The Healer Within

Many people have been clamouring to learn esoteric healing. But what is esoteric healing? Esoteric means: ‘hidden; with the potential of being discovered.’ That is esoteric healing, that is esoteric astrology, that is esoteric psychology: looking within the hidden, which that which has the potential of being discovered.

How do you train yourself to look for that which is hidden? You have to stop looking at that which is apparent. We get so caught in the appearances, that very rarely do we allow ourselves to even acknowledge that there is something else going on beyond this. There are so many wonderful people who are light workers, but who are constantly caught in the appearances.

Before you jump into things to learn, please let yourself be internally open; you have to first undertake an esoteric healing of self; you have to learn what it is and experience it here (within), not there (outside of you). It’s when you’ve experienced it all here that you can give it out there.

Alice Bailey has given us 10 laws and six rules of esoteric healing. To understand them you have to experience what the words are doing within, the energy of the words.

Law 1) Disease is the result of inhibited soul patterns. Your soul has the potential to be free, to grow or to expand on its own, without any facilitation. But, there are traumas in our lives, which we are unable to remove the energy of. These create structural changes in our energy patterns, where instead of free-flowing, the energy is swirling round, in certain places and at tempos, which are unhealthy for the body, or they are becoming very sluggish.

So actual structural changes take place in our energy system. The soul is not a thing; it’s your energy. If your energy is vibrating at its peak potential, the flow of energy will always be smooth and uninterrupted. As soon as it’s uninterrupted, there is no dis-ease.

Law 2) Disease is the product of and it is subject to the past. There is no dis-ease that you face today, which does not have its root in what you have already faced years ago. It is always linked to the past. It could be an event or personal conditioning or collective conditioned. Let’s take the example that we spoke of earlier: the kid falls off his bed and has a fear of heights. When you go to a reader or a spiritual counselor, the most convenient answer is: it’s a past life issue. Please let us understand something, so that we are not fooled time and again by answers like this. Everything you face in this lifetime is for one express purpose: to release that energy which has been caught in your system over lifetimes; it doesn’t require a tarot reader to tell you that very obvious fact. But first let’s figure out the current life; it’s complicated for most, as it is.

So when Alice Bailey talks of the past, don’t jump to conclusions and run to a past life regressionist. I have repeatedly urged you to understand that past life regression is needed only in very, very few cases and must not be used as a ‘parlour game’. The past that we need to look into, are incidents that have occurred in this lifetime. All events are experienced only to draw our attention to the energies that lie unresolved within us. We do not need to look into the past lifetimes, because current lifetime events are created by us so that we can resolve these energies without having to go into our past lives.

Law 3) Disease is an effect of the basic centralization for man’s life energy. This is where we are made aware that there is a central column of energy that runs through a man’s life. She’s not only talking about the chakric system; she’s talking about the energy grid we all come with, which so many of you have got re-constructed by me. That central column of your energy grid has the knowledge that you have lived with since the time you separated from Source. When that central column of your own physical, mental, emotional and subtle grid structure is awry or blocked, the energy flow is disrupted and there is dis-ease.

This energy column that runs through all lifetimes; all that you have been, are and will be. It’s a powerful column of light which expands and grows with you. When there is interruption in that main energy grid pillar, you face dis-ease.

Law 4) Dis-ease is but a distorted reflection of Divine possibilities. You are everything. You are God, pure and full, expanded and complete. You are already whole and complete; there is nothing more to complete in you. But you do not have the vision to see your Divine completion; you only have limited vision and you see yourself only in distorted images. So, you see yourself, as let’s assume, the daughter-in-law who is harsh with her mother-in-law or as the father who is unable to have an emotional bonding with his children or the sexual abuser or the alcoholic. Wherever your vision goes, that becomes true. If your vision is constantly focused upon a distorted picture of that which you are, your reality, that which you experience of self, will be the ‘reality’ of a distorted image.

Am I advocating running away from the truth? No, I am not! Let me give you my own personal experience with this: for years and years, I struggled with one huge hurdle and that was arrogance. Have I battled it completely? No! Some of it still rears its head from time to time. But that still doesn’t make me an incomplete God. I’m not denying that my body, my ego, still exists; but simultaneously, I’m acknowledging that my complete divinity is what is, and it is what, in fact, makes me aware that my arrogance is coming from a place of lack of self-esteem. So now I don’t have one issue, I have two: arrogance and lack of self-esteem. Am I getting more incomplete? No! I’m getting complete because I’m having a more complete view of who I really am; I’m having a more complete view of why your words trigger me and make me use arrogance as a defense mechanism. When I have a more complete view of my persona and my egoic state, I automatically have a more complete view of my Divine potential.

When you don’t have that complete view and you’re constantly beating yourself up for things that you should or should not do, things that you can’t do or won’t do, the stress that is caused within that energy column is so acute that naturally it results in dis-ease.

Law 5) There is nothing but energy. Our mental body, physical body, emotional body, everything is all energy. But do you have the vision to be aware that it is energy? That it has the potential to change as you wish?

We all tout that one line: everything is energy. Great! Go and change that illness in your body. You won’t be able to because you’re only aware of the fact here (the mind). The fact that you are energy, at every level of your consciousness, has not permeated through you; that is an esoteric truth for you still, hidden, but with the potential of being discovered. The day you are able to know and experience fully the energy that you are, you will know that there is nothing within you that you have not created, which you cannot destroy and which you cannot re-create at will. Then you will stop playing the silly little games of blaming others.

Law 6) When the building energies of the soul are active, there is health. Alice Bailey makes us aware that there are two distinct kinds of energies in our physical, mental, emotional energy bodies: One: the building energies and Two: the sustaining energies.

If they are building energies, it implies that they are destructive energies as well. That which has the capacity to build, inherently has the capacity to destroy. If I have to re-build this room, I first have to destroy it. What is wrong in destruction? Whatever it is that you are uncomfortable with, within yourself, has to be destroyed so that a newer, fresher energy can replace it.

My parents must have grown hoarse trying to tell me that I would suffer because of my arrogance. I ignored this till I came to a stage where I was uncomfortable. There was that first moment when I said, “That’s not who I am.” And that’s the trigger for change. When you know that’s not who you are, then the first thing you do is you call forth the building energies in your life energy system, and you first begin to destroy that which has been you and your persona.

That is the part most people resist. Destruction needs a hammer and a saw, fire and a furnace and it is not pleasant. You have to find the courage to destroy yourself first and then bring about creation. And the joyous part is that however old you are, you create on your terms. You re-create that which is your story; not something from a past.

Law 7) When the life energy flows, unimpeded, health naturally returns and dis-ease disappears.

Law 8) Dis-ease and death are the two most active forces on the Earth plane. What are we then resisting? You may ask me, “Why? I choose to create a reality where there is no death and no dis-ease.” Let’s all do that; let’s get together and believe in our Divine potential so completely that we can change these two active forces. And we can, the day we believe that dis-ease and death will not strike you. But that’s not what you believe in. As soon as you hear of a cold and cough epidemic out there, you start coughing and say, “Everyone’s got this cold and cough.” There goes the Divine completion. (Laughter)

Ask anyone and they will say, “I’m ready to face death. I have no issues.” There is not one in this room who doesn’t believe that dis-ease and death will get you one day. How can we manifest it otherwise; they are the two most active forces on the Earth plane because we have given them our energy. We believe in it, again and again and again; that is why pharmaceutical companies make so much money from vaccines. If you, as a parent did not believe in disease, you would not need a vaccine, for you or your child.

Law 9) The Law of perfection: it is not negativity but perfection that brings imperfection to the surface. Every time you clear one level of consciousness, a second level lying hidden below it comes up and then that clears and a third one comes up and each time one comes up, you say: when does this end? It hasn’t ended for me so I don’t know the answer to that. I just know that there are so many layers and every layer that comes up to light, makes me perfect. It’s not negativity; it’s not that you’re a bad person and there is so much ugliness within you; it’s just that you’re so perfect that your striving towards Divine perfection is always present with you. The intrinsic perfection in you urges you to create situations that reveal to you the imperfections that hide the perfection, so that you can begin the process of destroying and re-building.

Law 10) When form has served its purpose, it drops away and the soul stands free. I’m not addressing this from its most obvious interpretation of death; I’m referring to it from when we’re alive. When our form, our persona, our ego system, has fulfilled its purpose of showing us all that we are and all that we are not, our soul is able to stand free. It is liberated from the imperfections that hide our divine potential from us.

Now let us turn our attention to the chakric system, as the meditation that follows is based on this.

The parts of the body connected to the root chakra are the lymph system, skeleton system (teeth and bones), the prostate gland in men, the sacral plexus, the bladder and excretory system, and the lower extremities (legs - feet, ankles, etc.), the adrenal glands and the sense of smell.

Why smell? Have you seen dogs sniffing? They are sniffing out if there’s anything to fear. That’s what we do too. You pick up the energy through smell. The more you clear issues and traumas within you, the more your energies begin to expand, you begin to get smells. Your nose is strongly linked to the root chakra which has the Breath of Life. That which you are comes up with your sense of smell. That is why day we can ‘smell’ fear.

One of the best ways to heal root chakra issues is to work physically with Earth. It works beautifully with children as well…..a pottery class, gardening, jogging barefoot on pure earth.

Then the hara chakra: it is associated with the reproductive system, the sexual organs and the lower back area. The element that heals it is water. When you’re dealing with any kind of issues of the hara, water therapy is excellent. The sense of taste and appetite is also linked to this chakra. When you get sick, what happens to your taste-buds? Everything tastes bitter. When you’re sick what do you need most? You just want someone to hold you and say you’ll be OK; you need nurturing. Lack of nurturing affects the hara.

Solar plexus chakra: the balance within the solar plexus is very important for a healthy pancreas. If you have diabetes your solar plexus needs a huge amount of work. The parts of the body associated with this chakra include the muscular system, the skin, the large intestine, stomach, liver, and other organs and glands in the region of the solar plexus.

What are the issues of the solar plexus? Power and control. You are so scared of lack of control that you will try your best to ensure that your external environment does things in the way you want them, when you want them and how you want them because if the external environment should go awry by a fraction, you will feel you’re out of control and you can’t handle that. Power and control affect your eyesight. If you have kids who wear spectacles from a very young age, it’s because they felt powerless; there must have been one extremely dominant parent or primary care taker. The fire or Sun is very good for solar plexus healing. Just a few moments in the Sun, taking in its energies is very good for solar plexus healing. The Surya Namaskar is great for diabetes patients.

The heart chakra: the heart, the lungs, the chest area, circulatory system. The thymus gland, which we call the upper heart, controls our entire immune system. Isn’t it telling? The disease of our times is AIDS. How can it not be? Where do we leave our hearts open? We are so scared to give or receive love, how can it not result in the collective consciousness of AIDS? When the heart chakra is flowing when there is no fear associated with love, AIDS will find its own cure.

The best healing for the heart chakra is the sense of touch. Anyone who doesn’t like hugging or being hugged, has an issue with reaching out, you’ll know that the heart chakra needs a lot of work. Just to be able to reach out and hug a stranger has been one of the new joys in my life. There’s not a person who comes home who leaves without my hug; and it’s not to do them good; it’s to do me good. A hug is a beautiful way to end a session. People ask me, “Don’t you get tired after so much work?” I don’t; you’ve already given me my hug so how can I get tired after that?

The healing element is air. If the heart chakra is weak, you need to spend time in the open. Don’t sleep in an AC room all the time; have the windows open. We sleep, travel, work in AC rooms. Where is the open air that can heal?

Then comes the throat. This chakra controls the throat and the neck, and the arms and the hands. The thyroid gland is severely affected by a poor, malfunctioning throat chakra. The voice and the ears are energetically connected. Once this connection is free-flowing, you go into the 3rd eye, which is known as the ‘Seat of Soul”.
The third eye chakra is associated with the forehead and temples, and the gland affected is the pituitary gland. Sound and music therapy is excellent for the healing of the third eye chakra.

The crown chakra doesn’t go into disarray by itself unless you’ve had a very severe head injury, where I then have to physically work on the crown chakra because it’s shifted. But that’s in very rare cases; for most people, the crown chakra is a little sluggish if the rest of the chakric system is out of alignment. Once the chakric system is in alignment, the crown chakra is open, the pituitary and pineal glands get the prana, the white light from the universe that it requires, on its own, without you having to do anything else. This Chakra is associated with the top of the head, the brain, and the entire nervous system.

The crown chakra represents your relationship with your father, and the root chakra represents the relationship with your mother.

Meditation: Accessing the Healer Within

Let us breathe very deeply and very, very slowly. You’re entering the root chakra. Everyone has fears, insecurities, anxieties. Our root chakra, therefore, is always in need of alignment and balance. For a few moments, allow this music to bring your root chakra into balance. If you have any problems with your teeth or your bones, the prostrate gland in men, the bladder, the excretory system, any nasal blockage, sinus trouble, please allow your root chakra to be healed.

Visualize the Earth in your root chakra, beautiful, vibrant, green, blue and brown, spinning gently in your root. She is your mother; tell her about your fears. Tell your mother, Mother Gaia, what it is that you fear. Don’t ask why you fear it. Don’t feel small that you fear it. Mother Earth will take care of you. At this point of time, you will place 2 drops of the essence given to you, on your root chakra. If it is not possible to reach your root chakra, you will apply it on your nose.

Very gently, allow the energies to move upwards to your hara. If you have any problems with your reproductive system, the menstrual cycle in women, fibroids, cysts in the uterus, lower back pain you need to heal your hara chakra. Allow the notes of this music to swirl within your hara. If it is possible, have a few sips of water now. If you have a compulsion or an addiction about food, about sex it is your hara chakra that needs your attention. If you are anorexic, if you have bulimia, once again, it is the hara chakra.

It is at this point that you will place 2 drops of the essence on your hara chakra, and if it is not possible to reach it, apply one drop on top of the upper lip and one drop below the lower lip. Do not consume these essences. Allow your taste buds to be activated by thinking of something that you love the taste of. Feel yourself salivating at the thought of your favorite food.

Very gently now move to the solar plexus. If you have problems with your eyesight, if you have ulcers, large intestinal problems, stomach and liver related problems, the pancreas, you need to heal your solar plexus. Allow the power of the music to draw from you your Divine Power, your Divine Authority. You are the healer. You are the Creator. You are God. Allow yourself to, very clearly, see the Sun or you may prefer to see a large, beautiful fire that is blazing within your solar plexus. Feel its heat, it’s warmth freeing you from power and control. Release yourself from the burden of having to control another, free yourself from the domination of the external. You are God. You are God. You are God.

Now, the healer within turns his/her focus upon your heart. If you have heart-related issues, blood pressure, poor circulation, problems with the lungs and the bronchial, you have to heal the heart chakra. Is your immunity very low? Do you catch infections very easily? It is because you are not nurturing yourself. Warmly embrace yourself. Hold yourself, feel the love of yourself.

It is at this point that you will use your essence for the solar plexus and the heart so that the power that comes within is tempered by your love. You will place one drop of the essence on top of the left eye and a second on top of the right eye and a third upon your heart. Let this music awaken your heart.

Give it the permission to receive love, to give love, without any expectations, without any conditions. The strongest burden that anyone can carry is the burden of conditional love. Never ask another to prove their love for you; love cannot be proved; it can only be experienced and it can be experienced when your heart is open to the experience. I love you. I love you. I love you. Take in deep, deep breaths. Let fresh air enter your lungs; breathe in deeply. I love you. I love you. I love you.

And now move to the throat. The healer has turned his attention to the throat. If you have regular coughs, sore throat, throat infections you have a problem with expressing and then receiving. Give yourself permission to express your needs, to express your displeasure. Let these sounds play in your throat and heal. If you have an over-active or under-active thyroid gland, you need to heal your throat chakra. If your throat chakra is free, you will draw into your life universal abundance; you will find that you will have the power to manifest whatever you wish. You will become more intuitive.

T this point, you will place 1 drop of the essence upon your throat and 1 drop of the essence at the nape of your neck. You will now place 1 drop of the essence behind your right ear and 1 drop of the essence behind your left. If cough should arise, allow it to come; clear the throat completely.

And now the healer moves on to the 3rd eye chakra. If you have constant headaches, migraines, a tightness around the forehead, you need to heal the 3rd eye chakra. As the 3rd eye chakra clears up completely, the pituitary gland begins to expand. Feel the power of the music in your 3rd eye. At this point of the meditation, you will apply 2 drops of the healing essence on your 3rd eye.

Rejoice, joyous beloved healer, for you are free of dis-ease and imbalance. May your crown chakra open itself to the White Light, streaming forth from your Monad, to your soul, into your beingness. As the crown chakra begins to spin, the pineal gland is allowed to now grow to its natural size. As the music reverberates, in your crown, apply 3 drops of your healing essence on the crown chakra. If you have issues, relating to your father, you must pay more attention to your crown chakra, just as you have issues, relating to your mother, you must pay greater attention to your root chakra.

The healer within you now prays a beautiful prayer given to the world by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama:

May I give out at all times, both now and forever, a protector for those without protection, a guide for those who have lost their way, a ship for those with oceans to cross, a bridge for those with rivers to cross, a sanctuary for those in danger, a lamp for those who are without light, a refuge for those who lack shelter and a servant to all in need.

Bow, in honour, to this Divine Healer. Your journey home has just become. You may open your eyes and see a new world around you.