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Learn to convert your hands into healing batteries, so that divine currents will flow through them at will. Through this means when properly administered diseases of body and mind, as well as the malady of soul ignorance, have vanished under this benign touch, whether administered at close quarters or from afar. Thus one becomes the fisherman of souls, that he
may catch them in the net of his divine healing wisdom and present them unto God. Paramhansa Yogananda
(Try doing one of these techniques at least a few times a month for the person in need. Many blessings flow from this practice, and some individuals are healed after one session) T ECHNI QUE
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Prepare with prayer and meditation. (See the Ananda Course in Self-Realization for a deeper understanding of meditation.) Sit erect. Gently tense and relax the whole body. Calm yourself. Touch the medulla once, in order to make it easier for you to concentrate on it. Then visualize Cosmic Energy surrounding and entering the body through the medulla and at the point between the eyebrows, and pouring into the spine. (Editors note: this is one of the central keys to Yogananda's teachings on healing. This focus on the spiritual eye is what makes this method truly deserving of the name Divine Will Healing. This keeps the focus on the soul rather than the ego, and thus it can be a very uplifting experience for both the healer and the patient. ) Feel the energy flowing down the whole length of the two arms into the hands. Continue tensing and relaxing and feeling the life force flow from the medulla and the point between the eyebrows through the spine to the hands. Stop tensing and relaxing, and firmly rub the entire bare left arm with the right palm (up and down several times). Do the same to the right arm with the left palm. Relax. Continue visualizing and willing Cosmic Energy to descend from the medulla through the arms into your hands. Now, with closed eyes, rapidly but gently rub your palms together about twenty times. Separate the hands, and lift the arms upward. You will feel the life current flowing from the medulla into the spine, especially through both arms and hands, with a prickling, tingling sensation. Your energy-magnetized hands may be used for curing any diseased part either of your own or someone else's body. The person need not be in your immediate vicinity, for it is not necessary to touch your patient. This life force passing through your hands has infinite power of projection. Visualize your patient. Broadcast the healing force by moving your hands, electrified by the above method, up and down in space while willing the current to pass over your patients diseased body part. Do this in a quiet room for fifteen minutes, or until you feel that you have accomplished your object. T ECHNI QUE
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After meditation, practice seeing and feeling the energy in your own spiritual eye. When this energy is strong, then visualize the person, especially their spiritual eye. Feel that your will is united with the Divine Will. Pray deeply to God that this person be healed as you send a powerful stream of energy through your spiritual eye to theirs. You can then visualize the energy going down their spine and to the affected body part. Do this for about fifteen to twenty minutes, if possible, or as long as you feel concentrated and inspired. If you feel heat at the spiritual eye, that is a positive sign that your spiritual will is developing. This is very helpful in Divine Will healing. (This technique is best used after being initiated into Kriya Yoga, which helps to awaken the energy at the spiritual eye.)
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God-given healing vibrations and they were received by the nobleman, who relayed them to his son, just as songs, broadcasted at 7 A.M. from Los Angeles, reach New York at exactly the same time. This happens because sound is carried by infinitely fast-moving omnipresent electrons in the ether. If sound waves can be carried through the ether, then sounds impregnated with healing Soul Force can also be transmitted through the ether. Ordinary songs and speeches, received through the radio, produce some mental effect upon the listener, but words impregnated with Soul Force remain in the ether, ever ready to work. Jesus impregnated His utterance with His Almighty healing power. Ordinary songs and thoughts transmitted over the radio give only momentary inspiration, but the words of Jesus, Thy son liveth, contained in them the all-accomplishing, invisible healing power. As the energy in the body can be directed by the will to move any part of the body, so also, by omnipresent Divine Will, any atomic changes can be initiated in any body, in any thing, and at any place, no matter how far distant. God had a reason for creating the Cosmos; then He willed it, and light or energy came. Then He willed that the light become flesh and earth. Hence, the Universe, being a product of Divine Mind, can be changed by Divine Mind at any time. Matter, although it has dimensions, is not different from thought, for material objects are nothing but the frozen thought of God. Hence, the body and the life in it, are dream products of Gods will and thought. The dream Cosmos, with the earth and the living Beings on it, are sustained by Gods concentrated thought. If He should dissolve His dream, the Universe, with all things in it, would melt away like a dream. If the Cosmos is made of the frozen thought of God, then the human body is also made and sustained by the same Divine Thought. Hence, Gods thought, being the Creator of the thought-body, can create changes in it through the power of Divine Will. Jesus realized that, since God brought the body of the son of the nobleman into existence through His thought, so also His Almighty Power could produce the desired change in it. Gods will and thought created all things, and those people who are in tune with Gods will and thought can produce any desired changes in matter or in human bodies instantaneously, merely by concentrated thought. The nobleman thought that his son was sick, but Jesus thought differently, and so the son recovered. Jesus was able to displace the dream of sickness in the son by a dream of health, because He knew that the entire Cosmos was made of the tissue of dreams. Ultimately, all disease is found to be psychological, so a strong mind, fostering thoughts of health and perfection, can displace a stubborn thought of illness in another person. Most people cannot heal themselves because their own thoughts are poisoned by the habit of thinking of chronic sickness. It is strange that the
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people who are always well never seem to believe that they can become sick. But if they happen to become sick after having enjoyed fifty years of good health, and are then unable to keep well for three months, they believe that they can never get well again. Right at this time, if a strong mind can revive the will of the patient who is paralyzed with sickness, then he himself can change his thought and energy, and thus heal himself. No one can heal us except through the hidden power of our own thoughts. Thought is the brain of the cells and units of Life Force present in every particle of bodily tissue. Hence, a disease thought upsets the entire government of the Life Force in the cells, whereas the thought of health corrects any disorder in the cellular system. It must be remembered that I am speaking of the concentrated Divine Thought which can heal and not of the fanciful thought of imaginative people. In order to move Divine Thought, the ordinary man must know the relation of thought, Life Force, and body without denying the existence of the body thought. The body is the frozen thought and frozen energy of God. Nevertheless, man cannot realize this until he knows that thought is frozen into energy and energy is frozen into the body of man. Many people try to explain away the body delusion. First, it must be realized that the body is made of invisible electrons, and that electrons are made of the invisible thought of God. Instead of saying that the body does not exist, one should say: The body is not what we think it is. It is not anything but the frozen thought and energy of God, and cannot be gained by fanatic fancy, or by strong Orthodox belief, but only by tuning in with God and by waking up His consciousness to find that the Cosmos is nothing but His frozen dream.
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Testimonials
Since I came to Ananda, Ive been doing healing prayers for my family, and Ive asked others to pray for me. The changes that have occurred in the hearts of my parents and brothers are tremendous. We have a better relationship than ever, and my parents have grown in their hearts toward letting go, and toward love in such a way that I could never have imagined possible, and I am so thankful for all who have prayed for me. Thank you for this Divine service. Assisi, Italy Thank you for praying for my brother and his family who had been having many serious difficulties. They live in more joy than ever before. Rocklin, CA Last September I asked for prayers for my marriage which was going through a rough period. My wife had said she wanted to leave me, and I was devastated. I wanted you to know how wonderfully your prayers were answered. My wife and I are in a wonderful place. She has started a job she really enjoys. We are both growing and there is a deepening of our relationship. I am also much closer to my two young daughters. I could not have believed this possible. Thank you for you prayers; I have thanked the Master many times over for this blessing. California Two years ago I asked for your prayers for a friend who had cancer. Shortly after submitting my prayer request her cancer went into remission. California We were delighted to find out that a friend of ours who had been diagnosed with bowel cancer (she found out when we where at Ananda last year) has been given a full clearance! She says that she felt overnight the lifting of a load and a magical return to full energy. This happened about the same time we prayed for her at SRW last year. Good news all around! New Zealand Thank you for your prayers for Asnat A. Her depression problem is so very deep, but I think I can report something which I am willing to call a miracle. There is improvement! Two days ago something very definitely shifted in her, and for the first time in years, yes, years, she felt connected with her true core... Israel Thank you for praying for my mother who was feeling depressed and suicidal; she is feeling so much better now... U.S.A. Thank you so much for your healing prayers for Stan. The doctors at first thought he had a brain aneurysm, and then later decided it was problem with
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a cluster of veins in the back of the head. It was considered quite serious. My father-in-law said that there were a lot of people praying for him, and Stan got a message from God' that he would recover and not have any after effects. Previous to this I had heard that Stan said that God spoke to him saying the he would live because there were so many people praying for him.' Apparently, members of Stans church were also praying intensively for him, as well as the Healing Prayer Council. I am convinced that we had indeed sent a great flood of cosmic love his way and that God responded. U.S.A. Thank all of the Healing Prayer Ministry, for the prayers for my niece, C.S.. Your prayers created miraculous healing. We were sure she would be confined to a wheelchair for many months. She is on her own two feet already! There appears to be no permanent damage and she is back singing in performances already. Thank you also for the prayers for my hand surgery.... The vibrations and loving energy that Ananda sends is truly amazing. U.S.A.
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