic field that surrounds our body becomes more vibrant, extending to the world around us.  For instance, begin to breathe in and out.  Focus on being loved and on the Divine nature that surrounds you.  As you do so your vital body signs begin to improve.  Whats more, the very atoms and molecules of your physical self begin to create clear patterns of vibration, which in turn, energize the electromagnetic field through a rapidly rising vibratory rate or frequency.  We literally become more brilliant as we pray, as we create the vibration of Divine love.  This subtle vibration extends outward, encouraging a similar response in everyone and everything that it encounters. In the same way that laughter is infectious, the vibration of Divine love resonates in the hearts of all it touches.  Nuns, monks and mystics throughout the ages have understood this sacred phenomenon, as they devote their entire lives to constant prayer for the sake of humanity.

The next time you enter a grocery store, library, office or other public building slowly begin the Sacred Healing Exercise #1.  With eyes open, walk, sit or browse as you normally would.  Continue consciously breathing in and out. Contemplate the Divine Love that surrounds and moves through you.  At first it may be a bit challenging, trying to focus while continuing to walk, shop, study or work.  With practice this will become routine.  After a few minutes, close your meditation and continue with your normal activity. While you probably can’t see it, you have just left a trail, a cloud, an expanse of energy vibrant with the signature of Divine Love. 

Duffy Poindexter

A Firmer Foundation

Compassionate Detachment

While most of us carry the desire to know God and to reflect love in all that we do, we also carry the wish to heal all wounds, to wipe away pain and to ease the suffering of those around us.  This is especially true for those we are closest to, our friends and family who impact us day by day, moment by moment.  While these are noble desires, the task is not ours, but God’s. How soon we forget that we are but the conduit for healing, the reflection of Divinity!  We create within us an image that we see as the perfect path to healing.  Rarely is this the path chosen between the receiver and the Mind of God.

Ironically, the more we try to orchestrate the healing experience, the less able we are to radiate unconditional Divine Love.  Our Radiance as healers is literally dimmed as the vibrations of our subtle body, disturbed by our needs, preferences, and past experiences, become unstable and out of balance.  The conduit of love which passes heart to heart is sullied with attachment, the attachment to outcome.  Sadly, many of us were taught that attachment to another’s pain is a prerequisite for compassionate giving.  Conversely, many of the world’s major religions teach the ideal of detachment as a path to Divinity.

In the West this is often misinterpreted as not caring, not important or not real.  And yet, even in the esoteric Christian traditions we hear over and over the words “Nothing but God”.  In other words, have no attachment to anything that separates you from God.  In truth, as attachments and expectations decrease, compassion and the healing vibration of love is magnified.  This truth has led many to believe that there is no greater healing tool then the ideal of Compassionate detachment.

Embracing the concept of Compassionate Detachment is a process that demands our own healing and personal growth.  In time, as you work with your self, compassion will grow from your detachment, and your ability to give more fully, with greater freedom, will flower in your life and vocation. 

Duffy Poindexter

The Healing Power of Love

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as a sounding bronze or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails; but whether there be prophecies; they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part and we prophecy in part.  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things.

For now we see in a mirror darkly; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as I am known.

And now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

                                                                        1 Corinthians 13: 1-13

What a blessing, the skilled hands of a practiced surgeon, the insightful support of a compassionate friend, and the patient guidance of a holy teacher or guru.  And yet none of these can heal even the tiniest of wounds, except for the power of love.  Like a piano tuner who strikes the tuning fork as an example of that perfect tone, the sacred healer holds a lighted reflection that illuminates the Grace of Divine Love that is God.  Energetically, as practitioners we present an optimal vibration that pleads, “Sing with me!” And, in the same way that the piano string must find its own perfect note if it is to play the harmonies for which it was intended,  the patient, client, friend or devotee must open to the ever present gift of God’s Love themselves, if they are to heal.  Take care not to see this understanding as blame.  The veil of human existence covers every eye.  Each person has a rational reason for every belief they hold in their subconscious mind.  And as challenging as it is to consider, illness and health are both teachers on the road to perfect Union with the Divine.

Saint Paul, speaking to the early church in Corinth, tells us that even those who possess remarkable “spiritual gifts” profit nothing if they have not Love. As sacred healers we study our respective healing modalities, awaken the spiritual gifts that lay buried inside, spend years in deep meditation and yet, if we do not know Love, our endeavors are hollow and without meaning.

The greatest teachers and healers constantly seek the ways of Love and Unity.  Their words are few, but their hearts are aflame with the fire of Divine Love.  Their simple presence is a tremendous radiance, lighting the road to sacred healing. 

As we continue to learn the natural tools for healing, practice regularly, study with vigor, but seek Love first.

Duffy Poindexter

God scatters His light over all spirits. The fortunate hold up their skirts to receive it. Those who receive His light turn from all except God. Without the skirt of love, we cannot receive our share.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Rumi