My understanding of Healing and Curing?

This article is about healing and curing and my journey with it the past sixteen months. I will not write about all of what has happened during this time because so much has happened and there is not time or space for it here. But I will write a synopsis of what has transpired.

I have been part of a Native American list of friends who keep up with each other on the Internet. About 16 months ago two of the women needed lots of prayers and help. One had injured herself badly and could not even type. She had someone else type for her to ask us for prayers. The other woman's health had been going down hill for some time and had asked for prayers. We as a group decided to have a prayer circle/healing for them. One woman had major heart and blood problems and we didn't even know the extent of the injured woman problem except it was with her arm.

We decided on a particular day and time that we would sit down with appropriate background music and meditate and sending healing energy to these two women. At the agreed upon time I sat down with good music and began. Almost as soon as I sat down I felt the need to jump up and grab my healing fan and rattle and I went over to an open massage table of my wife's and did something I had never done before.....I began to dance, rattle and chant over the table as if a person were there. After a time the world disappeared and there before me lay a person who I knew to be one of the women (the one with heart problems). Her personal Spirit came and told me this condition existed because of depression and explained what she could do to help the condition. I also noticed over in a corner a Spiritual being, a blue one. He didn't do or say anything. He was just there. Then the other woman appeared on the table and I could see her injury and I knew she had a torn rotator cuff. Again her personal Spirit appeared to me and said to tell her to slow down and pay attention, but offered no healing. Afterward as the room came back into focus, I sat down with a thump in complete awe as to what had just happened. Afterward we all emailed each other, and to the person we had all had extraordinary experiences. Most had seen the one women's injury and most had seen the other woman's depression as the cause of her condition but no one but me had seen any of the Spirits.

Later, during quite times, late at night or very early in the morning; the Blue Spirit started returning and would just silently be there. I didn't feel any threat but felt him watching. Then, very early one morning he startled me and spoke. He said he was to teach me about Curing. Over the next few months he began to tell me about plants and trees and about how medicine men worked with them. He didn't tell me about individual herbs and their particular uses but about the plants as individual beings. He told me about how they are families and that any group of plants is an individual family unit has a grandmother and grandfather plant at the head. He told me that they knew all about and understood the people who lived near. He told me that even though they had a family structure similar to ours that we should not give them human-like characteristics for they have their own being. When and if we can hear them, they will only speak to us in a manner our minds can understand and not in the manner of their nature. Blue Spirit gave me a warning about the respect that we need to develop concerning the plant beings. We take (harvest) them without respect. Even the people, who should know them and understand them, take and use them in great quantities without "knowing" them, only "know about" them and what they can "do" for us. He warned about how the increasing sickness in the world has a great deal to do with our lack of listening to the world around us.

Blue Spirit began to speak to me about my own talent of being able to see and know people. He said that even though I had been a reader of and worked with people for years this understanding was to take a step to a new level of understanding. He began to speak about Curing and how much of a person's understanding of himself and the world around him would play in all of this and how my path was now about curing. I then began to back-peddle and not want to listen for I truly understood the enormity of what I was hearing.....I was to know curing and I knew he had the wrong guy. Over the summer I tried to shutout the ever-present voice of the Blue Being's insistence. I became depressed, short-tempered and things did not go right well into the autumn. I in a sort of desperation finally looked up skyward and said Ok! Ok! Ok! Ok! I give in and there was no voice saying "good now this is what is next" or anything for that matter, only silence....and waiting! About a month later I had a visit from a friend with stage four cancer and we both knew it was time.

A week later we spent two days preparing for a dusk ceremony. On the third day,  Lorraine my wife did a body reading for her and the three of us did a Medicine Journey in preparation for the coming ceremony.  I have written elsewhere about this ceremony and all of the magic surrounding it so I will not talk much about it here because in a sense the ceremony itself has little to do with this article. It was beautiful and powerful beyond anything I have ever been a part of. But for me the important thing was that I was not scared of facilitating a curing and I did as I did as if I had always done so. All of the depression and stress had gone. The person who was "cured" did as she could only do. Spirit guided with sureness and love and gave all of us present a gift of seeing and living in the light of ones truth. The person died. So how can I call the ceremony a curing! During that ceremony she fully embraced her dis-ease and heard it speak with her and saw her dis-ease as a beautiful angelic being. The Being told her that she was the answer to a prayer she had made to bring change in her life and it did just that. So how can I not call it a curing? We see healing and curing as a gift from The Great Spirit, but in truth healing and /or curing is the complete forgiving and accepting of ourselves just as we are. I know the Great Spirits gift to us is that we are who we are and nothing more. What a joy and a relief.

In closing, I would like to define the difference between Healing and Curing. Blue Spirit says that Healing, all kinds, such as Reiki, healing touch, herbs and yes, main stream medicine all work in a similar manner. They remove symptoms. I don't mean to belittle them for this is a very important function. By removing symptoms you allow the bodies own systems to better do its job. The healing arts do it gently and lovingly where medicine sometimes does not. Curing is something different. Curing is the opening of the connection between you and a "condition" to hear what it's been saying to you for a very long time.... to accept it and dance with it. To have the "condition" leave your body is another matter. Just because you are cured doesn't mean the "condition" will leave you. This is to be determined by "the listening" and understanding what your walk with it is and usually that means a "Walk to the Edge" which will clear you enough to know the truth.

Mvto

Jim TwoFeathers