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Since I discovered the ability to channel healing energies, I have read, researched, assessed and learned all I can about healing and healers, and the effects of healing on others. Happily, I am still learning and intend to continue to do so for the remainder of my stay here on Mother Earth.
For healing to be absorbed to its maximum potential, it is essential for the patient to be relaxed. It is equally vital that the healer is also as relaxed as possible to allow the energies to flow through them to the patient.
I was originally introduced to this idea through the books I read and during my training period but it is only through continued practice, both in ensuring I am relaxed and helping patients to relax during healing sessions, that I have come to realise the full truth of it.
This has led me to think about how we live our daily lives and how fear, in one form or another, is responsible for our lack of a relaxed attitude most of the time. I began to notice that, when I was standing in a supermarket queue or when I saw others carrying out their jobs or just sitting in a car, there were tell-tale signs of the tension in their bodies. When I listened to colleagues at work, friends and family members, it became obvious by their body language and their choice of words that they too were constantly living in a state of fear of one thing or another, which created a permanent tension in their bodies.
So many people are not able to let go of their tension whenever they get the opportunity, and it has become so familiar to them now that it seems as if it is like ‘an old friend’ who accompanies them wherever they go, acting as a kind of security guard. In fact, many people will deny that they have fear of anything in particular because it is so much a part of their daily life.
It is easy to become fearful today: the media whips up negative thoughts by ensuring that they find the worst in almost everything they report; older people live in fear of not having somewhere to live in their last years; parents worry about allowing their children to walk the streets on their own; people read reports about the health of our planet and wonder how, or if, it will carry on for their children after they are gone; and many people fear their employers/line managers and the security of their jobs. The list goes on. As a friend recently said to me when she’d heard yet another report on global warming – ‘That’s one more thing for us to worry about then!’
When you watch most babies sleeping, they are completely relaxed and breathe freely by allowing their stomach to expand, which moves the diaphragm downwards and allows more room for the lungs to expand also. It is very hard to be tense when breathing in this way. Many youngsters and adults nowadays have forgotten this very natural way of breathing; as they breathe in, they contract their stomach muscles as well. This promotes shallow breathing, which is also how we breathe when we are fearful.
The whole thing is a cycle: we feel fear, tension is created and we breathe shallowly, which creates further tension, which narrows our view of the world and promotes fearful thoughts, and so it goes on.
The vast majority of patients to whom I channel healing have conditions that have an emotional root cause, often to do with fear. The patients themselves realise that this was the case when they start to become more able to cope with their condition or it disappears completely, once they have addressed the true cause. Even then, they tend not to use the word fear because it seems almost to be taboo in the same way as discussing sex, homosexuality or child abuse used to be not so many years ago.
I believe that part of the benefit of relaxation is learning how to breathe naturally again because all relaxation exercises depend on the breath – the breath of life. As healers, we all encourage our patients to take a few deep breaths to relax them before the healing starts but, in my experience, people don’t tend to do this very much outside of the healing room. Unless the point is made about how beneficial it is, they view it simply as part of a therapy and not something to extend into their daily lives.
I am a passionate believer in working to raise the profile of healing so that people can experience its benefits. I talk to various groups about healing and I include in these talks ideas for people to use to help heal themselves, because I believe we all have this capability. We are all healers, whether that is to heal others or to heal ourselves. It is simply that many of us have forgotten this fact. I believe those who have remembered it have an obligation to remind those who have not.
I have now taken to introducing breathing into the talks and asking the audience to participate. I explain this way of breathing in terms of the breath blowing up a balloon inside their bodies and then letting it deflate. I suggest they place their hands on their stomachs to feel the rise and fall of the breath. In every case, it is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for a large number of people in each group. They become focused on their stomachs, their faces take on a studied expression as if they’re trying to master a very complex operation, and their bodies become extremely tense. Some people have even started to turn a strange colour, at which point I have had to ask them to return to their normal breathing mode, and we start again. Not surprisingly, these are the people who find it difficult to accept that it is either ‘normal’ or ‘relaxing’! However, after a short while, they start to understand what they’re trying to do and at least partially accept that this might be natural, thus releasing some of their tension.
Although I don’t have the time in this setting to get them to a point of feeling relaxed, I feel that I have at least planted the seed of how this could help with relaxation and releasing tension during their everyday lives when things became stressful. Interestingly, it is a great talking point when the tea is served, and many of them are still trying to master it so I think it’s worth the effort of introducing it.
I am sure that other healers know, as I do, when a patient is not going to gain the maximum benefit from a healing. These are the ones who talk constantly while you’re working with them, or who are quiet but unable to close their eyes, or whose whole bodies, neck, shoulders, hands or feet are inflexible and sometimes almost quivering. There are some people with whom you need to work for many sessions to get them to the point of relaxation. Unfortunately, because they perceive no benefit, they often do not wish to continue the sessions. Sadly, you have to watch them walk away from the potential for easing whatever ails them.
Many of these people have long-term conditions and, logically, if you have taken a long time to deteriorate to the low point you’ve currently reached, it will take some considerable time before you can start to return to a normal or healthier state. This is accepted as the case in orthodox medicine but, for healing, people expect the sort of miracles they read about in the tabloids. Those who walk away too soon are always included in my distant healing book so that I can continue to send them healing thoughts even if they have decided the healing visits are not beneficial for them, in the expectation that they will absorb something to help them.
But this situation is more than compensated for by the larger number of people who do experience improvement or the disappearance of their health challenge. It’s always such a joy to hear of a patient’s success in healing themselves as a result of the spark you channelled to start that process. That’s just one of the many benefits to the healer of channelling the energies.
(Jenny Jones)
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