What do I know about it?
Honestly, I can only know and talk about 'that which I have experienced'. For me to talk about anything else would be just a re-presentation of someone else's theory - a theory unlikely to have a firm foundation because it is impossible to truly define the intangible.
All we can do is observe and be aware of what is going on around us.
What is it that changes when we climb out of the limited beliefs we have about ourselves and begin to experiment with the phenomena of Mind and ITs incredible 'Intelligence' or 'Energy'.
I don't mean to bore you or to state the obvious, but for clarity I need to launch us from the premise that everything is energy. Whatever you see around you is energy, in one form or another. There is nothing else. In the whole Universe there is only energy. The Universe is energy. You are energy and I am energy. Don't get too wrapped up in this stuff though. Lifetimes can be lost in discussion of subjects such as this and quite frankly I don't have time for it.
One of the greatest mistakes we make when we use the incredibly powerful Intelligence that exists within our minds is spending way too much time wondering what IT really is, where IT comes from and how IT does what IT does. This is the problem. While we are wondering, IT is just doing what IT does best - IT is bringing Harmony and Balance and Perfection into everything in ITs path.
What stops IT from achieving all this? US! Yes, you and me. We stop this wonderfully powerful energy from doing ITs work.
The only way we can stop IT is through thought and that's what we do. That is right, there is nothing else to prevent IT from carrying out its task.
HEALING HAPPENS
Let us talk for a moment about healing. What is healing? It is simply bringing harmony and balance back into the Inner most realms of the mind. From there that harmony and balance radiates out through the mind and into the body, bringing perfection and regeneration.
What stops the healing process from working? Doubt in the process.
The process is perfect and very efficient. And left to its own devices, it works wonderfully well. However when we doubt the process within our own minds then we simply halt the process and it remains on hold until we can reach a place of understanding, recognition and surrender. Surrender does not mean giving in and becoming weaker than anything external to yourself. On the contrary, surrender means that you give way to an Intelligence within your mind which has an understanding and knowledge far greater than you have the conscious awareness to comprehend. This is the first step to true healing. Instead of wondering how, when, where and why something is happening, just believe that it will be so, and it will happen.
Let us forget about Higher Selves and everything else purported to be a part of this natural healing process. There is nothing else except you. (and nothing else that you can truly know about except you) You are a total being just the way you are. There is nothing outside of yourself. You are body, mind and soul all in one perfect package. And I mean perfect. And it can be more perfect if you can just for a moment stand out of way and let the powerful Intelligence within you do it's natural work.
How do we demonstrate our doubt in our natural ability to heal?
Firstly, many healers go to great lengths to "protect themselves" using magical spiritual hygiene techniques. I say to them "What are you protecting yourself from?" What does protection mean? Protection means that you are afraid of something. When you are afraid you immediately put up a wall of fear-based thought around yourself.
Then these healers "ask for permission" from somewhere to work with the person they are attempting to heal. I say it's not necessary because if you did not have something to offer that particular person at that particular time, they would not even be within earshot of you or your healing ability.
Thirdly, they ask that the healing be for the highest good of all concerned. Why else would they be involved in healing, if their intent was to create anything else?
I have been involved in some of the most miraculous healing phenomena, and never once have I ever asked for permission, protected myself or done anything else along those lines. I have simply trusted that my actual intentions and attitudes were as clear as I could make them at the time. I was aware that there was something far more intelligent, powerful and beautiful than I could possibly comprehend, working through me at the time and I simply trusted that IT knew what IT was doing.
I don't have a degree in Medical science and I don't want one. It would open me to too many negative possibilities and it could prevent the natural process from working.
I believe that there is only one thing stopping the natural process of life from bringing everything into harmony and balance and that thing is thought.
THOUGHTING NOT THINKING
When it comes to the Human Being, the natural healing process is stopped dead in its tracks through fear, lack of sense of Self, and inability to see beyond the reality that surrounds us.
We reach a stage where we believe that what is in front of us is "as good as it gets". There has never been a more devastating belief than this. Then we believe, when there is something "wrong" with our current reality, that we need to stop and go back and see what caused it. We believe that if there is something wrong with our reality as we see it, then we need to - before we can proceed with our lives - clean up our past and get rid of the emotional "baggage" we have with us.
Within your mind you have the capability to access an Intelligence which is totally biased towards the new. It is so powerful that when you give it a forward direction or desired goal to achieve that knows exactly what events or circumstances in your past are directly relevant to the current situation you desire. As you "move forward" it has the ability - and it actually will - bring certain aspects of your past to your attention. It does not want you to reverse your forward direction in life and stop everything. It simply requires you to acknowledge that there are aspects that need to be addressed and recognised.
We are led to believe that within the mind there are great blocks of energy which are "trapped" around past experiences and that we need to release these blocks before we can proceed with life. We are also led to believe that theses blocks rob us of the vital energy which we so desperately need for our continued well being and strength to be able to cope with and function in the world as we know it. And believe me, we definitely need all the help and energy we can find to be able to cope with the world today. I doubt whether human negativity has ever been as great as it is now.
So perhaps it is time to explore different avenues of thought regarding the energy of the mind and different concepts and ideas regarding it's use and application. Let's face it ladies and gentlemen, if we had it right, we wouldn't be where we are today. Perhaps the answer is simpler than we realise. Perhaps the answer lies within our own minds and not in the minds of those who purport to be the Gurus of this powerfully natural process. We need new concepts and ideas because we have become trapped in fear-based concepts of limited thought and perceptions about who and what we are.
Continued in Part 2
By Derrick Hill