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== What is spiritual healing? ==


Spirituality involves the recognition and acceptance of a Allah beyond our own intelligence and with whom we can have a relationship. This Allah can provide an experience of inspiration, joy, security, peace of mind, and guidance that goes beyond what is possible in the absence of the conviction that such a power exists.


Spiritual healing (http://www.quranichealing.com/bp.asp?caid=86) is when energy is transmitted to the person who needs it. The treatment works on the body, mind and spirit, which are seen as one unit that must harmonize for good health. If a separate healer is involved, the healer will place the hand on the person being treated to channel the energy from the Higher Source. The spiritual healing can help mental and emotional problems and physical conditions such as a frozen shoulder.


Specific Benefits of Developing Your Spirituality Spirituality may include belief in supernatural powers, as in religion, but the emphasis is on experience. ...


Edmund Bourne, author of ‘The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook,’ has described a number of benefits to spirituality as it applies to healing emotional problems. Dr. Burke has personal experience of his patients benefiting from a deep spirituality. He has listed a number of benefits that are gained through spirituality. These are: The term phobia, which comes from the Ancient Greek word for fear (φόβος, fobos), denotes a number of psychological and physiological conditions that can range from serious disabilities to common fears to minor quirks. ...


Security and Safety


Through developing a connection with Allah, you gain security through the conviction that you are not all alone in the universe, even at those times when you feel temporarily separated from other people. You feel increasingly safe as you come to believe that there is a source you can always turn to in times of difficulty. As the twenty third psalm says, "God is my shepherd," he will take care of me and won’t let me get into trouble if I trust him. There is much security to be gained through the understanding that there is no problem or difficulty that cannot be resolved through the help of Allah. An example of allāhu written in simple Arabic calligraphy Allah ( Arabic allāhu الله) is traditionally used by Muslims as the Arabic word for God (not Gods personal name, but the equivalent of the Hebrew word El as opposed to YHWH). ...


Peace of Mind


Peace of mind is the result of feeling a deep, abiding sense of security and safety. The more reliance and trust you develop in Allah, the easier it becomes to deal without fear or worry with the inevitable challenges life brings. It is not that you give up your self or your will to such a power; rather you simply learn that you can "let go" and turn to Allah when you feel stuck with a problem in living and don't know how to proceed. Learning how to let go when solutions to problems aren't immediately apparent can go a long way toward reducing worry and anxiety in your life. Peace of mind is what develops in the absence of such anxiety.


Self-Confidence


As you develop a relationship with Allah, you come to realize that he has created you and hence he has found something good in you. You are part of the universe. You're good, lovable, and worthy of respect just by virtue of the fact that you're Allah’s creation. This realization can improve the way you look at yourself and will help you to improve your ego and what you think of yourself. You are still inherently good and worthwhile. Your own judgments of yourself, however negative, do not ultimately count if you are a creation of the universe as much as everything else. As one person put it: "Allah doesn't make junk."


The Capacity To Give and Receive Unconditional Love


The most fundamental characteristic of Allah is that it offers you an experience of unconditional love. This is a kind of love which differs from romantic love or even ordinary friendship. It entails an absolute caring for the welfare of another without any preconditions. That is, no matter how another person appears or acts, you have compassion and care for them without judgment. As you develop a deeper connection with Allah, you come to experience greater degrees of unconditional love in your life. You feel your heart opening more easily to people and their concerns. You feel freer of judgment toward them or of making comparisons among them. Unconditional love shows up both in your increased capacity to give love to others and to experience more of it coming into your life. You begin to experience less fear and more joy in your life and help to inspire others to experience their own capacity for unconditional love. This kind of love also manifests itself through the experience of having everything you need in your life to get on with what you want to do.


Guidance


Developing a relationship with Allah will provide you with guidance for making decisions and solving problems. Allah has a universal wisdom that goes beyond what you can accomplish through your own intellect. In traditional religions this has been referred to as the "divine intelligence." Through connecting with Allah, you can draw upon this greater wisdom to help you resolve all kinds of difficulties. By learning to ask Allah for guidance, you'll be surprised to find that every sincere request sooner or later is answered. And the quality of that answer generally exceeds what you could have figured out through your own conscious intellect or will. Here, Allah is like your co-pilot. Allah is always available in the instant of need to those who have made a habit of waiting quietly before Him for insight and guidance.


Follow these guidelines for an effective relationship with Allah:


Be quiet, patient, and open before Allah



Be confident that he will communicate his wishes and help you execute them.



Do not tempt Allah or make terms with Him. Gandhi said, "Not until we have reduced ourselves to nothingness, can we conquer the evil in us. Allah demands nothing less than complete self-surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having. And when a man thus loses himself, he immediately finds himself in the service of all that lives. It becomes his delight and his recreation."



Be willing to accept what Allah provides. He knows best. "Thy will, not mine, be done." Have full trust in the wisdom of Allah.


Ask for Allah’s help. Do not instruct him on what to do.


Let Allah speak to you through his Word. Read spiritual and religious books such as the Holy book of Islam the Qur'an and learn about the rules of victorious living. Islam ( Arabic al-islām الإسلام,  listen?) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith and the worlds second-largest religion. ... The Quran ( Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; its literal meaning is the recitation and is often called Al Quran Al Karim: The Noble Quran, also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ...


These are some of the characteristics that define a close relationship with Allah. All of them can significantly contribute to your personal healing process. The extent and sincerity of your commitment will determine the degree of personal healing you experience.


See also

Islam ( Arabic al-islām الإسلام,  listen?) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith and the worlds second-largest religion. ... Exorcism is the practice of evicting or destroying demons or other evil spiritual entities which are supposed to have possessed (taken control of) a person, a building, etc. ...

References

Buy this book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1929694156/qid=1114714643/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-9200671-3970436) Hamza Yusuf Hanson embraced Islam in 1977 and is one of the most well-versed Islamic scholars in the west. ...


External links

  • Qur'anic Healing (http://www.quranichealing.com) quranichealing.com

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Spiritual Healing (2506 words)
Spiritual healing is when energy is transmitted to the person who needs it.
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Healing does not always work at a physical level; the illness may remain but the ability to cope with it improves.
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Faith healing has to do with an unquestioned belief in some great God “out there” or some vast power — also “out there.” Sometimes it takes the form of a shaman, a person who is empowered to produce extraordinary, magical effects in the world of the person who believes in him.
Spiritual Mind Treatment is the way to neutralize and dissolve inner patterns that bring about outer experiences of disorder, disease, and disturbance of the human condition.
In spiritual healing you become conscious of the truth that your life is the Life of God, or the Great Spirit.
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