Spiritual Healing

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Spiritual healing increases

Increasing numbers of people are embracing "alternative" healing to mainstream Western medicine. One reason for this is that Western medicine excels at treating symptoms, but does not address the cause of the ailment.

It has also, very unfortunately become big business.

One healing modality that is seeing a huge resurgence is spiritual healing, which is focused on addressing the cause of the ailment, and less on alleviating symptoms by physical means such as medicines and surgery.

What is spiritual healing?

Spiritual healers believe that all disease, sickness and even injuries have spiritual causes. Unless the cause is remedied, treatment of the symptoms will be ineffective.

Spiritual healing is still outside the mainstream, but even staunch supporters of the western approach have admitted that phenomena such as spontaneous healing, spontaneous remission and other "miracles" exist.

Modern medical practitioners and scientists are still baffled as to how this is possible... but with the continued study of quantum physics, the answers are beginning to come.

Mind... Body... Spirit Connection

The mind/body/spirit connection operates on the principle that everything is energy, and various types or qualities of energy have the ability to positively or negatively affect the surrounding energy.

A patient's state of mind can be the difference between healing and a long, drawn-out illness. The state of the body likewise influences the patient's emotional state; so gaining mastery of the mind and using the power of positive thinking is essential to healing.

But spiritual healing goes deeper.

The success of healing via spiritual means relies on the patient's belief that we are part of the Divine, not at all separate, but part of the vast ocean of energy that created everything, and IS everything.

The patient is taught to look within for the source of his or her illness, disease or injury rather than attributing it to external causes.

The first step in healing is teaching the patient to change his or her false belief of separateness from the Universal Divine Consciousness. It teaches that each of us has the same Divine ability as the Universal Consciousness to create anything, including perfect health.

This One-ness with all that is results in a spiritual awakening, which is often accompanied by spontaneous healing.

Perfect Health
The aim is to create perfect health through One-ness and acceptance of our Divine nature.

Spiritual healing does not rely on a "higher power" to heal. It is One-ness with that energy of Divine Universal Consciousness that gives us the same powers - except we are, for the most part, blind to that ability or refuse to believe it.

Exercise...

Imagine yourself as a single drop in an endless ocean that has no beginning, no end, no surface, no bottom...

Where do "you" begin and where do "you" end?Where does the "rest of the ocean" begin?How do you separate one drop from the rest of the water?

Contemplating this helps you understand your One-ness, and the fact that you have the same power as the ocean itself.

YOU have the power to heal.

Julie Lewin is a world renowned authentic Medical Intuitive and Meditation Teacher and has created a unique healing system by using creative and spontaneous visualization. As well as teaching meditations, she also teaches how to live your authentic purpose, and how to live a profound life on her website - http://www.spirituallysensitivesouls.com/. To find out more about her medical intuitive work go to http://www.julielewin.com/.

Book Review of "Financial Armageddon" by John Hagee

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Financial Armageddon: We are in a Battle for our very survival. [Hardcover]

by John Hagee

144 pages, $10.99

ISBN-13: 978-1599796031

Nonfiction

Review by Steven King, MBA, MEd

No matter where you turn, the economy springs forth as an ominous topic. Recession, inflation, and depression are words that consistently boom across the airwaves. In Financial Armageddon, John Hagee speaks skillfully to the problem. He weaves an accurate portrait of current instability by alluding to appropriate biblical passages conflated with notable quotations from leading Christian economists. Financial pundits have realized America was barreling ahead to certain economic disaster for almost a decade. Hagee wants Christians to have a game plan for survival.

His analysis of what brought America to the edge of economic collapse parallels discussions by other leading economists. Subprime lending lead to too many unqualified mortgages that caught the banking industry with their pants down. The desire to rid our nation of these toxic assets has increased our national debt since foreign investments have effectively floated our way of life. Too many foreign creditors are realistically beginning to doubt the continued value of the dollar and their eventual withdrawal from our economy will be the death knell of America. Biblically, the backdrop of the Apocalypse indicates an economic world, out-of-control, into which the Antichrist will emerge.

Pre-tribulationists are waiting for the Rapture that will whisk the obedient Church out of the ultimate quagmire. Until then, Hagee is quick to point out that the Bible demonstrates God as able and willing to take care of his own. For instance, when the nation of Israel was being formed as slaves in Egypt, God's provision is apparent regardless of the darkest of plagues. An appropriate Christian theology appreciates God's provision in spite of the economic problems which surround the United States.

Sadly, Hagee chooses not to develop his thesis theologically, but instead turns his analysis into a quasi-investment strategy. The contention is held forth that prosperity is a choice and Christians can profit even in the darkest days. Noah is likened to a man with "insider information" who skillfully manipulated his task into an opportunity to build wealth. Never mind that God gave Noah specific marching orders when constructing the ark.

Read this book if you would like a good development of our economic crisis and discussion of possible future events. Take the last section with a grain of salt, however, since worthless money will be worthless for everyone - including Christians.