Summary
Once you have reduced your suffering to 1 or 2 on the scale with higher-consciousness healing, you can start manifesting your positive aims.
Always combine your personal aims with the wish to benefit all beings in the process.
Eliminate old grudges and guilt feelings by sending love to everyone who was and is important to you.
Define your wish as clearly as possible and visualize a key image that contains all aspects of it.
Watch out for any (shadowy) doubts and insecurities and eliminate these obstacles by improving your inner image until it becomes ideal.
Focus on your aim with sustained enthusiasm.
Only talk about your dream to people who are fully supportive.
If strong negative emotions arise, use higher-consciousness healing to dissolve them.
Do everything that common sense dictates to achieve your aim.
Chapter 18
HEALING OTHERS
HIGHER-CONSCIOUSNESS HEALING offers a unique and highly effective technique we can use to help our loved ones and the world in general. Before I explain in detail how to do this, let me first share the results Barbara achieved by using the method to help herself, her husband, and her daughter.
Barbara
Barbara contacted me because she was on the brink of divorce from her husband. They argued every day and their sex life was nonexistent. I showed Barbara how to send love to herself and to her husband with the help of a healing symbol. When she came back, she reported that she had stopped arguing with her husband and that she was able to value him more. She had also been able to be more assertive about some long-standing issues and had achieved a good compromise. After another two weeks, Barbara told me that she and her husband had fallen in love again and had rekindled their sex life. Obviously, her husband was over the moon, even though he didn't know anything about higher-consciousness healing.
Then Barbara told me about the terrible tantrums of her four-year-old son that drove her mad. She received a healing symbol (a light blue child's bed) and practiced it for another two weeks on behalf of her son. She visualized him in front of her inner eye and saw the blue child's bed in his heart. Then she imagined the blue light radiating into his little body and all around him, filling him with love. To her joy, her son improved dramatically and only rarely had a tantrum from then on. All these improvements were stable and lasting.
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We should only practice higher-consciousness healing on behalf of someone else if we feel loving and positive toward this person. By contrast, if we feel negative emotions toward a person, we must work on our own painful feelings first. For example, if we are annoyed that our partner is miserable and depressed, we should first work with a healing symbol on our own annoyance. Often, this will simultaneously have a healing effect on our partner. It is important to understand that this change does not come about through some sort of secret manipulation, but through the working of our higher consciousness, which always acts in the best interest of everyone concerned. Once we feel loving and positive toward the other person, we can help them by practicing higher-consciousness healing on their behalf, as Sheila did with her son.
Sheila
For years Sheila had not properly communicated with her adult son who had a drug problem. She worried a lot about him and had successfully reduced this negative feeling with a healing symbol. When she talked to me, she felt more confident and peaceful, but her son was just as withdrawn and miserable as before. So she decided to use a healing symbol on his behalf and practiced it with all her heart. To her extreme surprise, her son came to her house a few days later and voluntarily started to talk about his problems—something he had never done before. Sheila was overjoyed, and from then on, their relationship improved a great deal.
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There are three different ways to use higher-consciousness healing to help others: by joining in their practice, and by practicing on their behalf, either with or without their knowledge.
Joining Others in Their Practice
We can help those who are already working with healing symbols by joining them in their practice. First, we should ask them which healing symbol they have received from their higher consciousness and listen carefully to the description. Then we visualize the other person in front of us and see or sense their healing symbol in their hearts. When we breathe out, we visualize the color of their symbols radiating out from their hearts and filling their bodies and their whole surroundings with love. Love means to wish them to be happy and healthy with all our heart. It does not mean, however, to have specific ideas about what they should do (e.g., “I wish my son goes to law school and gets married”), because that would be violating their right to choose for themselves.
We practice in this way for two minutes, twice a day, for two weeks, exactly as we would with our own symbol. In my experience, when two friends or a couple work together in this way, the results of higher-consciousness healing can be even more dramatic.
Helping Others with Their Knowledge
Generally speaking, it's better to teach others the simple practice of higher-consciousness healing than it is to practice it on their behalf, because helping people to help themselves is the most empowering kind of support. However, in some cases, people may feel too weak or ill. In the case of children, they may be too young to work with the method. In these cases, the other person may be very grateful if we offer to practice higher-consciousness healing on his or her behalf. In order to do this, we must first clarify what emotion the other person wants to overcome, as described in chapter 4. Then we ask our own higher consciousness for a healing symbol on behalf of the other person. Once we are relaxed, ask in the following way:
Please give me a healing symbol for (name) that will help her/him to overcome her/his suffering from (feeling) about (problem).
Then we practice the healing symbol on behalf of the other person as described in previous section.
Once children are of school age, we can start to teach them how to use higher-consciousness healing themselves. At first, we may still have to ask for a symbol on their behalf, but we can make a simple drawing of the symbol and ask them to join us in the visualization. As they grow older, they will be able to do more and more higher-consciousness healing by themselves.
Emma
Ten-year-old Emma felt excluded and picked on at school. Her teacher was very supportive, but the situation did not improve for several months. Therefore, Emma's mother helped her to receive a symbol and sat next to Emma as she practiced it each night before bed. Then Emma did something she had never done before. For two days she did not try to play with her difficult classmates but joined some younger children in their play. On the third day she returned to her old playmates. To her delight, she noticed that suddenly all the difficulties had stopped. This development was stable and lasting.
Helping Others without Their Knowledge
In some cases, it is impossible to ask people for consent to use higher-consciousness healing on their behalf. We may care deeply for a family member, but never have talked to them about their personal problems. Or we may fear that the other person will reject higher-consciousness healing. In either case, we can still practice the method on their behalf and be sure that our practice will only work in the highest interest of the other person. As long as we ask our higher consciousness for a healing symbol exactly in the way outlined in the previous section and use it with love, there is no danger of imposing our personal will on other people. As I have explained before, we all share higher consciousness, even though it may appear to us in many different forms and shapes.
Practicing higher-consciousness healing on behalf of small children is extremely rewarding. To my joy, I have known toddlers who slept through the night for the first time in years, and children who stopped having tantrums and became happy and co-operative instead.
When we work with higher-consciousness healing on behalf of others, we ask for a
healing symbol and practice it as outlined in the previous two sections. If we do not know from which negative emotion our friend or relative suffers, we simply ask for a healing symbol to help the other person to overcome his or her unhappiness.
Jake
The mother of four-year-old Jake contacted me because her son was very afraid of going to school. He was attending nursery school, but he always became very emotional when his parents tried to talk to him about going to elementary school. His parents promised him a lovely present for his first day at school, but it didn't help. I helped Jake's mother receive a healing symbol on his behalf to overcome his anxiety. She received a bright-red toy fireman as a symbol. After practicing with it for a week, she and Jake drove past his intended elementary school and said, as usual, what a lovely school it was. To her immense surprise, Jake announced confidently that this was his favorite school and he was looking forward to going there in the summer. From that moment, Jake's fear of going to school disappeared.
Summary
You must feel positive and loving toward someone if you want to help with higher-consciousness healing. If you are involved in the problem, you must dissolve your own negative emotions first.
You can join others in their practice of higher-consciousness healing in order to increase their results.
If you practice higher-consciousness healing on behalf of others, ask for a symbol in the following way: Please give me a healing symbol for (name) that will help her/him to overcome her/his suffering from (feeling) about (problem).
Visualize those you want to help in front of you and see their symbol in their hearts, radiating healing light into their bodies and enveloping them in a bubble of love.
Only wish for others to be happy and healthy. Do not specify how the other person should live as this would violate their right to choose for themselves.
Chapter 19
PASSING ON THE POWER
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PASS HIGHER-CONSCIOUSNESS healing on to your friends? Would you like to use it in your counseling or healing practice or teach it in evening classes and workshops? You can. You have my explicit permission to do so. However, in order to be a confident teacher of the method, you must first achieve a few real personal successes solving your own problems. “Real” success means that you have practiced higher-consciousness healing on at least two personal issues in exactly the way I describe in this book, and that you now score no more than 1 or 2 on the scale of suffering. Your life-path imagery should also have improved accordingly. With your own success in the back of your mind, you will be an empathetic therapist who radiates genuine optimism and a teacher who can inspire students.
It is my deep wish that as many people as possible benefit from higher-consciousness healing. If you feel inspired by this method, I warmly invite you to support this aim. In my vision, I see people all over the globe solving their debilitating and crippling problems. I see children in school being taught this simple method and I see everyone much happier and more confident. Tiny sparks of light grow stronger; they grow together and spread. When we are happier and more loving as individuals, we influence our whole environment in a positive way. We bring peace and happiness into our families, to our workplaces, to our communities, and, finally, to the whole world. It is a grand aim, but we have to start with ourselves.
When you pass higher-consciousness healing on to others, please don't change the method in any way. Even the smallest details are important. Also, if you use higher-consciousness healing with your clients, always make them aware that this is a self-help method they can use on their own as soon as they are ready and give credit to this book. Sadly, I once met a therapist who had learned the method from this book, but only gave his clients symbols he had asked for on their behalf. This may have increased his earnings by making his clients more dependent on him, but it is not truly empowering. I also found a website on the Internet advertising higher-consciousness healing and offering symbols for people to use without giving credit to this book. This is not how I want people to spread this method. Please make sure that you pass on higher-consciousness healing in the self-help spirit in which it is offered.
Study groups and self-help groups are also great ways to practice higher-consciousness healing with others. Self-help groups are very empowering, because they give everyone the additional boost of confidence that comes from being able to help themselves.
You can start a self-help group by meeting with just one friend. I am sure that after only a short time, your work will attract more friends who want to find out why you are suddenly able to solve the problems in your life one after another. Here are some suggestions for running a self-help group:
Rotate the leadership of the group each time you meet.
Use this book or a tape to guide you through the practice in order to receive new symbols.
Share your experiences with higher-consciousness healing and listen to each other, but do not give each other advice unless someone explicitly asks for it.
You can visit my website at www.taraspringett.com, where you can join the higher-consciousness healing community and share your experiences. May all your problems be resolved. I wish you the best of luck.
THE COMPLETE PRACTICE OF HIGHER-CONSCIOUSNESS HEALING
Preparation
Identify the negative emotion around your problem (anger, sadness or anxiety) and define your problem in this form: My suffering from (emotion) about (problem). Write this definition down.
Measure, on a scale from 0 to 10, how much, on average, you suffer from the negative emotion (anger, sadness, anxiety) about your problem. (0 is no suffering at all; 5 is a good deal of suffering; 7 indicates the beginnings of despair; 10 is utter desperation). Write this number down.
Do the following practice in relaxation. Most people find it easy to read paragraph for paragraph and imagine what has been said. Alternatively, ask someone to read you through the relaxation exercise below. You could even make your own tape.
Relaxation
Sit or lie down comfortably, and undo all tight clothing. You can put your hands on your stomach to feel the movement of your breathing. Every time you breathe in, feel your hands rise slightly; every time you breathe out, feel your hands fall slightly. Let yourself fall into the out breath and relax your whole being.
You are now going on a journey through your whole body. Start with your feet. Bring your awareness into your feet and feel inside your feet. Let all tensions fall away with your out breath. Now feel into your lower legs and let all tensions fall away with your out breath. Do the same with your thighs, your abdomen, your stomach, your chest, your shoulders, your arms, your neck, your face, your whole head. Your whole being is now wonderfully relaxed. Enjoy that feeling.
Now sink even more deeply into relaxation and, as you count from 1 to 10, see yourself going down a stairway toward a beautiful and secure place. As you say each number, take one step down, sinking deeper and deeper into relaxation: 1, 2, deeper and deeper; … 3, 4, deeper still; … 5, 6, 7, deeper; … 8, and deeper; … 9, 10….
You have arrived at your beautiful place and you are completely safe here. Find somewhere to make yourself comfortable.
Meeting Your Higher Consciousness
You are now ready to contact your higher consciousness. This is the part of yourself that is completely loving and wise, and already knows the answer to all your questions. At the same time, it is outside yourself and you share it with everyone else. Your personal higher consciousness is also the higher consciousness of the whole universe. Imagine your higher consciousness as a living shimmering light, as an angelic being surrounded by brilliant light, or as a central figure of the religion you follow.
See and feel your higher consciousness coming nearer. You can feel how its beams of love surround you and care for you. You can sense how you yourself become more loving and joyful when you are touched by its wonderful presence. It is a symbol of your highest potential. To move toward it and finally unite with it is both yo
ur ultimate task and your goal in life. Doing this will bring you the kind of joy and happiness that doesn't depend on outer conditions and can't be taken away from you.
Now you are ready to explore your life-path. Remember that this is entirely optional. If you choose not to use the life-path imagery, go on to the next step of asking for a healing symbol.
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