Unlocking the Code for Healing Prayer and the Amelioration of Suffering
L alam al-mein amen ( I seal this prayer in trust and faith and truth, amen)
“It is with an objective mind endowed with a curious skepticism that should engage in careful analysis and seek the reasons. Then, on basis of seeing the reasons, we engender a faith that is accompanied by Wisdom.” HHDL
How does one incorporate Spirituality into a Wise practice?
We have a natural proclivity to seek happiness and dispel suffering. It is within us all and in its true state we look to the infant and child to understand more. They cry when there is discomfort and they coo and smile when they are content. That is essentially it. Simple, yes? This simplicity is some’s wish in using sitting meditation and healing prayer. It is to dispel discomfort and seek harmony and happiness.
When I speak to spiritual-ness or spiritual selves I am relating a pureness in the words themselves. When we search in Chinese Cosmogny the Shen carries both the Heart and head together in creation of a spiritual self. In Christianity it is the Christ figure who holds a pathway in ones Spiritual journey: a return to the self through inward reflection of God being with-in and not with-out.
You may have a strong faith and spirit. You may be new to this path in understanding. You may eschew it entirely. These are all reverential paths to hold. Because, the patients who suffer their way to your doorstep are shades of all these possibilities.
What is it to be open to a natural meeting in conversation?
How might this idea of faith, spirituality, consciousness shape their perceptions around discomfort, struggle and the mechanisms to how they resolve and find wholeness?
There is no Time in Creation.
In the rehab field, in general, there is little allowance as a practitioner to engage in some aspect of a spiritual intention. The structure under which we setup practice, schedules and time frames and productivity/efficiency standards are tight guardrails to live by for most. We can work within this structure and allow ourselves to gently explore the malleable guardrails as we gain experience and wisdom in practice.. I have for thirty years.
There is the constraint to time when in pain with our patients/clients.
In healing there is creative nature and re-vitalized experience in the self and in this creation no time ought to exist. A paradox and a true paradigm shift. Healing has its own pace and cadence and our invitation is to bear witness in this. The metabolism is not time bound. necessarily It is honor bound to the process of finding wholeness. Spiritual care in healing injury is but one and very important anchoring for potentiating that pathway toward wholeness.
The inevitable nature of discomfort
As in Buddhist thought the Four Noble Truths are in seeking to understand this as an adult. The existence of suffering, the causes of suffering, the amelioration of suffering and lastly the pathway to continued framework to do the work to end suffering.
Alan Watts reminds us that”…if we are to be fully human and fully alive and aware, it seems that we must be willing to suffer for our pleasures. Without such willngness there can be no growth in the intensity of consciousness.”
So what about prayer?
Prayer acts to bring one to an internally reflected state, to contemplation.
In the Aramaic language (Jesus’s spoken and written language) there are no dividing lines between means and ends, or an inner and outer action. Both are always present. The Kingdom of Heaven is referenced by Jesus as the ways, both within and among us. The separation between mind-body-spirit are non existent in his, Buddha’s and Lao Tzu’s teachings ( to name but a few) . The sacred-ness of the words resonate in the body form.
This notion exists within all traditional and indigenous healing practices we may call holistic, or mindbody and whether they be translated from Sanskrit, Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Chinese or Arabic into English or other indigenous languages.
I believe that having some facility and level of comfort in spiritual practice ( religious or not ) is necessary to be open and available to the unlimited. To deepen our connection to our patients.
It is one spoke on the wheel of healing to be open and curious no matter where the interest and depth of our patients and clients sufferings flow into. It is our own understanding of how we were shaped by our own practice-relationship and perception in spirit and faith that makes a union in care and healing ingredients for recovery.
questions, comments, and conversations are always welcome.
Ease into the practice for it is just that, a lifelong journey that builds over time with a strong foundation. In it we build great resiliency to take to life as it gives to us.
Blessings and Namaste, t
Clinical Pearl
To use prayer or mantra in practice: asking for what you want.
The Introduction: Say what you want clearly, accurately and consciously. (that tells the newly installed software program in the brain what is to happen.)
The Act: See, Feel, Hear, Taste and Touch the future manifestation in all angles as if it is occurring Now. “ I See myself….. I feel myself…. I can hear, taste and touch…..”
The Close: Give Thanks, Gratitude and Love and seal it with your own prayer of completion into the future. Your body now is making the genetic code changes to make it so.
Now, let it go into the field of possibilities and unlimited potentiality
Repeat often enough to imprint it into your neuromatrix