Raindrop Therapy, Philosophy and Belief

Okay- I had a second dose of the Raindrop essential oil therapy.  Help me out here, I am in somewhat of an ideological quandary.  While allowing the therapy to settle in, I got into a discussion with the woman who was administering the essential oils.  I am not sure if I am missing some points here or if there were holes in her logic circuit.

In the course of our discussion, she made a few comments that I tried to reconcile with each other, and with the protocol- and with what I generally believe to be accurate.

1. The oils do not heal.  God does the healing.

2. I never administer the treatment to someone who does not believe it will work, because if they do not believe, then it doesn’t/ won’t work.

3. ( extension) The belief is core to healing.

Okay- so from that, I might have made the mistake of trying to parse the logic involved in this.  On one hand, I wanted to grasp what her underlying belief foundation was, from curiosity.  On the other hand, I was trying to understand if what she was purporting had anything to do with the established protocol of the young living oils/ raindrop therapy, or if this was a personal perspective separate from the protocol.

SOOO, I began by explaining how I would approach a “non-believer” in terms of the healing work I have done.  I countered that I didn’t feel belief was necessary for healing to happen.  I have worked on several people over the years who had little to no belief in the concept of shamanic or energetic healing. I would note to them that they do not have to believe in something in order for it to affect change.  Sometimes people are either open enough to at least try, sometimes perhaps they want to prove it doesn’t work, sometimes I think a person is in enough distress that trying is preferable to the alternative, ongoing distress.

For whatever reason, I have seen many people who went into healing work as a non-believer, become a little more open minded. Even if they can’t explain or account for how or why something worked, they can acknowledge that something did indeed transpire, something in their lives shifted, and there was improvement on various levels.

Note that I do not set out to create a believer.  It is not my own intent or desire to convert anyone, or change anyone’s underlying belief structure.  As a healer, I have been taught to “make myself available,” and to get any ego out of the way.  Do the work and get yourself out of the equation.  Healing is not a contest or competition.  There is no such thing as success or failure.  If I *needed* to make someone better, I take that as a sign that *I* should not be going into the work to begin with.

So, in response to the refusal to work with non-believers, I noted this information.  I explained how I might approach this.  I would make the offer, and if the person were to say, well, I don’t believe in it, but sure, go ahead, I would be willing to do the healing work. I figure it might improve someone’s circumstance, and it might also open their minds a little bit to explore possibilities they were closed to.

In response to this, the woman was fairly emphatic, that no, she would never offer or work on someone who did not believe in it.  It wouldn’t work for someone who did not believe.

This is where I got a little tripped up. In this particular we were talking about essential oils- which have specific purported properties.  Essential oils are the most potent, concentrated compounds of a plant, and many of our modern medicines still come from plants.  But anyway- I tried to decipher the logic in this.

With the essential oils and other protocols she practices, there are many different techniques and specific therapies.  Each one with different sets of essential oils and other proscribed remedies (omega oils etc).

If it is belief that does the healing, I noted, then why all the different oils.  If it is the belief that does the healing, then it should not be necessary to use 9 different oils in a given protocol.  shouldn’t just ONE oil suffice for each phase of the treatment? Belief is another word for intent.  If the patient believes the protocol will be effective, then the placebo affect should work.  I am not trying to disavow the psycho-somatic impact.  That is essentially the same as the mind-body connection.  The idea that the mind is capable of very powerful healing, self-generated.  The inverse can also be true, where the mind can create genuine illness, that is a physical manifestation and reflection of an internal, emotional or energetic state of being.  That is how incredible and powerful both the mind and body can be.

I think this was the point at which I lost her. She responded that this was too deep for her. And that she did not get too into the thinking aspect of this whole deal.

It didn’t occur to me that this was a philosophical or intellectual discourse.  So at this point, I started to get the sense that perhaps a logical concept was clashing with an emotional belief- and her inability to genuinely, coherently reconcile the two.  Perhaps, up to this point, no one had put those two non-sequitors(?) side by side in such a way that she might have to be nudged out of a comfort zone.  I asked at this point if she happened to be a Christian, to which she replied that she was.  I noted I was decidedly a non-christian, which was neither here nor there.

I am guessing here, that the Christian side of her was translating belief, with Faith. and that it was not her that was healing, but that she was a vehicle by which God healed. Again, supposition mine.  I asked again about the relevance of the oils, if it had to do with belief. For example, I noted.. if belief is what gets you there, then why even need the oils?  I referenced Joao de Deus, John of God, who is a renowned healer- who works via God laying on of hands.  Her response, I’m not that good. I don’t have those kinds of hands (I don’t remember exact words here, but this was the gist). Again, I was a bit stymied, and still am.  If God does the healing, do the hands matter? At this point, I decided there likely would be no cogent resolution to this discussion and did a subtle sidestep to redirect.  It wasn’t because I thought she was wrong, or I thought I was right.  It was more that I felt like I was bumping up into something and meeting with a not-rational defense mechanism.

I left her with the suggestion that that question might be a good bit for her “meditation.” Something to reflect upon.

So- I tried to relate this in an unbiased, objective frame.  If anyone has any thoughts on this, please share them. I am not sure if I was missing something, or if I was not conveying something accurately/ concisely.. What do you think?

 

 

I am an Education Specialist, Health Coach and Author. I work with aspects of the teachings I have learned from Andean shamanic and cosmology, to health, nutrition and education.  Everything is energy. Energy must flow. Like water, when it does not flow, it stagnates and is not healthy. These techniques help your life to flow. I have been initiated into many of the ancient lineages and learned ceremonies, rites of passage and healing techniques.  I have worked as a healer and done workshops and taught some of these aspects – passing the teachings on.

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