The Spiritual Gift Of Healing

My first experience of the spiritual gift of healing was when I went to visit my father in the hospital many years ago. He was in great pain and something told me to gently touch the knee on which he just had surgery. It was not my intention to achieve anything, simply to comfort him. But then I saw his facial expression shift from agonizing pain to instant relief. That to me was a miracle!

The next major healing miracle happened when one of my twin daughters went ice skating when she was about 8 years old. I was watching the children enjoy the beautiful winter day, when my daughter suddenly slipped and fell. I will never forget her agonizing scream. I instantly knew this was bad!

As I was making my way to her, others where already helping her, but she would not stop screaming and it shot through me like bullets. When I got to her, I immediately saw the bone protruding through her skin. I then put my hands over the break on her forearm and said, “It’s okay.” In the blink of an eye, she stopped crying and said, “Mommy it doesn’t hurt anymore. “

I held her arm all the way to the hospital and when we arrive they made me remove my hands. Again, I had to hear my daughter screaming in pain, with me feeling helpless.

After they set her arm, they let me see her. I touched the cast on her arm and immediately sensed it was not set correctly. Of course, they refused to listen to me at first, but I kept insisting that something was wrong. Finally, they agreed to do a second X-ray, which showed my daughters arm was in fact not correctly set. So, she had to have it done all over again. A nurse asked me how I knew. I never answered.

A healer’s power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses ~ Eric Micha’el Leventhal

Once the second cast was in place, I could feel that her arm was now correctly aligned. But now there was another problem. This time I sensed the cast was cutting into her bent arm. Again, they refused to pay attention to my concerns. My daughter to this day carries a deep scar where the plaster of the cast cut into her arm.

Over the years, I have come to realize more and more that I had the ability to heal. Today, I feel honored to be blessed with such a gift, but I have also never felt that the healing comes from me. I am just the medium or channel. The healing comes from God. Through the years this has been an invaluable gift, but I do not flaunt it. It is simply good to know that it is there.

Meanwhile, my guides have been immensely helpful with teaching me more about spiritual healing and energy medicine. For example, they have shown me that when you place your hands on someone to heal them, one must always ‘air wash’ their entire being first, for purity of energy. Then, as you feel the heat from the injured area come into your hands, don’t release it back into the atmosphere, but instead imagine placing it into a jar and then seal the lid. Also, be careful not to let it go into your own body, as some people absorb the energy they remove.