Since healing is a natural process, that unfolds wherever there is a relationship between essence and form (everywhere), we can all participate in it. Let us be clear: healing has many aspects to it. Ask a room full of people to put up their hands if they are healers, and unless each person in that room is a therapist, few hands will go up. This is because there is a misconception about healing. Healing is not just about practising a therapy one has trained in: it is more broad than this. It occurs in everyday life, in any scenario, where choices that uphold wholeness prevail over choices that uphold separation or division.

         Why practise healing in the first place? There is no compulsion to do so. The exploration of the relationship between form and essence has created a game in which there are no rules as such. However, by choosing to create healing by touching our essence and helping essence to be revealed by form, we move towards self-realisation and tap the power that comes from identifying with our essence. That power enables us to connect consciously with everything and to release the pain that was created by acting out the belief of separation. When more and more people make this choice together, which begins when each person makes the choice individually, war and conflict will cease, love and peace will prevail, and the synergy of our increased interconnectivity will make available to us the enormous power of co-creation. In short, we get more out of life and release ourselves from suffering.

         Healing can be practised in many different forms. Yet, whenever it is practised, it will be multidimensional in nature. That is because life is multidimensional. For instance, when relationships between people are being healed, there will be changes on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level. The more that we focus the healing on all dimensions of life, the more powerful the healing will be. This is why conventional diplomacy can fail to bring about peace, or why the manufacture of drugs to treat the symptoms of an illness can fail to eradicate the illness itself: true healing does not occur.

         Given the fact that we can all heal, and given the fact that we always create our own reality, there are really no victims in this universe, although it is easy sometimes to think so. This is not being disrespectful or heartless to people who are suffering or have suffered. For sure, there do appear to be innocent people who suffer, but in truth that is no more than a judgment on the part of whoever is observing, from their limited perspective. It is important to realise that there is always a bigger picture to reality and that for a person to create suffering for themselves they do not necessarily have to be consciously willing to suffer. This makes sense when we realise that the unconscious mind is often more powerful at creating our reality than the conscious mind.

         Let us move on to some practical suggestions for working. The first thing we need to be aware of is that we live in a multidimensional reality. This means two things. Firstly, it means that the physical world that we perceive is only a small aspect of a much larger multidimensional reality. In other words, we have incomplete information if we are just using our physical senses to assess a situation. The field of perception is likely to be a small percentage of what is truly available to us. Secondly, it means that there is a lot more that we can work on than we can perceive with our physical senses. So what can appear as a helpless situation from a purely physical standpoint may be easily remedied from a multidimensional standpoint, or at least the situation will be given greater meaning from such a standpoint.

         Most of us have not been taught to develop as a multidimensional being. The closest we have got in recent history is with religion, new age practices, and the experimentation with psychedelic drugs. Yet all three have tended to be used within the overriding context of political societies that depend on people giving away their power, and so their use has been limited. The fact that we have not been taught to develop as a multidimensional being may explain why there is so much suffering in our world. It is no surprise that the pineal gland - the gland which produces powerful hormones to open us to other dimensions - begins to calcify as early as five, six, or seven years of age, and that its heavy calcification in adulthood is taken as the norm by the medical profession.

         If we have not been taught to develop ourselves as a multidimensional being, we may not have much trust in our ability to develop in this way. There may also be personal fears about doing so, for one reason or another. Yet we can all begin the exploration of multidimensional reality as part of our own healing, so long as we have no resistance. There are many tools, teachings, and initiations that claim to open us up to multidimensional reality, but these, while they can be useful, are sometimes a diversion and a means for control, for the 'lifting of the veils' is something that we can only truly do for ourselves.

         By developing a non-resistance to our experience, which will be helped if we do not fear or over-rationalise it, we will be well on the way to expanding our potential as a healer. Be prepared to cultivate and use the imagination to aid your multidimensional development. The imagination is not useless for acquiring accurate information, despite what we are told by mainstream society, for the imagination is the means for subconscious and superconscious information to be made conscious. Some of this information will be multidimensional in nature, which means that it will be formed from our sensitivity to non-ordinary as well as ordinary realities. The more that we experience our unlimited identity without resistance, the more sensitive we will become to multidimensional reality, for we will be moving beyond conventional boundaries of experience.

         Meditation, sitting quietly, or entering trance-like or daydream states all induce the same characteristic brainwave states that enable us to open up to multidimensional reality. When we are in these states we can use our imagination or sensitivity to explore the multidimensional nature of our world. Sometimes the information you receive will not make complete sense, and sometimes no sense at all, but try not to analyse at this stage and try to go along with the images, senses, words, or feelings that you may get. Often you will be working with symbolic rather than literal information, anyway, for it is far easier to communicate symbolic information when the communication is between different realities.

         Once you are confident in opening up to a multidimensional reality, it then becomes possible to work with the power of intent to manifest positive change within other realities, in order for positive change to manifest in our physical reality. Some people will scoff at the idea of affecting change at a distance, let alone by doing so through another reality, but only because they fail to see how interconnected we are with our environment, and how many dimensions make up our reality. At one level we are one with everything, in whatever dimension, so the ability to affect anything anywhere is not so ridiculous.

         There are many ways of working as a healer. Sometimes it is enough to create a resonance for change by holding a vision or intention and empowering it with the force of multidimensional reality. This is often the basis for the success of prayer. We can empower the vision or intention by holding it in focus with the fullness of our being - which means that we hold the focus using an identity that has expanded to incorporate physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual reality. The power of physical reality is sometimes overlooked, but it actually serves to ground the healing.

         The vision or intention may be formed perfectly in a multidimensional manner, accompanied by the desire and expectation for it to manifest, but that does not mean that it will necessarily manifest in physical reality. That can sometimes depend on how much other people and the Earth's energy field are resonating with that vision. In some cases, until there is a degree of resonance, the vision or intention will remain in a different dimension, and will either fade in time, or remain available to manifest in future, particularly if it is reinvigorated by repeatedly focusing on the vision or intention. This information will hopefully encourage healers who despair when their work seems to have no effect. It is important, though, to try not to question whether a particular healing will or will not manifest in physical reality, for that questioning can create doubt within us which can then block the manifestation of healing by canceling out our expectation.

         What you are doing is in a sense a form of remote viewing and healing, but remember that there are times when your imagination will be working with symbolic rather than literal information. This does not mean that this process is all happening in your head, but rather that your multidimensional experience will tend to be translated through the imagination, rather than the rational mind. The actual exploration and healing occurs when an energetic connection is made between dimensions, which is greatly facilitated by the expansion of consciousness and identity. If you realise that you are in effect exploring different parts of your universal self, which manifests as these multidimensional realms, the process of identification with these realms will strengthen your multidimensional connection. Now, some people may be in fear because they think they should not identify with things that are undesirable, in case they take on those undesirable qualities. So let us be clear, the identification is with the 'universal mind' itself, rather than exclusively with one of its individual contents. When we are able to identify with the universal mind itself, the judgment we have about its contents will rapidly fall away anyway, not least because we will realise that the same essence underlies all forms.

         As we journey into other dimensions we will be looking for areas in need of healing. We are hardly likely to know where these areas are unless we allow ourselves to be attracted to them through our intent, or ask for guidance from the part of us that already knows, for there is be a part of us that is already in touch with everything everywhere. So it is important when beginning the healing journey to have a clear intention of what you are setting out to do, and to declare this intention so that it becomes active. Remember that your intention should not be based on a personal desire to fix the whole universe, for this is the ego at work. Rather, it should be based on the desire to respond to what is available to you for healing, and what is appropriate for you to heal. Get the expectations and judgments of the rational mind out of the way and allow the situation to present itself, which it will if you are allowing yourself to be attracted or guided to where you can best help as a healer.

         It can be useful to know before you begin the healing what specific issue you wish to offer healing to, for then you can be quite focused in your intent. When your intent is more focused, you create a stronger energetic link, whereas when you intent is vague or general, you create a weaker, albeit broader energetic link. However, either approach can be successful, and over time you will learn to determine when one is more appropriate than the other.

         In my work I sometimes find it useful to work on issues that are energetically highlighted by the prevailing astrological trends for a particular time. While astrology is treated with skepticism by our materialistic culture, which is not helped by the generalisations made by a lot of newspaper and magazine astrologers - who, to be fair, are trying to earn a living through their column - I have found it to be quite accurate when all astrological indicators are considered for a specific time. In particular I would suggest that you consider using the time of a New Moon or Full Moon, or of certain exact aspects between planets, to decide when to begin a healing, while the astrological interpretations of these events will provide possible themes to work with in your healing. To decide on which theme to go with, see which theme you resonate most with, and whether it might be relevant to current affairs. If you wish to explore this way of working (it may not be for everyone) then I recommend that you subscribe to my free Global Meditation Bulletin and Earth Healing Newsletter, which both contain this kind of information. You can subscribe through the form on my website at www.worldhealing.co.uk For lunar astrology you can visit my page at www.worldhealing.co.uk/risingearth/moon.html, and follow the links at the bottom. Another useful source of astrological information is the free e-mail newsletter, the Galactic Times, which is produced by Philip Sedgwick (e-mail: [email protected]).