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The Healing Power of Imagination

January 1st, 2007

One of the things that I have learned while exploring various Shamanic paths and healing traditions of the world is the power of imagination. Most healers will tell you the first step to healing is a desire to be healed and then a confidence in the healing system that is used. One of the most remarkable application of this technique is discussed by Serge Kahili King in his book Instant Healing. In the book, King discusses an event when he was helping the boys in his community with a role playing game, one day the boy who payed the Druid came down with Chicken pox. The boy knew it was going to be weeks before he could get back on the game playfully thought to himself, hey I am the druid, I can heal this. Amazingly enough, the next day the chicken pox was gone and the boy was back with his friends.

This is a remarkable story and is not an isolated event. The moment people give confidence to the healing system being used, the effect is intensified. Take a look at hypnosis, how is it that when a hypnotist hypnotizes you, you are easily hypnotized and can be healed and that doesn’t happen when you try to hypnotize yourself! The answer is that you see the hypnotist as an authority so the hypnosis done by the hypnotist has more of your confidence than any hypnotic healing you undertake yourself.

Now, getting back to the question in hand. How is it that the boy healed himself? And, does this mean you too can use characters from your favorite fantasy or sci-fi text to help you with your healing? Absolutely! Infact, I want to share with you one of the many times I have used this technique. This one right before Christmas of 2006:

From my Spiritual Blog

Who has read Harry Potter here? Well, I definitely have. If you have read the story you are aware of the pensieve..it’s basically something used to store your thoughts in so you can come back and look at the memory and the feeling at a later date.

As i explored many shamanic cultures of the world, I could not stop but notice the similarities one of them being the reliance on creativity..people get healed when they imagine a “druid” casting a healing spell at them so on and so forth…

Most healing cultures in the world would agree that the first and the most significant step to healing is 1. the intention to be healed 2. the intention mixed with a confidence of being healed..

Therefore, yes you can use objects from fantasy, sci fi novels to heal yourself. Let me explain:

My pensieve:

the week before Christmas holidays was by far the most stressful week for me. I had 3 exams in as many days, 500+ pages to read, fellowships to reply to, clients to deal with, christmas shopping, emotional ups and downs and so much more. I was constantly being pushed from one topic to another..

Since I was aware of the shamanic traditions and their beliefs in creativity and the story of a boy who got healed by imagining a druid casting a spell at him….it seemed like a perfect time for me to use the pensieve…I could store all the emotions and things that I did not need in the pensieve and I could do that without ignoring them! I could acknowledge them and store them…your heart is basically a pensieve anyway..it stores everything so it was OK, logical and right to think I could use a pensieve (for me at least)… I cannot tell you how much better I felt, I could retreive info on what I needed when I needed without carrying the stress with me 24/7

Anyhow, I got past the week without a mental breakdown, did my best in all I had to do…without any ku (heart) malfunctions either..

So, the next time something seems unachievable..how abou inviting in something from your favorite fantasy text?

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