This time we're talking about self treatment using healing energy. For those of you who have been trained in some form of Reiki, or Therapeutic Touch, or even just exposed to Tai Chi, Chi Gong, or any form of energy work, you already know what I'm talking about.
For those who have not been trained or exposed to this type of healing, I'll explain how you can use your own body's life force (chi), or even channel the life force of the universe (God, the Creator, the Divine, the infinite source, whatever name you want to use) to help yourself and others heal. And yes, you can also ask the angels to help you with this, because they are very good at moving healing energy through you and around you and helping you move healing energies through you and around you.
Chi, Prana, & Ka
Let's talk about the Chi model first, since it's a bit easier to understand. Chi, from Traditional Chinese Medicine, or Prana in Sanskrit from India, or Ka from Ancient Egypt, all refer to the same thing: the spirit or life force of your body. Sometimes it's also translated as the "life breath" of the body.
You'll remember from our basic discussion of energy healing and chakras how when you're energetically out of balance, that disharmony eventually shows itself as a physical ill. Or conversely, when you have a traumatic injury you are suffering not only from the physical injury but also an injury to your energetic body.
The simplest example of using your own Chi to help others is when mom used to rub her hands together and place them on your knees after you fell down. Or when she would "kiss it and make it better." Or when you'd stick a wounded finger into your own mouth. (There are other reasons dogs lick their wounds beside this---their saliva contains healing enzymes, many of them antibacterial, to help the wound heal faster.)
There's an easy way you can "feel" the chi of your own body, if you have not paid attention to it before. Simply rub the palms of your hands together quickly....then move them (still facing each other) a short distance apart. You'll still feel the energy moving between them. This is the chi of your own body.
Using the laying-on-of-hands to help yourself or others feel better is as old as mankind. There are academic studies that postulate Jesus was using some type of "Reiki" when he laid his hands on the sick to heal them. I don't know about that, but it is an interesting thought.
Channeling Energy Healing
The difference between Reiki or Therapeutic Touch or some other form of energy healing where an attunement of some type was involved is this: instead of using your own body's chi or healing energy, you are channeling the chi or healing energy of the creator, the divine, the infinite source, whatever name you would like to give your understanding of God. That's it, in a nutshell. The attunement enables the ability to channel healing energy from the divine source.
Now, I know some of you may be uncomfortable with the word "channel." It made me uncomfortable at first, too. Think of it like this: A straw is a "channel" for whatever your're drinking. A prophet is a "channel" for the information they are sharing. A teacher is a "channel" for delivering knowledge to their classroom. In this sense, the channel is simply the delivery system. Think of yourself as a tool for the work of the divine.
The chief advantage of channeling the energy versus using your own energy (chi) is multifaceted.
- You can drain yourself when using your chi alone, but when tapping into the divine source and channeling the energy, it never runs out. It is also infinite.
- Using your own energy can literally exhaust you, while using the divine source is never exhausting. In fact, it will fill you with energy.
- You are directing your chi when you use it. When channeling the divine source and the best healer, the energy goes where it is needed first. That may not always be the physical ill first, often there are mental and emotional wounds that are just as deep if not deeper than the physical ill.
- "Dark energy" does not affect you. What I'm referring to here is that when a client is terminal or fighting a terminal illness, as a healer working on them you can often feel the "dark energy" leave their body and come into yours while you are treating them. As long as you are channeling healing energy from the divine, infinite source, there is no reason to fear. Simply keep working and the "dark energy" will start flowing away at a certain point.
I experienced this first hand when treating my own mother who was battling cancer. As I treated her, I felt this dark energy enter both of my hands and move up my arms to my shoulders. It paused there for a bit, and as I continued treating her, it eventually withdrew down my arms and left. Now, if I had been simply been using my own chi for the healing, chances are this dark energy movement would have freaked me out a bit more.
- Channeling the healing energy of the divine, infinite source also helps heal and strengthen you and your own relationship with that source. You cannot be a straw without getting wet. And working with the healing energy from the divine, infinite source will strengthen your own faith and healing. Most healers have had deep wounds of some type, and often we continue to learn from those wounds as layers of healing peel it back like an onion.
- When treating yourself, you still channel the divine, infinite healing energies and as such they treat you where you need it most first, whether that is the emotional body, mental body, or the physical body. Healing occurs on all levels.
Involving the Angels
Now, using the basics we discussed above, you can also ask the angels to help you during your healing session. Raphael and Haniel are the most frequent helpers and visitors during healing sessions, but call the other archangels as you are moved to. Depending on what you are working on, you may also feel the need to ask Raziel and Metatron to assist as well.
If wanted, you can even envision Raphael and the others beaming healing energy into your own body and helping as you treat yourself. There are some body parts it's just not easy for us to treat ourselves! Talk to them as you would friends, and listen for their replies.
Be Well, Be Happy, and Be Blessed
melodie
