The Feeling is Healing
I came across this small story (which I have paraphrased) in a Gregg Braden book, “The Spontaneous Healing of Belief”. He asked a buddhist abbot in a monastery this question. “When we see your prayers, what are you really doing? When we see you tone and chant for 14 and 16 hours a day … when we see the bells, the bowls, the gongs, the chimes, the mudras, and the mantras on the outside, what is happening to you on the inside?”
The abbot’s reply was “You have never seen our prayers, because a prayer cannot be seen. What you have seen is what we do to create the feeling in our bodies. Feeling is the prayer.” (my italics)
I was reminded of what people see and interpret when I place my hands on someone during a hands on reiki treatment. Every time a feeling of peace and a stillness of mind takes place “inside” me, within my body. The abbots words resonated within me, and they morphed form in my mind.
“You have never seen the healing, because healing cannot be seen. What you see is what I do to create the feeling in my body. The feeling is healing.”