Healing Circle Meditation

Explain overall structure.

  • First half - we will receive healing from God.

  • Second half - we will extend healing to our brothers.

  • Even if you are here to receive healing, I am asking you to give healing… why?

  • Through out the session, we will focus on just one thought, just one image. We will visualize a bright, magnificent, radiant, golden light, just like the sun in the sky, only this light is much bigger and much closer. Can you please try this visualisation now for 10s and let me know if you are able to do this?

Now please close your eyes and search your mind for anyone who might be in need of healing. Then put the names that come to your mind into the chat. You can put your own name down as well. I’ll give you one minute to do this.

(Include the names from Circle of Atonement Healing Page here - use last 7 days)

Thank you. Please put yourself on mute, so we can begin in silence.

Let’s pray together.

Opening prayers

Father,

We are here only to be truly helpful.

We are here to represent You Who sends us.

We do not have to worry about what to say or what to do,

because You Who sends us will direct us.

We are content to be wherever You wish, knowing You go there with us.

Father, we will be healed as we let You teach us to heal. [CE T-4.XI.8:2-7]

Amen.

Lesson 274: Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

1 Father, today we would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Sons the honor due their sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his friend. ²Through this we are redeemed. ³Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.

Lesson 277: Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made.

1 Your Son is free, my Father. ²Let us not ³imagine we have bound him with the laws we made to rule the body. ⁴He is not subject to any laws we made by which we try to make the body more secure. ⁵He is not changed by what is changeable. ⁶He is not slave to any laws of time. ⁷He is as You created him, because he knows no laws except the law of love.

Opening meditation (15 mins)

Now we begin the first part of the meditation where we will receive healing from God. Bring to the mind the bright, magnificent, radiant, golden light, just like the sun in the sky. This is our altar to God, the quiet place within the mind where He abides forever. Feel its warm healing rays shining on you and say this to God...

The step we take today, our Father, is our sure release from idle dreams of sin.

Your altar stands serene and undefiled.

It is the holy altar to our Self, and there we find our true identity.

Let us relinquish all we think we know and understand.

Let us forget this world and sink down in our minds.

There is an ancient peace we carry in our hearts and have not lost (Based on CE W-164.4:2).

Let us come to this holy place and spend a while together.

[Pause]

Here, in this changeless dwelling place, we see an altar to our Father, holy as Heaven, glowing with radiant purity.

Upon this altar are the shining lilies of forgiveness that we have given others and they have given us.

[Pause]

If we are carrying any illusions—of judgment, anger, guilt, anxiety or any desire for worldly things—let us lay them now upon the altar, next to the lilies.

[Pause]

And let us watch as the healing brightness of the lilies shines the illusions away.

[Pause]

Now are we one in thought, for fear has gone.

“And here, before the altar to one God, one Father, one Creator, and one Thought, we [names of participants] stand together as one Son of God.

“Not separate from Him Who is our Source, not distant from one [mind] who is part of our One Self” [CE W-187.10:2-3].

We stand in blessedness, beholding how immaculate is the holy altar on which God has placed Himself.

We realize we are seeing our own purity, our own lovely holiness.

We behold the fact that we are already healed, whole, and complete.

[Pause]

Let us spend a while, then, standing before this altar, where healing was laid for all of us.

[Pause for 10 minutes]

[fade out music]

Now are we healed, and now we go to heal the world.

Extension of healing

(10-12 mins)

I will now read out the names of our brothers and sisters to whom we will extend this healing, starting with…

<name 1>

<name 2>

<name 3>

Let us once again pray together:

Father,

As we are healed we are not healed alone.

And we would share our healing with the world,

that sickness may be banished from the mind

of Your one Son, Who is our only Self. Amen.

Now we begin the extension of healing. Bring to mind once again the bright, magnificent, radiant, golden light, just like the sun in the sky. Let this light symbolise your brother, as he is in Heaven. See him with his arms around your shoulders. You may open your eyes for a brief moment to see what it looks like.

This vision, when it includes all our brothers and sisters, is the face of Christ. Focusing on this vision is how we will extend healing to them.

<music restarts>

Silently repeat after me and say to those who need healing,

We overlook your body… as if it’s not even there.

It doesn’t matter what kinds or degrees of sickness it has.

We place all of them in one category: “they are unreal.”

[Pause]

Now say to them,

We overlook your beliefs that you are separate, sinful, guilty… as if they are not even there.

It doesn’t matter what these beliefs have done, how enormous their effects appeared to be, or who seemed to be hurt by them.

We evaluate none of that. All their acts were unreal.

[Pause]

Having completely overlooked the body and the beliefs, see only the face of your savior shining in front of you.

Feel yourself gazing in rapture before the radiant light of Who they really are.

[Pause]

Seeing this, you realize they are your perfect equal, not in any way lower than you.

[Pause]

And you realize they are one with you, for the Christ you look on is your own true Self as well.

[Pause]

Understand that “Healing is done, for what is perfect needs no healing, and what remains to be forgiven where there is no sin?” (ACIM, P-2.VII.8:5).

[Pause for 5-10 minutes]

[Talk about the exchange of pictures]

Finally, let us ask the Christ in our brothers and sisters for our own healing. Repeat after me,

Give us your blessing, holy Son of God.

We would behold you with the eyes of Christ,

and see our perfect sinlessness in you. [CE W-161.13:2-3]

Closing (2 minutes)

“As we come back to our awareness let us remember that we are holy Sons of God, perfect and pure. Our healing comes from being receptive to God’s knowledge of our innate goodness, and healing is always certain. See and feel the light of Christ shining in you, and extending from you, encompassing all those you encounter today and every day. Amen.”

You may now open your eyes.

Time to share

I would like to give the next 10 to 15 mins to the Holy Spirit to express Himself. If you are comfortable, I would like to invite each one of you to share your problem - the reason why you are here.

We will all hear you and return to silence. We will then go within and seek guidance that may address your problem. We will then hear from everyone what they received as guidance. If everyone says the same thing, we know the guidance is genuine. It’s perfectly okay if no specific guidance is received. This means you are doing everything you need to do right now and no specific guidance is needed at this time.

When you are ready, please raise your hand and share the situation you need help in. We will keep returning to silence until someone has something to say. And if you need to drop off, that’s perfectly fine.