Excerpt from The University of Sufism and Spiritual Healing

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Perhaps the best and most effective way to explain how spiritual healing works is to use a metaphor that we’re all familiar with: your computer.

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Spiritual healing is like removing the viruses, old files, cookies, and other software you may have downloaded along the way, believing that it would help you, but it only made your system run more slowly and caused unexpected consequences because of incompatibilities with your original programming.

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You don’t need new software, you just need to clean up your hard drive. There is nothing wrong with who you are, but you may have picked up some troublesome behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, and fears along the way.  Spiritual healing doesn’t change you as much as it helps refine, clean up, optimize, and restore your original emotional, physical, and spiritual “operating systems” so that you need never experience the crashes, data loss, and frustrations of a poorly functioning life again.

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When you were born, you had your original “operating system.” As you grew up, you may have learned that it was not safe or acceptable to feel in this way or that, and as a result you learn to live your life behind a façade.

 

 

For many of us, living behind the facade has become intolerable. We wish to live authentically but not seem "out there." You will know you're living in your spiritual truth when you embrace these three qualities.

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1. Faith: We are not talking about belief or theology. Belief has to do with the mind and trusting that something may or may not happen. Theology is a subset of belief in that it deals with the mind and one’s ideas about God and spirit.  Faith has to do with an in body knowing. There is faith in gravity because you know that you are stuck on the planet surface. Faith in God is not a belief about doctrines or concepts. You have faith in God because you have experienced God moving through you. It is an experience. It is not quantifiable. It is the kind of experience that you cannot prove to anyone else but you know that you know that you know.

2. Sincerity: Sincerity is being real and honest with whatever is genuine for you in the present moment. This can be challenging as you may have learned from childhood that it’s not safe or acceptable to feel in this way or that and as a result you learn to live your life behind a façade. When you learn to go behind the façade, acknowledge your feelings and needs, and connect with the love of God, you have begun to embrace the totality of your humanity. Sincerity is a quality that is connected to the yearning and calling of your heart. It’s that place inside that knows there’s something more and you’re not sure how to fill it or how to satisfy it. Sincerity and your passion are deeply connected. As you embrace the totality of your humanity and accept the love of God, you begin to unleash the passion that God has placed within you.

3. Self-examination: Self-examination requires personal responsibility. You choose to own your feelings, thoughts and look at what the message is to you. You look at your life with pointing to yourself rather than blaming or judging others for what may or may not have happened. What is your lesson? You begin to see your life in the context of meaning and purpose as you examine the needs and lessons behind your experiences.

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The key is to integrate all three qualities within the context of your life. Most of us have not had opportunities to learn how to combine all three. It’s not taught in school and has usually not been modeled in our families. This results in continued searching for the right answers to fill the void in order to live fully and to heal the pain of your life. How do you bring all three qualities within the context of any situation of your life?

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Faith, Sincerity, and Self-Examination come together through Spiritual Healing.

 

Spiritual Healing is the process of connecting your needs and pain with Divine love through your spiritual heart. It is the journey of relating to God within your heart and knowing this essence as compassionate, loving, gentle, and peaceful. It’s a journey of becoming who you really are, who you were created to be. You learn to see your life and its lessons from the eyes of Divine truth.

 

As a result, you experience more, clarity, strength, and confidence. In short, your body heals, your mind has a fresh perspective, and your heart lives in joy and peace!

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Have you ever wished that you could start your life over and wipe the slate clean? Spiritual Healing washes the ego of its attachments and old memories that no longer serve you. When these beliefs are cleared, what remains is the truth of who you are. You see a Divine perspective that adds wisdom, strength, and certainty. It’s like wiping a hard drive and reloading a new software package! As you see your life from Divine truth, your paradigm shifts and you are a new creation!

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Spiritual Healing will clear the ego of all the pictures, beliefs and memories that no longer serve you. Your heart overflows with gratitude and love and you then learn to give to another the same love, acceptance, truth, and wisdom. You relationships and work take on a whole new meaning and purpose. Your heart feels fulfilled and satisfied. You are living your spiritual truth and continuing your professional success. Your life makes a positive difference in the world around you.

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As you continue to live this life connected to God within your heart, you will embody these qualities of compassion, truth, strength, peace and love. No matter what circumstance life shows you, you know how to return to the Divine connection within your heart and see the Divine perspective and then share that in a way that brings consensus where there was division, creativity where there was confusion, solutions where there was fear and doubt. You are seen as a person who leads by example.

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If you desire to deepen your heart in a way that applies to your profession and the entirety of your life, taste for yourself what the University of Spiritual Healing & Sufism offers. We have helped thousands of people find the richness of wisdom, peace, and love within their hearts and helped them heal and then become people who help heal the world.

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