Healing Messages in Ancient Wisdom

The therapeutic content of Buddhist doctrine is a familiar idea. Much of therapeutic Mindfulness practice comes from the Buddhist tradition. So, Buddhism has become a prominent source of healing wisdom in contemporary society. Exciting as it is to meet these ideas if you were not lucky enough to be brought up Buddhist in the first place, it can be easy to overlook the wisdom in our own birth traditions. Indeed, it can be difficult to see such wisdom when religious practices become repetitious and over-familiar.

The pandemic lockdowns have given me the opportunity to catch up on my reading. One book I spent a lot of time with was ‘Prayers of the Cosmos’ by Neil Douglas Klotz – translations and interpretations of the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ from the Aramaic. This fresh take on a familiar religious practice from my childhood brought the therapeutic content of the prayer much more clearly to my mind. In these interpretations of Aramaic texts I found an exciting renewing approach to therapeutic practice.

The first part of the prayer suggests that we find sources of strength and creativity within ourselves and make space in our lives for transformation so that we can retune our actions with the Cosmos.

In the second part we are given pointers as to how to facilitate this process by continually renewing and releasing, and staying unattached to ideas and appearances.

Using hypnosis, that state of absorption in which the difficult becomes possible, as a way into this process of transformation we can start to really embed and facilitate this healing way in our lives, and, as our actions become more in tune with the movements of the Cosmos, so deep healing can occur.

The ‘flow state’ is a familiar and popular idea in contemporary society. One way of looking at it is: being in a state and acting in ways which are completely in tune with your surroundings and with the Cosmos. So, these approaches using ideas from Yeshua’s prayer can be ways into experiencing this sensation of deep flow in the activities of life, even in everyday activities not usually associated with the flow state.