Becoming A Healer
Part 1: General Questions & Answers
These are Heart of Healing’s answers to FAQs about becoming a healer. You may want to read What is Healing? as well. If you are already doing some sort of healing practice, such as Reiki, and have questions, you might want to visit our new Healers’ Corner.
There are many kinds of healers who facilitate healing in many different ways. If you are interested in becoming a healer, it will be worthwhile to explore what you mean by “healing” and what sorts of healing interest you. Because we specialize in energy therapy and spiritual healing, these answers are mostly geared to this type of healing. If you are mainly interested in the legalities of energy healing as a profession, see Part 2.
What is a healer?
A healer is someone who facilitates healing in another. No one heals anyone else. The healer does not “do” the healing. “Nature” does the healing. The mind-body-spirit has a natural, self-healing capacity. The healer simply plays the role of a “catalyst”.
Is a “special gift” required to be a healer?
Healing is an extension of a natural human capacity. Some people may access it more easily than others, but everyone can develop this natural capacity. Not everyone, however, has the same kinds of healing abilities. Some may be more effective with physical ailments, some with psychological and emotional issues, while others may help people with spiritual growth which plays a part in their healing. There are many different forms that healing abilities take.
Can anyone become a healer?
Acting as a healer is simply an extension of a natural human ability. When someone complains of pain and we reach out to touch them, or when a child cries and we sweep them up in our arms, we are exercising an automatic “healing response”. By exercising this natural ability, it can be developed further. In this sense, yes, anyone can become a healer. It is important to note, however, that what being a “healer” means can vary quite a bit from person to person — the kinds of healing and results can be very different.
How can I develop my ability to heal?
The most important way to develop the ability to heal is to exercise it. Perhaps you’ve already found that people feel better when you listen to them, or touch them, or pray for them. Continuing to practice these skills enhances them. There are also many different programs for learning. Some are for learning self-healing and for working with friends and family, while others are geared to those who want to do healing professionally. The first step is to identify what kinds of skills you want to learn, and what kind of healing seems most natural and suited to you.
How do I become a healer as a profession?
If you’ve spent some time developing and using your healing abilities, and want to begin to do it professionally, there are a number of steps you need to take. First, you need to decide if you are ready to start charging a fee, or do you feel you need to develop your skills more or have more experience? If you feel you need more training, you need to decide which kind of program suits you. (If you are interested in energy healing specifically, see Types of Energy Healing for some insights into how programs differ.)
Acting in the capacity of a healer as a profession entails learning a lot more than simply how to practice a healing modality. It involves communicating what you do to others, defining and maintaining professional boundaries, creating a place to do your work, learning the legalities applicable to your practice on the Federal, state and local levels, and much more. If you have not had previous experience as a professional service provider of some sort (such as nurse, counselor, etc.), then you will probably need help with developing a practice. Some programs will provide this as part of their training, and in other cases you may need to find a mentor or another way of gaining the necessary skills and knowledge for having a professional practice.
Read Part 2: Legalities of having an energy healing practice.
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In the last year, I have had a strange gift of healing. I can lay hands on my granddaughter when she is ill or my dad, then I will get seriously ill for about an hour, then better, and they are better too. What is this called?
Hi Patty,
Some healers do take on the illness of their patients as part of the healing. It happens very much as you describe it — they experience the illness of the patient temporarily. In a sense, the energy fields of healer and patient become merged and the healer heals the illness of the patient in their own field.
I’ve never heard of this phenomenon having a name. If you find one, please let us know!
I was in Cyrpus recently an had my Aura read by Eileen A Augusti who I understand is world known for her abilities. She said that I had strong healing abilities and I was a Shamanic Healer is my previous life and a healer of some kind in my past three lives. She said that I had not used my abilities as a healer in this life and as a consequence was taking in very negative energy from situations around me and I had not learned to use that negative engery in a posotive way thus causing damage to my own spirtual wellbeing. I suffer from depression and I wanted to know how I would begin to rediscover my abilities? Are there places one can go to learn about ones abilities …. when do I start?
Hello Sarah,
I am not familiar with programs in the UK, but I am sure there are many courses that would help you learn about energy healing and develop your abilities. Reiki is an easy way to start, and the Healing Touch program is taught worldwide. We also have a CD available on this website — Everyday Energy Healing — which is a great way to start to learn.
Of course, becoming a healer also involves ones own self-healing. I hope you are getting help with your depression. Sometimes learning to use your healing abilities is part of self-healing, but it shouldn’t be the only step you take.
Good luck!
Thank you Mary
I shall take on board what you said and look up the links you have given me. I have been on and off antidepressants for the last 2 years but had come off suddenly due to finding out I was pregnant about 4 weeks ago. Unfortunately I lost the baby 2 weeks ago so I am now trying to use more natural methods of antidepressants including 5-htp and St Johns Wort as well as other supplements.
Regards
Sarah
You are welcome, Sarah. I wish you well with your healing journey.
I am a healer, but I don’t know how to operate it. Please help.
Avis, please explain what you mean by “don’t know how to operate it”.
Do you mean that at times you’ve facilitated healing spontaneously but don’t know how to do it at will? If so, it’s important to understand that healing is a two way street. It’s not just a result of what the healer does, but also what the person receiving healing does. Healing is caused just as much by the receiver as by the one giving the healing.
Actually, from an even larger perspective, healing is a three way street, and the third party (other than healer and “healee”) is the most important. It is the process of healing itself which is ultimately a mystery.
That’s my initial response. If you explain your comment a bit more, perhaps I can say more.
Hi I know how this sounds but I saw a local palmist/tarot and she told me that I have a very strong gift of healing she said she noticed it in my palms (a half moon and something else i don’t remember) and I was wondering if this sounds true to you she told me to release it to light 7 blue candles and kneel on a black velvet cushion and salted water then told me what to do, As a child I used to have dreams of my palms melting away. If I have a gift I would love to be able to help people but wanted to know if any of the things she mentioned rings true at all with you ? all help or guidance would be really appreciated.
Hello annemarie,
My feeling is that the ability to facilitate healing is a natural human ability. Some people are more inclined than others to develop and use it. Some have it more readily available.
What’s important is if any of this rings true to you! If you have the desire to use your healing abilities, then start to take some steps in that direction and see what happens. You might want to take a Reiki or Healing Touch course. We have a CD on our website, Everyday Energy Healing, which you could also use to start.
Your palmist advised you to do a ritual to release the healing. Sometimes rituals do help people in various ways. If it appeals to you, by all means go ahead and do it, but such a ritual isn’t absolutely necessary. Your desire and intention to facilitate healing is the most important catalyst to release your ability.
Hello,
I’m looking into some insight to something that happened to me on the 25th.
Both my hands started to feel warm and a tingling sensation started to develop. I held my hands facing each other about 22 in apart (shoulder width) and could feel weight like I was holding a decent sized medicine ball between them.
I’ve been told for years that I have access to healing abilities in my hands and have even taken a few classes to try and open up to the gifts, but could feel/access nothing.
So my question is this….was that the energy field that others have spoken of? Do personal emotions block or egress the field?
Oh, and I think the term you were looking for for the type of healing that Patty spoke of on September 2nd is (or could be) called Empathic Healing. I stumbled across the term somewhere in the last decade or so.
Hi Chris,
It certainly sounds like you were sensing energy with your hands. Often people describe warmth and tingling in their hands when they are doing healing as well as at other times. The description of sensing a ball of energy between your hands is also a common experience.
I can’t say for sure why you experienced this at this time and not previously when you’ve taken courses. Our experience of sensing energy can be inhibited by emotions, and especially by the habit we’ve developed in our culture of ignoring energetic information. It’s a kind of “selective perception” in which we don’t acknowledge certain things that we are experiencing. In any case, it sounds like you are starting to become aware of the energy in your hands and are starting to sense the energy field.
As for the term “empathic healing”, It is probably used in many different ways. Someone who is empathic feels others emotions, but it isn’t necessarily the case that they would take on their illness. It does seem that in energy healing there isn’t one standard way of defining things.
Hi I have been attending kinesiology therapy and it has become apparent that I can feel certain energies. This includes detecting pain in dogs and feeling the energy from crystals and magnets. The therapist said this reaction she doesn’t see with everyone and I should explore my healing side.
This is an area that is completely new to me. Any suggestions on how I can explore this more?
Hello Dawn,
Many people start by taking a local Reiki course. You might also be able to find a Healing Touch or Therapeutic Touch course in your area. These are all good programs (but do get a reference for a Reiki teacher).
We have a CD on our website, Everyday Energy Healing, which you could also use to start. It contains an exercise for sensing energy, information on getting started, as well as guiding you through an entire energy balancing on another person. (It’s also available as an mp3 download.)
Thanks Mary, I am going to give the CD a go and hopefully get a better understanding of the energy I feel.
Thanks from the UK!
You are welcome, Dawn. Let us know how it goes!
What is this idea of a healer, being anyone who has the potentiality to become something of a demi-god? I ask this question with a bit of skepticism in my voice because the topic almost begs it out of me. I consider myself a healer on a small level just because of the personality that I portray but what about these ablities, couldn’t they just be ways of interaction where someone feels better in your presence because you will listen? Just trying to shake off of the mysticism that surrounds such things~
Good question, Mike. We’re not talking about the old idea of a healer as someone with superpowers who heals someone. We’re talking about someone who helps facilitate healing in another. That can happen in all sorts of ways. It could be just what you describe — someone feels better because you listen to them.
The capacity to help another heal is there in all of us. This topic is aimed at those who want to play the role of “healer” professionally.
Hello, I have recently recieved my Usui Reiki Master Attunment from a friend; my intention was to be able to pass this gift to a good friend of mine and her family who has cancer. I have given her Reiki during her last bout with chemo last year about a dozen times; now the cancer has returned.
I have been practicing Reiki for about 4 years, mainly for my husband and myself. Now that I have recieved my master attunement, I feel compelled to share Reiki with others; with my neighbors, coworkers and other extended family members.
I previously have not shared Reiki with others much because I often don’t feel like it “works” for others when I want it to…whereas, it seems to “turn on” and work very powerfully when I least expect it.
My experience with Reiki thus far has been varied–I have had some pretty profound energetic experiences, also, I’ve felt really drained after giving Reiki, I’ve also become really depressed after giving Reiki, and sometimes, I become so anxious before a scheduled appointment that I don’t want to go.
The reason I write now, is that today, I gave a 15 minute Reiki session to a coworker. Before the session, I was full of energy, positive, and excited all day. The session itself was uneventful, my hands were a little warm, and I did not feel much; I tried to have faith that Reiki works on its own whether I can tell or not. Then about 5 minutes after the session, I became EXTREMELY sad. I cannot describe how completely forlorn I was, and I was also very disappointed that my coworker did not find the session anything other than “relaxing”.
Most of my experience with Reiki is either neutral or negative. This does not seem right. Everything I hear and read about Reiki is completely positive.
This makes me feel like I am not worthy to do Reiki, although I REALLY want to share it with others in a way that is truly helpful to them.
Why am I not experiencing Reiki as profoundly as EVERY publication describes, and why is there NOTHING on the internet or in books about Reiki difficulties?
These are great questions, Michele. I’m sure that your experiences are representative of those of most people who do Reiki or any other form of energy healing. One thing to remember when you read about Reiki is that the person writing about it is usually, if not always, promoting Reiki or their services. Unfortunately, this is the nature of marketing. You share only the best, most positive experiences. There is nothing wrong with you. There’s something wrong with our system. Most things are hyped. People may be doing this quite innocently, selectively remembering the great things that have happened, like the “profound energetic experiences” you mentioned.
Usually discussions about difficulties healers face happen in healing classes or with a mentor, although I imagine you could find people talking about these things in forums. But it’s true, it’s not something you see in publications.
I’m going to add a page to this website and discuss some of your points there. Hopefully others will add some comments as well. Perhaps we’ll hear from some others about their experiences on that new page. Look for a “Healers’ Corner” link on the Becoming a Healer page.
Thank you for raising these questions!
Hello,
I have recently (within the last few months) identified a gift that I have possessed since I was a very young. I am an Empath. Quite a strong one, and along with it I have a gift for spiritual/emotional healing. I would very much like to develop those gifts.
However, I have a separate question for you right now. Is it possible, or have you ever heard of someone accidentally or unconsciously healing someone physically?
My father in law has been having a lot of problems with sciatica, brought on by a herniated disc in his back. In an effort to avoid surgery, he has just started physical therapy. He has had 2 sessions so far and is already improving significantly, better than they had expected.
However, I noticed that when we went to visit them last week, even though I had no physical contact with my father in law my empathic abilities were clearly displaying his suffering, even though he wasn’t complaining. Later that evening when we went home, I noticed that I started having mild sciatic pain in my right side. It lasted for 4 days, and then went away. That is also when his improvement was first noted.
Then yesterday we went to visit him again, and last night I developed severe sciatic pain in my left side, which has persisted all day today, and is just now starting to let up a bit.
I have had sciatic nerve flair ups in the past, but never this severe, so I was wondering if this could have been some kind of unintentional healing on my part?
Any input you have would be appreciated.
Thank you for your time.
This is an interesting experience, Vanessa. My sense is that embedded in your empathy for your father-in-law is your desire for the relief of his suffering. You could call it an “unconscious intention”. When someone is trained in energy healing, they learn to set an intention for healing, but for someone with whose healing abilities are already strong and “activated”, the intention to heal is kind of inbuilt. You see the pain and a “healer response” is triggered. So I would say that yes, you were involved in your father-in-law’s improvement.
Thank you very much for your response! Based on this experience, do you think I would be successful if I attempted to further adapt these abilities, and where would you suggest I start? I am so very new to all of this it can be quite overwhelming!
You’re welcome, Vanessa. It depends on what you mean by successful! You can certainly develop your abilities further and learn how to put them to use. You might want to start by taking a course — I’d highly recommend the Healing Touch program if you can find a course in your area (visit healingtouch.net).
I occasionally mentor people who are developing their healing abilities. If you want to consider a session, email me (see contact page).
Over the past few years, I’ve been repeatedly told by people I trust that I am “a healer,” or “have a healer’s energy.” Reading how healers have discovered their gift, and how they responded to it, I feel very frustrated. It often seems that they recognized it and responded with, “Oh, OK. That’s nice.” To me, it’s overwhelming. When I look closely at it, I cry because something deep within me is being recognized.
Yes, I’ve had some experiences. I haven’t healed anyone’s sciatica or anything like that - but I’ve recognized people’s conditions with zero evidence, and, after something I did, people were relieved of a few migraines and one very hurt back. I guess helping them feel better is easy for me to accept… but being a healer is just so big!
Do you have any suggestions on how to come to grips with this? And, does anyone else feel this way??
Hi Ray,
It does indeed sound like you have a gift. When we have a gift, it comes with a yearning to use it so I imagine the crying has to do with that deep recognition.
I think we run into a problem when we associate the word “healer” with images of the blind being able to see, people throwing down their crutches and so on. I to think what we call miraculous healings do happen, but they are rare. Usually healing is a more gradual process, and it seem to be on a smaller scale, but is nevertheless significant. It’s a wonderful thing to help relieve people of pain. It’s nothing to belittle. Feeling better is the most important aspect of healing, anyway. The relief of pain signifies so many important things — energetic shifts, deep relaxation, emotional healing.
As for “being a healer is just so big”, perhaps you can let it be less big by recognizing that it is not you doing the healing. It is a happening that involves you because somehow that’s a role you are able to play. It also involves the ability of the person to receive and use healing. And more than anything, healing just happens. Amazing healings sometimes happen with no healer involved. It’s a mystery. But since it’s your nature to do this, why not just go ahead and enjoy!
Keep us posted!
Hi Ray,
I read a book about life paths of healers a few years ago and could fully relate to their experiences. It felt as if my own life was outlined in a way for me to go the healing path.
I have a corporate background and worked as a Coach and Trainer for the past years. I had a very tough year in 2008 with my mother in law dying unexpectedly, my sister seperating from her husband and my best friend’s 4 year old boy dying next to me. This was a time when I struggled severely with my own life situation. These events helped me to see clearly what I want my personal life to look like. In the middle of all this ‘chaos’ I wrote a book and was suprised how easy and smooth it all went. So much creative energy was revealed. A few weeks ago another friend’s brother disappeared and my friend thinks he may have ended his own life. I can very much relate to her as my mum committed suicide.
I feel a sense of not knowing where I will be going professionally and why life confronts me with nonstop lessons/people I can support. Why do they all turn up in my life right now? What does this tell me? I was told by a psychic years ago that I could do what she can do and know there is a ’strange’ and somehow still scary gift in me. I think about attending a Reiki attunement class as I feel that may be appropriate for me telling me more about all this and my life purpose. What do you think about this and what else can I do?
Jeanne, not sure if you meant to direct this to me or to “Ray” who left a comment here, so I’ll answer. It does seem your life is unfolding in a way that is steering you in the direction of healing. Actually, you don’t need to look at all the events to ask “What does this tell me?”. You can check in with you own intuition which speaks more directly to you. Seems like you are drawn to taking a Reiki class. Sounds like a good first step. One step at a time and your path becomes clearer.
Dear Mary,
Thank you so much for your feedback. The question was for you. Yes, one step at a time seems to make perfect sense and is all that is needed right now.
Warm regards
Jeanne
I’m already practicing healing. I’ve learnt in a couple of weeks to see auras and would like to expand my knowledge. I’ve been told when doing massage that I have a wonderful touch and my salon, well least to say I’m always completely booked out…ok..so I see energy but am finding it hard to understand reiki??? or crystal healing?? can you explain to me in laymen’s terms so I can grasp it. the way i heal is through thought and visualization and also by touch through massage. would you please explain in lamers terms about reiki and crystal healing? thanks regards sang
Hi Sang,
Reiki is a form of energy healing and you can read about that on this website (use the Energy Healing link at the top of the page). There’s also a page on this website about Reiki. You’ll have to read about crystal healing elsewhere, though. I’m not an expert on that. Reiki is very easy to learn. You just need to find a good instructor (perhaps you can get a referral).
Also, I’ve created a CD which teaches the basics of energy healing. It has very simple, clear written and audio instructions. It’s available on this website (it’s called Everyday Energy Healing — the Hands-on Healing CD). It teaches you to give a hands-on energy balancing, guiding you step by step in the process.
Good luck!
Due to a recent reading i was told i should be a healer, i was surprised to hear this i have never felt that i had the magic touch with regards to healing.
although i have come to realize i may be an emotional healer i can bring someone up from a depressed state or down on life attitude and make them feel magic about themselves which is so overwhelming they burst into tears of happiness. I have only managed to do this a couple of times in the past few years, but i feel very happy i had made a small difference and would like to do it more.
is there a particular area for this so i can perhaps pursue this further?
kind regards
Justin
Justin — I’d suggest that you do some reading about healing and different methods of healing and see what you are drawn to. Perhaps you can find a course in your area that interests you. It’s helpful to just start exploring and try something out and one step leads to another and you’ll find your way.
I have always felt that I was meant to do healing and subsequently studied Reiki (master) and have been practising it for the last 5 years (no monetary gain). Last year I completed Healing with the Angels and have been practising this as well. However since the last few months I find that when I am in prayer or calm just before going to sleep at night there is tremendous energy in the palms of my hand. I wish to know the nature and source of this energy and how to use it for the benefit of mankind. Can you shed some light on this or suggest the name of someone I can contact who might be able to help me. This energy is very strong and I am sure I am being given this for a purpose.
Would really appreciate your help and guidance.
With light and love
Gool
Gool — We have chakras in the palms of our hands through which energy flows. This is the way energy flows in Reiki, which you are already practicing, and in any kind of hands-on healing. It sounds like through your courses and practicing healing, the flow of that energy is becoming stronger.
You can find different explanations of the nature and source of the energy and might want to do some reading of books about energy healing (see our book list). Most people would agree that it is some form of the basic energy of life which is referred to by different names in different cultures — “prana” and “chi”, for example.
I’m not sure that you need to do anything other than to continue practicing your energy healing and perhaps do some reading to gain more understanding about it.
For about a year now i noticed something weird. When I make my hand to look like a tiger claw like, my fingers will shake and tense up, I will get a light headed and tingly feeling in my forehead. When I do, it feels like something is leaving my fingers, and I usually get tired after doing it.
Thank you Mary.
Hi Mary,
Like many I have so many questions and fears. I’ve done a lot of reading, researching etc. I started experiencing cool things this past year, energy between my hands, around my whole body, seeing auras (only few times) and had awesome experiences of hearing something and it coming true. But the sad thing I’m a chicken
Im afraid I will see things that will frighten me. Ghosts…I’m so deadly afraid of that stuff….
Please help since I have no one else to ask questions to
Thanks a lot
Love Jeeti!
Oh I forgot to add that yes my fear is preventing me from further practicing my gifts? Not sure if I can safely call it that yet..I’ve pushed it away for so far about few months now…I feel like I’m disappointing myself but ssame time I can’t push away my fear..
Okay now that’s everything and again thanks
Love Jeeti
I have a question. I am 42 years old, a mom and grandmother, and no- I really don’t think I am crazy, but I have had some very odd experiences in my life. One of them is this - at times I feel like I have a light electrical charge that comes out of my hands. I can feel this if I touch someone or something. I have touched my husband and he feels this energy, too. Any ideas???
Jeeti, It’s wonderful that you are opening up to these abilities. You can set an intention not to see energies that you do not want to see and chances are you won’t see them. But you may also want to explore why this frightens you. Explore what you mean by “ghosts” and why that idea frightens you. Perhaps with the help of a healer or counselor who is also aware of energy, you can get over this fear.
Lisa, Unless you are talking about static electricity which can discharge from our hands when it builds up, then you are probably sensing the energy which can flow out of the chakras in the palms of the hands. It flows naturally when we touch someone with a loving intent.
Thank you very much Mary that was extremely helpful.
Love you takecare!
Mary,
I have just found your website and have been reading the posts on this page and I find I relate to quite a few.
Like other posters, I have been told by others - counselor, acupuncturist, nurse and my husband - that they sense a very strong intuitive/healing energy within me. I have felt this for myself since adolescence; I am now 49.
I have been told that I am a very empathetic person; being likened to an “emotional energy sponge” by an acupuncturist with whom I was working with TAT (Tapas Acupuncture Technique). I have always strongly felt very attuned to other peoples feelings - if they are sad, happy, angry, troubled, out-of-sorts, etc. With close family members even feeling physical discomfort in tune with their own, such as hip pain my mother experienced. My problem is how not to become overwhelmed by this absorption and more specifically, how to prevent it.
I am the care manager for my elderly aunt who is a very negative individual, always has been (she is the epitomy of misery loves company). When she fell at home and needed someone to step-up and help her out , my husband and I were the only relatives who were most available so subsequently she moved into an assisted living facility in my home town. Initially I tried to spend as much time with her as I could, trying to ease her transition. However, after some months passed, it was all too apparent that her negative energy was affecting me. I would come home after spending an hour or two with her feeling like I had been run over by a truck, anxious, irritable and exhausted. Consequently, I now only see her when I need to be with her at doctor appts. I have experienced this same energy draining with other people. I feel very attuned to negative/positive energy fields.
I am currently studying for a Masters Degree in Wholistic Nutrition with a goal of becoming a registered nutritional consultant. With my intuitive ability in mind, I often consider combining my nutritional education with training as a medical intuitive. However, I am concerned about my inability to protect my own health and well-being from the affects of “sponging up” other peoples ills, imbalances and negative energy, etc. I find myself far too often in self-protection mode and avoiding any situations or people that I know affect my energy negatively. I have been instructed cursorially in visualization and guided imagery to create a mental/emotional shield for protection, but have not achieved much success with it thus far.
So my question to you is if there is some way/technique you may know of to protect/shield myself from absorbing the emotional/physical energies from others to protect my own health and well-being, while still maintaining a level of openness to my intuitive nature? Especially, in light of my goal of combining nutritional and medical intuitive abilities into a consulting practice to help others facilitate health via nutritional guidance. Any advice on how to achieve this?
Great question, Ann, and something many people struggle with. Here are 3 suggestions –
1) Take an energy healing course, such as Healing Touch, that helps you to develop the habit of allowing energy to flow through you in such a way that you are not depleting your own. You could also use our Everyday Energy Healing CD for that.
2) I never liked shielding techniques — psychologically it puts you into a defensive posture and I think detracts from your healing abilities. It’s also fear-based in a way. It can be useful in some situations and you can play around with that, but I prefer to visualize energy radiating from me — filling me and radiating out in all directions. It creates a flow that prevents negative energy coming in and it keeps your attention on a positive flow of energy. You can make up your own visualization, but an example might be imagining a point of light, very concentrated, in your core and seeing the energy emitting from that (infinite) source in all directions.
3) I feel a key is how you use your attention. You can provide healing without putting your attention on a person’s emotional and psychological pain. It’s partly in the way you attend to the pain or incoherent energy. You can pick up on it and it will help direct your work, but you don’t need to dwell on it. Also, sometimes there is something in ones own psychology that causes one to take on another’s pain — almost a guilt thing. These are all things to explore. I think step 1) would help with this as well as helping with 2).
Good luck.
This is a great site to learn things from and I’m going to be a healer so this is a good site to learn from.
Hi Mary,
I went to see a psychic and he told me I had a green aura and was quite psychic myself. I have read that a green aura relates to healing. As this is something I would like to pursue. Do you know anything about this?
Kind Regards,
Sue
Hi Sue,
There are lots of interpretations of what colors in the aura mean, and some do feel green relates to healing. It’s very important, though, as a healer to learn what different colors and experiences mean for you and the person you are working with.
If you want to pursue healing as a profession, do it! It’s your own intuition that is the best guide for your direction in life. Best wishes…
I think I’m a gifted healer because I help others as best I can and try to change their hearts; but some think I am strange because I study to become a healer, try to do good for others and try to change hearts by speaking of right.
I come from a family who all have psychic abilities. My father who did not have this gift (I have a Norwegian mother) discouraged it but now my best friend needs healing and I need to know how to heal her. I have healed someone who was ill by laying my hands on her and I have seen smelled and heard ghosts. All I want to do is heal my mate. Please help me Regards Caroline.
Sounds like you had an experience with healing that many natural healers have — you do something spontaneously like laying on of hands and it helps someone heal. This sometimes happens when you are discovering your abilities.
The question that always comes up then is how can I make this happen again. Healing is a mystery. You do what you can with the skills you have. Sometimes it’s difficult to work with someone we’re close to, so I’d suggest you also encourage your mate to get help in other ways as well.
You can take courses and practice to increase your skill, but it doesn’t sound like you have time for that if your friend is already ill. Just do the best you can and remember it is really not the healer who heals another, it’s more complicated than that. Her healing will come from within her.
Mary,
I have a strong desire to become a healer–I have done it first accidentally, then purposefully, and it has brought such relief to my “patients” and such joy to me that I am eager to pursue healing as an occupation, perhaps full time, for the rest of my life.
I know you have provided information on how to get started, but for a young person with little to no experience and technical knowledge, would it be better to pick up a book/CD and give it a go, or find a mentor/class to help?
Thank you.
Hi Corinna,
Everyone’s path is different. Some healers develop their skills simply by doing healing, but most get some kind of training and/or knowledge from reading.
For most people, having a mentor is invaluable. Some mentoring can happen in the context of a class, but you can go into more depth in a personal mentoring relationship. That can help you to develop your own unique healing skills and style.
There are many things to consider as you plot your course, but it all begins with the first step. A course might be a good place to start. You might want to take a class, like Healing Touch which is available in most areas. It can be really helpful to share experiences with others.
If there aren’t any courses in your area, you might want to use our Everyday Energy Healing CD and do some reading (see our reading list). After that, you can email me if you want to have a mentoring session to help you find your next steps.
Namaste! This is a very nice website & it will help many people to serve others. I wish we could add more on Unconditional Love, which always help in healing the life kinds. Namaste!
Hello Everybody,
I just found this site and fell in love with it! I have always loved the idea of being a healer, and for a while I’ve come to realize that it would be a path I would really love to take! In todays world especially I believe it is needed more than ever, and I can’t see myself doing anything else and genuinly feeling happy and content (although gardening or any type of job related to helping people or the enviroment would also be ideal). So I’m going to start my quest to being a healer right now with help from this amazing site.
God bless, and a great 2010 for everyone!
Chris from Portugal.
@Dev Thank you for your kind words. Yes, adding something on Unconditional Love is a great idea!
@Chris — Blessings to you! Wishing you the best as you follow your aspirations to be a healer.
the eastern concept of the body is that it is like an electromagnet. it is in the west that they a biochemical model. healing energy flows through the body and is especially concentrated in the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. also the top of the head is a place where the soul finds connection with the higher plane of existence. that is why so many healers place both hands on top of the skull. also the feet when in connection with the ground symbolize the earth mother’s power and wisdom.
hi, Ive always had pyschic and healing abilities but just recently ive started to let down the barrier i put up in fear of not knowing what ability i actually had. I’ve always had this ability to read books, for example, ill ask someone to give me a book that someone has given them and I can describe who gave it too them sometimes to the detail of clothes, Sometimes I get an image of what they look like and sometimes not I just know. I feel though that this is pointless to know this? Also the other day a resident that i look after told me his son committed suicide and I blurted out without even thinking about it “no he didnt he was murdered and i had images of the surroundings he was in and two men. Im am truely aa beginner in this and Im just wondering what advice you could give me to tap into it more to make it useful and healing for others.
Thanks Vikki
Vikki, there are lots of books on this subject, and I’d recommend you do some reading. I’m not familiar with many of them, but do like Judith Orloff’s work. Reading will help you to understand what you are experiencing better, and how to use your abilities in a constructive way. Best wishes.
Heart Healing.
Facilitating one own’s healing - wow. I have been thinking and feeling about going on the healer’s path, and those first few words gave me clarity on the method.
Mary, I have always used my instincts and this place I let myself go to and “accept ideas” to “figure people out”… in a short term, sometimes in a matter of minutes, I am able to tap in to another person’s reality. I know who they operate, what bothers them, what motivates them and how they see things.
I never thought it was something special, I figured I just have this communication knack… but being from a different country and having no formal education or normal community of any sort. except the outcast perhaps.
Recently I went on a shamanic journey and I experienced my self as total and complete love. This is a new age concept that I wouldn’t even read a full paragraph on a few months ago - and I have been on a personal development journey for over a decade!
I am almost 30 and these days I feel much older and wiser. I have faced some of my deepest fears and am living “between lives” - I have this strong pull towards loving people - healing them by loving them, listening to them, letting them be.
Can I empower people with just being me? Can I walk this path without falling prey to my worst doubts? Can I heal people through healing myself? I feel like it is my responsibility to do so. I am owning it. I am good at it.
I am open.
Oriya
Oriya, I am convinced that you can empower and help others by being fully yourself. The presence of a person who loves themselves, is at home with life and others, is very healing. We are, at the deepest level, complete and total love and as we come to realize that, the influence we can have is very powerful. I love your words “healing them by loving them, listening to them, letting them be”. How many people in our lives really do that? What a beautiful intention. I’m sure it will take you far!
i have a rather strange way of healing and i was wondering if anyone has a name for it, or has heard of anything similar like it…it bases alot on the celetial bodies and dark and ligt matter and star dust. in my mind i can summon up the energy of the stars/celetial bodies and with my hands i can make sort of energy “ribions” which i can wrap around an injured area and the result is almost instant relife. i also know how to make sort of celetial bariers over lare areas of damage, and i am starting to learn how to stich wounds together usingstings of energy…the real thing is much harder to explain and would take much more time… has this been heard of before. because i would realy like to know what it is…
Valcara, When we heal by working with subtle energy, as you are, we have to find ways of describing the type of energy we are using and how we use it. I suspect everyone would have a somewhat different and unique way of describing their experience. Since you have evidently come upon your healing abilities spontaneously, you have developed a way of explaining what you do. (As opposed to someone who took a course and would end up describing things using the terminology of the system they studied.)
Chances are no one else will have used exactly the same concepts and words, but I suspect what you are doing is not very different from what others do. I suggest you do some reading on the work of various healers and I think you’ll find that others describe similar experiences.