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The following outline, which was included in the papers I received during my training, is a useful and detailed description of the Healing Hands technique and should be kept handy while practicing the technique until you have the details by heart. I have appended to it a short paper on the next phase of the Essene Healing Breath meditation.
The diagrams I have included here are from the old MOE website. They are not quite accurate -- the tails on the Earth and Air signs should be longer -- but this was back in the day when getting decent computer graphics wasn't the easiest thing in the world. Keep in mind that the line on the Earth sign should go several inches up the wrist and the one on the Air sign should go most of the way to the ends of your fingers.
Essene Healing Hands Technique
A. Empower your Essene Healing Hands (first thing in the morning)
1. Draw the blue Triangle of Water on the palm of your left hand
How to draw the blue Triangle of Water on your left hand:
a. Start with your right pointer finger touching the point where the pads of your hand form a natural indentation in your palm about an inch above your wrist.
b. With your right pointer finger, draw a line up to the base of your left pointer finger. Think of this line as being blue in color and feminine in nature.
c. Continue drawing the Triangle of Water by tracing your right pointer finger along the base of your fingers to the base of your little finger.
d. Continue drawing this blue, feminine line from the base of your little finger back to the point of beginning.
e. With your right pointer finger still at this point of beginning, close your eyes and visualize this blue Triangle of Water empowering you with the feminine energy of Water. Feel this energy in your left hand.
Practice drawing the blue Triangle of Water several times a day until it becomes second nature to you. Note that the point of beginning for the blue Triangle of Water is called the Essene Healing Center or Healing Jewel. It is from this center that the healing energy of the Divine flows into your left hand.
2. Draw the green Circle of Earth on the palm of your left hand
How to draw the green Circle of Earth on your left hand:
a. Start with your right pointer finger touching the point where the pads of your hand form a natural indentation in your palm about an inch above your wrist. This is the same point of beginning used for the Blue Triangle of Water.
b. With your right pointer finger, draw a circular arc clockwise around the outside of the palm of your left hand. Think of this circular arc as being green in color and feminine in nature.
c. Continue drawing the Circle of Earth by tracing your right pointer finger around the palm of your left hand back to the point of beginning.
d. From this point of beginning, draw a line straight down the middle of your arm until this line is 3 - 4 inches long.
e. Return your right pointer finger to the point of beginning. With your right pointer finger at this point of beginning, close your eyes and visualize this green Circle of Earth empowering you with the feminine energy of Earth. Feel this energy in your left hand.
Practice drawing the green Circle of Earth several times a day until it becomes second nature to you.
3. Draw the red Triangle of Fire on the palm of your right hand
How to draw the red Triangle of Fire on your right hand:
1. Start with your left pointer finger touching the point below the junction of your middle and ring fingers where there’s a natural indentation in the palm of your hand a little bit below that junction.
2. With your left pointer finger, draw a line down to the base of your right thumb. Think of this line as being red in color and masculine in nature.
3. Continue drawing the Triangle of Fire by tracing your left pointer finger along the base of your palm to the outside edge of your palm across from your thumb. The red line forming the base of the Triangle of Fire will cross the Essene Healing Center near the base of the palm.
4. Continue drawing this red, masculine line from the edge of your palm back to the point of beginning.
5. Move your left pointer finger to the Essene Healing Center of your right hand.
6. Close your eyes and visualize this red Triangle of Fire empowering you with the masculine energy of Fire. Feel this energy in your right hand.
Practice drawing the red Triangle of Fire several times a day until it becomes second nature to you. Note that the Essene Healing Center on the right hand is at the base of the palm like the left hand. On the left hand the Essene Healing Center is also the point of beginning. But on the right hand it is not. However, it is from the Essene Healing Center that the healing energy of the Divine flows out of the right hand.
4. Draw the yellow Circle of Air on the palm of your right hand
How to draw the yellow Circle of Air on your right hand:
1. Start with your left pointer finger touching the point below the junction of your middle and ring fingers where there’s a natural indentation in the palm of your hand a little bit below that junction.
2. With your left pointer finger, draw a circular arc clockwise around the outside of your palm and down to the Essene Healing Center of your right hand. Think of this line as being yellow in color and masculine in nature.
3. Continue drawing the Circle of Air by tracing your left pointer finger in a circular arc clockwise around the palm of your hand to the point of beginning.
4. Holding the middle and ring fingers together, continue drawing this yellow, masculine line up the crack between those two fingers to the tips of the fingers.
5. Move your left pointer finger to the Essene Healing Center of your right hand.
6. Close your eyes and visualize this yellow Circle of Air empowering you with the masculine energy of Air. Feel this energy in your right hand.
Practice drawing the yellow Circle of Air several times a day until it becomes second nature to you. .
5. Bring the healing centers of your hands together
6. Feel the energy build in the healing centers of your hands
7. You do not have to deactivate your Healing Hands after the morning empowerment.
B. Activate your Healing Hands (any time prior to healing)
1. Draw the Triangle of Water and Circle of Earth on your left hand
2. Draw the Triangle of Fire and Circle of Air on your right hand
3. Bring your healing centers together
4. Feel the energy build in the healing centers of your hands
C. Deactivate your Healing Hands (any time following healing)
1. Bring your healing centers together at their healing centers
2. Give thanks to Deity
3. Clap your hands once, quickly and firmly (without pain)
Explanation of the Healing Hands Technique
1. The Healing Centers of your Hand are located at the bottom of the palm where the thumb pad and the heel-of-the-hand come together about an inch above the wrist.
2. Empowering your Healing Hands prior to daily meditation is helpful
1. It can also be done prior to, with or following your daily devotions
2. Or with, during or following your daily rituals for spiritual advancement
3. Or with or following your daily meditation
4. Or with a simple prayer
3. Our Healing Hands can be activated any time during the day
4. When not using your Healing Hands, it’s recommended to deactivate them
1. You can deplete your own energy
2. In which case, place your healing centers together and empower yourself
5. Never use your Healing Hands without the permission of the recipient
6. Yes, you may ask plants, animals and minerals for permission
7. Once the energy starts to flow it will continue to flow without you
8. This is not a hands-on technique
1. Your hands should be a minimum of six inches from your client
2. Your hands can be half a world away from your client. This is an effective method for distance healing, provided you have the consent of your client
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Essene Healing Breath Meditation
The Apprentice work of the Modern Order of Essenes also includes three additional steps in the Essene Healing Breath. These steps, which belong to Phase Two, are given below. As noted earlier, the Essene Healing Breath is recommended for members of the Order, but any form of meditation may be used in place of it.
Even if you are practicing some other form of meditation, we recommend that you study this paper and consider making use of the methods of breathing work in your own practice. They are not unique to the Essene approach to meditation. In fact, they can be applied to most meditation practices.
Phase Two: Overview
Once you've attained the ability to become unaware of your body using the Phase One techniques, you may spend less and less time in Phase One. Eventually, with practice over several weeks, you will be able to complete Phase One in a couple of minutes.
Phase One becomes a process of relaxing and breathing deeply. As you breath in, scan your body from the tips of your feet to the top of your head. Scan your body for any tension, tightness, hardness, discomfort or pain. As you breathe out, release any tension, relax any tightness, soften any hardness, make any discomfort comfortable and let any pain go. Let it go, become comfortable, relax, release and soften your muscles.
Practice this shortened form of Phase One for several weeks as you proceed to learn the techniques for Phase Two. Practice each step of Phase Two for a few days before moving on to the next step. Continue to breathe deeply, extend your breathing, scan your body and relax as you move step by step through Phase Two.
Phase Two: Step Four - Watch your breathing
Continue to relax, breathe deeply and extend your breathing. Then watch your breath as you inhale and exhale. Watching your breath as you breathe in and out is an excellent way to keep your mind occupied so it doesn't go off on one tangent after another. Should you find yourself thinking about something, withdraw your consciousness from those thoughts and calmly return to watching your breath flow.
Continue to relax, breathe deeply, extend your breathing and watch your breath.
Phase Two: Step Five - Watch and listen to your breathing
Continue to relax, breathe deeply, extend your breathing and watch your breath. As you become accustomed to watching your breath during this Essene Healing Meditation, listen to your breathing as well. You now have your mind occupied with watching and listening to your breath as you inhale and exhale. Your mind is also occupied in accepting the Unconditional Love of the Universe as you inhale and releasing all your toxins as you exhale. Additionally, your mind is occupied by keeping you relaxed, comfortable and calm while you pull your abdomen in toward the end of your exhalation and extend it toward the end of your inhalation.
Should your mind wander for any reason at any time, calmly bring it back to watching and listening to your breath. Let all other thoughts go. Stay relaxed, calm and peaceful.
Continue to relax, breathe deeply, extend your breathing, watch your breath and listen to the sound of your breathing.
Phase Two: Step Six - Watch, listen to and feel your breathing
Continue to relax, breathe deeply, extend your breathing, watch your breath and listen to the sound of your breathing. Once you've mastered the art of watching and listening to your breath while remaining comfortable and relaxed, it's time to keep your mind occupied with yet another task, the task of feeling your breath as it enters and exits your body. Feel the air enter your nasal passages and lungs as you inhale. Feel the air leave your lungs and nasal passages as you exhale. Feel your breath as you continue to watch and listen to it. Feel the Unconditional Love of the Universe as it clears away and neutralizes all the toxins in your body.
Continue to relax, breathe deeply and extend your breathing while you watch your breathing, listen to your breathing and feel your breathing. Pull your abdomen in just a little bit at the end of each exhalation and extend it outwards during each inhalation. Stay relaxed and calmly bring your mind back to these tasks anytime you become aware your mind is doing something else. Don't force it, just calmly bring your mind back to feeling the Unconditional Love of the Universe, watching, feeling and listening to your breath, and remaining calm and peaceful.
Continue to relax, breathe deeply, extend your breathing, watch your breath, listen to the sound of your breathing and feel your breath.
Steps four, five and six constitute Phase Two of the Essene Healing Breath Meditation. As you master Phase Two your mind will become calmer and calmer, more and more engrossed in its assigned tasks of relaxing your body, breathing deeply, extending your breath, and watching, listening to and feeling each breath as it enters and leaves your body. As this happens you enter the state of "No Mind" and "No Body."
The remaining steps will be included with the instructions for more advanced grades.
Closing Empowering and Direction of Palms in Self-Healing
Date: 2022-12-22 10:51 pm (UTC)Two quick questions:
1) I see that you don't deactivate your hands after the morning empowerment, but is it appropriate to say a brief prayer or make a gesture or the like? I've been practicing doing this immediately after my morning ritual, and it feels a bit "indefinite" to just drop my hands and go about my business after finishing the empowering. If you (or any commenters) have suggestions on this, even if it's just "it's fine, get over it", I'd much appreciate it.
2) When directing healing to yourself, should your palms face toward your body, outward, toward each other, or is this an "experiment and see what works" situation?
Thanks much,
Jeff
Re: Closing Empowering and Direction of Palms in Self-Healing
Date: 2022-12-23 01:31 am (UTC)2) Experiment and see what works!
Attunement
Date: 2022-12-23 01:06 am (UTC)Possible newb question... in the preceding posts in this series (not sure if you still reply to those once a new one is posted) you mention that once you have done 'x' you would send the attunement. What does this mean in practice and or principle and does that empowering come with corresponding resposibilities or loyalties?
Re: Attunement
Date: 2022-12-23 01:36 am (UTC)They will need to practice Essene healing and the other disciplines daily for seven days before the attunement ceremony, and set aside about half an hour for the ceremony itself. The only responsibilities or loyalties that will be taken on as a result of the attunement are those that each individual chooses; it's a good idea to do plenty of healing work after the ceremony, but that's still up to the individual.
Then we'll go on to the Healer grade and more teachings!
Re: Attunement
Date: 2022-12-23 02:24 am (UTC)Online I found "As a spiritual practice, Attunement is intended to connect a person more closely to their spiritual source and to open the flow of life current"
So the practicing aligns me with the flow in some fashion and starts the process in a low gear and there is some kind of connection to something not previously available or someone or?
Also if someone was already worshipping say Thor or Athena would they be offering the blessing of Thor rather than the blessing of the more generic Divine and is whatever the connection made with attunement something independent of deity of common to all deities or ... ?
Re: Attunement
Date: 2022-12-23 06:48 pm (UTC)I'll be posting the details of the attunement ceremony so you can know in advance exactly what you're getting into. One thing I'll say right off is that since it's from the Universal Gnostic Church tradition, you get to choose the name of the deity who is invoked in the rite.
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Date: 2022-12-23 04:52 am (UTC)Should read “right hand”
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Date: 2022-12-23 04:54 am (UTC)“Close your eyes and visualize this red Triangle of Water empowering you with the masculine energy of Fire. Feel this energy in your right hand.”
Should read “red Triangle of Fire”
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Date: 2022-12-23 05:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-23 06:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-23 06:14 pm (UTC)I am currently combining the breathing exercises with my study of The Way of the Golden Section and the Sacred Geometry Oracle. I do the breathing and relaxing exercises in preparation for my daily meditation on one of the geometrical figures from the oracle. Since it was introduced, I have added the activation of healing hands after my meditation. I have taken to directing the resulting healing energies to myself as an aid to my Buteyko breathing practice that I do to control my asthma symptoms. Mostly coughing.
This seems to be working just fine and as a novice I am not expecting any kind of energetic fireworks and I do sense a kind of light tingle when I do the activation. I hope I am not trying to do to much at one time as it sure seems to fit together well for me. Once meditation and breathing practice are done I have also added the Healing Walk around the neighborhood.
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Date: 2022-12-23 06:52 pm (UTC)Such a Thing as Too Much?
Date: 2022-12-25 12:04 am (UTC)Just a couple quick questions:
1) Is it okay to send healing for more than one issue at a time? Such as digestion problems AND back pain suffered by one person?
2) Should there be a pause of "X" amount of time between sending healing to a succession of individuals?
Thanks as always!
OtterGirl
Re: Such a Thing as Too Much?
Date: 2022-12-25 03:33 am (UTC)2) It seems to vary from person to person. The more you focus on letting the healing energy flow through you from the Divine, rather than trying to do the work yourself, the more of it you can do without difficulty.
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Date: 2022-12-26 03:11 pm (UTC)Glad to see this in here. Perhaps not directly related, but long, long ago, when I had briefly studied Quigong, my instructor mentioned this (I'm no expert in Quigong, so if others have information otherwise, I stand corrected). This point remained with me, however—our individual reserves of spiritus/Axé/et al. are not inexhaustible, and drawing them down too much can impact well-being. Thus we must reach out to and draw upon the Inexhaustible...
Thank you,
Fra' Lupo
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Date: 2023-01-08 07:42 pm (UTC)Ron M