Sending Healing Energy - Effective or Invasive?

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whether it is effective, invasive, intrusive or a plain waste of time, to send healing energy to people.

Or is it simply old-fashioned ox droppings?

I should think the answer where the rubber meets the road would be all of the above. Not at the same time, of course. I think that "sending energy" is a noble calling, and I am absolutely positive that there are folks who are able to do this, or at least I am sure that circuits can be created whereby energy can travel between entities.

I'm also relatively sure that we lack consensus on what we're even talking about here. Perhaps not amongst ourselves, but within the broad spectrum of our culture, the majority are still in the "ox-droppings" camp. Then there's a big wishy-washy subset, those who subscribe to all kinds of "new" forms of consciousness but in the shallowest sense, all or none of which may impart wisdom and truth in the big sense anyway.

As for us: what is this "energy?" Is it enough to hold the intent to send it? What if I want it to do harm? What if what I imagine to be for the good should in some way result in harm? What if what I intend as good becomes harm in another's reality, and vice versa?

Does the person/people toward whom the "energy" is directed need to know about it? Should they know about it? What if they find out about it? What if they don't?

What if I send energy and I'm the only one who feels better?

I'm being the devil's advocate here. I think it is well and firmly established that most of the time, wishing does not make it so, so obviously there's something else involved. What is it? Who can tell me so that I, a guy who fixes washing machines and hunts deer or a housewife who watches Judge Judy and wears plastic fingernails (don't assume I'm dumb, either!), can understand what you're talking about? Pastor says that is New Age talk from the devil.

Dear friends, I am firmly in the energy camp. I'm not sure I can define it yet, but it has to do with dharma and the mother of all energy fields. But I think it is something we are in the early stages of learning to recognize and use. Some people are already there; most are not. And, I believe, some deceive themselves. It does not work through the ego. I've studied reiki, just a wee first degree am I. I found quite a bit of inspiration in the duality between sending energy and entering into ho'oponopono on someone's behalf. Both involve creating a ripple effect in the energy field, the mother field of which we are part. But they are qualitatively apart. It isn't that one is red light and the other is blue light, or one is jazz and the other classical music. It's that one is light and the other is music.

It seems to me they complement one another, being best performed by different individuals, better yet by groups of individuals. Seems to me this should be part of the question.

8-D

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My original question was about how wise it is to start sending energy
around when we are unconscious beings and therefore can't know what
we're sending.

Stefa, I do have to say that I do think that we're awakening beings, and I do know some people are wise in the handling of this energy.  Nafetah is one, no doubt about it.  I've seen her do what she calls a treatment, and so-and-so in another state immediately feels better.  Or a parking place opens up just as we get there.  I doubt that anyone of good heart and positive intent would actually create harm through sending energy, or attempting to do so.  To me, the greater danger appears to be self-deceipt.

I don't have the impression that Dr. Len is sending energy to anyone else.

Exactly.  Ho'oponopono doesn't send energy, it takes responsibility.  Actually of course it does send energy, but in a completely different sense, which is why I struggled for a simile to describe what I meant.  Even the one I came up with was inadequate...it's not light and music, it's more like mountains and butter.  Just different.

I too am glad this topic has come up.  I'm a believer, sometime practitioner.  As my vision has become broader, I am much more aware of subtle energies than in the past, and I'm beginning to see some of the ways we are literally vital to each other in our continuing interaction within the field, the matrix, the hologram.  I'm most interested in what others have to say on this...and since it's tangential to Ursula's original post, I vote for maintaining it as a distinct and complementary thread.

8-D

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Stefa, I agree this topic should be under one thread. I have no objection to it being transferred to one thread. However, there are points I would like to make which were included on the other. I wonder if all posts could be transferred. I am asking the group if they agree, and also, can this be done? I think it would be much easier for all, especially me. Tons of Love, Nafetah  

Thank you Carrie, for your response. I have the same belief system. I use a mixture of methods sending healing energy. My Creator and I have been able to heal such things as migraines for a friend, and it immediately went away. However, it returns a few days later, due to her "victim" personality. We (our Creator and I) were able to heal her two pound Yorkie when he had been very ill for two days and couldn't eat, or if he did, he couldn't keep it down. She had no money to take him to a vet. He immediately got up and began to eat, and has been well ever since. Like I said, I always say "this or something better is occurring right now for the highest good of all concerned." I always give thanks for our Creator for allowing me to be the vessel, and trust his infinite wisdom. I would never send energy to anyone which would be harmful (if that is possible). I took an oath to always ask permission first, and I do. As you said, unatachment is the key. Tons of Love, Nafetah    

Long life to you my friend.

Gosh, where have I been? Missing time again...hmmmm.

I remember reading the thread and trying to wrap my mind around the information...the mind trained in western medicine anyway.

Now this discussion reminds me of the unconscious fear that became apparent for me when I was introduced to Tonglen meditation.  The Tonglen meditation  technique involves breathing in, like a thick black smoke all of the suffering in the world including your own.  And exhale the clear breath of wisdom and joy to yourself and every sentient being.

When I began the first inhale with intent, I began to contract and restrict my breathing. As I abandoned the Toglen and moved into the contraction, a tremendous fear filled my mind that I would become diseased and die of suffering. I bring this up because it was so buried by my belief in western medicine it came as a surprise. Over a number of subsequent meditations I moved into a state of choiceless awareness and practiced Tonglen daily for several weeks. My own healing was revealed gradually as a dissipation of Self and the solidity of my beliefs about myself and others. It really wasn't until reading Dr. Len's experience that I understood the gift of "choiceless awareness" as an actual state of all possiblity, that hologram where contraction relaxes.  And that, maybe is the healing for all sentient beings.  The bodhisattva way.

I appreciate this thread wherever it goes as it has challenged me to clarify my experience.

Tricia

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Long life to you my friend.

Hi Riversong,

My experience of Tonglen was both an individual opening and a sense of bringing that spacious quality into all my relationships, human and animal.  I remain with an insight into the nonself of the bodhisattva path.  And that insight bears witness in all my experience.

I don't know how to discriminate the shift within and the shifts I perceive in my environment.  I want to think that as I expand healing radiates to ...?

Thank you.  I just wrote myself into communion beyond self.  The gift of a question!

Respectfully' Tricia

I've pondered this question quite a bit, most of my thoughts have already been expressed here so beautifully and elloquently, there's little left for me to say :)  Perhaps something like the ho'oponopo technique described in the course is an effective, safe, non-invasive way to heal others through conscious intention: If it is not appropriate for the subject, nothing should happen, and we are at least addressing a part of ourselves. If it is, right on! :) So far as the ethics of "meddling" by healing, well, we are here and meddling just by being born, lol! Seems like it's a question of awareness of where our heart lies when we choose to interfere in a situation, although it's hard to say where the line is drawn regarding inner clarity.

Love you All!

As an ordained minister of healing, I have participated in a few hundred healing sessions. We always ask permission before performing healing on another person. We were taught that if it was not in the best interest of the being, they would either refuse permission, block the energy (consciously or subconsciously) or generate sufficient negativity then or later to negate the healing process. Yes, some people have a karmic burden that includes illness, and there are reasons a person may need to continue to generate suffering in their lives at this time. I feel truly blessed that since I have learned how not to generate so much suffering in my own life, there has been a lot less of it. I don't exactly understand people who want to continue being victims, etc. Still one has to respect their choices.

In the matter of sending energy, what is space and time? It feels as if we create a connection with the other person, and the distance between us recedes. It wasn't "real" in the first place, so why should it surprise us that we can connect to another person's energy field when they are at a distance?

Anything that you do from an ego perspective, is unlikely to produce results that match the expectations ego has. From that point of view, it seems we fail continuously. Anything you do with purely loving intent, has no attachment to expectations. Every quanta of love that flows out from you into the universe brightens the entire universe. There is no way it can truly create harm.

While it may be true that a person with hatred in his heart could learn to focus enough energy to cause someone else pain from a distance, it would not be possible for someone to do this when they were intending to send healing. Loving Intent is a miraculous form of energy that we are learning to generate, and it helps us create a universe more full of love and light.

It is excellent practice to remember as often as possible when praying, co-creating, generating energy of any kind, taking action of any kind, to always ask that what is done is in the best interest of all.

Before entering the calmed, meditative state that is the usual place from which this energy work is done, it is great to create conditions in which your energy cannot be perverted. Ask that your guides provide this protection. Or create a circle of light around yourself or your group. Or hold a crystal or gem which you have charged with this task.

If you ask for protection, and also ask that what is done is for the best of all, do not ever fear sending out all the healing energy you can. If it is done with loving intent, healing will occur.

Love to all,

Tampa DAve

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