Reading Israel Regardie's The Art of True Healing - Part 6

How are you getting on with this? Be honest, and notice the thousand and one obstacles, reasons and excuses why you haven’t made the progress you may have wanted. Then realise that spiritual development itself is easy. What’s difficult is clearing away all the things that get in the way of you doing it…

So here is the LITE VERSION

The natural state of every human being is one of HEALTH. If we are anything other than healthy (physically, emotionally and mentally) it is because we have become disconnected from a naturally abundant and nourishing source of life and love. We may have become disconnected accidentally, by some seemingly freakish external event which knocked us sideways, or, more likely, we have disconnected ourselves from the the flow. Either way we must find a way to reconnect…

Two of the biggest contributors to disconnection are fear and tension, both of which create a kind of prison where we cannot move, causing us to forget that a naturally abundant source of nourishment is available right here, right now, at our fingertips.

The first step toward freeing ourselves from ill health (physical, emotional or mental) is to completely accept that GOD IS REAL, or if you prefer that there is a beneficent guiding light and power that is available to us 365/24/7. It never goes away, it is always available to us, it is only ever us who make ourselves unavailable to it.

Healing is therefore incredibly simple, such that a child could do it.

Either stand up straight or lay down flat, arms and legs uncrossed.

Commence whatever form of rhythmic breathing best relaxes you.

Locate the five elemental centres in the body (see previous parts).

Make no sound. Imagine no colours.

Imagine/pretend/visualise/see (it’s all the same thing) that a bright white ball of light called God is above your head. Maybe you want to think of it appearing there immediately, maybe you would prefer to see it hovering a bit further away before coming closer, arriving and settling above you. (CHEAT: if you have trouble doing this then before you start rub a little Deep Heat or equivalent on the crown of your head, this will act as a stimulant to that area of your body which will aid the sense of presence).

Now, to use Isreal Regardie’s own words, which perfectly sum up what we are trying to do, “throw your mind upwards” toward this bright white ball of light. Get out of your own head and stop analysing the process. (Pro-tip: with your eyes closed you might imagine rolling your eyeballs back and upwards in their sockets while you do this). Do not force anything. Just surrender entirely to the presence of God which is now with you.

Don’t expect anything to happen, but if it does, fine.

Then begin the process of drawing down the light that is contained within that ball above your head, into your body, in a straight line in the middle of your body, resting momentarily as it descends, at your THROAT, SOLAR PLEXUS, GENITALS and FEET. When it reaches the feet make sure it connects your feet into the earth underneath you. Allow this divine energy to flow into you and through you. Keep drawing it down, keep the flow going, into the top of your head, through the centre of your body, down to your feet and into the ground.

Do this for 10 minutes, once a week, and when finished give thanks and then just go about your business normally.

Call it embodiment, integration, grounding, whatever you like, this is about bringing divine energy down to earth, through you, in the process of which you become RECONNECTED to both.

It’s kind of like wiring a plug, except that what we are doing here is plugging into the DIVINE, drawing its power into your elemental centres, in order AIR (throat), FIRE (Solar Plexus), WATER (genitals) and EARTH (feet). Think on this further - if any electrical appliance is wired incorrectly then it won’t work properly. Either it won’t switch on at all or it will spark or burn out in some way. The same is true for us.

Remember what we said about chakras, they are not relevant here.

LATER ON, when you have this basic practice down as a regular, easy to do thing at any time, in other words when you have successfully rewired yourself, you can start installing new components and using your new device to the full. This will include adding colours and sounds, using the energy that is now running correctly and safely and channeling it into either (A) healing others, (B) generating effects in the world and/or (C) protecting yourself. But there is no point thinking about that until you have rewired yourself correctly and are able to notice and sense the improvements this brings.

I will conclude this series with a video in the our next Live Session on 18th September (if you are reading this after that date then search in the Replays section for that). Then I will leave it up to you to work through this, to practice it, and reach out with questions as and when. You may master this next week, or in 5 years time, it doesn’t matter because nothing can happen before you are ready, and whenever you are ready is the right time for it to happen.

Remember, the important point here is not so much the technique itself (which in comparison to some practices is pretty straightforward and simple), it is the necessity to get out of your own way, and to drop all the stories which prevent you from engaging with this. Don’t be fooled by its simplicity. You don’t need to go on an expensive retreat or be given a certificate in order to reclaim your birth right. You can do it right here, right now. Talk to me about this anytime.