The Slow Climb Up - Energy Healing at a Snail's Pace

by Stephanie Brail

Healing takes time. Why is that?

Why can't we just wave a magic wand and heal ourself and others?

The parody of the Christian Faith Healer is still a compelling image, even to those of us using Eastern energetic modalities. With my Reiki healing hands, I'd much rather smack someone in the forehead yelling "YOU'RE HEALLLLED!" than stand around for an hour sending Reiki healing energy on a weekly basis. (I don't know about you, but when I give a full Reiki session, my arms get tired! And supposedly I'm in shape!)

Real life, however, seems to take things more slowly.

I wish energy healing came with a guarantee of instant gratification, but often it does not. What seems to happen, instead, is that when we apply energy healing to any sort of dysfunction - whether it is physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual - time and repeated healings are what really make the difference.

(Isn't it all spiritual, though?)

There must be something in the soul that resists change. We're sick, but we like to remain sick on some level. The healing has to come in and trick us into moving forward. "Oh, this little bit of Reiki won't really hurt you," it's saying to the Ego. "I'll just remove a little bit of pain here and there. Now...isn't that better?"

Through the slow, repetitive process of repeated healings, the Ego gets lulled into complacency and the next thing you know it, it's been completely taken over by Spirit!

With all of this, we need to be patient with ourselves and our clients. Healing takes time, and that's OK.

Sometimes it waits what seems to be a long time, before it all catches up and we make a huge leap in healing. I had gotten - gross! - plantars warts on my left foot due to some energetic clearing done by a healer. Those darn things were very stubborn and stayed on my foot for something like four years. No amount of wart remover would get rid of them, and no amount of Reiki seemed to help.

I was finally about ready to go to the dermatologist to have them burned off, when suddenly they fell off!

Why, after all those years, did those warts finally flee?

It just must have been their time.

Give yourself time. It can and will get better.