Spiritual Healing  

 If you think about it and are totally honest about it, you can meet with a therapist one or two hours per week.  There are one hundred and sixty eight hours in a week. With whom do you speak during those other one hundred and sixty-six hours? 

You can speak to yourself.  However, you already know the results of such conversations. You would not be looking for outside help if speaking to yourself were sufficient.  Even if you are not looking for help, aren’t there times during the week when you truly feel the need to let it all hang out with someone else?  Oh you can use a trusted friend.  However, there are some things that you do not wish to share with another person. Perhaps you are too embarrassed.  Perhaps you are afraid that they would think less of you if you shared some of your “top secret” stuff with them. So what do you do? 

Many people turn to spirituality as a way to seek help beyond themselves.  They are reluctant to tell others about this because they do not wish that people think them crazy to be in relationship with a God that they cannot see or touch. So they delve in spirituality on the sly. They go inside of themselves and seek something else that may be helpful to them in relieving them of the stress and anxiety that they feel. 

It is a belief of the Catholic religion that the Blessed Trinity dwells within us 24/7. Can this be proven as a fact? It depends on who is it that you ask for proof.  I give workshops on spirituality and psychology on a regular basis to people who self report that they are “religious.” Many of the attendees are Roman Catholic.  I ask each group several questions. I start off slowly.  What are your responses to these questions. 

How many here are in pain or under stress and need relief from anxiety?  Invariably every hand in the room goes up. 

How many here are seeking peace in their heart? This is essentially the same question as the first.  Once again, every hand in the room goes up. 

I then ask. How many here pray to God for help.  Since this is a select group in that they have opted to attend the workshop, invariably every hand in the room goes up. 

I then ask the clincher.  How many here have had an internal experience of a sense of God somehow within their being?  Surprisingly, a number of hands do go up.  I say surprisingly because that is not something spoken of in Catholic circles.  Yet, it is an surprisingly increasing phenomenon that the majority of people who  attend these workshops raise their hands.

 I do not ask how they experience God’s Presence. However, I know from my own life experience and from reports of many others that they experience a presence that is somehow different from themselves that they cannot define.  This “presence” gives them a sense of inner peace. For them and for me, we ascribe that Peace to the internal presence of God. 

I am not a theologian. I am simply a person seeking a relationship with God.  I respect Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI who categorically state that Catholic must be open to an experience of God so that they can build an intimate, personal relationship with His Saving Love. 

As a therapist, I jump at such an option so that people who come to me in practice have something else to hang on to outside of therapy sessions that they can access through time that they can freely choose to set aside to place themselves in the Presence of God through prayer. 

Prayer is the lubricant of the heart. I believe that the more time spent in prayer the easier it is to open the door to the heart and to be open to experiences of God’s Presence in some manner within our being. 

I also believe in the Infinite Love of God to such an extent that He is able to touch each of us in just the right way at precisely the right moment in our lives if we allow ourselves to be open to such a touch. Thus, the first step for me as a psychologist is to encourage those who come to me to find a way to open themselves to God on a daily basis. 

I suggest that they cultivate the habit of placing themselves in His Presence.  It is something that they can do at a regular time each day.  I emphasize that they should look on this experience in much the same way that they look on coming to me in therapy
weekly.  Thus I suggest that they set a regular appointment time to be with God for at least 50 minutes a day since that is the prescribed time for therapy. 

I do not know what will happen to them in that daily time.  I only know that if they freely choose to set aside fifty minutes a day for forty days that God will find a way to let them know that they are truly in His Presence. 

I am frequently asked. How do I know that God will do anything?  What kind of guarantees can I give? I just tell people that I trust in the Love of God to such an extent that I am convinced that He will make His Presence known and that is the best guarantee I can give. 

People then ask me what they are to do in that time that they set aside.  I tell them to use it in much the same way that they use therapy time.  Tell God in their heart felt manner the problems that they are confronting in their lives.  I underscore the fact that God already knows those problems and He understands their need to “unload.”  After all, if that is what I do as a therapist, surely God, the Perfect Therapist, is much better at the job than I am. 

They then ask.  Well what do I do after I unload.  I tell them to try to quiet down their inner voice.  Contemplative Prayer people suggest using a mantra.  I use a single word “Jesus” as my mantra.  I sometimes say the Rosary while contemplating on the Mysteries.  I always ask for God’s help to quiet down my mind. 

I tell people that our minds are our worst enemies when it comes time to relate to the Love of God internally, intimately and experientially.  We have to do as Mother Teresa said in response to Larry King’s question of what she does in prayer.  She said, “I listen.”  Larry King pursued her further he asked, “Well! What does God do?”  She answered, with a droll smile, “He listens too!”

I have been trained as a psychologist and I have trained others to be counselors and psychologists. One of the attributes of a good counselor is to truly listen with your heart so that you can come to understand the inner world of the person who comes to you for therapy.  In a sense I advocate the same approach to those who go to God as their Therapist during the week on a daily basis.  I stress the need for them to begin to use their will to quiet their mind so that they can learn to listen with their heart.  That’s easy to say and hard to do. Yet, with effort, it can be done. 

I am told. I get so restless just sitting quietly. Can I pray out loud?  I respond, “Of course you can.” However, try not to follow a prescribed routine because the routine will get in the way of listening.

A MEDITATION

 IMPERFECTLY WHOLE 

When you work for Me, I touch you. I open you to more of Me. I free you from the constraints of your humanity. I clear away any and all blockages to My Love within you. I inspire you with My Love. I enable you to do things that you never thought possible. The freedom that My Love places within you is unmistakable. 

My Friends! I accept your application to work for Me. Just by being here with Me today, you have submitted your resume. I like your life experiences. I see the problems you've handled by simply surrendering to My Love within you. Oh, I know that you are far from perfect.  

Let Me tell you this. Perfect people are cranky people. They worry too much about their imperfections. They are judgmental of others and most certainly of themselves. They put Penance in My Mouth. They make Me into an ogre. They say: God does not love me because of... God can never forgive me because I... God hates sinners. God made a mistake by forgiving me of... God is not perfect. I am. You get My Drift. 

I ask perfectionists. Is there a perfect way to breathe, to eat, or to sleep? How do you know you do those actions perfectly? You don't control those activities. You just do them automatically. Something other than you is in control. How can you tolerate that? 

I know. Stop breathing, starting now. I'll tell you when to start again. While you are slowly dying for lack of oxygen, let Me ask you this. Are you enjoying suffocating? Hold on now! Don't breathe yet. I want you to be perfect in the way you follow My Direction. 

Oh! Oh! Some of you have started breathing again. Angels! Throw them out. They did not follow My Directions to the letter of My Law. Angels! On your way out, drag those who passed out for lack of air with you. I did not tell them to pass out. They chose to do that on their own. Why are you laughing? I did not tell you that you could laugh. When you laugh, you breathe. I told you to hold your breath. Angels! Remove the laughing ones. 

Who is left, My Perfectionist Ones? Okay? Do you get My Point? I am not a letter-of-the-law God. I do not demand perfection. I am a loving God. I encourage individuality. Oh! I certainly do not encourage sin. I just recognize that sin happens. I encourage repentance. I then give forgiveness to each imperfect friend. 

My Friends! I love you. I do not judge you. I do not have to. You do that. You are much more stringent than I would ever be. That's because you have a horrendous view of Me. I forgive and forget, once I detect repentance. I do not harbor resentment. That's against My Nature. 

I am a God of Love. I am here to teach you about True Love. I do not sanction limited, punitive human views of love - especially My Love. I cleanse minds of such distortions. I open hearts to My True Love. I resurrect My Friends in Love, with Love, and through Love. They understand that My Love does not demand they be perfect. They know I allow them the flexibility they need to breathe automatically so that they may live in Love Eternal. 

Angels! Bring back all those I told you to remove. Tell them I give them My Breath of Life forever. My Breath of Life is freely given. It is never earned. It is My Gift of Love. It is My Good News.  

Thus, I tell My Friends. Once you accept My Gift of Love, no matter how imperfectly you accept it, you need not worry about being perfect. You will grow into freedom from sin as My Love leads you through your own personal, internal process of purification! Love of Me becomes your modus operandi. Slowly, but surely, My Love experienced internally changes your actions. You no longer focus on sin. You now focus on My Love. 

My Love is perfect. You are not. My Love perfects you. It never makes you perfect. I do not want you to be perfect. I want you happy eternally. That's why I draw you to Me. I am the Eternal Answer to the prayer of your heart. Get it? If not, that's okay! You have an eternity to grow in My Love. 

Angels! Give those imperfect souls more of My Love. Make them imperfectly whole! 

Love, 

The Blessed Trinity 

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