The Healing Power of Words

“As I pray each morning, it is important for me to set my intention for the day, to receive and share God’s love, to be filled with love and life and light, to be healed, to become a beacon of light and hope.”?

Laura Lane from?‘I Touch the Heavens’

Can you visualize love pouring down from the heavens. Light and love and truth and goodness raining down upon God’s children, upon all His creations?

What if we have the ability to partner with God is raining love and light down upon those around us or even the whole world?

When we pray and ask God to bless someone, rather than begging Him to do so, unsure whether He will deem our request good enough or important enough, it is important to remember that God loves that individual even more than we do. ?

What we are in essence doing when we pray – at least when we are praying with faith, believing not doubting his greatness, we are simply visualizing God’s love for them.? ?We can visualize His desire for their wellbeing.? ?We then have the opportunity to actively combine our love with His, partnering with him.? ?By expressing our love for the person we are praying for, sending them love, we can begin to feel the peace and comfort that comes, that surety that God does love them, is actively blessing them right now.

?As we watch others suffer or struggle, Heavenly Father asks us to be not only the safe connection, that empathy and connection I mentioned a few weeks ago, that others need for emotional healing, but also combine our love with His to bless them and heal them.

?My friend and EBC colleague?Debra Poneman?once shared with me an experience she had when she became critically ill.? She had developed an infection and suddenly her blood pressure dropped to dangerously low levels, and she had to be rushed to the hospital. While there she had a unique near-death experience.?

?As she lay on a gurney in the emergency room, everything around her changed. She began to see fascinating lights and colours in the room as the people around her spoke.?

?This is what Debra described,?“What I saw was [a] nurse go over to my husband and put her hand on his shoulder and said to him ‘Don’t worry she’s going to be fine.’?

?And when those words came out of her mouth, it was like this light came from her mouth and the only way I can describe it was like My Little Pony because it was like pink sparkly light came out of her mouth on to my physiology and strengthened my physiology by her saying ‘Don’t worry she’s going to be fine.’?

?I’m telling you I saw the power of her words. Then a few minutes after the [emergency] doctor walked in. [He] saw that my blood pressure was down to about 67 over whatever it was.

He said in a very gruff voice, he said to everybody ‘Get her blood pressure up or were going to lose her!’?

?When those words came out of his mouth, they came onto my physiology, and they were this kind of grey kind of gun metal colour. And they came onto my physiology and weakened me.?

And as I lay there, I [could see] the power that we have, just with our words. We can change everything about our lives."

?That story has fascinated me for the last 10 years.? Do you realize the power we actually have to love and support others or to tear them down with our words alone?? Every word we speak aloud is a sound wave and has a corresponding physical or energetical impact on everything around us.?

?We literally have the power to bless others as we pray.? When we talk about how amazing someone is, it sticks to them and strengthens them.? When we gossip, put others down and say nasty things that sticks to them as well and weakens them. The nursey rhyme “Sticks and Stones” could not have been more wrong. Words do hurt.?

But our words can heal as well. They can uplift and strengthen and bless. We really can partner with God to heal others.?

Now let’s take this one step further.? What are you saying about and to yourself all day? You have the same ability to impact your own wellbeing. Taking time to meditate – the ability to quiet the mind and focus the thoughts – then finding an affirmation that brings positivity, love and light into your own life to strengthen you throughout the day can then put you in a better position to send light and love to those around you.?

?One of the things I teach in my meditation retreats is a moving mediation combined with affirmations that helps to focus on sending that light and love to others and receiving for yourself. It is powerful, calming and uplifting all at the same time. I have felt the difference in my life by doing it everyday before bed.

If you think you might benefit by learning a God centered moving meditation – think of it as a standing prayer, please reach out to me at anytime.?

?Let me know what impact Debra Poneman’s story has on your life and how you speak about others and yourself over the coming days and weeks.

?“As I meditate, I [can] connect the spiritual to the physical, filling myself with love throughout my whole body."

Laura Lane from?‘I Touch the Heavens’