To speak about spiritual healing first I should clear what I mean here by spiritual and spirituality. I think everybody has at least a vague concept about what means spiritual and these ideas can be very different based on the individuals past experiences. Here I refer to that dimension of our life, which has to do with conscience, with meaning of life, ethics, values, good and bad. This dimension is different of our bodily, psychological, emotional, intellectual and social aspects, but is interrelated with all these areas. This is the specifically human dimension, the source our most fundamental decisions, orientations. Usually this is the field of our religious experiences, where our prayer and relation with God is rooted. There are very differentiated spiritual experiences during the history in diverse geographical areas, and several reflections on the lived realities. These reflections are the base of the different spiritualities.
Spiritual healing occurs when the activity in the spiritual dimension has a beneficial effect on the person and his or her relations with others, with the world. This could be a prayer followed by a physical healing, a decision based on longer process of discernment which results in a better life, or changes in the psychological, emotional status of the individual after changes in his or her thinking patterns, beliefs or visions. In the followings I would speak on the cases when with some kind of insights, techniques and prayer somebody can experience improvement in his or her psychological status and personal relations. I will speak about God in Christian terms, but I think somebody can experience these kind of spiritual healing referring on his or her own conscience. Also, I think necessary to practice some form of meditative prayer. (On meditation I mean here a form of non-conceptual prayer, not a sequence of thoughts aimed to a deeper understanding of a text as the meditatio of the lectio divina. Later I will describe some meditation methods I am familiar with.) I don�t want to deal with problems that need professional help or therapy. It requires reflection, discernment or diagnosis to decide what is necessary in a concrete situation. Of course, this does not mean that these self-help considerations could not be helpful even if somebody is receiving psychiatric therapy. I want however to underline the importance of appropriate therapy if there is a diagnose that shows it as necessary. I would like to touch the charismatic type of healing, but this is not the central theme of this writing. My work is not a complete systematic study on healing but more a summary of my personal experiences and thoughts on healing in the last twenty years. I will use as central concept of the awakening and I think the material reflects the personality who had the experiences and this gives a certain subjectivity to it. I hope the reader can find benefit in it and also discover something helpful for himself or herself.