V. The Unhealed Healer P 8
8 A therapist does not heal; he lets healing be. He can point to darkness but he cannot bring light of himself, for light is not of him. Yet, being for him, it must also be for his patient. The Holy Spirit is the only Therapist. He makes healing clear in any situation in which He is the Guide. You can only let Him fulfill His function. He needs no help for this. He will tell you exactly what to do to help anyone He sends to you for help, and will speak to him through you if you do not interfere. Remember that you choose the guide for helping, and the wrong choice will not help. But remember also that the right one will. Trust Him, for help is His function, and He is of God. As you awaken other minds to the Holy Spirit through Him, and not yourself, you will understand that you are not obeying the laws of this world. But the laws you are obeying work. “The good is what works” is a sound though insufficient statement. Only the good can work. Nothing else works at all.
Journal
This is a very clear paragraph with no explanation needed. I cannot help anyone on my own, that is, through the ego mind. I can help anyone sent my way through listening to the Holy Spirit. He is the Therapist and if I listen to Him, just get out of the way and let Him work through me, I can be of help. And this is the only way I can be of help.
I have done this in several ways. The best way of all is to help the other person to access the Holy Spirit and receive his own personal wisdom. I learned a process to do this at Pathways of Light as part of my ministerial program. I use a very specific script to help the person go into a deep meditative state, and then guide him or her to become aware of the problem, and to hear the answer directly from his or her own Inner Guidance. I act as scribe, writing down what they are told, and I hold that space for them. It is an act of joining between the person I am working with, me, and the Holy Spirit, and it is an act of listening rather than thinking.
Another way I do this is when I counsel. Someone calls or writes and asks for help. I listen. There are times when this is the most helpful part of what I do. Often when a person actively joins with another and talks it out, the person finds his or her own answer. I think the joining, being in union, two or more gathered, is what opens the heart to the truth. When I listen, I do so, not with my ego mind, but with my open heart. I ask the Holy Spirit to listen with me, to give me words if they are needed, to prompt my silence when that is needed.
Every morning I wake up to coffee and Jesus. I read his words and I ask Him to join with me in this reading. I ask him to help me understand what he wants me to know about that morning’s reading. I write in my journal what I receive. Sometimes it simply clarifies. Sometimes the understanding I am given is unexpected and even startling. Sometimes it triggers a shift in my understanding that leaves me breathless.
The thoughts that are given may not seem extraordinary, but the healing that occurs as I hear/write them is a miracle. Then, whatever I write, I share. I post it in various places. I might talk about it to someone if appropriate. Always I share. I am not a perfect listener, but every time I do my best to step back and simply allow myself to be guided, I get better at it.
Perhaps the most useful form of helping is to be what I want to share. I walk the talk, so to speak. Failing that, I find my way back to the path and so even my temporary stumble becomes a teaching tool. All of God’s messengers are still learning. If they had it all down they wouldn’t be here. As it says in the Manual for Teachers, “…they teach perfection over and over, in many, many ways, until they have learned it.”
Whew! I am not perfect and that’s OK. I have moments of perfection and I teach that. I have moments of fumbling, and I teach from that. My life is a form of therapy, both for myself and for others, because I consistently put my faith in the Holy Spirit. I step back as much as I can. I listen to the Voice for God as well as I can. In so doing, I am learning to hear only that Voice.
These are the ways I allow the Holy Spirit to do Therapy through me. They are just forms and as such not important. I allow Holy Spirit to direct me to the form most helpful, and so any or all of them could change. The content, though, is love and that never changes. I try not to interfere. That’s my main job; step my ego back and allow the work to be done through me. What a blessing that is! And this is something anyone can do. All that is required is willingness. The payoff is out of this world! Literally.
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