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A patient of mine was late earlier this week. She called me to let me know she was on her way, but running about 20 minutes late. As I waited for her, I began the treatment. I sat at the head of the table and placed my hands where they would be if she were lying on the table. I pictured her in front of me and felt our energy connecting. I felt like I could "see" her whole body I felt a strange pattern in her neck, which I'd never felt in her before. When she came in 10 minutes later, the first thing she said was that she had slept funny the night before and her neck felt stiff.
When I work on people, my main focus is creating the space in which they can heal. I am not very good at "seeing" everything that is going on in their body, but when the connections are made and the space is created, the healing happens. So it was a little surprising to me that I'd seen her neck problem before she came in.
I realized that the distance between us had allowed me to "see" her problem. Like most feelers, I instantly react to the presence of others. I feel their emotions and energies and immediately start to interact with them when I touch or am in the same space with them. I realized that seeing requires distance, which is why it's so hard for me in the treatment room.
It's the difference between standing on the cliffs and watching the ocean and swimming in the water. While on dry land, you can see the expanse of the water and hear the crash of the waves. But when you are swimming in the ocean, you can feel the cold of the deep and the motion of the waves. The healing happens when you are in the water. The connection between the healer and the patient is what bring the shechina and God into the healing, which allows it all to happen.
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2 comments:
Hello Aaron, I really enjoyed this anecdote you've written here, thanks for sharing it. I love hearing your insights and especially enjoy hearing anything about the Shekina and its (her?) place in healing work.
I just learned of your blog from Sandra Ingerman's blog and am very happy to have come across it. I am interested in how people with the shamanic sensibility can find a home within different religious traditions, which is a tricky thing as much shamanic work requires an unmediated, intuitive relationship with the spirit world.
Amarilla,
Thanks for your comments!
The shechina is generally referred to in the feminine. The Shekina is understood to be the imminent presence of God and the feminine aspect of God.
Judaism has a long tradition of unmediated spiritual experience that co-exists alongside extremely rigid dogma, often in the same people. Moshe Cordevero wrote classics in mysticism and codifications of law, not seeing any contradiction.
In some shamanic traditions, the rituals to journey are drumming or meditation. In Judaism, they are study and prayer. Though, like any organized religion, there are many who prefer the dogma to the experiential, but that is true everywhere.
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