What is Healing?

In healing the healer regards him or herself as a channel between a source of healing energy and the patient whose bodily ills recover as a result of the healing of his or her soul. There are many different theories as to the origin of this energy and many different specific forms of healing.

Christian Healing

Ultimately all healing comes from God: this includes healing brought about by all medical intervention: surgery, medication, physical and cognitive therapy. A scientist who was a Christian is quoted as saying: 'I am privileged to think God's thoughts after Him.'

Medical science is making new discoveries every day But wonderful as modern medicine is it is not enough. It is not comprehensive, it is expensive and it is not available to everyone, even in first world countries. Even then healing of bodily and mental ills is not enough. Holistic healing would include the needs of the whole person: body, soul and spirit. So any healing that only offers relief of bodily ills, even when successful and celebrated, is inadequate.

The soul is recognized as the seat of the personality, the will, the mind and the emotions.

A very large percentage of sickness originates in these areas. We are all motivated and governed by our thought-life. Until a person is at peace with themselves, the disorder within will produce physical and mental illness.

The spirit is that faculty which can communicate with God our Maker who has the blueprint of all that we are and can become. Until we are at peace with Him we will not be able to achieve anywhere near full health and maintain it. He brings peace to the very core of our being and this permeates outwards to our minds and bodies. It is free and available to all who ask for it.

When we obey the command to 'heal the sick in the Name of Jesus' we are not so much a channel of healing, but more His representative with His authority to claim God’s power to transform the person body, soul and spirit.

My thanks to Rev Kirsten Coulter for this introduction (ed.))

Kirsten has written a couple of good books. read about them and buy them. Her blog is also worth a read

Healing is one of Natural Remedies from Shared Care's talking therapies together with BodyTalk, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Hypnosis, Life Coaching, Meditation and Neurolinguistic Programming.

For details about how we classify our natural remedies and the lists see the natural remedies home page