Spiritual Lessons for Physical Healing

Posted on December 7, 2007 in Laws Of Attraction by byronb

Spiritual healing: relieving physical pain and illnessthrough changes made on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level. For many, thevery thought of it conjures up images of evangelical faith healings and New Agehippies. Some people may be so consumed by pain and suffering in their physicalbody that the concept of focusing on mental, emotional, and spiritual methodsfor healing sounds absurd, akin to avoidance and denial of the physical”reality” of their problem, and potentially detrimental to their gettingbetter. The truth is quite the opposite, however.

Spiritual healing is not some esoteric hogwash, andimplementing spiritual lessons in order to achieve physical healing is not somysterious. All physical suffering has in its cause an element of mental,emotional, and spiritual suffering, and effectingchange on any of these levels effects change for the whole person on alllevels.

In today’s society almost everyone now understands thatstress and other negative thoughts and emotional states can cause illness anddisease. Even doctors agree that mental and emotional health affects physicalhealth, if not in causing a physical ailment then at least in prolonging it,aggravating it, and impeding one’s healing.

Western medicine even has a name for it: psychosomatics -the study of the mind’s affect on the body (psycho - mind; soma - body). We’veall probably heard the term before, a parent or friend saying that somephysical complaint of ours is “just” psychosomatic: “Oh, it’s all in yourhead.”

The irony is that these statements are usually thought of byboth speaker and listener as a way of disempowering the person suffering (the”afflicted”) when in actuality it disempowers the affliction from which theperson is suffering.

To repeat: All physical suffering has in its cause anelement of mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering. And, by the same token,all physical healing has, in its cause, a component of mental, emotional, andspiritual healing.

Your natural state is well-being, which goes hand-in-handwith perfect physical health. All physical illness and disease then is aconsequence, a symptom, of being out of alignment with our natural state. Thereal cause of all physical dis-ease is resistance toallowing our full connection with the free flow of Source Energy underlying allexistence.

One of modern times’ greatest teachers of this lesson isLouise Hay, whose book “Heal Your Body” is a handy reference guide foridentifying the most common mental, emotional, and spiritual causes for nearlyevery physical ailment you can think of. It’s a companion to her larger book,”You Can Heal Your Life”, which goes into extensive details explaining ingreater depth the concepts outlined here.

The idea of your thoughts and emotions having a very realand direct impact on y our physical state may be a tough pill to swallow formany, as it seems to discount all physical causes for illness: viruses,bacteria, etc. And on a fundamental level, it does. But you do not need tobelieve it 100% to benefit from the healing it promises.

The whole idea of ‘holistic’ health is that it incorporatesthe ‘whole person’ - body, mind, emotions, and spirit - in the process ofpromoting total wellness. So when you feel like it, by all means, see yourdoctor, take your medicines. But include a program of mental, emotional, andspiritual wellness in your healing process too.

Some may also resist the concept of physical healing throughnon-physical methods because they find the personal responsibility it impliesfor one’s physical state too overwhelming to face. If this is the case for you,just consider that as hard as it may be to realize that you caused yourphysical condition, you are in a better position than anyone or anything to findrelief.