Learning more about energy healing

QUESTION: Masters, I’ve been enjoying learning more about energy work. I’ve learned about Reiki and Qi gong. I feel energy more and more at my hands. I have tried to do energy healing. For example, when I have a headache, I can feel heat at the area. I position my hands and I can feel energy transfer. Within a few minutes, the heat is gone and the energy dissipates. But the pain doesn’t always go away. Instead of becoming frustrated, I would love to understand next steps I could take that could help facilitate more healing. ~AJ, USA

ANSWER: Energy healing involves two things: You must have the intention to bring through the healing force, and also have unquestionable confidence that the result will be what is needed by the patient. “Trying,” instead of thinking about something as “being done,” has only a 50/50 chance of being successful. To try says you feel it may work, but it also has the chance of failing.

When you are working on yourself, you must have no doubt that your desired intention will be fulfilled. If you have a little voice in the back of your head that says “this will not work” or “ who am I kidding” or any other such doubt, the energy is totally ineffective because the universe responds to your skepticism by shutting down the flow, and you have thus sabotaged all the effort you are putting into the practice.

You will also not be able to eradicate pain, or change the course of another’s physical ailment, if it is connected to a lesson that has not been discovered and understood, and no steps have been taken to complete it. In such a situation, go into a meditative state and ask your higher self, or your guides, what is happening. Why is this not being changed as my intention indicates?

Since energy healing involves spiritual intervention, you should not be vested in the outcome. It is not up to you as a human using your ego judgment mind to anticipate what the soul has decided it wishes to experience.

Frustration occurs when reality differs from the expectations you have allowed yourself to create. Expectations are the results of ego judgment and are dangerous and limiting in scope. They permit only one potential outcome. If something better or more complete than you imagined is available, you will never reach that conclusion because you are restricted only to what you expect to see.