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It is a time when the deeply buried wounds of the past are coming to the surface and are ready to be healed. The figure in this card is naked, vulnerable, and open to the loving touch of life. The aura around his body is full of light and the quality of relaxation and love that surrounds him is dissolving his struggle and suffering. Lotuses of light appear on his physical body, and around the subtle energy bodies that healers tell us surround each and every one of us. In the subtle layers of our energy body there appear archetypal patterns to be healed and healing patterns that can be applied. When we understand the healing influence of the King of Water archetype we no longer need to hide from ourselves or others. In this attitude of openness and acceptance we are healed, and with this perspective we begin the journey towards health, happiness and wholeness.
Woundedness is of the ego; you carry it around. Most people are not interested in hurting you and they don’t want to hurt you; everybody is engaged in safeguarding his own wound. Who has the energy? But still it happens. This is because you are so ready to be wounded, so ready, just waiting on the brink for negative things to happen to your ego. Become aware of this wound. Don’t help it grow, let it be healed. And it will be healed when your consciousness looks to the root causes of your woundedness and see that you can change things. Then try living less in your head and observe how the wound heals; with no negative thoughts there is no wound. Live a negative thought free life. Move as a whole being…and accept things. Live your life in the Tao for twenty-four hours, try it---total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it, don’t react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you didn’t know you had. You cannot touch a person of the Tao. Why? This is because there is no one to be touched. There is no wound. He is healthy, healed, and whole. Isn’t the word “whole” interesting? The word “heal” comes from the whole, and the word “holy” also come from the whole. When we reach where our healing journey takes us, we find that we are whole, healed, and holy.
Editor's NotesDear Toni,I thought you might be interested in this....it was sent to me by Dr. Daniel Benor the coordinator for the Council on Healing and he is a prolific writer and zealous individual in the pursuit of research that validates various forms of healing . He convened the first Summit on Healing on November. Lucia Thornton and I represented the American Holistic Nurses Association at this forum which was held at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California. His website is www.ijhc.org and he can be reached at DB@Wholistic-HealingResearch.com
Sincerely,
Toni, Dr. Weil’s article is very good and a reminder for me to try to limit my being seen as the one who fixes things up... R. Volkmann, MD
Dear Toni,
Dear Team,
The one sentence I have trouble with is in the "Significance" section: "Ideally, therapeutic interventions of prayer could be incorporated into the medical encounter between patients and healthcare staff, but because of time constraints, nurse/patient ratio, paperwork, etc., this does not occur consistently across the board." WHY should it be incorporated into the medical encounter? She hasn't given any evidence to support this. If both patient and nurse want to pray, go for it, but why should it be universal?
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