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Spiritual Healing, Mentoring and Spirituality, spiritual healer

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Kane Paul
Spiritual Healing, Mentoring and Spirituality, spiritual healer

Sometimes in  Spiritual Healing and coaching the question of spirituality comes up with a client; it is not necessarily the issue they engaged you for, but the conversation spirals in that direction, and you are faced with that awkward moment of deciding whether to explore it with them or leave well alone. I think it is important not to discount it for the simple reason that our lives are holistic in nature - and furthermore it is not as if 'it' - spirituality or God - could be compartmentalised even if we wanted it to be.

Many people of course have an entirely erroneous and/or stereotyped view of spirituality and of what 'God' means; this is natural since many religions themselves generate these limited images - idols - of their faith. As the Tao Te Ching puts it: 'The Tao [the Way, the God] that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao." example of creating idols in the West is imagining God as some grandfather or Father Christmas in the sky that people somehow must slavishly kowtow to. But God, if we could speak of God in human language, is both transcendent and immanent and cannot be conveyed in that way.

This is why Plato, arguably the greatest of the philosophers of the West, said that there were two clear proofs for God's existence: the first was the existence of the human soul which testified to the reality of God. of God' in man is itself and necessarily God because God cannot be diluted. Or put another way, God is holographic - the smallest fragment would still be fully divine. And we know that when we contemplate our Self spiritual healer.

The second proof was the design of the world or the cosmos, and those who could not see its marvel were dull and stupid. We have to go to extraordinary lengths to deny the design and to flat-line the wonder - this universe for all of Dawkins' non-science and stepping outside the sphere of his own competence, never happened by accident. And that is part of what the opening of John's gospel is about: in the beginning was the Word, the logos, the meaning - and everything is infused by it; and at some deep level those who seek to deny this are denying themselves - their own deep Self is being contradicted by their ego mind.

There is a deep mystery in and to life and nobody could deny this; but people who absolutely assert there is no God, in spirituality, against the consistent and persistent testimony of the vast majority of mankind, are not being rational - they are engaging in an act of faith more irrational than which they condemn and mock.

So, to return to the question, what do you do as a coach and mentor when this kind of issue raises its head? Firstly, you listen very carefully. This listening is not just active listening and a set of skills - like, lean forward; it is act of being. As Ptahhotep, some five thousand years ago, said, "To listen is better than anything, thus is born perfect love." And, he also added: "God loves he who listens. He hates those who do not listen." To listen is almost synonymous with to love; it is why the child turns to the mother, because she will listen; and why so many partnerships fall apart because one or both stop listening to the other. When we pray we speak to God and draw our mind and soul into a focus; when we meditate we listen... and in the silence the possibilities take shape spiritual practitioner.

Secondly, you try to establish the direction in which it is going, what sort of God or spiritual experience do they have in mind or are alluding to, and why are they prompted now to raise this issue? Invariably, people are led in this way because of some incompleteness in their life.

Thirdly, through gentle questioning they may wish to reveal what this is and why it is important. Curiously, these kind of discussions lead to the heart of another human being, and in them humility is of the essence - both for the client who is recognising perhaps for the first time that 'you can be anything you want' is a half-truth, and for the coach because in being in that role so close to somebody, presumption is an ever present danger Spiritual Healing Meditation.

Fourthly, you reflect back to their own answers with intonations that may enable them to see, as it were, the real implications of their state and of what they are saying. Thus, you begin leading them through a process in which they can see their Self more clearly and so begin to see possibilities and options ahead. This is very liberating; it hardly need be said, you don't beat them about the head with your religion or any religion. You enable their own Self-discovery, for in discovering the Self is a pathway to true spirituality - and a way to be free the false ego mind.

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