One aspect of the service of channeling healing to other people that we render as we try to transmit the power of God’s infinite love and healing energy to people whom we know and people who have asked for this service is how our thoughts affect our own health. “We are what we think.”
Master talks about our mental diet and how important it is to our own health that our thoughts be those which open us, which express willingness.
Each one of us relates to the people to whom we want to send this healing energy because our thoughts about them influence them, influence their health, influence their ability to receive these divine rays and their ability to awaken the life force through willpower that is in them. And Master makes it a point that when we are praying for others, and if we do pray for ourselves, that we see the other person as they are at their highest level, as they are in truth.
And what is the truth of each person, of each soul? We are an inseparable part of God, of God’s love, of God’s power.
Our destiny is to be perfect. That is what our path to self-realization is all about. We are striving for perfection, but not a perfection that is at the end of the journey. But a perfection with which we were born. And our spiritual path is one of recognizing that.
You all know the story told many times about the very simple man, an uneducated artist, who was able to make perfect sculptures of an elephant, at the size of an elephant. And the artists and the sculptors in the area wanted to learn from him. And so, they sent a committee to understand his technique and to bring it back and to teach it to others in their institutes.
So, the man said, my friends, it is very simple. And they put before him a large block of marble. And this man with the whole committee behind him, this man sat and stared and just stared at the marble for a long time, such a long time that the artists who were there were getting annoyed and wondering if this man really was a true artist.
All of a sudden, after about a half an hour of just focusing on this marble, the man stood up, took his tools, very simple tools, a hammer, a chisel, scalpel, and he began to chisel away at the marble, he made no design, he made no measurements. He just chiselled away. And he went around and around and around.
After quite a long time, some hours, there was a perfect representation of an elephant. And the committee of artists were dumbfounded and perplexed they did not know what to think because apparently there was no technique involved in what this man was doing.
So, they asked him, Sir, would you mind sharing with us your process, how is it that you do this? And the man said, so genuinely, so simply, he said, “I look at the marble until I can see the perfect elephant inside of it. And all I do is take away every little bit that doesn’t belong to the perfect image of an elephant.”
So, this is an allegory that we are like that block of marble, we are hardened in so many ways, the ways that we think and in our habit patterns. But within us is that perfect image. And that perfect image is healthy, it is vigorous, it is capable of reclaiming its perfection. So, when we do our healing prayers, it is very important that our thoughts and our mental image of the other person is of their perfection. They are whole, they are already healed, they are capable of expressing their perfection.
And so, our image of each one is important because that image is communicated to them through the ether, through vibrations.
Don’t you often know what someone is thinking about you? Maybe you are talking with someone and they might be saying nice words, but you know that behind those nice words, they are thinking something else. So, we are influenced, we are affected, and we want to influence the other person, not only by the healing power of life force that we are channelling to them, but by our own thoughts of them. And we need to send an affirmation that enters and penetrates their consciousness and enables them to have the image of themselves as perfectly well, already healed, strong, vital, and so forth.
So, the affirmation that Master recommends is the simple, basic affirmation for channelling healing. And you probably use it every time. And if you do, I hope you will use it more consciously, with more power, with more awareness. If you don’t use this, then please start to do it. And Master says, send this affirmation from your spiritual eye, send it to them as a ray of vibration, a ray of truth that enters their spiritual eye.
And from their spiritual eye, just permeates that this truth vibrates into every cell of their body.
The affirmation is: “You are well, for God is in you. You are whole, for God is in you. You are healed, for God is in you.”
So, for each person for whom you pray every day, establish in your mind their image. They are well, they are whole, they are perfect, they are healed.
We need first to convince ourselves of this truth for each one of them. And then we send that to them, to their spiritual eye. And as we charge our body through the medulla coming down through the arms, as we charge our hands, as we channel the life force to these people, let us do so on that bridge of truth. You are well, for God is in you.
And Master says, as you channel this ray, you can move your hands up and down through the ether so that this affirmation fills them, transforms them. And so that the power of life force awakens within them, their willpower to heal themselves.
Swami says, “Divine grace like electricity flows through channels. As electricity is passed on through transmitting stations, so also is grace through the attunement of living persons.”
We want to attune ourselves. Yes, most importantly, with the divine will and the divine power and the divine life force. And we want to attune ourselves to the truth of the Being of that other person. And then we can serve really as true and powerful channels.
And here Master assures us, the more you act as a channel of blessings to others, the more you yourself will be blessed. Your magnetism will be enhanced and your efforts to reach God greatly accelerated.
So, as we practice sending healing, let’s keep these points in mind. And with God’s grace, we will become even more effective channels for divine grace.