Healing Circle Meditation

Explain overall structure.

  • First half - we will receive healing from God.

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

  • Through out the session, we will focus on just one thought. We will visualize a bright, magnificent, radiant, golden light, just like the sun in the sky.

  • In visualising this light, we will be looking past all illusions, looking upon the face of Christ, and joining with the reality of God’s Son as God created him.

If you haven’t already, please put yourself on mute, so we can continue in silence.

Let’s close our eyes and pray together.

Opening prayer

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.



Opening meditation (10 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 a vision of ourselves as You created us.

Let us relinquish all we think we know and understand [as being real].

Let us forget the images the world presents and sink down in our minds.

Just like a pebble falling through the ocean….

Going down…. and down…. and down… till it gently comes to rest on the ocean bed.

Here 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 eternal place, we see an altar to our Father, holy as Heaven, glowing with radiant purity.

Upon this altar is the treasure house of miracles… miracles that we have given others and miracles they have given us.

So, let’s take a moment to think of times in our lives where we have given miracles to others… (pause)

Let us also not forget the times where others have given miracles to us…. (pause)

[Pause]

Now if we are carrying any illusions—any images of the world, any perception of bodies, any negative emotions or any desire for worldly things—let us lay them now upon the altar, next to the miracles.

[Pause]

And let us watch as the healing brightness of the miracles 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, in this vision of ourselves as God created us, 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 5 minutes if time permits]

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

Extension of healing

(10 mins)

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. This is the vision of God’s Son as God created him. Focusing on this vision is how we will extend healing to him.

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Silently repeat after me and say to those who are asking for healing,

We look past your body as well as ours… because we know, with conviction, that it is not there.

It doesn’t matter what kinds or degrees of sickness we see.

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

[Pause]

Now say to them,

We look past your beliefs as well as ours… that we are somehow no longer as God created us, that somehow we are different… as if these mistaken beliefs are not even there.

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

We evaluate none of that.

[Pause]

Having completely overlooked the body and the mind that holds these beliefs, look upon the vision of God’s Son shining in front of you.

Feel yourself gazing in rapture before the radiant light of Who he really is.

[Pause]

Seeing this, you realize that everyone is a perfect equal, not in any way different from you.

What differences can there be, when they are no bodies?

[Pause]

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

[Pause]

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

[Pause for 5 minutes if time permits]

Finally, let us ask the Christ in our brothers 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, created in the image of our Father. Our healing comes from being receptive to how God sees us, and healing is always certain. See and feel the light of Christ shining in you, and extending from you, encompassing all those you will encounter today and every day. Amen.”

You may now open your eyes.