Performing Candle Healing

Choose a candle related to the disorder, or use white or beeswax for any illness or stress.  Anoint your candle with fragranced olive oil, and as you do so visualize golden light entering the candle from the cosmos.

If the sick person is not with you, you may wish to use a photograph of them or make a 'poppet', a featureless doll in the appropriate color, filled with healing herbs such as chamomile, elder flowers, lavender, mint, rosemary, or vervain.  Tie a ribbon of the same color around the afflicted part on the doll, or around the head of the doll if it is a whole-body disorder or an affliction of the mind or spirit.

Light the candle and circle it nine times counter-clockwise over the photograph or doll to remove any pain or anxiety, and nine times clockwise to insert feelings of calm or energy.

Place the candle behind the symbol, and visualize the colored light entering the person who is sick or distressed.

When you are ready, blow out the candle, saying:

Go light to where you are most needed, and bring health and healing to {name here} as it has been requested, and if he/she will accept it.

Sit quietly in the darkness, letting your love follow the light to the 
sufferer.  You can carry out this ritual for someone who is present if they sit on the opposite side of the candle to you.  Ask the person to visualize with you the light from the candle entering a point of pain and spiraling round their body, gently dispersing the discomfort.  Say words such as:

Candle light, candle bright,
Shed on your golden light.
Disperse pain, make whole again.
Discord ease, fill with peace.

As you snuff or blow out the candle, direct the colored light to yourself, or to enter the person to be healed.