Everyday Enlightenment

A man called me one day from Nevada. Let’s call him Bill. Bill wanted a long-distance healing for his wife, who was stuck in Morocco. Even though he is an American citizen, and legally married his Moroccan wife, the American embassy would not let her out of her own country, and it had been this way for two and a half years. Bill was supporting her with his work in Nevada, and would lose 40% on the exchange rate every time he sent her money.

Every day or so, Bill would call me and check on my progress. I was enjoying having something to do each morning for someone else. There is nothing like using healing abilities to try to be of service. Bill would tell me about the Moroccan sorcerers and about his wife’s family and about their experiences with the embassy. With each new bit of information, I would delve deeper into the world of his wife’s day-to-day life.

It was all going great until his wife had a breakdown episode. She was very sensitive to energy, and the healings were affecting her directly, and immediately. Bill let me know and urged me to change my healing techniques. Though it wasn’t my typical style, I took it on as a challenge. I would try to direct my healing efforts in such a way as to affect Bill’s wife in the least manner possible.

Now, this wasn’t the easiest thing to do, as it isn’t usually possible to tell what the effects of any given healing will be. By its nature, the pathway of energy is like the path of a lightning strike. You can know basically how lightning appears and moves, but you can’t predict where its going to strike exactly. So, some healing efforts would work, and others would trigger an unexpected reaction in Bill’s wife. I adjusted my technique as best I could. It was turning out to be an impossible task.

Eventually, Bill got angry with me. He said, “I want you to get my wife home without her having to go through anything.” Bill finally made clear what I had sensed all along. I was failing in his eyes because I couldn’t deliver on the typical Western expectations of “control your reality”, “make it happen” and “I shouldn’t have to change to get what I want”. Bill would ultimately ask me to stop healing altogether.

If I’d told another healer about Bill’s attitude, we would have had a good laugh over it. It’s ludicrous to think that you can go on any worthwhile journey without being altered by it in some way. And why would you want to do otherwise? From a spiritual perspective, what’s truly important is the soul that you’re creating through your life experiences and your responses to those experiences. Do you really want an empty gift, one that you haven’t earned?

It’s a shame that Bill and his wife and I couldn’t have on a physical level what I had experienced with them on a spiritual level. I grew and changed with Bill’s wife as I worked with her and performed healings on those around her. I knew that the real reason Bill called me was to get spiritual communication and validation for himself, and I did my best to provide this for him. I will never be the same from the experience. That’s the amazing that about spiritual growth. It’s growth that you never give back. It can never be taken away from you.

You are the true gift. The greatest gift that you can ever give anyone, including yourself, is the gift of your true self. When you get an opportunity to polish the diamond that you are, take it as the gift that it is.