I often come across people who are interested in learning healing. One of the common things that stops those people from doing healing, even after completing a healing course, is that they often feel that they should be in a better state before performing healing on others. That they should be more cleansed themselves or have better control of their thoughts/emotions etc
Sometimes they don’t want to try a new technique or work on certain energies or subjects that seem to difficult, technical or as they see it may cause more harm than good (more on that last one later!).
Often too, they want to have a particular room, area or have a particular set up that they feel is of a good vibration before receiving people for healing.
Let’s start setting out why it may actually be better to just get stuck in shall we?
Intention is important
This is such an important topic!
Intention sets the direction in which a healing will go. Simply by intending to do work that is beneficial for another person will already start to change things for the better.
This can be so powerful that even if the person you are working on has fears or doubts about your abilities as a healer to some extent, you can still create a positive effect on them by setting a strong, clear intention to help them.
It can be so strong that even if you have negative thoughts about you and your abilities, about whether you are doing the right thing and even about who you are working on, that it can override those and still create a positive effect.
There have been many many times when I have had negative thoughts about myself or the person I’m working on, not paying full attention as my mind wanders, not feeling like I’ve done as much as I could during a session, that I haven’t fully cleared or corrected something in a person’s aura and so on.
Yet very often because of holding a clear intention to help and especially continually coming back to that intention whenever I have had the above happen, clients still report feeling better in one way or another. Their aura I can see has still improved. In some cases even, their life has seen a huge shift and their complaint has completely resolved.
This is no different to my experiences when working as a fitness instructor/personal trainer and as an osteopath. Sometimes what seems like too little work, inefficient work or too simple advice can create fantastic changes for the people you are working with.
How to set a good intention
There are many ways depending on your preferences and beliefs.
The most obvious way is to simply say in your head and/or out loud what you intend for the healing session before you start. Reaffirming it at times you feel you are going off-track with your thoughts, emotions or actions during the session is good to do too.
It can be really simple such as “Only energies that will benefit this person will flow during this session” or “I intend that whatever is needed to heal X will come through me during this session.”
If you can generate good feelings within you as you state your intentions too, then they become more powerful. Again coming back to those feelings within a session is useful.
Another technique I have found useful is to imagine the state of the person’s aura you’d like to be by the end of the session, before you start work. Revisiting that image and how you feel seeing that image during the session is useful.
You can also write it down on a piece of paper, or have a picture of a “perfect” aura so that you can look at it from time to time.
You don’t need the perfect environment
Don’t get me wrong, setting up an area or room for healing purposes can have a huge impact on your confidence and making it more comfortable and receptive for who you work on. So yes, please do follow all the different bits of advice I have given over the years on this blog and elsewhere about EMFs, pictures, colours of light to use and so on.
However don’t feel like you have to have the perfect setup before you start. Just do the best with what you currently have around you.
I would also say that sometimes you may end up performing healing in testing circumstances and places anyway.
As an example, I have performed healing on my wife and other people when at an airport with all the millions of EMFs, overlapping auras of people, people coughing, lots of noises of announcements, babies crying, luggage sounds etc.
I wouldn’t recommend it in an airport and would only do it if they really wanted to be helped regardless, BUT did it help ease their symptoms? Yes!
You don’t need to be perfect either!
In fact I have never met another healer who’s aura is completely clear. If you chat to healers they will generally say that they still have lots of different things to work on or that there are many things they wish to improve on, and of course some are very happy being who they are rather than worrying about what is not “prefect” within them.
A lot of people will generally say that you are better able to heal something in another if you have already healed it within yourself. I would say that this is not necessarily true as you may not be noticing, directing energy or intending to heal what is needed during a session. In fact, often if you are aware of a particular problem in your own aura, then you may be more aware of that same problem in another and can better direct healing towards that purpose.
I have often felt that tuning and relaxing into an uncomfortable/problematic area of my own aura such that energy flows through it, whilst working on the same problem in another, can benefit both of us!
Again intention is key here. So long as your positive intention and thus the vibrational energies you give off are dominant over those lower vibrations that may come up in your thoughts, emotions etc then the net gain will be positive.
It is also very important to note that a lot of those negative thoughts/emotions and other energies that come up within you and your client during a session, is simply because you are raising the vibration of you and them. Those lower vibrational thoughts/emotions/energies are simply being expressed as they leave both of your auras.
Knowing this can put you at ease during a healing as you can simply say to yourself “ah, this is just stuff that is being cleared as I perform this healing.”
Worries about harming another
This is a common concern.
People often worry about whether they might give a client their lower vibrational issues or that they might take issues from their client.
Remember that you get out what you put in. If you hold this belief within you then you may experience such things happening, especially if you keep allowing those thoughts and corresponding emotions to grow before or during a healing session.
So learning to feed those thoughts and emotions that you truly wish for the session, versus those that you don’t is important. Clear intention setting is a powerful way to do this.
If you sense that you or your client has taken on something from the other, don’t worry!
Remind yourself that you get out what you put in, so watch those worries come across your mind, and let them pass, as you would during a formal meditation and come back to your intention. Step back whilst you affirm this and come back to the healing once again to remove that lower vibrational energy/thing, just like you would if it hadn’t jumped from one person to the other.
Similarly don’t worry about energies that you try to take out that partially or fully return to the person’s aura. They are in no worse state than before you tried to take it out, so relax and have another go.
Energies have a particular frequency that can only exist in a particular space & time so they will always return to the same place in their aura. I say this because many people have worried that they have set something loose or that an energy may cause more harm if it falls somewhere else in the aura.
If an energy does move then it may be a parasite but as I keep saying in my articles, they are only as much of a problem as you believe and you can simply remove it from wherever it goes.
The only time NOT to do healing on another
With the above in mind, if you feel that you really are giving more of your energy to the negative thoughts, worries, emotions etc than the positive, then yes, please take yourself away from healing. Preferably by not starting healing in the first place.
Once the overwhelm has gone, whether it be several minutes, hours or days later, then give healing a try again. Taking time to meditate, reflect on whether the thoughts/emotions etc were really valid can help a lot.
If you really are still worried, then talking to someone supportive such as myself can be of great benefit. You can even trying healing me if you wish – I KNOW I cannot be harmed by another, so I’m a great one to be practiced on!
Most people however when they say they are worrying about whether they can help someone through energy healing or do harm, are simply feeling the jitters and all that is needed is a clear intention to be set and to get on with it – hence the reason for starting this article.
Truly knowing whether you cannot heal or might do harm is very different to having a few worries pop up!
I hope this article helps you feel like you can jump in and perform healing with fewer worries. If you still have questions or concerns, then you are more than welcome to send me a quick email or book a session for a more in-depth chat.
