Thought Projection, Distant Healing, and Praying for Others
We have been trained through traditional practices of various sorts, many of which are religious in nature, to pray for others when they’re experiencing crisis or hardship of some kind. We’re also taught to send positive thoughts their way through intention or visualization of some form, which really means thoughts we ourselves consider positive (positive is a relative term), which may or may not be considered positive for person who is suppose to be receiving them. Likewise, we are still invested in the idea of praying to an outside source or divine entity through which we believe we can draw supernatural power or be helped in some way. We’re taught to always look outside of ourselves to God or spiritual masters of some kind, which reside in some imaginary realm and are able to give us or bestow upon us, what we ourselves can’t seem to muster up. Yet power itself only truly exists within us, and only comes into the world through us. Divine or supernatural powers need a physical vehicle in order to act within the material world. We’re only capable of acting as a receiver for and utilizing powers that we ourselves are aligned with and are similar to in terms of our moral nature and character.
If we completely put the idea of karma aside, though it’s what we can rightfully call an absolute law, and look exclusively at the power of thought, we can further see how this idea of praying for another produces no real effect, except in us. Thoughts that are aroused in response to something, and formulated for the purpose of directing them towards someone else in an attempt to somehow influence their mind, and therefore alter their physical condition, produces no meaningful effect (in them) because it usually operates against law, and works through an attempt to violate choice and free will of the person the imagined thoughts are being directed towards. Thought itself is only powerful in terms of influence, when it’s sincere, concentrated on and built up over time, and if the person directing it has well developed will power. Thoughts, in order to be effective for another must be free of selfishness or any form of self-motivated agendas or personal beliefs (even of the most positive nature), and must be sustained through a consistent mindset. Very few people, especially in our modern day society of constant distraction and coercion, scattered mindset and blatant inability to concentrate for even a short time, our thoughts are hardly even concentrated or powerful, don’t travel very far, and are nearly always ineffectual. They dissolve almost as soon as they’re formed. If they do take shape and gain momentum, only those of a similar mindset can sense them or feel their mental influence.
Thoughts, even when concentrated and absent of self-motivated ideas, can only be received by another person whose mind is in a passive and receptive state, and who is of the same will or consciousness (frequency) of the person sending them. As long as a mind is active and full of self-oriented thoughts and feelings, it can’t receive any thoughts and feelings being transmitted through the field from another. Most people have constant thoughts running through their mind and are not tuned into being able to receive feelings and ideas being transmitted. Especially those who are having problems or facing a crisis of some sort, in which their mind is probably being run almost exclusively by the anxiety formed in regards to the situation. Anytime a mind is in an active state, it can’t act as a receiver. It has to be relaxed, in a passive mode, and free of constant thoughts, and able to sympathize with the ideas available in the conscious field around them in order to connect with them, take them in, hold them by fixating attention on them, and begin thinking about them until they become an internal reality as a possibility. Once a new possibility is realized, they have to choose it over the current reality, and bring it into fruition through willful action. None of us have the ability to violate the choice and free will of another, do their healing for them, or decide in what way they need to heal, and why.
Every life situation and set of circumstances are the product of personal and group karma. Karma is what we call the absolute law, and is basically the law of cause and effect in terms of self-creation through life experiences. While we tend to believe that the soul resides in a fundamental state of innocence, where it doesn’t deserve whatever happens to it, which of course is an extension of victim mentality or a belief that the universe is basically unjust and picks on people for no reason, or that events are random and not interrelated, where there are no consequences to what we set into motion through our own thoughts and behaviors, in reality, everything happens to us at the personal level as a result of our own thoughts and actions as a reciprocal correspondence. Because of the time lapse involved, we often fail to recognize it as the reciprocation of our own actions. We act to draw on ourselves the results of our own attitudes, beliefs and behaviors, where we are on the receiving end, and therefore experiencing the same idea from the opposite perspective, which comes as what we call a life lesson as a direct reflection that allows us to see and understand our own psychological make-up and what areas or in what way we are invested in errors in how we think and perceive.
Just as we are solely responsible for creating ourselves, we’re also solely responsible for healing ourselves (mentally, physically, emotionally, and morally), which only comes through self-realization of what we’ve done or are doing that’s causing it. We are both the cause and effect of our own life. We are truly self-determined in a purely unconscious sense. The only true form of helping another person heal by becoming aware of their own mental errors (patterns), is through compassion. To form compassion for another isn’t to feel sorry for them, or through empathy where we take on the same feelings and perspective, viewing life through their eyes, so to speak, but rather taking a neutral position of witnessing. When we act as a witness to someones experience we create a safe space (relinquish all judgment and all creative interaction) for them to self-reflect, and we serve to reflect back to them their own story about things without tainting or altering it through our emotions and mental paradigm, thereby changing it to conform to our personal perception of them, and as a result, they’re able to see it by projecting it onto a neutral and nonreactive mindset. We’re only able to see our own mind by telling our story where it’s not being manipulated or altered by the perception and reaction of another.
When we hold space for another as a neutral and shared atmosphere, and we withhold all judgment and the tendency to view their life through our paradigm, where we modify what they experience to be the same as we would have experience in that same situation, and interact by sympathizing or discussing it rationally, or by feeling the need to correct them, advise them, or somehow comfort them, we don’t act as a mirror, but instead begin projecting onto them our own opinions about them, and a phenomenon called transference takes place. When we’re able to keep our mind and energy separate from theirs, and not react emotionally to anything that they say, while formulating what they’re talking about in our mind in an objective manner and simply understand what it was like for them from their perspective, without interacting in any way, we mirror their experience back to them in an unadulterated form, and they’re able to gain new awareness around it as a result.
Through the realization formed through self-awareness, they’re able to become aware of what they were previously unaware of, and see what’s been operating at an unconscious level within their own psyche. All healing comes only through self-awareness that brings a deeper form of self-realization. We can only work with and act on ourselves to change what we’re aware of and know. Through awareness we’re empowered with our ability to consciously choose and willfully implement the ideas gained from the realization. We bring forth what was previously hidden in the dark, and we begin working consciously and effectually with the law of cause and effect, and transform ourselves according to our own thoughts, emotions, and actions.
Integrative Health Consultant and Spiritual Mentor
