No Healing Without Surrender
The desire for healing is very strong in many people right now. The booming healing “industry” will deliver any kind of modality you could ever want. But what makes healing, and who does it?
My experience is that no one heals anyone else. The only healing possible is surrender to our shared, divine essence. When we offer up our burdens of pain, guilt, shame and terror, we receive their opposite in return. Goddess is purely generous in this way.
As individual human beings, we are taught to think of ourselves as separate and alone. This simply isn’t true, but it looks and feels very real. Since birth, and perhaps through many births, separation from God and each other seemed to make sense. We have separate bodies, and everyone and everything around us teaches us that we are our bodies; therefore, we must actually be separate units, doomed to isolation forever.
With surrender, we turn our backs on this logic. We open up to another possibility. What if there is a vast and mysterious Power of Love that we can rest within? What if we can lay our burdens down and give away the storehouse of pain we’ve accumulated? What if it only takes an instant? And what if, when we experiment with this notion and actually try it…we discover that we are already resting inside this Generous Grace?
There is no way to know about surrender and the miracles that will follow without direct experience. It is not something we can “study up” on ahead of time. Only sincerity brings us to this humble place of honesty, openness and willingness.
I offer you the following method to support you in experimenting with surrender. It is a barebones version of the steps I use in my own inner life. They work. Give it a try….
If you’d like to experience surrender, open yourself in simple prayer. Use whatever religion or non-religion feels real to you. Choose something specific and ask for healing from God, not from another human being or from changing circumstances. Offer your pain and place it in front of the altar of the Divine. Or into the lap of the Divine Mother. Or into the hands of God. This is surrender. Use a relaxing breath, focusing on exhaling slowly and consciously. Allow your feelings to flow and release…not to get rid of anything because you hate it….but to cleanse and open yourself to make room for Love. Feel your feelings….tears are great at this point. Welcome them with an open, tender heart…
When you feel empty and your release is complete, fill the emptiness with Love. This Love is your own Life Force! With powerful inhaling breaths, drink this Love deeply into your body, and give thanks for the invisible, potent miracle of life that is arriving into every cell and place between cells in your body, your heart and your mind.
After these steps, trust with all your soul that what is happening is, in fact, real. More real than the world around you and the circumstances of your situation. Close with a prayer of thanksgiving and praise. And remain open to the levels of healing that will begin to unfold! Relax, and watch expectantly for miracles to appear!
Fulfilment can only be found in love, unconditional love. Without love, life has no meaning. No one truly lives who does not truly love. Love is indivisible. One cannot love one section of humanity and hate the other. When love inspires, one begins to see the world differently: the sky seems brighter, the flowers more beautiful, the birds sings more sweetly. We begin to smile more, and are more tolerant of others. Love is healing as it removes stress. At its zenith, the world of matter dissipates and time stands still; for we have transcended the limitation of time and the finite.
Comment by randall butisingh — January 11, 2008 @ 9:54 pm
You sure are in an expanded, loving place, Randall! I join you here…
Thanks for your post,
Ana
Comment by Ana — January 11, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
When a few years ago, I was seriously ill and there was hardly any hope that I wll ever be able to walk again without support, or be able to help myself, and was feeling excruciating pain, I never for one moment complained but was always thankful, for I knew that there iwas a purpose in my suffering. My friends and family rallied to my support. I felt their Love and sacrifice. I also found great comfort in this Hymn byW.Bathurst
O for a Faith that will not shrink,
Though press’d by many a foe
That will not tremble at the brink
Of poverty and woe.
That will not murmur or complain
Beneath the chastening rod;
But in the hour of grief and pain
Can lean upon its God.
A Faith that shines more bright and clear
When tempests rage without;
That when in danger knows no fear,
In darkness feels no doubt.
A Faith that keeps the narrow way
Till life’s last spark is fled;
And with a pure and heavenly ray,
Lights up the dying bed.
Lord, give me such a Faith as this,,
And then whate’er may come,
I taste e’en now the hallowed bliss
Of an eternal home.
It did not matter whether I lived or died. I Knew as Tagore puts it. “The lamp has gone out because the dawn has arrived.’ However Providence has spared me for a purpose.
Comment by randall butisingh — January 17, 2008 @ 5:24 am