During the initial awakening in my teens, I discovered healing from oneness. I have done it off and on since when needed. And I have more recently started to explore and use it more intentionally and frequently.
How does oneness healing look?
It does require some noticing of oneness, of what we are. And the more clear, stable, and thorough this noticing is, the easier oneness healing may be.
One aspect is noticing that whatever I wish to invite in healing for is already Spirit or the divine. It’s a flavor of the divine. It’s the divine temporarily and locally taking that particular form. It’s already happening within and as what I am.
Another is to invite it to notice itself as the divine. This happens through gentle noticing and intention, and it’s an invitation for the divine to wake up to itself as that particular – temporary and local – form.
If it’s an emotional issue, then yet another aspect is to invite it to align with reality, to align with oneness. This also happens through noticing and intention, by noticing all as oneness, how it may not consciously be aligned with oneness, and inviting it to realign with reality and oneness.
What do I use oneness healing for?
I mostly use it for anything coming up in me that seems even slightly “other” or “I”. If it seems “other”, it’s because there is some separation consciousness there. And if it seems “I”, in the sense of separate me or identification as something within the content of consciousness (sensations, ideas), that too comes from separation consciousness.
I notice something come up and then notice it as the divine and invite it to align with oneness, or for Spirit to wake up to itself in the form of that identification, issue, or whatever it is.
For instance, I may lie bed before falling asleep or after waking up. I notice some discomfort in my body and invite Spirit to notice itself as that discomfort and any reaction to it. I may notice some sensations in my head area that there is a bit more identification with, and invite the divine – in the form of these sensations and the identifications – to notice itself as the divine.
I may notice some reactivity in me (reflecting an emotional issue), notice the sensations and thoughts making it up, and invite Spirit to wake up to itself as that.
I may have a physical issue, and invite Spirit to wake up to itself as that – as the sensations and thoughts making up that.
If I do healing for others, I notice it happens within and as oneness, and I usually take some time to invite the divine to wake up to itself as whatever the healing is for.
I have done this for physical objects and plants.
And I sometimes do this for situations as well, whether it’s my own, someone else’s, or something happening in the world.
What form does the healing take?
When it comes to healing for myself, the main healing is healing my relationship with my experiences. If something is uncomfortable to me, it’s easy to fall into an old habit of wanting to push it away or avoid it. It’s natural, but there is a discomfort inherent in this movement.
So when I notice the discomfort and my reaction to it as the divine, there is a healing. And when I invite Spirit to notice itself as that, in that form or discomfort and the reaction to it, there is also a healing.
Anything else is secondary. Emotional issues may soften and lighten. Physical issues may resolve. And so on. That’s the icing on the cake.
When it comes to healing for others, the main function is obviously healing in a more conventional sense, and my healing of my relationship to my experience is still there but secondary.
Oneness healing for self and others
There is an interesting distinction here.
If I do oneness healing for myself, whether it’s for something physical or emotional, then it can be understood from a small or psychological interpretation of awakening. To myself, I am consciousness and all my experiences – including of this human self and the wider world – happens within and as what I am.
It’s an awakening as my true nature – as what all content of my experience happens within and as, as emptiness full of my world, and oneness healing makes sense within this context without assuming anything about the true nature of the rest of the world or existence.
When I do oneness healing for others or for situations, and it works (it often does), then it does seem to require an assumption about the true nature of all of existence. It’s most easily explained by assuming that my true nature, as it appears to me, is the true nature of everyone and everything. It’s all consciousness, it’s all Spirit or the divine.
Direct noticing and how we may find it for ourselves
This all happens within direct and immediate noticing. Thoughts may guide attention but that’s about it. It’s not about thoughts or what happens within thoughts.
So how can we find this for ourselves, if we don’t already? The answer is the usual answers for what supports or invites awakening.
Training a stable attention helps for anything we wish to do, including this exploration of our true nature.
Basic meditation – notice and allow – is very helpful. It helps shift our center of gravity out of taking ourselves as limited content of experience (this human self) to the context for and all content of experience. (When I say “context” for our experience, I mean noticing ourselves as that which all our experiences already happen within and as.)
Heart-centered practices are helpful to shift how we relate to any content of experience. In some ways, it mimics what can happen naturally when what we are notices itself.
Inquiry helps us see through beliefs and identifications, and how our mind creates its own experience. It helps us see through what we are not, but sometimes perceive we are, and more easily notice what we are.
Some form of inquiry helps us notice what we are more directly, and explore and get familiar with it. (Headless experiments, Big Mind process.)
There are also many other helpful practices and explorations. In this context of oneness healing, the Big Mind / Big Heart process may be especially helpful. We can explore particular issues through dialog, and we can get a better sense of anything – including that which we have a strained relationship with – as the divine.
What’s the bigger picture of oneness healing?
From a big or spiritual understanding of awakening, it’s all happening within and as Spirit. The issue focused on, the person receiving healing, the one channeling, the healing itself, and all of it are local and temporary expressions of Spirit. It’s all part of Lila, of the divine expressing, exploring, and experiencing itself in always new and different ways.
From a small or psychological interpretation of awakening, it’s all happening within what we are – which a thought can label consciousness. It’s all happening within the play of consciousness.
In either case, it’s an opportunity to deepen, clarify, and live from the awakening.
Initial notes….
- Healing from oneness
- aspects
- notice it as Spirit, a local and temporary form of Spirit
- invite it to wake up to itself as Spirit
- also…
- intention for it to realign within oneness / reality
- can use BM / BH dialog to explore further
- forms
- self, only small interpretation of awakening needed to understand
- others, big interpretation of awakening needed to understand it
- aspects
- healing from oneness
- for self
- notice all happening within/as consciousness
- to ourselves we are consciousness
- invite it to align with reality / oneness
- emotional issues: untie the knots
- can be understood within small interpretation of awakening
- notice all happening within/as consciousness
- for others
- can also do for others
- tune into the issue, invite it to align with reality
- all happening within/as consciousness = existence
- closer to / requires big interpretation of awakening
- can also do for others
- for self
Oneness healing
….
Oneness healing
Aspects
– notice
– Help it recognize itself
– also….
– intention for it to align with conscious oneness
– dialog / BM process
Forms
– self
– others
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DRAFT
A footnote: revisiting small and big interpretations of awakening
Whether from a small or big interpretation of awakening, this is all happening within and as Spirit. The recipient for the healing, the issue, the one inviting in the healing, the healing itself, and everything else, is all happening within and as Spirit. It’s the divine wanting all of these experiences for itself. It’s the divine exploring, expressing, and experiencing itself in all of these ways.
The question is whether Spirit is our true nature and it “just” appears this way to us, or whether Spirit is the true nature of everything and everyone and this is what’s happening within and as existence itself.
From a conventional view, the small interpretation is intellectually honest and the big interpretation may be going a step too far.
From oneness – and especially when we are familiar with sensing at a distance, healing at a distance, synchronicities, and so on – the big interpretation makes more sense. It fits the data much better.