Practical Healing
Practical Healing
By Bro. Noel Sales Barcelona
The Truth & Wisdom Society, Inc.
Is any sicke among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray ouer him, anointing him with oyle in the Name of the Lord… ~ James 5:14
1. What is healing?
Healing is the restoration of the mind, body and soul into its “original” or healthy state. It is the personal experience of the transcendence of suffering.[1]
2. What is a dis-ease?
The body tends to suffer due to imbalance. When the body is exposed to different pressures caused by different things, with different intensities and volumes, there would be changes in its functions, resulting to what we call illness, which is also called as disease.
3. Who is the healer?
Practically, the healer is the person that heals or the one that has become instrumental to one’s recovery from disease. A healer could be a doctor, an herbalist, a counselor, or simply a man or a woman that has comforting words.
4. Are we all healers?
It is a common belief that we all can be healers. But this has not always been the case. The Judeo – Christian scriptures stated:
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?[2]
However, everyone could ask the Cosmos to be the channel of loving and healing energies. Since everyone in the world is suffering, it is deemed to be right and just to all of us to become a healer of sort: a comforter, an active listener, an empath, the one could understand suffering (for we, too suffer), and would find ways to alleviate this pain and suffering.[3]
5. What are the causes of illnesses and sufferings?
The Catholic tradition had introduced, as this Lowly Servant of the Universe believes, the most unique and more comprehensive way or idea of where the human and social diseases are coming from. The Seven Deadly Sins,[4] they say, are more or less, the cause of the world’s suffering. All of these are coming from the
By Bro. Noel Sales Barcelona
The Truth & Wisdom Society, Inc.
Is any sicke among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray ouer him, anointing him with oyle in the Name of the Lord… ~ James 5:14
1. What is healing?
Healing is the restoration of the mind, body and soul into its “original” or healthy state. It is the personal experience of the transcendence of suffering.[1]
2. What is a dis-ease?
The body tends to suffer due to imbalance. When the body is exposed to different pressures caused by different things, with different intensities and volumes, there would be changes in its functions, resulting to what we call illness, which is also called as disease.
3. Who is the healer?
Practically, the healer is the person that heals or the one that has become instrumental to one’s recovery from disease. A healer could be a doctor, an herbalist, a counselor, or simply a man or a woman that has comforting words.
4. Are we all healers?
It is a common belief that we all can be healers. But this has not always been the case. The Judeo – Christian scriptures stated:
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?[2]
However, everyone could ask the Cosmos to be the channel of loving and healing energies. Since everyone in the world is suffering, it is deemed to be right and just to all of us to become a healer of sort: a comforter, an active listener, an empath, the one could understand suffering (for we, too suffer), and would find ways to alleviate this pain and suffering.[3]
5. What are the causes of illnesses and sufferings?
The Catholic tradition had introduced, as this Lowly Servant of the Universe believes, the most unique and more comprehensive way or idea of where the human and social diseases are coming from. The Seven Deadly Sins,[4] they say, are more or less, the cause of the world’s suffering. All of these are coming from the