Energy Healing
A Sample Chapter from The Color of Sunshine
written by Erin Emily Lassell
One of the major shortcomings of the 1980’s New Age self-help boom was leaving all the good ideas and techniques in the precarious hands of the counterculture where they mostly sit flat, ironically void of imagination and curiosity and where they are taught without exploration of the state of the student’s soul. With no exploration of the soul, healing information leaves people with a lot of information but no spiritual way to make it consistently useful.
Those in the counterculture aren’t automatically wise or powerful healers just because they aren’t mainstream. Instead, in the counter culture of metaphysics, you find the same human potential for staying stuck and changing nothing as exists in the traditional world.
Healing means to have energy flow. It means to be able to consciously direct and maintain the flow of psychic energy in your energy bodies and chakras. It means to strengthen or regain a part of yourself and to be in ethical harmony with the world around you. With awareness and healing abilities, limitations can be recognized and transformed from non-movement to
movement. The movement of psychic energy is defined as combining your unique personal energy with energy that is greater than yourself. Healing is to use earth energy and universal energy to repair and transform deep psychic wounds.
Although energy healing is still a concept far beyond the acceptance of contemporary society, it is a real and accessible possibility. Energy healing can reach deep into the problematic areas of life that conventional wisdom would have you believe are beyond your capacity to heal.
Currently, when we don’t understand why something can’t be healed, it is mostly because we don’t believe it can be. If science hasn’t yet created a cure and energy healing is too whacky to consider, only the randomness of luck or a special appearance by “God” through prayer are available explanations. When energy healing is a more accepted part of life and isn’t solely available to people who are on a “crazy” alternative healing search, it will open up the space between medicine and a miracle. Then the probability of human healing will expand far beyond where it is today.
I believe that while scientific healing methods will continue to advance, so too will energy healing and in the future I believe the two will meet. Energy healing is ethereal, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t logical. It doesn’t work in random and unpredictable ways. Healing energy responds to the same laws of physics that science understands: mass, density and velocity. It can be objectively studied, leaving the door open for scientific examination. Someday we will have the best of the scientific and metaphysical worlds combined.
There are many things holding back the advancement of energy healing in modern life, but the primary reason isn’t what you might think. Yes, there are certain energy techniques that a person has to learn and in order to even want to learn them a person has to accept the hypothesis of the existence of matter deeper than the structure of matter that makes up our physical world. But assuming a person accepts and acclimates to this premise, there is still one variable that will either allow a person to use energy healing or block its application. This potential block isn’t attributable to a lack of knowledge, although knowledge is essential.
The imperative variable turns out to be that a person has to be in the spiritual state of taking responsibility for themselves. If a person doesn’t take responsibility, if their mistakes are due to a lack of ethics, then until they develop ethics and responsibility, energy healing will elude them except in the most superficial ways. They will have to rely on conventional medicine for help because energy healing is always a matter of the soul. It cannot be separated out. You can administer energy healing to a person without ethics, but it won’t stick. It can never work if your heart is in the wrong place.
If you take responsibility for yourself, earth energy and universal energy are available to you. That doesn’t automatically mean that you know how to access that healing energy or how to bypass people and things that are blocking it, but it remains a possibility. If the goal is to evade personal responsibility, the opportunity of energy healing is gradually sealed.
Energy healing, it turns out, belongs to an exclusive club for the responsible. Responsibility is the admissions requirement. It is the law of nature.
A non-responsible person will always be engaged in the act of evading. They won’t allow any responsibility for any misdeed or cruel intention to ever come back to them if they can help it. They try to defeat accountability by rationalizing. Rationalizing, by its very intent, will not allow earth energy and universal energy to travel through a human energy system for very long. Energy healing is neutral, but it is based on absolute truth not partial truth. When you start to run it consciously and deeply, it brings out the veracity. If you use energy healing, you can’t choose which part of the truth comes out. All of the truth comes out, so the non-responsible soul will stop its flow, or have the flow stopped for them, because it leads them on a path that they don’t want to be on.
If you don’t want the truth, healing is blocked off fairly quickly. You may be able to achieve some positive results but you will not be able to sustain these results. A non-responsible person may be aware of energy and may even be able to use some clairvoyance, but psychic energy will not flow freely for very long. Energy has to flow in order to provide healing.
Every person is responsible for themselves. No one is an exception. Many people try to follow the road of non-responsibility and get all the healing energy they want, but you can’t have both no matter how much technique you think you know. The natural system of energy healing isn’t designed that way. Since the beginning of human existence and maybe even farther back than that, people have tried to access healing forces simultaneously with non-responsibility. Lots and lots of people try and fail to overlook the lessons of history, stubbornly thinking they will be the only one to make energy healing work for them without personal responsibility. But you cannot heal and evolve unless you are responsible.
The more non-responsible a person becomes, the more unethical their deeds and the more they need to heal, but the less they will be able to heal. This downward spiral can be stopped at any time with one requirement, responsibility. Responsibility is the golden ticket, but it is also the one and only answer an unethical person won’t accept. “Surely,” they think, “there must be a way to access healing energy without taking responsibility.” Nope.
Non-responsibility is heavy, empty and soulless, so a non-responsible person will search, not to the heavens and the earth, but for an individual to latch on to and lighten their load. As the weight of non-responsibility becomes harder to bear they will lock one main person, followed by as many others as they can, into an invisible psychic contract, signing them up to carry the weight of the non-responsibility. For example, Hitler needed Eva, Picasso needed Matisse, baseball needed Jackie Robinson, Reagan needed Oliver North and many people need and use their own child. To lock anyone into such a tragic contract is an abusive act that exacerbates the problem and prolongs the inevitable consequences of the non-responsible soul.
Healing is not the only thing that is capped if responsibility isn’t taken. The privilege of existing at all as your present individual self comes into question. If I am right, this explains even further why a non-responsible person so desperately seeks a refuge outside of themselves. If non-responsible life ceases to function and eventually ceases to exist without a counter balance of responsibility, someone else has to be pulled into the game to keep them afloat.
Taking responsibility doesn’t mean perfection. It means that your moral compass is intact and acting ethically is instinctual. You aren’t trying to deceive other people into believing you are someone you are not. Leaving a legacy actually means something to you. Responsibility means that your heart is kind and malice aforethought is inconceivable. It means you don’t understand why other people are cruel. When you make a mistake you regret it and would never, to the best of your ability, repeat it. If you do repeat it, you feel even worse, and try again until you eventually get it right.
To a responsible soul, kindness is a social skill valued above all others. You don’t believe in short cuts, you aren’t always trying to take the easy road and you don’t think that the person with the most money wins. You believe that whatever you do will follow you and you never better your circumstances at the expense of others. You protect those weaker or more vulnerable than yourself. You accomplish out of hard work and desire, not through control and greed. You hope that other people’s lives are better because of you. You grow personally and spiritually because it is natural and necessary. You know that life is full of both celebration and regret. And at those moments when regret is bigger than life, you take heed. You are never afraid to say you are sorry.
The search for energy healing usually begins when a person’s knowingness and imagination tells them there must be unconventional options. This may happen because their particular issue isn’t applicable to modern theory and medicine but they still believe they can heal somehow. They may not know how to explain it, but they know they want to reach into what is invisibly broken and give it a nod in the right direction.
When this is the case, a person knows that medical models don’t cover invisible wounds so they will have to look elsewhere. They are ready for a leap of faith into energy healing. But even as they willing make the jump into alternative healing, culturally ingrained beliefs about the limitations of human healing keep expectations low. People have been indoctrinated with the absoluteness of illness and pain. Therefore, people don’t easily believe in the energy healing model or in bringing movement to that which is in non-movement, even when they try.
For example, if someone comes to me to learn energy healing who also has a medically diagnosed condition; in my mind they are coming to learn how to use energy to heal their diagnosis. In their mind they have come to learn energy healing but have no expectation that energy healing can apply to their medically diagnosed problem. They have hope for their invisible wounds, but not for wounds that can be validated medically. In my mind, invisible wounds and medical wounds are duplicative. All visible wounds get their start on the energy level. If you can bring movement to this inception, you can start to heal the obvious wound by moving the energy beneath it.
Two of the qualifications for my job are: I am more sensitive than other people and I believe energy healing can heal physical problems. It is ironic when someone feels as if I’m being insensitive to their problems unless I believe their conventionally diagnosed problems can’t be healed. To them it means I don’t understand their pain is real. It is a sticky point I dance around when I do a reading and healing on someone new. My job is to believe that all ailments can heal. This is a big part of how I access my reading and healing abilities, but I have learned not to explain this unless I have known someone for a long time. Instead of the energy healing concept being hopeful for a person, it is usually scary, even when it is clear I believe in getting all the medical help a person can get along with energy healing.
Some people want to believe their conditions are permanent and others want to believe they can be transformed. I’m on the transforming part of this conversation. Although I understand wounds can be so deep, and may have taken such a huge toll on a person, and they might be hard to heal in one lifetime; I still believe wounds can be healed. All conditions have an
origin. When you can get to the origin of the problem, non-movement can begin to turn to movement and the reclaiming and recovering process can begin healing!
Forgiveness is often mistaken for healing. It can be a part of healing, but forgiveness as healing’s primary focus is too simple and sometimes plain inaccurate. When it is believed that forgiveness and healing are necessarily intertwined, people feel pressure to be okay before they really are, thus impeding the healing process. When forgiveness is forced or is inappropriate for the circumstance, it becomes the obstacle to healing. In cases such as this, “forgiveness” becomes a sign that personal introspection has been skipped and a cycle is starting over again. When forgiveness closely resembles a pardon, it can be a kind of collaboration that dishonors the victim.
Forgiveness isn’t necessary for healing. In the case of radical evil, forgiveness isn’t even appropriate. Some actions are unforgiveable. Healing can take place with or without forgiveness.
Forgiveness should not be the goal of healing, although in some cases it might happen. Healing is to pick up the pieces and reconnect with the part of you that was halted by the trauma. Healing means getting your energy flowing again and moving forward with more knowledge and personal power than you had before.
A perpetrator should not seek forgiveness. They should not ask another thing of their victim. The perpetrator has already taken enough. Instead, they should regret their deed and change. Society’s focus should be on the aggressor changing, not the victim making everyone feel comfortable by offering forgiveness.
As a victim you have the hefty task of healing your wounds without passing them on. It is a big responsibility to bear, to pledge to ensure the wound stops with you. If you happen to have the feeling of forgiveness along the way, most likely the perpetrator is having genuine regret. But you do not need to register this sorrow. Your job is to move on without being in charge of your perpetrator’s sensitizing process, if indeed they have one.
Forgiving a person who has harmed you, because they found joy in harming you, is unhealthy. Forgiving implies an abstract relationship, if not a literal one. To have a relationship with your rapist, for example, is obviously not healthy. Forgiveness is reserved for people who have made mistakes, but who we still judge to be safe to forgive. Some people are unforgivable because they enjoy evil, whether they admit it or not.
When harm is great and unforgivable, then in order for healing to happen, the perpetrator and the victim must go in opposite directions. This is healthy and spiritual. In cases of radical evil, the moment of betrayal defines the beginning and end of your relationship with the transgressor, and it should. Not only are you not obliged to stay in the same reality with someone who has harmed you, you shouldn’t. If the victim and the violator stay in the same reality, the victim is being set up to take responsibility for the perpetrator. A culprit cannot rely on the victim for underlying support of any kind.
People should feel uncomfortable around horrendous acts and assist victims in making the transgressors accountable. It takes fortitude to stand by a victim whose life, at the moment of impact, has changed forever. It takes compassion to realize the victim may not recover in one lifetime.
It is important to hold healing as sacred. While we are resilient creatures, healing is rarely a quick thing. Tragedy strikes too often and too hard in our world. The best thing we can do is acknowledge the impact and the weight tragedy has on the soul.
By using energy healing a tragedy can be healed in years instead of lifetimes, but some things still might take decades.
When will you be over it? When the block that resulted from the wound begins to move again, when you can feel your heart again, when you feel like yourself again, when you can laugh again. This is when you have healed.
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