How Do You Accept Healing?
by Rev. Frances Montgomery
Everyone thinks they would like to be healthy. Everyone will tell you they want to be whole, pain free, completely well. Everyone desires healing – for whatever reason.
My question to you is how do you accept healing? We know Infinite Intelligence is capable of healing every area in every way. If you have received healing, and know you feel better than you did prior to receiving it, how do you accept it? Do you assess your body, saying “Yes! - Thank you Spirit, I feel much better?” Or do you say “yes, I feel better right now but I can only hope that lasts?” Or, “I feel a little bit better right now but I don’t know it that was a complete healing. I still have some pain or twinges of pain so it probably didn’t really work.”
We know there are some folks who rather enjoy the attention and sympathy illness provides them. They know the doctors say there is no cure for this or that but it can be treated with medication. Illness sometimes becomes a badge of martyrdom and long suffering that can be worn “courageously.” I cannot address that – every soul is at a different level of development and understanding. I have no intention of judging anyone.
Sometimes illness brings life lessons for those who are ill while sometimes it brings life lessons to the caregivers. It can create many adjustments in the attitude and personality of both individuals.
On the other hand you may recall the year of sciatica I had a while back. I even realized I had brought the situation on myself by not listening to my body when I knew I should quit working. I only had about 30 inches of distance in my yard work to completely finish the job. Stubbornly I persisted and finished the work.
Sciatica is not life threatening. It is simply horribly painful and frequently surgery is an option. I saw a doctor, was in traction, took physical therapy. Finally I even paid an acupuncturist to stick needles into my body to help me overcome my problem because insurance wouldn’t cover it. (I also declared I will never again pay anyone to stick needles into my body for any reason. First off, it DOES hurt and secondly, it did not help, no matter how desperately I wanted it to! After the session where she forgot to remove two needles from my head I decided I had had enough of that!) I also knew in my heart and soul that I was not a candidate for surgery. I would be healed somehow other than that. I wish I had thought things through at that time to look at it in the manner I am discussing today. Eventually, my back did heal and the situation totally released. Thankfully, it has never recurred and I pray it never will. Also, I do tend to pay much better attention when my body sends me messages now. I do not work to finish a job because there isn’t “that much more to do.” I quit when my body tells me to quit. The work will wait for another day.
Healing has to do with BELIEVING; knowing and accepting without question. Healing has to do with positive thinking – the old Rev. Norman Vincent Peale concept. If you are able to accept healing totally, knowing you are completely healed, knowing your body or situation IS much improved – and holding onto that thought and realization until the next healing opportunity - holding your body and mind in that stage of total acceptance, then the next healing will continue to improve you again. You didn’t get into that shape or condition in one day. When you wake up the next morning are you able to refrain from assessing your body in a negative manner and say instead something to the effect of “Thank You, Spirit, I am totally healed. I feel much better today than I did yesterday.” That type of thinking refreshes and reinforces the healing you have received and adds strength to it for the coming day.
We know thoughts are (or become) things – therefore when we continue in a positive manner we are working toward positive results. If we do not continue in a positive manner, we will not continue to receive positive results.
An older friend has had several physical problems lately. We understand the body wears down with age and that is one way the Infinite works to assist us to ready for leaving the physical earth plane. Eventually, we have enough pain or illness to just want to give up and go to Spirit. We are tired of pain; we are tired of struggling to overcome it. We submit to the Infinite and just make our transition to the spirit side of life. If, however, our desire is strong enough and our belief is sincere and energetic enough, we can overcome things to continue. Many people go to bed and never wake up in the physical body. That is a major blessing. My friend has strong faith and has worked diligently to prevent the macular degeneration in her eye from worsening. She has prayed and believed strongly that her eye would be healed and that the doctor would be amazed at her recovery. On her last trip to the doctor she was more than pleased that things had not worsened and had improved so much that she didn’t need another shot in her eye on that trip. That is the result of healing and positive thinking – knowing and believing that healing had taken place. Trusting Spirit has done what was promised.
On the other hand as we know, she has had problems with arthritis in her spine which results in much pain, difficulty walking and moving around. That pain can be consuming and we “know” the doctors have no cure for arthritis except medications that relieve the pain…when they work. She has concentrated on the situation with her eye because becoming blind is more frightening than using a walker. I am not picking on her nor making her an example – but I am wondering if accepting total healing would possibly make any difference? Infinite Intelligence is NOT limited to healing only those diseases or disabilities that the doctors can cure.
No one has all of the answers. We certainly tell you that freely and honestly. You – each of us – has the same direct hotline to the Infinite. Do you use it? Do you tune in and attempt to the best of your ability to work with it?
Do you totally accept and cling as tenaciously to the healing as you have clung to the pain?
We attempt to work with whatever message Spirit has led us to give and with the information they use to enlighten us to the best of their and our ability. Our goal is to enable you to live your life in a better manner and to be able to work with Spirit in your own life daily. Our goal is to invoke, ask, invite, the Infinite Intelligence into our lives for this day and every day. We also ask that we have received the information from Spirit clearly enough to be of assistance to you in some way. Do you do as much for yourselves? If you know and accept that healing permeates your being; mind, body and soul, you will find the results are more lasting.
