Importance of Spiritual Healing

Posted By TheUniversalOne on September 22, 2011

The Importance of Spiritual Healing
Article by E. Strauss

Something to understand with Spiritual Healing methods and methodology is that it is not for everyone nor is it for everything. The same way that contemporary medicine is not the best thing for everyone or everything. Spiritual healing is metaphysical, usually focusing on an energy pattern within someone’s body. This energy pattern is not necessarily recognizable or recordable through scientific method. If it was it wouldn’t be a metaphysical energy pattern.

So why bother with Spiritual healing? If it cannot be proven in a scientific manner that there are in fact energy fields that can be manipulated by Chakra alignment or Reiki or meditation, then how exactly is it any kind of benefit, what makes people try metaphysical healing? It is because Spiritual healing does heal, but it heals the soul in order to heal the body.

If you break your leg, and decide your best course of action is to meditate and use crystal healing, your leg will heal but because your body naturally produces bone and mends fractures in your skeletal system. All the meditation and crystal healing would do, is reduce the stress of having the broken leg, so your body’s natural repair can take place without additional stresses. Now I don’t recommend this method, I believe in case of a broken leg that you should see a physician and get your bone set and put your leg in a cast so your bones are properly lined up, and then go with the crystal and meditative healing in order to help expedite the healing process.

So that’s after injury occurs, what about prior? Is spiritual healing a preventive medicine? In a way it is. In our hypothetical broken leg situation would yoga or tai-chi increase bone mass and density? Actually it can. It has been proven that physical exercise for 30 minutes, consistently, for 5 days a week can improve bone mass and density, and yoga and tai-chi are less stressful for the skeletal system than other physical activities such as running or aerobic exercises. In 2008, the Arthritis Foundation released a publication saying yoga is helpful for rheumatoid arthritis.

One thing you need to understand about spiritual healing and mental health is that there is a line between a personality quirk and a mental disorder. Just because you are feeling blue does not mean you have clinical depression. Just because you can’t stay interested in a subject of study, does not mean you have ADHD, and just because your child gets stubborn and does not listen to you, does not mean your child has oppositional defiant disorder. Just because you don’t know what to say to someone the first time you meet them, does not mean you have social anxiety disorder. Some people young and old just need to find a way to balance their emotions and center themselves without giving into hubris or succumbing to social situations that cause them stress. Spiritual healing may be more effective for a person to maintain control of themselves by finding mental clarity, than it is for that person to be labeled as with a medical condition and medicated in order to control their own mind.

Spiritual healing is focused on you controlling your own body and your own mind through meditative techniques or through therapeutic energy manipulation, such as intuitive healing, acupuncture or massage therapy. The point is for you to become calm, and comfortable with your own body and your own mind. That is the point and purpose of it, to have your mind, body and soul be in a position where you as a person can control the functionality of your mind, body and soul.

Now you can root through the libraries of scientific and medical studies and find articles both for and against the use of every single spiritual, new age or eastern traditional healing practice. Some indicate it’s a placebo effect, some indicate that it’s complete fraud, while some others indicate that these practices may actually work. There are a lot of skeptics out there, I am one of them. But I have also seen a lot, from the power of prayer, to the power of positive thinking, to just mind over matter, help people help themselves. Yet I have also seen people use alternative healing methods and seen the result work. I’ve seen someone with a bad cough use burning sage to fumigate her own lungs as an expectorant to cough up what was causing the cough. I’ve seen someone stressing out, rub a crystal and close his eyes and within minutes, reach a tranquil moment of clarity.

But I’m still a skeptic, which is I believe the healthiest way for me to maintain my spiritual health. Because I believe in the scientific bell curve, not to be confused with the book by Herrnstein and Murray, but the principles of scientific testing. The scientific bell curve is much like a fixed grading curve. That when grading a class of 21 students, 3 will get As, 5 will get Bs, 10 will get Cs, 5 will get Ds and 3 will get Fs as a fixed statement of how grading will happen. That is how I see the general population taking part in anything regarding spiritual healing. Because we have no way to scientifically measure if this energy exists therefore we have no way to tell if the energy waves are different from person to person, so we can only assume, out of 21 people I expect 3 people to feel not only healed but invigorated, 5 will feel somewhat better and continue treatments. 10 will feel better and just take it as coincidence and discontinue healing treatments. 5 people will not believe the healing works and 3 the healing will not work at all and will feel cheated or lied to.

So please remember when using our healing resources for a medical condition that you should always find a second opinion, you should always research the healing method thoroughly and understand that there are some things spiritual healing can and cannot do and sometimes the best course of action is to listen to what you feel sounds right and sounds logical to you.