A Community Voice Article

by Susan Gerken

Ideas About Healing and Spirituality

Diagnosis from a medical standpoint is naming an illness or condition on the basis of testing and symptoms. Prognosis is what is expected as a result of the diagnosis. Medically I seek a cure, a relief of symptoms, by doing physical things such as taking medications, exercising, eating healthy, surgery, etc.

From a metaphysical standpoint, diagnosis is the condition. Prognosis is the underlying reality. By belief in being one with a perfect God and belief in my underlying perfection, I can use mind to uncover the divine perfect pattern in me. This is healing. I can love myself back to my soul self. This perfect pattern is in others as individuals and as groups, as well. It is in situations, it is in the physical world, it is in everything, and any of these things can be healed, their perfect pattern uncovered and revealed.

Ernest Holmes wrote - “We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind.” My understanding of this spiritual principles continues to deepen. One of the things that strikes me in this Declaration is the wording “this Mind”. Not my mind, but “this Mind.” This is not a matter of willing myself healed with my human mind. Healing from a metaphysical standpoint is uncovering the divine perfect pattern of the thing that appears to be wrong.

My mind is God’s mind in that I am a manifestation of God. God is perfect and therefore so am I (and all humans). But our perfect centers have been covered up with many false beliefs and fears. It is through God that I must lay these beliefs down to reveal the Truth of who I am. The truth is that I am an eternal divine being and there is a perfect pattern at the center of myself and of everything.

This Declaration rings true now that I have a better understanding that I can only heal to the extent that I can believe in my connection with Spirit. I must have no doubt, and I must deeply feel and believe in the underlying perfection of myself or any person or thing as a part of God, a perfect manifestation of God.

Spiritual Mind Treatment for healing is about knowing the perfection that underlies the condition. To be effective I must truly believe this, and deeply feel it. And while I cannot will healing to take place, I believe in the power of declaring and affirming my truth. The new piece for me is the understanding that it is uncovering this perfection through the one Mind that supports my affirmation.

I can pray a 5 Step prayer for healing regularly. I ground myself first in remembering that God is good and creative and love and life affirming and that God is perfect. Then, I continue a practice of affirming that I am energy, I am perfect health, I am the light, etc. I affirm that I am one with God and that all those attributes are mine also.

I can remember to affirm perfect assimilation, perfect circulation and perfect elimination. I try to feel the perfect working of my various organs and systems. I agree that attaching strong emotion to an affirmation makes it more effective, somehow closer to God. I believe that if I had the deep belief in Spirit and my connection with it that Jesus had, I would be as my true spiritual self.

I have silently talked to my cells and encouraged them and told them how much I appreciate them cooperating and working together to make my body strong and flexible and energized and healthy. I have visualized my soul as a shining light in the center of my body with lessons and joy spiraling around it, and the light shining out through my entire body and energizing and motivating every cell.

I am working on staying grounded in the belief that I am one with a perfect God, and that is how everything, including healing, is possible!