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This is the most important paper of the Apprentice grade, the one that explains the basics of Essene energy healing. If you intend to receive attunement, this set of practices should be done daily from now on. (Those readers who have worked with the Greater Mysteries degrees of the Dolmen Arch will recognize some similarities between this material and the work they have learned. The two methods of healing are not identical but they're closely related and can be combined. Experimentation will show how to do this.)
The Essene Healing Hands
This is the core healing method of the Modern Order of Essenes, a system of spiritual healing that directs divine healing energy toward yourself or another person. Please review the notes on spiritual healing in the first Candidate lecture before learning this, and again before using the Healing Hands for the first time. Remember that this is a way of spiritual healing, not a medical modality, and it does not treat or cure any medical condition. Central to the Essene teaching is a simple but crucial concept: only the Divine can heal.
Empowering Your Healing Hands, Step One
The best time to empower your Healing Hands is the first thing in the morning. It can be done either preceding or following your daily devotions or Essene Healing Breath. The best recommendation of the Master Essene Healers as a group is to first place yourself in a Sphere of Protection. This can be done by using any technique you prefer.
The second recommendation of the Master Essene Healers as a group is to do your daily prayers or devotions inside this Sphere of Protection followed by your Essene Healing Breath or other form of meditation. Then empower your Healing Hands.
You empower your Healing Hands by tracing an inverted triangle on the palm of your left hand with your right index finger. Start the triangle at the base of your left palm not more than one inch above the wrist-lines below your palm. Trace the triangle from there to the base of our left index finger, across to the base of your left little finger, and back to the point of beginning. Visualize this triangle as being blue in color. This blue triangle is a symbol for the feminine Element of Water.
Continue on the palm of your left hand by drawing a circle around your left palm with your right index finger. When you reach the point of origination, draw a straight line from there up your wrist about as long as your palm is tall. Bring your right index finger back to the point of origination for both symbols and visualize the circle and tail as being green in color. This green circle and tail is a symbol for the feminine Element of Earth.
These symbols are drawn on the left palm because the left hand is the feminine hand. The left hand is connected to the left side of the body and the left leg. The symbols are drawn by the index finger of the masculine hand. The downward pointing blue triangle is an ancient symbol for the Element of Water. The green circle with a downward-pointing tail is an ancient symbol for the Element of Earth. The colors of blue for the Element of Water and green for the Element of Earth are assignments made by the Golden Dawn based on ancient teachings of the Qabalah.
Empowering Your Healing Hands, Step Two
You continue empowering your Healing Hands by tracing an upright triangle on the palm of your right hand with your left index finger. Start the triangle at a point just below the gap between your ring and middle fingers. Trace the triangle down to the base of your thumb, straight across to the outside edge of your palm, and back to the point of beginning. Visualize this triangle as being red in color. This red triangle is a symbol for the masculine Element of Fire.
Continue on the palm of your right hand by drawing a circle around your right palm with your left index finger, starting in the same place where you started the triangle. When you reach the point of origination, draw a straight line from there up between and to the tips of your second and third fingers. Visualize the circle and tail as being yellow in color. This yellow circle and tail is a symbol for the masculine Element of Air.
These symbols are drawn on the right palm because the right hand is the masculine hand. The right hand is connected to the right side of the body and the right leg. The symbols are drawn by the index finger of the feminine hand. The upward pointing red triangle is an ancient symbol for the Element of Fire. The yellow circle with a upward-pointing tail is an ancient symbol for the Element of Air. The colors of red for the Element of Fire and yellow for the Element of Air are assignments made by the Golden Dawn based on ancient teachings of the Qabalah.
A very deep esoteric teaching is hidden in the empowering methods of the Modern Essenes. The right hand (masculine) is used to empower the left (feminine), and the left hand (feminine) is used to empower the right (masculine). Once empowered the flow of energy is from the right (masculine) to the left (feminine). The masculine and feminine empower each other and both are required for the Divine Healing Energy to flow through us and our clients. For energy to flow there must be an active element and a receptive element, that which flows out and that which receives the flow.
The right hand (masculine) transmits this energy outward while the left hand (feminine) collects the energy. The energy flows through us as a healer and our client. This is in keeping with the ancient teachings of the Qabalah. This energy is called the Divine Healing Energy when it is used for healing but it is also called the Unconditional Love of the Universe.
Empowering Your Healing Hands, Step Three
The point of beginning for the symbols for the feminine Elements at the middle of the base of your left palm is called the Essene Healing Jewel. You have an Essene Healing Jewel in a similar position on your right hand. Empowering and activating your Essene Healing Hands is accomplished by first drawing the appropriate symbols on both your right and left hands, then bringing the Essene Healing Jewels together and allowing the energy to flow.
Your hands are brought together with your left hand held horizontally and your right hand vertically (ninety degrees or a quarter of a circle to each other). That is, the right hand is held with the palm to the left and the fingers pointing up, and the left hand is held with the palm to the right and the fingers pointing forward, away from your body. The beginning point for tracing the feminine Elements on your left hand is your left-hand Essene Healing Jewel. As you will see this same point is not used for the masculine Elements.
The energy flows from your right shoulder down through your right hand into your left hand and up your left arm to your left shoulder and then across your body to your right shoulder. The Essene healing energy always flows out from your right hand and into your left hand. Once the energy is felt as flowing strongly and freely your hands have been empowered. This same technique will be used to activate your Healing Hands any time during the day. The procedure is to empower your Healing Hands first thing in the morning and then activate them, using the same method, whenever you need to use your Healing Hands.
Activating Your Healing Hands
The same techniques used to empower your hands are used to activate your Healing Hands prior to using them for a healing session. As you become proficient with this technique, your hands will already be activated as you prepare for a healing session. When you reach this point, you can activate your Healing Hands by bringing your Essene Healing Jewels together and allowing the energy to flow.
It’s important for beginners to both empower their hands first thing in the morning and to go through the entire process again to activate their Healing Hands for a healing session. It’s helpful for beginners to find a way to do at least two healing sessions a day. These can be face-to-face healing, distance healing or self-healing sessions. The length of these sessions is unimportant. Doing them is more important. A good time is during meal or coffee breaks.
Using Your Healing Hands
In a face-to-face healing session, first activate your healing hands. Then explain to your client the things they need to know about the healing session. Your clients will feel the healing energy coming into them, moving to the place where healing is needed, and them moving out of them. The energy flows through them during the session and will continue to flow through them for the rest of the day. Explain this to your client. Begin the session by placing your hands comfortably in front of you and letting the energy flow according to your intentions. It will go where you intend it to flow and it will accomplish what you intend it to accomplish.
You will feel the energy hitting a wall of resistance as it flows from your right hand. It feels like you are pushing against something that won’t budge. At the same time, you can feel energy flowing into your left hand but not from your client. That energy is coming from the inexhaustible universal supply. Keep it flowing.
Within a few seconds you’ll feel the energy flowing through your client. You may now lower your hands and the healing energy will continue to flow through your client until sleep interrupts the flow. Having opened the circuit you are no longer needed. The Essene Healing Energy will continue to flow from the Universe, through your client and back to the Universe. As it flows, this healing energy will bring the Unconditional Love of the Divine to your client, and it will remove illness from your client according to the healing intentions stated by you and your client.
Once the Essene Healing Energy is flowing freely, it will continue to flow without any intervention from you. Drop your hands. The healing session is finished.
Your client does not need to be in your presence. Distance healing works just as well and almost as instantaneously as face-to-face healing. The time delay to send the Essene Healing Energy to the other side of the world is less than two seconds. Distance healing can be done at any time during the day. Sessions take a few minutes just as face-to-face sessions. You’ll feel the same “back-pressure” until your client allows the energy to flow. Once the energy is flowing you’ll know your part of the session has been completed.
Self-healing is done in the same manner. You direct the Essene Healing Energy to the place where you want to heal yourself. When the energy is flowing you may withdraw and allow it to continue flowing through you. Surprisingly, you’ll feel the same “back-pressure” as your body resists the flow of the healing energy. As with clients, it only takes a few seconds for your body to cease resisting and allowing the energy to flow.
Deactivating Your Healing Hands
At the end of a healing session, after the healing energy is flowing without any further intervention by you, the Master Essene Healers suggest you deactivate your Healing Hands. You can do this by simply bringing your Essene Healing Jewels together for a few seconds and thanking the Divine for allowing you to be the Healing Hands of the Divine. Then clap your hands quickly and firmly to close off the flow.
As an Apprentice Essene Healer you empower your Healing Hands early each day. When you prepare for a healing session you activate your healing hands. A healing session may include one or more clients in a given block of time. When you’re done with your healing sessions, deactivate your Healing Hands. You may reactivate them any time during the remainder of the day.
When you empower your Healing Hands in the morning you start the energy flowing through you and it will continue to flow through you until you are overtaken by sleep. This energy will serve you by preventing the onset of illness and building up your own immune system. When you later activate your Healing Hands you build a surplus of energy that can be used for healing purposes. When you’re done with your healing session, you deactivate your Healing Hands because you no longer need this “surplus” healing energy.
The Ethics of Using Your Healing Hands
Never use the Healing Hands technique on anyone without their permission. This is an essential rule to follow. Do not assume that everyone wants to be healed! If you observe the people around you, you will find that some desire healing from whatever problems they may face but others do not. Some people cling to their illnesses and their other problems, and they have as much right to do this as people who want to be healed have to seek healing.
The ethics of treating animals, children too young to give consent, and people who are unconscious or otherwise unable to give consent are complex. Generally speaking, if you have the legal right to consent to have medical treatment done for a being or person in this situation, you have the ethical right to perform spiritual healing for them, or to consent that someone else do so. If you are asked by a parent to perform spiritual healing for their child, by a family member to perform spiritual healing for someone who is unconscious or unable to give consent for some other reason, or by the owner of a pet or a livestock animal to perform spiritual healing for the animal, you are generally justified in doing so. In such a situation, however, always pray to the Divine before the healing session, asking that the child, person, or animal only receive spiritual healing if he, she, or it wishes to be healed.
One last caveat: The Essene Healing Hands technique is not a way of hands-on healing—that is to say, you do not touch the client while performing the healing. Partly this is a matter of practical efficacy, since the Healing Hands technique is spiritual rather than physical in nature and is most effective when your contact with the client is similarly spiritual rather than physical. Partly, however, it has to do with legal requirements. In many jurisdictions you are not permitted to touch a client in any healing context, even spiritual healing, unless you are a licensed massage therapist or have some other professional qualification which gives you the legal right to do this. Here again, one may very reasonably object to such laws, but until and unless they are repealed they remain the law in many jurisdictions, and the Modern Order of Essenes does not and cannot recommend violating them.
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Date: 2022-12-15 07:36 pm (UTC)Axé!
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Date: 2022-12-16 03:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-15 08:53 pm (UTC)Two questions:
1) When you visualise the circles and triangles etc., on the palms are they a solid/filled in colour or just lines?
2) When healing do you move the hands or is it purely visual, I understand that you do not touch anyone but, for instance, if you are sending the energy to yourself and following the direction, 'You direct the Essene Healing Energy to the place where you want to heal yourself' do you hover or move your hands to the area you want to heal, or only visualise the energy moving there?
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Date: 2022-12-16 03:16 am (UTC)1) John always recommended filling in the circles and triangles, but I found that for me, it seems to work better as just lines. Try both and see which works for you.
2) You can do it either way. I like to put my hands above the area that most needs healing, but the energy can also be sent there with intention.
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Date: 2022-12-15 09:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2022-12-16 06:36 pm (UTC)Guillem
No. of healings
Date: 2022-12-15 10:08 pm (UTC)And how often is it safe and/or advisable to receive such a healing?
In particular, if somebody would practice mostly on themselves twice a day, would that be an issue?
Milkyway
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Date: 2022-12-16 03:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-15 10:56 pm (UTC)1. The text says „and it will remove illness from your client according to the healing intentions stated by you and your client.“.
So healer and client need to state beforehand what is supposed to be healed? How specific do these healing intentions have to be?
2. Does the client have to be aware of when exactly the healing takes place (in case of a distance healing)?
3. Why does sleep interrupt the healing flow? (That one puzzles me a bit. I‘d have supposee that divine energy continues to flow whether people are awake or asleep.)
Thanks for posting these!!
Milkyway
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Date: 2022-12-16 03:21 am (UTC)2) No.
3) I don't know, but it seems to work that way.
Couple of questions
Date: 2022-12-15 11:12 pm (UTC)Second question, if you'll forgive: Should left-handed people do it the same way, or the opposite. I'm strongly left-handed (and female, in case that should make a difference).
Thanks very much,
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Re: Couple of questions
Date: 2022-12-16 03:23 am (UTC)2) The same way in every case. I'm more left- than right-handed -- I actually have mixed brain dominance, so I'm left-handed for some things and right-handed for others -- and so I asked John about this. He insisted that the energy flow isn't defined by your body or nervous system, and flows the same way for everyone.
Healing the heeling heel of the blue heeler
Date: 2022-12-16 05:10 am (UTC)1. Which direction is best to trace the symbols? Draw them all clockwise or counter clockwise
2. You mentioned briefly the healing walk so if I may. What exactly is to be done during the healing walk besides the physical words and gestures? Or is it simply enough to smile and say “may you enjoy happiness and peace”?
Re: Healing the heeling heel of the blue heeler
Date: 2022-12-16 04:34 pm (UTC)2) That's explained in detail here:
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/208136.html
Generally speaking, if you haven't done so already, please read the entire sequence of posts, starting from the beginning:
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/tag/essenes
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Date: 2022-12-16 08:36 am (UTC)Thanks a million for this. I got a noticeable sensation in the healing jewel area even as I read instructions I'm sure.
Two questions please (typed on phone due to broken laptop screen, please forgive perfunctoriness!):
1. My DMH SOP practice is on hiatus due to an under 3 year old in house who gets in every room, all the time, (no questions forthcoming on that theme, I promise). I just wanted to gauge the risk level were I to continue these practices without an SOP, which is how I currently meditate for instance. Would you recommend I start activating hands and doing the subsequent practices elsewhere? I could consider the alternative SOP posted in this series which sounded easier to perform discreetly outside house.
2. I do intend to offer healing to others. Starting with myself though, having no physical ailments I know of what came to mind was a long term energy body issue, result of unwise yoga practice many years ago, which left me unable to handle basic energy practices such as tai chi without big discomfort. I was thinking to perhaps spend a month on daily healing sent to this issue, then perhaps review results by trying a little tai chi chih. Does that sound reasonable?
Many thanks
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Date: 2022-12-16 04:35 pm (UTC)2) Yes, that sounds sensible.
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Date: 2022-12-16 01:07 pm (UTC)I've just practised it and, yeah, it feels amazingly promising for such a short and simple practice!
I wanted to confirm a couple of things to see if I understood them correctly:
1. The text doesn't state explicitly where the Healing Jewel is on the right hand so I assume that, as with the left hand, it is the point where the tracing of the figures starts and ends - the point just under the gap between the middle and ring finger, right? So, when starting the flow, these two starting/finishing points are the ones touching each other, right?
2. The difference between Empowering and activating the hands seems to be only in that I don't need to deactivate the hands after Empowering them in the morning. So when Empowering, I would finish it by touching the Healing Jewels, starting the flow, then separating the hands and just letting my attention move to something else without setting any particular intent for this flow or clapping my hands. Does this sound correct?
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Date: 2022-12-16 04:36 pm (UTC)2) Yes, that's correct.
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Date: 2022-12-16 02:58 pm (UTC)I am having a problem with the hand positions. I get that the left hand is held horizontally(I am assuming that the palm faces up), fingers pointing away from the body and that the right hand is held vertically, fingers pointing up, but then it says that the palm of the left is held to the right. At what point to you rotate your wrist to bring the palm of the left hand to face the palm of the right? Do your palms touch?
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Date: 2022-12-16 04:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2022-12-16 04:41 pm (UTC)-Princess Cutekitten
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Date: 2022-12-16 06:49 pm (UTC)I would like to start performing the simple heart-center "sphere of protection" provided here in the morning, before empowering the healing hands.
Will establishing all three of these "spheres" somehow muddy up the effect, or will they simply reinforce each other, since they're all working in the same vein?
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Date: 2022-12-16 06:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-16 10:47 pm (UTC)(edited to add - yes, I'm aware that the left hand points fingers forward and the right hand points fingers up).
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Date: 2022-12-16 10:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-17 09:25 am (UTC)I'm having trouble understanding the instruction for drawing the circles, especially on left hand, are these correct? First time uploading an image and preview shows it as rather small, can try again.... Thanks
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Date: 2022-12-17 07:12 pm (UTC)I'm not at all sure why they came out small on your post; the file is a good size.
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Date: 2022-12-17 04:04 pm (UTC)-Translucent Jejune Octopus
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Date: 2022-12-17 06:32 pm (UTC)Re: Another technical question
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Date: 2022-12-17 08:23 pm (UTC)Sensations
Date: 2022-12-18 12:30 am (UTC)After empowering my hands last night for the first time, I noticed that they seemed to engage quicker than usual when I sent Reiki remotely to my mother.
And, like Princess Cutekitten's Sonkitten, above, I have persistent tennis elbow. It was getting a bit better on its own, but this afternoon I activated my Healing Hands and sent the intention that it be healed. Energy seemed to go to the area quickly, and then several minutes later I felt a sort of cocoon of energy around the affected area. This was followed many minutes later with slight shooting pains in my lower and upper arm. It didn't last long, and put me in mind of "bad" energy being released and drained away.
Might this be what was happening?
Thanks again, JMG, for making this available. And thanks too, fellow students, for the questions you post. I read them all, and the answers are helpful to me as well.
OtterGirl
Re: Sensations
Date: 2022-12-18 07:32 pm (UTC)Healing Hands request
Date: 2022-12-18 03:44 pm (UTC)As I shared in last week's Covid thread, my one-year-old daughter has a rare neurological disorder which has no cure accepted by medical science, but which also occasionally spontaneously goes away in some lucky cases-- in other words, there is cause to think that alternative modes of healing might have a chance of making a difference. JMG, I was going to ask if I might request the students in here to perform distance Healing Hands on my daughter, but a couple of Tarot draws cautioned against it, I believe-- 3 of Swords Reversed could indicate healing when looked at from a certain perspective, but I didn't feel confident, and a clarification card of Moon Reversed suggests to me that (perhaps because it's mostly all rank beginners in here?) it would be a very mixed bag indeed and perhaps quite confusing for my daughter.
There could be another reason as well not to request that. I just saw this post now; as it happens, because of astrological currents or TSW or something, just earlier today my daughter and wife were the guest patients in a Reiki class, where a variety of Reiki students practiced their art on them. A very similar situation, and one that's never come up before! And one which threatens crossed wires and overloading circuits, depending on how all of this works exactly.
However, when I then asked the Tarot what would be the result for my daughter if I requested Healing Hands only from you, I drew The Sun. Would you be willing to send some healing energy my daughter's way?
Re: Healing Hands request
Date: 2022-12-18 06:36 pm (UTC)Whenever there is a prayer or blessing request for healing (e.g. in the covid posts, the open post, …), now that you’ve posted this, it seems likely that more than one person will use the healing hands upon such requests. Can there be a „too much“? Is this something we need to be careful about?
Milkyway
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Date: 2022-12-20 12:39 am (UTC)https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/212276.html?thread=37647412#cmt37647412
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Date: 2022-12-20 12:46 am (UTC)https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/212276.html?thread=37650996#cmt37650996
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