Are You Interested In Healing From A Spiritual Perspective?

Healing from a spiritual point of view involves a focus on learning from this healing moment, addressing underlying causes, and harvesting the spiritual lessons and understanding available from your experiences. Healing might be seen as burning off karma: completing a cycle of cause and effect that was set in motion earlier in your life, or even in a previous lifetime. From this perspective, healing is about resolution: finishing old business and moving on.

Dr. Richard Alpert, also known as the spiritual teacher Ram Dass, found his life dramatically changed when he met his own spiritual teacher in India. His life was transformed again when at the age of 66 he had a major stroke. He embraced the challenge of recovery by accepting his healing as an integral part of making progress along his spiritual path:

"Healing is not, after all, the same as curing. Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God."

-- Ram Dass, from the movie 'Fierce Grace'

Healing from injury or illness is a major theme in some of our lives. Illness or physical disability can be a nuisance or a chronic aggravation to you; it can also change your life, reshape your family, or end a career. At the very end, illness may precede your leaving this world.

The way you approach the experience of healing from illness or healing into dying, and the process of healing through both, reflects some of your deepest beliefs about life itself. A conscious approach to each current life situation can move you toward greater inner freedom, peace, and a sense of completion and resolution.

Over time, an approach like this one can help you build skills you will find useful in facing life challenges that still lay ahead with grace and compassion.

What is the Potential of Transformational Healing?

At the highest level, this type of healing process can be about moving into greater alignment with the divine within us, and creating more harmony with the flow of spirit that nourishes us, sustains us, and gives us life. The outcome of a healing process can rewrite the script of our lives in a powerful, and at times dramatic, fashion…not only physically, but multi-dimensionally, in every aspect of our being.

Someone emerging from this kind of healing experience may seem to have a new light, and even literally look brighter. Their creative force may become freer and more present, as if they are waking up from a dream or from sleepwalking.

At other times, the changes yielded up are from the cumulative result of a steady progression, like the peeling of skins off an onion. The accumulated momentum of this peeling process brings ever greater forces of renewal and regeneration into your life.

Remember, your experience will be your own. Each of us walks our own path in life. Your experiences should not be measured against anyone else! At the core of this kind of work is a spirit of acceptance and gratitude for the gifts inside the challenges we face, with the end goal of making the best of every life opportunity.