I n therapy, healing the soul is an integral part in healing the mind, body and spirit. As a psychotherapist for 15 years, in New York and California, I realized that acknowledging the spirit helps the client to heal on a deeper level. Modern medicine is beginning to integrate healing the spirit with alternative health practitioners working alongside traditional medical staff. Many healthcare corporations and HMOs are offering acupuncture, Tai chi, yoga and Reiki. All of these energy healing methods help address the bio energy field which is closely connected to the spirit. The Energy Field, sometimes called the Aura, is a complex combination of overlapping energy patterns which define the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical makeup of an individual. A person's Energy Field is a part of the Universal Energy Field associated with that specific individual. There are three basic ways of describing the Energy Field: in terms of energy meridians, chakras and energy bodies. Healing in this field is called Energy medicine. Energy Medicine involves understanding how the body creates and responds to electric, and electromagnetic fields, including light and sound as well as other forms of energy such as heat, pressure, chemical and elastic energy, and gravity. (James Oschman). This energy connects with the Spirit. It is my belief that the spirit is what heals the body and mind. The therapy assists the personality, the medications the body, but the spirit needs to be addressed by a practitioner who understands the totality of the soul and how to entice the spirit to activate its natural ability to heal.
Along with a private practice, periodically I work in a Partial inpatient psychiatric facility for a large HMO. This is a stabilization program from an inpatient hospitalization stay. When a patient is having a psychotic break, manic episode, or suicidal gesture it is the spirit that is often compromised and crying out for healing assistance. For example during a psychotic break, a patient may become hyper-religious, see shadows, or believe they are talking to God. It is interesting that all of these common themes in psychosis have to do with concepts that are connected to searching for an existential understanding of God or the universe. It appears the patients’ soul essence is desperately trying to find a search for meaning, in all of the psychological confusion. The spirit buried under trauma is trying to be heard.
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We are all spirits on the physical plane trying to get back to source. The soul will try any method possible to return back to its creator. “One of the central concepts behind this new way of thinking is the realization that we are multidimensional beings. We are beings in dynamic equilibrium with a universe of energy and light of many different frequencies and forms. We are composed of the stuff of the universe which, as we have already discovered is actually frozen light. Mystics throughout the ages have referred to us as beings of light. It is only now that science has begun to validate the basic premise behind this statement”. (Richard Gerber, MD) Common existential themes include hyper-religiosity which has to do with searching for God. Seeing shadows may be actually a spiritual experience of opening up the third eye (the spiritual sight) to see spirit guides. Believing you are Christ, in a psychotic state may be a distorted understanding, that we are all children of God a common spiritual belief. The messages, maybe be confused, in an insane mind, but these are the same themes sane people encounter when they are searching for a universal understanding of who they are and why they are here.
As an intuitive psychotherapist, I often hear the whispers of the soul which come through clients’ trauma. If they are hypersensitive, I view their sensitivity – as a quality of intuition. They may be an intuitive empath (Judith Orloff, MD) often picking up the thoughts and feelings of others and sometimes getting overwhelmed by them. I address this sensitivity, by not pathologizing it but asking if their sensitivity has affected their life and how they experienced the world. Usually their sensitivity might have picked up accurately the hidden dysfunction in their family. Uncomfortable with this awareness, they closed it down. Drugs and alcohol often follow to mask the sensitivity and a psychotic break may occur. Sensitive kids often have a sixth sense, when abuse is going to happen, whether the alcoholic will come home drunk, whether a predator, will attempt to hurt them. As I address this sensitivity it soothes the soul that has been frightened. Once the sensitivity part of their spirit is validated, I often hear answers to their problem. Often clients will then open to a deeper healing as I reach deep into the part of them that was shamed, or ridiculed. I give that part of them dignity, respect and a listening ear. After I move to the spirit and see that acknowledgment, I slowly and easily start working with the personality in a more traditional therapeutic style. I then align with the MD’s mission of medication stabilization that may curb the manic or psychotic episode.
How is this pathway different from therapy? I often listen to my intuition, which is the voice of the spirit. My intuition speaks to the client’s spirit and we remove the defense mechanism of the personality. Sometimes I ask the client telepathically, how do you want to heal, and their spirit will respond out loud. Energetically they pick up my intent. Telepathy is the language of the spirit. My approach is soul focused first, than personality and then spirit. Often clients don’t know what I am doing. They think I just ‘get them’ or I am very compassionate. If you soothe the soul, you soothe the spirit. Remember the spirit is what heals. You must speak to it.
In the Partial program, there is also a psychiatrist who is an energy healer and a pharmacist who does a reiki circle, once a month. The room we work out of is in a circular shape with a glass pyramid on top. The space itself is healing to the soul. The sacred circle represents the cycles of life and the pyramid is a sacred geometric symbol representing energy moving upward similar to the universal symbol of a creation spiral. Thomas Moore comments on this comment in his book, the Soul of Medicine. “In considering the soul of medicine, a major concern is the physical place in which healing occurs. If it is soulful, than the practice of medicine will have a much better chance of having a soul as well. For that reason the design of a hospital is critical. (Thomas Moore) In this facility it is ironic that three of us would be there together, but it shows the trends of healing professionals in traditional settings are changing, and the universe has a hand in orchestrating a shift in medicine and healing.
I am also an energy healer. Since I am a psychotherapist in the partial program, I don’t perform any kind of hands on healing, but I do send them healing reiki symbols remotely if they are depressed or suicidal. Since sending healing energy, heals the spirit, body and mind, the spirit often feels the energy and automatically starts healing the personality. The person is energized and soothed the information I give to the personality is often received and accepted on a deeper intuitive level. Healing doesn’t always happen. The spirit and soul has its’ own plan. The person may suffer from manic episodes all of their life and get re-hospitalized several times. Their soul may have contracted to experience mental illness to teach family members compassion. Another soul may have incarnated as a schizophrenic to assist in changing the laws for the mentally ill such as Kendra’s Law*, that changed the psychiatric management of the mentally ill in New York City. Please be clear I don’t espouse my own spiritual beliefs onto the patients. It is spirit to spirit communication which is telepathic, direct and with a deep knowing. No religion, no dialogue, no judgment. The distant energy healing of reiki will assist with this. It is universal communication.
Healing the soul was part of my mission, when I worked as a voluntary faculty member of The UCLA Pediatric Pain Program. I was hired as an energy healer to do Reiki and work with children who were in chronic pain. (Exhibit 1 - You Tube Video) Working with children I realized they were the receptacle of their parent’s difficulties. The pain the children carried was the toxic energy that they often picked up from their parents dysfunction or problematic relationship.(Chakra chart – Figure 1) Using the ancient Indian Sanskrit chakra system helps you to diagnose energetically what is going on emotionally, physically, and spiritually. The chakras are part of the electromagnetic energetic system of the aura field. The Chakra system quickens the evaluation of a patient, and gives the practitioner, a three fold evaluation of a mind, body and spirit ailment. It is an efficient diagnostic tool. This method can be used for adults also. A child may have stomach problems in the solar plexus area, (their gut or power center). Later with a family evaluation, you realize the child feels the parents are controlling them. The children having visual intuitive experiences but unable to process them or accept them, may have chronic headaches. This may be a third eye blockage. Problems with verbal expression may be blockage in the throat area. I have noticed that sometimes even when these children have good parental relationships; they still would have pain problems. I believe these young ‘old’ souls have come into the planet to help raise the vibration of the planet with various ailments they brought in from past lives or to teach others about the influx of negative energies they are dealing with and storing in their bodies.
Chakra Chart
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The 15 y.o. diver that I worked with at UCLA (Video – Exhibit 1) wanted to be a neurosurgeon. Her soul may have picked this lifetime, to suffer a rare ailment, to help transform the medical community. With all of the misdiagnosis of her issues and suffering in the hospital, she will be a compassionate MD with a vast awareness of hospitals, and alternative health. I wouldn’t be surprised if she incorporates energy healing in her treatment, before or after surgeries, like Dr. Oz in the video.
This simple diagnostic tool of using the chakra could help the practitioner understand what the spirit wants to be addressed. With managed care and healthcare costs rising, using a chakra system can help practitioners come to a faster understanding of an illness on the emotional level and also heal the spirit on an intuitive level. This could dramatically reduce the costs of repeat visits or misdiagnosis. Once the spirit is acknowledged healing with the mind body and soul is soon to follow.
references:
- Oschman, J. PhD (2002). Visions Publications - Reiki News Magazine, Vol. One, Issue Three, Winter 2002
- Gerber, R. (2001). Vibrational Medicine; Bear and Company
- Moore, T. (2010). Care of the Soul in Medicine, Hay House 2010
- Orloff, J. MD (2004). Positive Energy, Harmony Books
*Kendra’s Law - New York State has enacted legislation that provides for court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) for certain people with mental illness who, in view of their treatment history and present circumstances, are unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision. – Office Of Mental Health- NY, NY 1999
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