Soul Medicine and the Art of Healing

Healing is a sacred art. Most ancient texts describe it as a divine process in which healing the body first requires the healing of our spirit. The Hippocratic oath which is recognized as having genuinely originated with Hypocrates, often called the father of medicine, begins: -“I swear by Apollo the Healer.“

In the recent past spiritual work, medicine and healing were inseparable. It is only in our modern era of technological medicine that the presence of an energy healer during surgery might elicit gasps. For most of medicine’s history, the relationship of treatment to spirituality was implicit.

When modern medicine with its potential of technology and chemical solutions arrived, healing the spirit took a back seat and all but disappeared. The consciousness that healing is scared was eclipsed by a more scientific modality. Though not a deliberate intention on the part of the scientific community, respect for the healing power of prayer and faith diminished dramatically as modern medicine began to produce more and more physical results. We began to heal the body and ignore the soul.

Soul is everywhere, but hard to see. It has no substance of its own but is an essential part of each living thing. The soul is the connecting force without which we cannot live. It is the timeless and eternal part of all of us. The soul grounds the body and animates the spirit. It holds the physical in touch with the divine, never dies and can’t be destroyed. The soul, spirit, and body is a divine trinity, each having equal importance in our existence.

We define our human experience in physical terms: physical places and physical bodies. However, our soul and the communication from our soul originate from a nonphysical state. We exist in two realms at the same time. This nonphysical realm is a place of pure energy.

It is in this place of pure energy where soul medicine transpires. Soul healing is the harmonizing of the soul, spirit and physical body.

There are many healing modalities that work with a patient’s energy, facilitating its flow, and removing blockages to soul expression through the body and the spirit. A few modalities are:

1. Acupuncture – the oldest therapy based on the body’s energy meridians, has been practiced for over 4,000 years.
2. Color and light therapy – phototherapy with various colors influences beta-endorphins, melatonin, serotonin, and prolactin.
3. Sound – music clearly affects mood. Music therapy is an increasingly popular and successful form of therapy for emotional and physical ailments.
4. Aromatherapy – Smell is the most primitive of our senses. Aromas are extremely helpful in changes our moods.
5. Meditation – contemplation, and meditation create a still space, enhancing every form of soul medicine.
6. Prayer– the oldest form of healing on record. It can establish a direct connection between the divine, soul and ailing body.

Modern medicine has been and remains essential. The discoveries of biochemistry and physiology in the last 100 years has not only saved lives but also successfully extended our lifespan. But somewhere along this path, the precious role of the Scared has been reduced to the status of superstition and non-provable thought dropped completely from the list of significant factors that contribute to our health and overall healing.

The medical pendulum is beginning to swing in the direction of soul medicine. Adding momentum to this movement is the current state of the US medical system which experiencing an overhaul and sweeping changes like no other time in our history. Our doctors are being taxed and are now confined to treat patients in a paradigm that is run by pharmaceutical and insurance lobbyist in DC. “Managed care,” modern medicine’s inadequate answer to financial pressure, does a barely adequate job of management and a very poor job of care. Alternative ways of treatment are becoming more mainstream and soul medicine is once again reestablishing healing as a scared skill.

Remote Viewing?… replay now availailable on Blog Talk Radio

Have you ever wanted to close your eyes and transport yourself to another place using ESP?

Listen to the replay from my Blog Talk Radio show, Where Am I Going? and learn how you can utilize remote viewing.

Last Sunday, March 2nd, Perla and I talked with fiction author Rebecca Jean Downey, author of “The Middle Eye” and her new book, “The Devil Eye”.

This is the second book in her series featuring her main character, Penny Larkin. Penny uses her remote viewing skills to track down New Mexico gunrunner, Juan Rico. Penny is sworn to secrecy because the marshal believes a law enforcement officer is involved.

What other’s are saying:

“The plot twists ran all the way through to the last chapter of the book. I was amazed and surprised.”

“Rebecca’s descriptions of locations were so specific it was like watching a movie. Who will play Penny and who will play Leo in the Hollywood version?”

Learn How You Can Utilize Remote Viewing

Have you ever wanted to close your eyes and transport yourself to another place using ESP? Join us on Blog Talk Radio as we welcome back fiction author Rebecca Jean Downey, author of “The Middle Eye” and her new book, “The Devil Eye”.

This is the second book in her series featuring her main character, Penny Larkin. Penny uses her remote viewing skills to track down New Mexico gunrunner, Juan Rico. Penny is sworn to secrecy because the marshal believes a law enforcement officer is involved.

What other’s are saying:

“The plot twists ran all the way through to the last chapter of the book. I was amazed and surprised.”

“Rebecca’s descriptions of locations were so specific it was like watching a movie. Who will play Penny and who will play Leo in the Hollywood version?”

Listen in and learn how you can utilize remote viewing.

Conscious Eating as a Spiritual Practice

Most people say they don’t have time to meditate, yet we all find time to have three squares a day. Eating isn’t typically associated with the expansion of our soul but with a few mindful moments, eating can be an opportunity to cultivate a spiritual practice.

Here are a couple of ways to invite your soul into your next meal:

Give Thanks

When Ricky Bobby (actor Will Farrell) says grace at dinner with his family in the movie Talladega Nights, he prays, “Dear baby Jesus use your baby super-powers…“His wife interrupts to remind him that Jesus grew up to be a man with a beard. But Ricky Bobby likes the Christmas Jesus better, and continues to pray to “the eight-pound, six-ounce baby Jesus who listens to baby Einstein tapes…” Whatever “saying grace” means to you – praying lays the energetic and spiritual groundwork for the meal. Our thoughts and spoken word create a vibration that influences physical matter. My Native American grandmother used to pray for the spirit of the animals that gave their lives so we could eat. She thanked the farmers who grew the vegetables and always thanked whoever physically prepared the meal. As a child I thought her prayers were too long and thanking the animal was ridiculous, but as I look back on her meaningful words I realize now that it was her way of incorporating her spiritual practice into every eating experience. Each meal was a spiritual journey as she took the act of eating to a deeper level and filled every bite of food with the energy of grace. Through prayer, we invite God into our meal making it a blessed and scared experience.

The Cup Concept

Anyone who knows my husband Barry knows about his cup concept. Essentially Barry suggests choosing a cup to eat out of, so that each time you eat, your meal takes on an element of sacredness. A cup that is the same size as both of your hands cupped together is about the size of your stomach. If you are eating just enough as provided to you by the confines of the cup, you will be less apt to overeat compared to eating from a plate of food on which you can pile lots of food. You hold the cup in your hands, in a prayer-like manner to set your intention. Additionally, I like connecting a cup to the dimensions of the stomach because it is a subtle reminder that your stomach is the “altar of your being.” It is where your mealtime offerings are made to your entire self. If we considered eating as the process of making an offering on the altar of our stomach for its transformation and integration into our being, that might create a different awareness of our intake.

Make a Spirit Offering

Although I grew up Christian, I became acquainted with various spiritual religious traditions through university classes and by studying with spiritual mentors of different faiths. When I traveled to Tibet I noticed in the Buddhist temples that food offerings to the gods are common practice. Food may be simply and silently left on the altar, with a small bow, or the offering might be accompanied by elaborate chants and full prostrations. However it is done, offering food on an altar is an act of connecting with the spiritual world. It is also a means to release selfishness and open the heart to the needs of others.

It is a common practice in Zen to make food offerings to the hungry ghosts. During formal meals or during Sesshin ( an intense meditation retreat) an offering bowl will be passed or brought to each person about to partake of the meal. Everyone takes a small piece of food from his bowl, touches it to the forehead, and places it in the offering bowl. The bowl is then ceremonially placed on the altar.

Hungry ghosts represent all four greed and thirst and clinging, which bind us to our sorrows and disappointments. By giving away something that we crave, we unbind ourselves from our own clinging and neediness to think of others.

If you don’t have time to meditate, use the daily ritual of eating to enjoy and enrich your life by creating enlightened experiences and meals full of meaning.

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The Year of the Horse and Your Feng Shui

Chinese New Year begins January 31, 2014, and lasts for 15 days! Chinese New Year’s Eve is a great time to honor your family and friends by displaying and serving “Lucky Food” at dinnertime. For Example: displaying and serving Oranges is said to bring wealth into the household (that’s because of the Chinese words for “Oranges” and “Gold” sound alike)!
We are entering the year of the wooden horse, a clear departure from the slower energy of the previous water snake year 2013.

The Wood Horse year is a time of fast victories, unexpected adventure, and surprising romance. It is an excellent year for travel, and the more far away and off the beaten path the better. Energy is high and production is rewarded. Decisive action, not procrastination, brings victory. But you have to act fast in a Horse year. If you are not 100% secure about a decision, then don’t do it. Events move so quickly in a Horse year that you don’t want to gallop off in the wrong direction.

Are you wearing the best colors for you? According to the ancient art of Feng Shui, each of us has a power color based on the five elements and the day you were born. Sign up for my email list and provide me the day, month, year of your birth and I will send you your birth element and power color!

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Michelle Cromer