When and why does healing work?

This morning as I was walking to Babajaan’s dargah in Pune, I felt I was dragging my aching legs as I walked. In my mind, there seems to be a belief that I have had a physically demanding and tiring time the past week. And that thought, of course, is experienced as real by the body.

But by the time I had soaked in Babajaan’s grace, absorbed her energy, asked her to dissolve this sense of me, asked her to help me relinquish my identity, something seemed to have shifted. As I was walking back, I realised I felt rejuvenated and there was no sense of ache or pain in my body!

I realised what had happened and why. I experienced healing because I made space for it by connecting with Grace. I had offered her my mind and thoughts. As I was musing about why healing works and when it fails, I felt like sharing about healing and the healing programs I run on this blog.

Most healers when we offer healing programs, say we do healing or offer healing. For the past few years, I have realised the error of that statement. But it feels like language falls short when it comes to the essence of what needs to be conveyed.

Simply said, human beings cannot heal others. But we can be conduits to bringing the space of Grace into other people’s lives, so that they can then be available to their own inner healing potential. So when healing programs are offered and someone participating experiences a shift/healing, the credit actually goes to three parties.

1) The healer/channel/facilitator who holds space for the group. He/She stays in a space of Truth and deep connection with the Divine.

2) The participant who by joining a program is sending out a message to the universe and affirming an inner commitment for change. He/she is making a new choice to shift their space.

3) The Divine experienced as inner Grace or peaceful space or outer master/God/intelligence.

When these three come together, join together the effect is experienced as a miracle or healing.

We are all permanently joyous, peaceful, and loved. When we allow ourselves to connect with a space beyond the understanding of this mind… when we offer our own knowledge and arrogance to the Divine and step into a space of ‘I don’t know’… when we are willing to simply be available to change… healing is easily and simply experienced as a natural effect of Grace❤️