Spirituality/General: Physician Heal Thyself by Sean Bradley

According to Sean Bradley, many New Age healers could learn a valuable lesson from Jesus' words in the Bible - if only they'd listen.

How many times in our life have we been faced with the words, "Physician Heal Thyself?" Yes, these are challenging words for all who embrace truth, but none more so than the healer or holistic therapist who engages in spiritual healing or holistic therapies with their client groups.

I accept that the best healers or therapists, are those who have been broken in their mind, body and spirit. In order to help or assist another achieve wellness and wholeness, we have a primary duty of care towards self. Yet, I know that there are many therapists who practice spiritual healing and holism who are still continuing to work from a place of imbalance. It would appear that one has become indifferent to the “Cries of the Heart” to “self heal.”

As a former nursing monk and qualified nurse with 38 years experience in the caring ministry, I realize to my own deep sadness that for the best part of my life I was “The Rescuer.” Yes, I was the “Person Pleaser” or a member of the “Cling On Family,” whose professional life sustained “Burnout” on more than one occasion. Because I found it difficult to say "no" to others, for fear of been despised or rejected, I literally gave my power away for others to hurt me on many levels. So, I was to blame, not they, as I was in their control like a puppet on a string! Thankfully, a major life crisis in 1997 was to become my “Spiritual Breakthrough.” Over a four-year period of living in the wilderness of self-loathing, despair, fear and wracked by Catholic guilt, I eventually was targeted by the Angelic Realms, the Messengers of Love, to say, “enough.” In my heart, I knew that what they were inviting me to do was to hear the words of Sananda Jesus, “Physician Heal thyself before daring to heal others.” I was literally kicked where it really hurt so that I could activate the “self healing process” and unlock many years of inner mental and emotional turmoil.

Many clients who have since sought my help as an intuitive spiritual counsellor, therapist or retreat director, have come seeking clarity and healing. There are those who demand that I provide a sticky plaster to eradicate their baggage without any personal accountability or even responsibility. There are others who are self obsessed and seek a psychic message to agree with them, or they insist through their body language and verbosity that I engage in massaging their humongous egos whilst stuck in the idolatry of self. Then there are those who come with an open heart to receive whatever the universe has in store for them. They come with a receptive heart and, in turn, they receive the ‘Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven’ to self heal and change their lives in the process, all because they are willing to trust their heart. Their ardent prayers have been answered in a profound yet simple way and they leave totally at peace within.

To self heal and be used as an instrument of spiritual healing for self and others, we are strongly encouraged by our Spiritual Guides, the Archangels and God to remain always in our Heart Center and avoid the egoist self. The reason why so many Light Workers are operating in negative energy is because they are either reluctant to accept positive advice, or have become spiritually complacent or arrogant to the high vibrational energies that are now coming through. Again, as individuals, we have a duty to safeguard the spiritual gifts that we have been given, and this involves speaking our truth and taking back our power from others so that we can operate from a place of balance. To ignore our heart and reject that intuitive gut instinct is to do ourselves a grave disservice. Our negative actions and attitudes will have an indirect detrimental impact energetically upon those we have agreed to support. So, "Physician Heal Thyself" is not something new, but a challenge given to everyone to remain detached from ego and the adulation of personal opinion. Self healing involves personal pain, but light is not too far behind!

If we operate from a heart infused with Divine Love and our words challenge others to criticise us for daring to speak our truth in love, then that is good too, as it is real medicine for the soul in it’s progression along the pathway that leads to our spiritual destiny.

To conclude, my heart is reminded why Mother Mary continues to speak to ordinary men and women today. Mother Mary, together with the entire Angelic Host, daily invites all mankind, including her Ministers from the various religious families in our communities, to listen to their heart and receive spiritual love that is the fuel for our spiritual life in service with the Divine within. We are each invited by Mother Mary to do the ordinary things extraordinary well whilst not forsaking a life of prayer and sharing all that we have received from Source.

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