 Love is an energy with the power to unite, harmonise and heal, and it is unconditional in its action. Distant Healing is the transmission of this energy, through a person’s desire and intention to help, to where it is needed. Instead of being present, as in hands-on healing or other forms of energy therapy, the subject is at some distance from us – hence ‘distant healing’.
The great advantage of this form of healing is that the ‘subject’ can be a person, an animal, a plant, an environment, and even a situation. You can learn to use it to work with friends and family, pets and the home, and even environmental, societal and global problems.
The Distant Healing perspective
From the Distant Healing perspective, healing energies come from the Source of all energy – a Oneness which religious people call God. The energies thus originate outside the space-time frame of the physical level and so they are not governed by its laws until they enter this level. This means that they can travel to another person, another being, landscape, or situation, at any distance from us, in an instant.
Why Distant Healing?
There are factors and situations where hands-on help is just not possible. For example, distance prevents certain people from travelling. This is the case with the disabled, those in some kind of confinement, those with a mental or behavioural condition, the sick, and of course those who live just too far away. As a Distant Healer, none of these factors presents a barrier to your being able to offer help.
Similarly, because it is able to work at an energetic level with the energies involved, Distant Healing is an ideal way to address the two urgent issues of our time – environmental and societal problems, whether local or global.
The feeling that you want to help another, or do something about a situation, is the instinct to heal. When people ask me if they need special qualifications to work as a Distant Healer, I assure them that the most important qualification is this instinct – which comes from the heart.
The instinct to heal
I have always been fascinated by the fact that people in all cultures throughout recorded time have been laying hands on others to ease pain, relieve symptoms, and often to completely heal a condition. This is not surprising when you consider that when we hurt ourselves our first instinct is to immediately send unconscious thoughts of healing to the place that hurts by putting our hands on it. When this happens to us as children our mother opens her arms to cuddle us and ‘kiss it better’. This instinct is a loving gesture which comes before any rational thought of what to do about it. You don’t need to think about how to be loving or supportive, you just do it.
In the mid 1980s, I was ‘encouraged’ to discover what this meant in practice. Months of chronic back trouble and sciatica had baffled my doctor and he suggested that I visit a healer. ‘After all,’ he said, ‘what have you got to lose?’ The upshot was that my back trouble was considerably improved and I pondered on how it was done. But my visits had convinced me that I already knew how it was done. I had been ‘doing it’ for others since I was a child.
Discovering subtle energies
My encounter with this healer proved to be life changing. I was a curious patient and Dennis, my healer, did his best to answer my questions but assured me that I would make my own discoveries. This launched me into the world of healing and subtle energy medicine – the therapies that work with ‘subtle’ energies. Subtle energies travel at speeds beyond the speed of light and so are not visible to normal sight and everyday sensing. Because of this, some people have found this fact of life difficult to understand or accept.
But I had been aware of these energies ever since I could remember – sometimes I ‘saw’ them and, more often than not, I sensed them in some other way. For example, I saw light round people. When they were angry or unhappy this light became frighteningly dark. When I sat with old people my hands would sometimes tingle or get warm. To me, this type of awareness was quite normal and I assumed that everyone was like me. As I grew up, I discovered that we all have the natural ability to sense subtle energies, even if we don’t exercise it. It is exciting to realise that healing energies fall into this category. They are subtle, but they can certainly be sensed or felt by most of us.
The healer described his work as the action of love. This was an energy that came from the Source, ‘through’ him and into the patient. It was love that did the healing. But he saw this as complementary to everyday medicine, not as an alternative or last resort for the desperate. Dennis’s assertion that love could heal did not sound corny to me – it sounded obvious. But I had never heard any sort of therapy described in this way before.
Healing at a distance
Quite soon after my time with Dennis, I had the chance to consider his point of view, and to put it into practice, on a trip to Italy. I spent my first night in the beautiful Tuscan town of San Gimignano in a family home. As I lay awake planning the research I was to do in the coming month, little did I know that I was beginning a life of healing. The house had been quiet for some time when suddenly a rasping sound broke the silence. Grandfather Fanciulli was coughing. On and on he coughed until the coughs changed to groans and cries of desperation. But the rest of the house remained still. No one went to his aid. Perhaps the family slept through it because they were already used to these harrowing sounds and felt powerless to bring him any form of relief.
I wanted to help him. I was lying on my back and something made me put my hands outside the bedclothes as if I could send some ‘healing’ towards the grandfather. To my surprise, my palms and fingertips began tingling – a feeling at once strange yet oddly familiar. I mentally asked for help to be sent to the old man. The next moment his coughing stopped abruptly. The house returned to silence and I dropped off to sleep.
In the small hours of the next night the old man began to cough again, hardly able to pause for breath, until it sounded as if he would cough up his whole body. There was no space for a groan or a cry. Again I stretched out my hands and asked for help for him, and again his coughing stopped immediately.
The same thing happened every night until I left San Gimignano. As I said goodbye to the Fanciullis, old Nonno gave me a smile which seemed to say that he knew what had been happening. Perhaps on some level he did know, but this first attempt at distant healing taught me that whatever was making my hands tingle could be sent somewhere to help. I did not need to analyse how this could happen. During the rest of my time in Italy I frequently felt the need to send healing thoughts out to people I passed in the street. I guessed that this was healing at a distance, distant healing, and it seemed such an easy way to help out.
Working as a Distant Healer
On my return to my home in Wales, the locality of a small mining village seemed a daunting place when faced with what needed to be done. The land and the people were trying to recover from centuries of mining and now from the trauma of closure and unemployment. A clever, mocking voice in my head seemed to be saying, ‘Come on, Jack. What can you do here with distant healing?’ Something needed to happen to balance my innate scepticism. I joined a local meditation group. The leader said he sensed that I had the gift of healing and suggested I send distant healing to a list of people she had drawn up. She did not tell me how to do this, saying that I would be ‘inspired from within’ to find my own way intuitively.
One evening after a meeting of the group a young woman came up to me. She was obviously pregnant. She had heard I was a healer and wondered if I could help her. Her boyfriend had left her, her parents had thrown her out of their home, and the foetus kept returning to the breech position, no matter how many times it was turned by the midwife. Without wondering how, I said I would do my best. I would work out what that would be later. That night I sat quietly in a chair. Using my breathing to help me relax, I attuned to the Source. When I felt centred, I asked if I could help the young woman.
With closed eyes, I soon sensed the body of a woman as if it was laid out in front of me, hovering in mid-air. Instead of being surprised, I assumed this was part of the process and relied on my instinct to heal. My palms were already tingling. As I reached out, I could ‘feel’ her baby in the womb, and other unknown hands gently turned it so that the head faced downwards again. This was accompanied by an overwhelming sense that everything would be all right for mother and baby. I sat for a while, just absorbing the experience. Suddenly the feeling came to ‘hand over’ their fate to the higher power that seemed to be looking after them. I got up and thought no more about it.
I didn’t see the young woman for a while. Then a few months later she turned up at the group meeting again. She had a few things to report. Her baby boy did not return to the breech position and was born naturally. Her boyfriend came to her hospital bedside and asked her to marry him. ‘What wonderful news!’ I said. But that wasn’t all. Her parents seemed to have had a change of heart too because they also visited her and welcomed her back to their home. I heard the list in amazement. So this was the world of distant healing!
Sometimes I sent help and nothing seemed to happen. I had to learn not to take it personally when people didn’t bother to report back one way or the other. But during the ensuing weeks positive feedback from many of those who had requested my help gave me proof that distant healing was effective for all kinds of conditions.
Becoming aware of the energies
When I sat to do distant healing, I was aware of an energetic change in my hands which would be the signal that I was working. But this was not always accompanied by a sense of the presence of the person who needed the help. When this did happen, I was able to sense the body from whatever angle seemed necessary. I knew where on the body I needed to place my hands and the organs concerned gave off information about what was wrong. I often ‘saw’ or ‘felt’ what was taking place as the healing progressed. In this way I was able to work with people as if they were physically present. I also picked up a range of messages coming from different parts of a person’s body. These told not only of the physical conditions, but of worries, sadness, stress, past traumas, life incidents, unfulfilled needs, as if everything that had happened to that person was recorded somewhere in the body or in the energy field of that body.
In writing The Distant Healing Handbook I have sought to prepare you for experiences like these, and then to show you how they can contribute to more advanced distant healing work. Whether you are a beginner, or a practising energy worker, you may discover new abilities, new possibilities and new friends.
I thank you for the work that you will do to help all our relations.
From The Distant Healing Handbook, © 2007 by Jack Angelo, published by Piatkus Books.
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