At a certain point in one's development as a healer or spiritual person, as we realize a deeper and more expansive connection with the Divine, there starts to be less and less of a distinction between the phrases "God heals people through me" and "I heal people" because as we become more One with God, they are one and the same.
In fact, it starts to feel disingenuous to say, "I am but a channel for God's healing powers" because it creates an untruth. If I genuinely feel that I am one with God, but say that I am only a channel for God, then it creates a false separation between me and God. Thus, to say that I am "but a vessel, a channel, an instrument of God" becomes an act of confining, constraining, and minimizing the grace, light, and healing power that is available to me when I allow myself to be God - or allow God to be me. To say I am "only" this or that, becomes denial God's truth expressing itself as me, and becomes an act of self-abnegation. If I deny God and myself this way, it becomes destructive, because to try to contain the divine when it's trying to express itself through me -- or squash it out of awareness -- eventually becomes seriously painful (yes, I tried it - bad plan). It just ends up being a disservice to God, to myself, and to those who may have been waiting for me to show up and share what I've learned with the world.
Am I a perfect human in a complete state of grace? Yes and No. It's more that I am perfect in my imperfection. I can sometimes struggle with my own personal challenges -- for which I too seek help and healing. We all exist in a compete state of grace at all times ... and simultaneously we can have lives that are perfectly human, brimming with interesting personal challenges for us to work through.
Doing healing work is one of the practices that brings me into the realization of my Oneness with God. When I am doing-being a healing I sometimes experience that Oneness as a state of egolessness that is simultaneously a state of total surrender, of incredible power, and of unconditional love.
I understand that it may look egotistical or megalomaniacal from the outside for me to claim some degree of godhood, or to claim that you can achieve it too. From the inside, however, it feels like a most natural and comfortable thing, a relaxed and true expression of who and what I am.
After all, isn't God everywhere, in all things, including you? What if God were to one day tap you on the shoulder and say gently, "Hey there, hello, wake up. I'd like to experience Myself as you now."
What would you do if that day were today? If you were going to share with God the most complete expression of you-ness, the Ding an sich (thing-in-itself) of your purest essence, independent of form, what would that feel like? Of course God already knows you in fullness. But do you know you? Do you know yourself as God knows you? When you do feel most like yourself? What are you doing at those times? How could you express the essence of who you are more in the world?
In fact, it starts to feel disingenuous to say, "I am but a channel for God's healing powers" because it creates an untruth. If I genuinely feel that I am one with God, but say that I am only a channel for God, then it creates a false separation between me and God. Thus, to say that I am "but a vessel, a channel, an instrument of God" becomes an act of confining, constraining, and minimizing the grace, light, and healing power that is available to me when I allow myself to be God - or allow God to be me. To say I am "only" this or that, becomes denial God's truth expressing itself as me, and becomes an act of self-abnegation. If I deny God and myself this way, it becomes destructive, because to try to contain the divine when it's trying to express itself through me -- or squash it out of awareness -- eventually becomes seriously painful (yes, I tried it - bad plan). It just ends up being a disservice to God, to myself, and to those who may have been waiting for me to show up and share what I've learned with the world.
Am I a perfect human in a complete state of grace? Yes and No. It's more that I am perfect in my imperfection. I can sometimes struggle with my own personal challenges -- for which I too seek help and healing. We all exist in a compete state of grace at all times ... and simultaneously we can have lives that are perfectly human, brimming with interesting personal challenges for us to work through.
Doing healing work is one of the practices that brings me into the realization of my Oneness with God. When I am doing-being a healing I sometimes experience that Oneness as a state of egolessness that is simultaneously a state of total surrender, of incredible power, and of unconditional love.
I understand that it may look egotistical or megalomaniacal from the outside for me to claim some degree of godhood, or to claim that you can achieve it too. From the inside, however, it feels like a most natural and comfortable thing, a relaxed and true expression of who and what I am.
After all, isn't God everywhere, in all things, including you? What if God were to one day tap you on the shoulder and say gently, "Hey there, hello, wake up. I'd like to experience Myself as you now."
What would you do if that day were today? If you were going to share with God the most complete expression of you-ness, the Ding an sich (thing-in-itself) of your purest essence, independent of form, what would that feel like? Of course God already knows you in fullness. But do you know you? Do you know yourself as God knows you? When you do feel most like yourself? What are you doing at those times? How could you express the essence of who you are more in the world?