Essential Healing

Growth, Transformation, and Vibrational Energy

Everything is energy, including our thoughts, feelings, and bodies. Understanding our energy system can help us heal on all levels- physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

The quality of our health is often related to the energy that flows through us. With the right insights and practices we can tap into our remarkable energetic potential, becoming increasingly aware, grounded, and balanced. As we do this, we’re more able to remove blocks, set new intentions, and create a vibrant state of well-being.

On the quantum level everything in the Universe, including us, is composed of information and light. So while our physical reality and circumstances might appear to be static or fixed, in reality they’re actually fluid and changeable, because they are in a continual state of becoming. And as unfamiliar as this concept might sound when first encountered, research is increasingly proving the principles of quantum physics, creative visualization, and the power of setting intentions.

The Power of our Thoughts, Emotions, and Beliefs

To begin, let’s consider the wisdom of the following: We live in an attraction-based universe, and when we realize that we do have power over the circumstances of our health, for instance, and we’re able to hold a consistent vision of ourselves as being healthy, we can influence the outcome. Our healing intention, held along with elevated emotions such as gratitude and joyful certainty, is communicated to the field of pure potential- the quantum or zero-point field- from which all possibilities begin and emerge. Our thoughts are simply that powerful, and they significantly influence our lives and our circumstances.

That field of pure potential is not separate from the Divine. So another way of looking at this is that everything is possible with God. And everything that occurs in our lives is impacted by our consciousness. When an event that seems to be miraculous occurs, in reality it is in alignment with the metaphysical principles of the universe, many of which operate at a level beyond most people’s awareness. Yet as our awareness evolves, what previously seemed to be miraculous now becomes an accepted part of the magnificent functioning of God’s creation.

Body, Mind, and Spirit

When we talk about healing, we need to focus on all three aspects of ourselves, because those levels are interconnected. What we believe about ourselves, in addition to our patterns of thought, conscious and subconscious, impact our emotional and physical health. Those beliefs and patterns accumulate over a lifetime, and many spiritual teachers would add that some patterns are actually brought into this lifetime with us. Physically, there are also genetic patterns and memories, as researchers are now proving.

So, much of what we think of as “us” are really just things and ideas we’ve come to accept as being true, including limitations that aren’t necessarily factual, but those beliefs form strong energetic patterns that when held consistently, can manifest what we believe and expect, good or bad, into our lives. Therefore, it’s essential to know what beliefs, traumas, and expectations we are holding, if we hope to change them in order to bring more health, abundance, and joy into our lives.

Those Who Help Light the Way

This journey of discovery, healing, and strengthening our connection to the Divine is some of the most important work we’ll do in our lifetime. Luckily, there are extraordinary thought-leaders who can illuminate that path for us. If you’re looking for suggestions, here are a few recommendations:

Books well worth reading: Eckart Tolle’s The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks, Michael Singer’s The Untethered Soul, from Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind and This Thing Called You, from Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations With God, Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life, Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love, from Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul, Wayne Dyer’s Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Martha Beck’s The Way of Integrity, and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra.

Recommended for spirituality and wellness, the work of Caroline Myss, for guidance on transforming limiting patterns and issues, Mary O’Malley (What’s in the Way is the Way) and Matt Kahn (Everything is Here to Help You and Whatever Arises, Love That), for classic inspiration and spiritual wisdom, Florence Scovell Shinn (The Power of the Spoken Word), and Neville Goddard (Feeling is the Secret, among other books).

Praised for wisdom about healing and our emotions, books by Louise Hay, for a deeper understanding of energy, the universe, and human potential, the books of Dr. David R. Hawkins, for information and research about the power of prayer, Lynne McTaggart’s The Power of 8, for energy medicine, the human meridian system, and bio-electric health, the work of Donna Eden, books by Barbara Brennan, and Penney Pierce’s Leap of Perception.

Suggested reading regarding the relationship between epigenetics and healing, Dr. Bruce Lipton’s The Biology of Belief and the celebrated work of Joe Dispenza, as well as Dawson Church’s The Genie in Your Genes, for the beauty of mystical Christianity, books by Andrew Harvey, for principles of manifesting, Jerry and Esther Hicks, and for handling adversity and connecting with divine wisdom, Pema Chodron. For quantum physics and the spiritual universe, the work of Fred Alan Wolf. And in addition, for providing wisdom and knowledge on the spiritual path: Gregg Braden, and Robert Gilbert, PhD.

These are a few of the noteworthy authors and teachers whose insights and research have added to our collective body of knowledge about spiritual growth, inner discovery, health, enlightenment, and our conscious connection with the Divine. Their wisdom helps us shed limiting blocks and beliefs, process and release emotional wounds, up-level our energetic systems, and deepen our relationship with God. (For additional information, please access the Resources page.)