Spiritual Healing

By Rachel Puryear

One important aspect of spirituality – particularly for many informal practitioners, as opposed to those in organized religion – is spiritual healing.

Spiritual healing refers to healing one’s soul, as opposed to the physical body or the mind. Contrary to some misconceptions, it’s not a substitute for physical medicine, and should not supplant science-based treatments of illnesses – rather, spiritual healing serves different purposes than conventional medicine, and is best as an addition to science-based medicine.

This post is an introduction to spiritual healing – common types, and how they might help spiritual practitioners:

Tibetan Singing Bowl and multiple colorful gemstones.

Meditation

Meditation doesn’t require any special training or skills. It’s simply about being aware of the present moment, and what is happening now.

Although your meditation skill improves with more practice, you absolutely do not need to master it in order to benefit from it – in fact, it can start helping you right away.

You can begin by sitting quietly and closing your eyes, and being aware of your surroundings – sensations, thoughts in your mind, anything that’s also distracting you. You don’t have to do anything; just be aware of it, and what’s happening in the present moment.

Energy Healing

There’s an intangible force in life that affects us all, and that we tend to loosely refer to as “energy”.

Toxic people, situations, and environments affect us negatively. Conversely, loving and supportive people, situations, and environments affect us positively. Spiritual energy healing refers to neutralizing the negative energies of the former, while cultivating the positive energies of the latter.

Some people like to use things like crystals, sage, or even touch (like Reiki) as part of their energy healing. This isn’t required, but if it enhances your energy healing efforts, then by all means incorporate it. Feel free to experiment.

Of course, meditating on negative feelings and energies that stick with you because of toxic situations can help neutralize those, too. By being aware of them, and accepting their existence, you diminish their ongoing effects on you. But of course, you don’t eliminate the damage entirely – the only way to possibly do that is to remove yourself from the toxic situation, if at all possible.

Life Examination and Analysis

We all have events in our lives that shape us; as well as things that are more everyday, but the impact of which is large over time.

Often, when we’re young and inexperienced in life, we don’t know how to make sense of a lot of the things that happen. We also lack perspective about the world, and what’s possible.

Then, later in life, a lot of our troubles arise out of experiences we had, and even attitudes we learned earlier on that don’t suit us – and that maybe never did.

Making the effort to examine our lives, figure out what’s working for us and what isn’t, and being open to change and new inspiration and ideas can be a major undertaking in spiritual healing – but it’s well worth the effort; and for many people, can help them find satisfaction with their lives for the first time ever.

In some spiritual traditions where there is a belief in reincarnation and multiple lives of some kind, it is believed that each life lived carries lessons we are to learn – and that examining our lives to analyze things we’ve learned, in order to help us learn those important life lessons, is key to spiritual growth.

Physical and Emotional Health

Taking care of ourselves all around is conducive to spiritual healing.

I want to be clear that there is no moral or spiritual obligation for anyone to do, or not do, any particular thing regarding their health. However, if taking care of yourself puts you in a better place to do what you need to do for your own spiritual healing, then feel free to choose to prioritize that for yourself.

Community

No one truly does it alone – having people around you who love and support you is key to any kind of healing.

There is no greater factor to happiness, life satisfaction, and well-being than who you surround yourself with. That is also, fortunately, something you (usually) get to choose. Sometimes the important life lessons also involve this – choosing supportive people who love and care for you, and rejecting toxic people who hurt and use you.

Always remember this in choosing who to allow in your life.

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