The Healing Circle is a group activity. It consists of a circle of people standing and holding hands as they focus their thoughts on the physical, mental and spiritual healing of themselves and their loved ones. The Adventures In Spiritual Living Retreat Team believes that faith plays a large role in healing, whether physical, mental or spiritual.
Experiencing the Healing Circle
Once we are gathered in a circle, there is a certain way that we hold hands. To the person on our right, we extend our right hand palm down and on our left, our left palm faces up. So that is right palm down, left palm up. Now everyone gently grasp hands. Close your eyes if you wish. Center your feet and body. Let your arms fall naturally. Relax and slowly take a deep breath. Then slowly let your breath out. Again, take another deep breath and as you exhale, let out any tensions you might have in your body. Continue breathing deeply a few more times while relaxing your body and mind. Let go of any tension in your body and gently drift deeper. Breathe and relax.
Celestial White Light
Imagine a stream of golden-white light slowly filtering down from your divine parent above. Imagine this as a beam of light energy. As it descends, sense it slowly and gently streaming down through the top of your head. As this wondrous light energy gently comes into you, feel its tremendous vitality and power. Gradually bring it down your neck and shoulders into your torso and abdominal area. Feel this marvelous, alive, healing energy as it flows into your legs, down through your calves and feet. Now let this energy circulate throughout your entire body. Send it coursing through your veins, moving health and vitality into all your organs and your body as it continues to flow into you from your divine parent.
Healing of Your Own Needs
Now, focus your attention on any problem, conflict or area in your life that needs to be remedied. Feel God’s healing light and forgiving power transforming you.
(Pause)
Accept our Mother and Father’s love and support for your healing and growth. Feel strength, courage and forgiveness flow through you. Love surrounds you. Accept through faith that your heavenly parent knows your real needs and that help is available.
Healing of Friends
As you savor the impression of this wonderful energy flowing through you, you naturally want to share it with others. As you feel it circulate through your body, let the light flow down your right arm, through your hand to the person on your right. Send this stream of energy around the circle. You will be receiving it through your left hand from the person on your left and through you to the person on your right. Feel God’s healing energy flowing through you and around the circle – left to right. Around and around the circle it flows.
To prepare us for the healing of our friends, we focus our attention inside ourselves once again. Imagine deep in the center of your being, perhaps in your heart or lower chest area, the vibrant, glowing color of violet. As you observe this beautiful energy-filled light, you know that it is the fragment of God within you — your own spark of divinity.
As we prepare to make the inner circle a warm and safe healing place, imagine your violet light energy mixing and mingling with the golden white light from your heavenly parent. Now send forth a stream of this beautiful mixture of light from the center of your being to the center of our circle. Imagine the inner circle filling with this powerful health energy. Let yourself radiate with this light until our circle is filled with light.
Now mentally place your friends in the middle of the circle. Imagine their bodies immersed in this health-giving light. See every cell, tissue, muscle and fiber of their bodies receiving health and life and wholeness. Our friends are filled with light.
(Prayer)
Mother and Father, heal our friends in body, mind, and spirit according to their needs. We ask for your strength, courage, guidance and forgiveness to be with them now along with the healing of their needs.”
See the spirit blessing them and filling their needs.
“Thank you, beloved parent.”
Ending
Focus again on the beautiful golden violet light in the center of our circle. Start slowly and gently expanding this light outward. As the light grows, see it getting brighter and brighter, until the whole room is encompassed in this glorious light − golden and violet. As we feel this light energy flow through each of us, we feel and know our parents’ presence. Allow the divine presence to flow through you and fill your whole being. Be with it now for just a moment. Feel and accept God’s Love!
(Prayer)
“Mother and Father, we thank you for your presence, for your gifts of love and healing here today. Encourage each one of us to be of service to others as we continue our lives in your love. Amen.”
(Pause)
OK, when you feel ready, you can slowly start bringing your consciousness back to this time and place. Gently become aware of this room.
You may open your eyes.
[Note]
This is one example of a healing circle. We encourage you to explore variations and express the creativity within you. Let the spirit lead. Our circles are never exactly alike because we allow the spirit to flow through us in each one.
