During this time of year as we approach the winter solstice on December 21 and the daylight hours grow shorter, our appreciation of and desire for light starts to grow and intensify. This desire to connect with and open to the light creates a wonderful opportunity to practice visualization. Visualizing light during meditation helps us train our mind by focusing our attention.
In The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch, Dora Kunz with Dolores Krieger write: “In meditation you are focusing your thinking. Sometimes, when you begin to meditate, you will not be able to focus on anything.
You can help your concentration by thinking of expanding the consciousness. The sense of expansion is universal in meditation, but it sometimes lasts only a minute because the restless mind shifts to something else. To stop your mind from wandering, I suggest that you visualize your consciousness as expanding in light — a natural symbol of consciousness for many people. Visualization helps to focus the mind, and that steadies it. You will then have much more control and light will become an unconscious symbol of the inner self for you “(p.53).
As your visualization skills develop through intentional practice, you will be able to apply them within the context of the Therapeutic Touch session. Opening yourself to be an Instrument of Healing at the start of a session, can help you visualize your Inner Self as the Light Within gaining strength and power. Seeing the healee’s Inner Self as Light also, connects the two fields, the healer’s and the healee’s, and has them slowly merge and become one, as you move through the Therapeutic Touch session.
The Universal Light and life giving force flows through your field to the healee’s facilitating an energy transfer while activating and enabling the healing process. Our Inner Self, the Light Within, knows when the session is coming to an end, dimming its light much like a dimmer switch, creating space and an opportunity for the healer to witness the healee’s ability to “stand alone” in their light. As we prepare to end the session, in the transition from being ONE field back into two fields, we can take a moment to appreciate the miracle of healing by attending to the healee, paying special attention to the quality of their Inner Light, the quality of our own Inner Light, and the effect the healing intervention has had while giving thanks for the opportunity to be of service.
Appreciating the gift of healing strengthens our commitment to our own healing path as we grow through our practice of Therapeutic Touch.
Julia von Flotow RT
This article was first published in in touch, The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario’ quarterly newsletter, December 2013 issue.
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