| Practitioners of Healing Touch learn very early in their | | | | self. Be compassionate as your heavenly Father is |
| educational training that developing a healing presence | | | | compassionate. |
| is a key to facilitating healing for someone else. Having | | | | 3. Do your own self-healing. How are you caring for |
| a healing presence is present moment activity and | | | | yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually? |
| healing can only take place in this moment-not in the | | | | Are you receiving healing work on a regular basis? |
| past and not in the future. Staying in the moment is not | | | | Getting enough sleep, eating right, dealing with your |
| as easy as it sounds. When we are present, we are | | | | stress? |
| bearers of God's healing Light for others. This is an | | | | 4. Make a practice of meditating. Prayer is our telling |
| awesome responsibility for those who aspire to be | | | | God what we need, meditation is our listening. Are you |
| facilitators of healing. By our very presence, we can | | | | spending time listening to your breath, to inspiration? |
| bring healing to our families, our churches, our | | | | Here are four more suggestions: |
| workplaces, and our communities. | | | | 5. Keep a journal. |
| In healing work whether it is Healing Touch, in Healing | | | | 6. Affirmations |
| Touch Spiritual Ministry or Reiki, we are called upon to | | | | 7. Be gentle with yourself and others. |
| practice three forms of presence with those to whom | | | | 8. Find a support community. |
| we offer healing. These are physical presence, | | | | Sometimes it is easier to recognize how others are a |
| psychological presence and therapeutic presence. | | | | healing presence. Perhaps it was a word, or touch or |
| Being truly in the moment, connected to our Divine | | | | just an awareness of their presence. We may have |
| Source, we cannot help but extend compassionate | | | | even recognized the qualities of God's presence and |
| caring in our touch and in our word. In essence, we | | | | God's love for us expressed through this person. |
| radiate wholeness and beauty. This is not an easy | | | | Something in us was touched at the deepest core, |
| task, but it does get easier with practice. | | | | opening us to change, to heal in body, mind, soul, and |
| What are some things we can do to grow into being a | | | | spirit. This was not just an emotional experience. Our |
| Healing presence for others? Here are some | | | | spiritual selves were uplifted and it was like seeing the |
| suggestions. | | | | face of God and feeling God's embrace. Some |
| 1. Be joyful-and take yourself lightly. No one likes a | | | | describe these moments of healing as the presence |
| grumpy healer or a healer bogged down with the | | | | of an angel or holy being connecting them to all that is |
| cares of the world. Lighten-up and learn to laugh. | | | | sacred in life. Are you such a person with a healing |
| 2. Practice being compassionate. Everything you touch, | | | | presence or do you need to learn more about this |
| be it another person or object can be the recipient of | | | | important ingredient as you grow into becoming a |
| your compassion or lack of it. Compassion begins with | | | | healer? |