Those healing forces on call
SPIRITUAL HEALING
THE DEFINITION OF HEALING has several meanings. The dictionary quotes ‘restoring to health’ and ‘making sound or wholesome’. Wholesome is the most appropriate word, because being really healthy requires one to be ‘wholly’ well in body, mind and spirit. Whatever healing method is applied, it is a question of giving nature a helping hand to ‘prime the battery’. This expression is more meaningful than generally realised because our bodies are full of minute cells, electrically charged. If we are weak from ill health, old age or malnourished, our ‘batteries need recharging’. This attitude to healing is not readily accepted in the Western world because of its unscientific leanings and healing practices here, largely rely on drugs and surgery, with a notable absence of preventative medicine. It is quite extraordinary that no in-depth study appears to have been made about the “substance of health” rather than the “presence of disease”. For instance; why are wild animals and certain tribes in the world so resistant to the diseases which we accept as inevitable? The secret of immunity seems to centre round nutrition and life style. The preoccupation with curing disease rather than preventing it, is surely one of the most absurd and expensive trends of modern medicine. Age-old beliefs are now coming to the surface that natural remedies, both herbals and spiritual, can heal more effectively than most of the conventional ones used in the Western hemisphere. But other remedies of a more controversial nature are being recognised. Increasingly, cures are being found for a variety of ailments, which work in unexplained ways. They include acupuncture, homeopathy, and aromatherapy, their success being reflected in their acceptance as effective treatment by the NHS for a variety of complaints. In the early 20th century, healing by unconventional means, now described as alternative medicine, were inclined to be ridiculed and suspect, practitioners being labelled, carte blanche, as ‘quacks’ and ‘charlatans’. Not so now. People in high places and on occasions, doctors themselves, use alternative remedies as a first choice rather than second, but usually in a rather clandestine fashion.
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