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By Rusty Stewart, Ph.D..

It does matter! There is a profound difference between healing and magic and there are many layers of illusion. Let me explain. True healing is the healing of all fear and fear takes many forms. Fear is anything that is not of Love for Love can have no opposite. True Love is our essence hidden under the masks and dramas we play out in life. It's these dramas or life lessons that eventually remind us that we are Love. And when we experience Love in its entirety we are totally healed. Everything else is an illusion and magic. In other words, all other healing methods are bridges we cross along the way till we find our way back to Love. Incidentally, for those of you who are curious, the only way back to Love is forgiveness. However, forgiveness is an illusion too since there is nothing to forgive. In true reality, nobody has done anything to us, we have done nothing to anybody else, and, we have done nothing to ourselves. Its all part of the dream we are playing out because we are choosing to experience our lives exactly as it is unfolding moment by moment. All events are neutral. It is our interpretation of the events that gives them meaning. So I ask you to choose again, for true healing occurs in the Holy Instant. This entire paragraph is from the thought system of ACIM (A Course In Miracles, 1975).

Now many of you at this point may be thinking, well that's all well and good but I need practical ways to heal in the world of bodies and form. I hear ya! I'm right with you! Been there, thought that and still think that too at times! Fortunately, both ACIM and TWOM (The Way Of Mastery, 2000), a companion text to ACIM, acknowledge the obstacles along the journey back home to Love or God. It doesn't matter what magic we choose to heal while we are experiencing the separation in our bodies as long as we are joining with the oneness of Divinity. So the rest of this article touches on the magic I find to be the most integrative and complete in healing my experiences of fear in my dream. Fear shows up in mind, body, and spirit. Another way of looking at this is we have to heal the emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of ourselves. These aspects when engaged in magic healing can aid us in waking up out of the nightmare of limitation and fear. Magic can be yoga, ACIM, TWOM, breathwork, energywork, meditation, psychotherapy, medications, surgery, or as I said earlier forgiveness.

What I do find is important is to take a whole-istic approach. Educate yourself holistically. Find out how everything is connected to everything else. Look for the source of dis-ease, illness, trauma, or fear. The symptoms rarely tell the story; they are just beginning points of the healing journey. This is what I meant earlier when I said there are layers of healing within the illusion. Treating the symptoms with pills may be necessary, but it is crucial that you go deeper to find the source of the problem so you can eventually wean back or off the pills. Learn about quantum physics. Read, absorb, and integrate a wonderful book by Gregg Braden called “The Divine Matrix.” Read about shamanism and different indigenous cultures and how they approach healing. There are thousands of years of healing wisdom from all these precious indigenous peoples! Spend time being silent and still. Take back your minds, take care of your bodies, feel what you need to feel in the moment without judgment, and connect to you Divine Goddess-self! And do this all holistically! Everything is connected! Nothing exists in isolation!

In closing I'd like to implore all of us to wake-up because life is not a dress rehearsal! Now that we have awakened, let's lighten-up and not take life so seriously! Let's have fun playing out our dramas! Let's have fun healing! After all, we have chosen our script. Now it's time to change the script. It is in our power, for we are all Gods and Goddesses incarnate! We can choose forgiveness and shorten the illusion. We can choose to join with the Divine that exists everywhere. We can choose to heal holistically within the dream and journey across the bridge to true healing! And lastly don't forget the most profound miracle of all, we can choose again in every moment! Enjoy all the holidays of the late summer and early autumn seasons! God Bless!

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., Yoga Living, September/October 2007