Healing Light In Tibetan Medicine, Prayers, and Other Alternative Healing Modalities

This is a photo of something that mesmerizes me... Light. It is like seeing the Creator's love, when I see it reflecting through plants and leaves, bouncing across the water, dancing through a flame, or shining in the sky, be it day or night

















I viewed a film, recently, The Knowledge of Healing, which is about Tibetan medicine. One of the main physician's in the film is The Dalai Lama's personal physician, Tenzin Choedrak. It's a fascinating film that gives us the roots of Tibetan medicine, then translates to Switzerland, where it's fascinating journey became accepted medicine, sacred texts having survived political and religious onslaught. We watched as devoted doctors painstakingly prepared and mixed herbal concoctions, suited to each individual's separate and special needs. Talk about a compound pharmacy, whew! I've long been a proponent of alternative forms of healing, aside from mainstream, and have long used natural remedies in my own life, as well as having introduced my own children to those ways, when they were young. No, I didn't abandon regular doctors, I just tried to take responsibility for my own health, and realized and accepted that doctors are not gods, though we need to appreciate the best of them, for sure.

I also began, years ago, to become interested in other forms of healing, such as transmission of Light through one's hands. This is very new-agey, but it also fits in nicely with my mainstream Christian upbringing, which, in later years, came to bare witness to laying-on-of-hands processes. Close, but no cigar. Even further past that, I've felt palpable energy that others coursed through me, in energy work processes, as well as others having felt the energy move through their own body, from my hands being placed in certain positions, in a healing manner. I've not experienced or witnessed dramatic or immediate miraculous healing having taken place, through those processes, and I also understand that part of the healing processes has to do with the emotion and mental state of the one seeking to be healed; therefore, working closely with a healer of that sort opens one to allowing healing to take place, in certain circumstances, if there is trust. I have been aware of gradual and deliberate healing, however, in my own self, not having been privy to anyone else's healing, on that level. The very fact that I've felt these energies, that others have been helpful in transmitting, to me... and, the fact that others have been able to feel energies that were generated, as my own hands served as channels of these energies, tells me that something is out there and there must be something to these declarations.

My father was once healed of arteriosclerosis. My father had prayed and had believed in his God, to be healed. His doctor would eventually say that it was so, tell him that he could not believe it, either, but he must be healed, he'd never seen anything like it, and he saw no reason for my father to continue taking his medicine. All tests were continually showing that he no longer had the disease which my father had been being treated for, for many, many years. There was nothing to be adjusted, anymore, from his regular blood work. My father would, literally, shout it from the rooftop, "I'm healed! I'm healed! I'm healed!"... as he had promised God he would do, if only he would heal him! Later, he would have a heart attack. This, I believe, is a case in which my father found healing by the strength of his faith... something which takes root in the heart and psyche, that comes in the form of Love... or God... or Light. Somewhere, fear must have stepped back in... combined with, perhaps, the idea that he could eat badly, while not taking blood thinners... *sigh*... and he lost his healing. But, for one brief moment, we knew that it was possible, and he did live many years, thereafter.

The ways that I have explored, experienced, or been exposed to, have been known as Laying On Of Hands, Native American-Type Spirituality, which is dear to my heart, Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Reiki, Rubenfeld Synergy, Polarity Therapy, and CranioSacral Therapy, and Chiropractics, which I swear by... as well as several types of massage schools of thought, which I also swear by. I should also mention intuitive energy workers, seeing as some of the most powerful energies that I have felt have come from those who were not formally trained, nor did they dish out a neat life-savings to learn the ancient secrets. I might add, I have never been formally trained, either, but would jump with joy for the opportunity to have the sort of funding that would afford me the opportunity to learn CranioSacral, Rubenfeld Synergy, and Polarity Therapy, as well as Massage Therapy!

I started out my very young life going for my degree as a Registered Nurse, but the timing was wrong, in my life, and as much as I loved learning about the anatomy of our muscular skeletor system, I was not able to tolerate dissecting dead cats *sigh*... in fact, the human psyche was really the place I felt more comfortable, not the human body. This also fits nicely in with new-age thought, which is really nothing more than ancient wisdom. Both of these approaches, new age and ancient wisdom, incorporate a holistic approach towards healing... one in which the mind participates in the healing of the body. I've been told that I'm a "natural" in these ways, because I am able to feel and sense energies, without having been trained to do so, although I would not venture to say that I am very good at it. In my early nursing training, I was barely able to feel a pulse. Perhaps things have changed, since those early days, but I feel that it would be more correct to say that I am an open, aware, and willing receptacle for whatever healing energies might wish to flow through me.

A few months ago, I became the happy possessor of Dr. Randolph Stone's Polarity Therapy, Volumes I & II, The Complete Works. Dr. Stone was born Randolph Bautsch, in Austria, moving to the U.S. as a child. He spent his life exploring and practicing the ancient healing methods and compiled them into his modern day movement on Polarity Therapy, in the U.S.A. He lived the last 7 years of his life in India, in a meditation community, passing away, peacefully, at the age of 91. His work lives on, after him, and can be found incorporated into many different forms of The Healing Arts. We are talking about energy work. Again, we are talking about Light.

The interesting thing which I learned in the film on the Tibetan knowledge of healing, is that the ancient remedies, which were passed down for thousands of years, were well balanced methods of dealing with things in a holistic way, taking all things into account, treating the cause, not just the symptom. They were well versed in feeling and deciphering the wind in one's pulse, which was, really, the ebb and flow of life, that runs through the veins. They were well aware of the many channels through which energy passes, where they were located, and how to unblock them. The plant, mineral, or metallic treatments were also well balanced, very specific to the disorder and the individual. Scientifically, in a lab, it all breaks down to light, it has now been proven. There are 4 Tibetan books which make up the ancient texts, first written by a man named Guyushi in the 11th Century, transcribed by Desi Rinpoche in the 17th century, then smuggled out of Tibet much later. These ancient texts had already been combined with Ayurvedic Medicine in India, as well as with the ideas of other Eastern countries, to become what they are today. Even today, as honored as the old traditions are, modern medicine is still incorporated, there. Oh... and there is one more thing, which they suggest... and that is prayers and chants, if one is religiously inclined.

It is a lesson for us to learn not to throw out the baby with the bath water.

There is much responsibility to be taken, together and separately, by the patient, who sometimes becomes the cause of the disease, and by the doctor, the healer of the disease. There are times when we absolutely cannot do without modern medicine. There are also times when there is nothing more that modern medicine can do, that the old ways handle well. Borrowing from ancient wisdom, to become what it is today, modern medicine has also become expensive and impersonal... while ancient medical practices keep us in touch, and in balance, with Mother Earth.

We so often forget to give thanks, and often leaving our reverence behind. We need Her so. Thank you Mother Earth.





Photo by Gregory Colbert




I am still waiting... waiting for The Light,
The Light that surrounds us,
That is all around us... in the day and in the night.

You must click on Gregory Colbert's link above. It's unbelievably beautiful and deeply moving.