RAPHAEL

A doctor stands, surgical tools in hand.

  There, too, stands Raphael.

A nurse fluffs a pillow to make someone more comfortable and cared for.

  There, too, stands Raphael.

An energy healer with hands gently resting on a client opens a channel, healing for the highest good.

  There, too, stands Raphael.

Golden wings and the radiance of a healing, glowing green surrounding him,

  Raphael is in the hands of the surgeon,

    The compassion of the nurse,

    The energy working through a healer.

Wherever healing is being done -

  Whether on physical form,

    for the emotions of the heart,

    for the mind,

    or for the soul,

Raphael is there.

Great healer, so many cry out to you for aid

  And in your caring you teach us how to heal ourselves,

    For your energy can course through us,

    If we but ask.

Raphael’s Words

I am here to discuss what is healing for the mind, body and soul.  Those are my specialties and it covers much ground, so bear with me.

Let us begin with something that most of you are familiar with - music and art.  These are two easy ways to get into the flow of love, positive-ness and heart feeling, all of which are healing on many levels.  But it depends on what you listen to as well.  Some music is written by the soul.  Some music is written to get across a beef with the world.  The latter is not what to listen to unless you want to be caught up in the beef and feed it.  Listen to what makes your heart sing, lifts you up.  Watch movies that lift you up – those with “feel good” endings.  The rest are feeding the devil that you created.  Look at art that sings praises of the Truth.  You know which art that is.  If not, I will guide you.  You can feel it inside yourself and you know it is true.  Do not fight that truth inside you.  There are so many beautiful and wonderful means to allow the soul to sing.  Listen to your heart, your “gut.”  Do not buy into the anger of some music or art.  It will only bring you down.  And you know it.  It makes you angry, frustrated.  Be positive.  Listen to the good stuff.  (He’s laughing.)  But you know it is true.  Paths can be forged by getting into the right rhythm, into the right music that is written from the soul.  For it is truth and you can feel it as such.  Listen to what it’s telling you through your feelings.  Do you get angry or do you come to peace?  Is it motivating your heart or your frustration?  Easy questions to answer.  Does it feel peaceful or does it make you feel violent?  Really easy.  Get lifted up into truth.

The reason I mention listening to what feeds the soul is that it is so powerfully healing to the entire being.  When you feed your soul, you feed your body and your body is what is transporting the soul in order for that divine part of you to work its purpose on this earth. 

The five senses you have are meant to be pushed beyond what you consider humanly possible.  To hear with ears is one thing, but to feel what you hear is another.  It moves you into a new place.  Sound vibrations from toning, chanting, or even just hearing those things are very powerful to the health of the entire body, as they touch the soul, and the healthy soul automatically heals the body.  It is not the body that gets ill, it is the mind.  If your soul is healthy, the mind is healthy, and therefore the body is healthy. 

The eyes see, but how much is interpreted in a way that feeds the soul.  Stretch your vision.  Look at a tree and what do you see?  A trunk, branches, needles or leaves?  Others are trained to see the health of the tree, or the kind of a tree.  Some see the potential of furniture in a tree.  It all depends on how you are trained to see to know the depth of a thing.  Others train themselves to see the life of the tree, the aura of a tree, the gift of the transfer of what is toxic air into breathable air.  Some can see the vibration of the tree, the oneness they share as a carbon-based unit with a tree.  Some might even see the elementals caring for the tree.  There are so many depths of seeing, but you must train yourself to do so.  The next time you look at a tree, think about how it came into being from the seed of another tree, the years of growth, the ability to sway with the strong winds of a storm, the life that flows through it, the energy it puts out.  Touch it, hug it.  See how that feels.  If you open yourself to the power of a single tree and hug it, you cannot help but feel the energy pouring out of it.  It is a powerful experience, trust me.  Ariel and Sandalphon can teach you more of this, as they are very connected to earth’s environment.  I am more about how to create a healthier soul, and therefore to have the ability to heal the body.

Breathing is one of the most beneficial ways to heal mind, body and soul.  Breathing is taken for granted by most – the lungs go in and out, the diaphragm rises and falls, the heart beats pushing the blood through the body.  But just as we looked at the depth of seeing a tree, let us look at the depth of what breathing really is.  First, it is necessary for survival on the earth.  Everything needs air.  Earth is a carbon based, oxygen and water planet.  All things, even rocks, need air to become what they are.  Blood holds oxygen, so as it beats through the human body, it is oxygenated.  It has to be in order for human form to live.  All things on this planet breathe in some manner of speaking.  So taking breath for granted is ignoring the very thing that allows all life on this planet.

Breathing connects you to the God force; breathing puts you in rhythm with all around you; breathing brings focus, which is why it is so centering for meditation.  Breath is not only life for the body, but for the soul.  If you took even two minutes to focus on your breathing each day, it would center you, relax you, bring you into the now of your existence.  It is that powerful.  I encourage you to pay more attention to it, take deep breaths of air, especially outside (if the air you are breathing isn’t too polluted), fill your lungs, and then with your out-breath, let go of any worries, troublesome thoughts, fears.  In with God force; out with issues.  The entire practice of Yoga, or Tai Chi, or Qigong is centered around breathing, the prana. And these practices are the very ones that are so highly beneficial to mind, body and soul. 

I have been known to be an exercise coach, and though I am gentle with this, I find a way to constantly remind you to do something, anything, to move your body.  This can be walking, stretching, weight lifting, tai chi, qigong.  If you open to me and can hear me, I will guide you in the best exercise for you, what part of the body needs work, how many reps to do…  Seriously.  The author here, dear sister of mine, is a prime example of how I can put out reminders.  And she knows when she is slacking off.  She stays open to my guidance and in her particular situation, has found that her knees over the years have taken a beating.  Stretching the muscle around them is strengthening them without putting as much pressure on them as lifting would.  And so she stretches them and has found that she can squat again, which used to be very comfortable for her, but she had lost the ability to do.  Now she’s again finding that her knees will allow that.  It has brought rejuvenation to her being.  I can and am very willing to do the same for anyone who wants to maintain youthfulness in their body.  Of course, the easiest way is to simply love yourself, truly love the body that is the vehicle for your soul.  Cells respond to love just as any other thing does.  Think of yourself as the Divine youth that is perfect as God intended and send love to your entire body.  The cells will respond to that love and give you exactly what you call for - the rejuvenation to that Divine youth that is perfect. 

I will tell you a secret – you are what you think.  Your body will reflect any and all things you believe in, focus upon, or bring to yourself through unforgiveness, negative thinking and fears.  I’m sure you have read this in other places, but as the energy through the Universal Consciousness that brings you healing if you desire it, I need to tell you again.  If you heal your thoughts, you heal your body.  In and of itself, the body can do nothing.  It is a vehicle, like a car, that without gas, a key, and a driver sits like so much metal (or plastic).  It needs the mind behind it, as your body responds to your mind.  Whatever gas you put in and how you drive, results in the condition of the car as it does your body.  Feed it good thoughts of love, harmony, and peace and you will drive a very long way.  If you feed it with negativity, envy, hate, fear or holding onto past grudges, it will break down along the way.  A simple analogy, perhaps, but a good one, for it is truth in the simplest sense.

Every cell in your body responds to your thought energy.  You have heard of miraculous healings, I’m sure.  These people hold a vision of light being in their bodies, they work on forgiveness, they stay in joy in spite of any affliction, and they heal.  You cannot dwell on the illness and think it will vanish.  You only dwell on the perfection of the body that God meant for you to have.  See it as light, see it healthy, see yourself doing things your body has become incapable of doing and you will be able to do them.  Like my sister here being able to squat again after years of not being able to.  Her reasoning was that she had worked on cement floors for so many years that it “killed” her knees.  If this was what she believed, and obviously it was, her knees stopped functioning as they should.  Now she is working hard to “get them back” and she is.  She has also given up the thought that cement was the only enemy to her well-being.  Yes, it is hard on the knees, but if you don’t dwell on it, or believe it will be harmful to you, you will be much better off.  You see, people are conditioned to believe certain things, and so in that belief those things can come to be in your life.

Nothing is too great to be overcome, nothing.  You can heal yourself by healing your thinking.  I will say here and now, however, that some souls contract before birth into this world to come in with an affliction.  This is different, as they had or have a reason for this, either for themselves or for those around them.  Children born with afflictions have contracted to do so for reasons that seem well beyond any human’s reasoning.  It is something that over time might be understood, or never understood except by the soul bearing the affliction.  Many children coming into this world with autism, blindness, or forms of retardation or malady are doing so because they contracted to do so.  They also choose parents they will learn from or who will learn from them.  It is a sacrifice chosen by the soul to do so.  Choosing something less than what the Source offers is a sacrifice, for Source, God, the All That Is wants to see the children in manifestation in perfect health.  But souls have free will and many of them need to learn or to teach a lesson and this is a way to do so.

Have you ever noticed how happy many of these children are?  How healing their presence can be?  The laughter they create is contagious and even those not closely connected with them walk away from their presence with lighter thoughts, a smile, an understanding they might not have had before.  Do not feel sorry for them - respect them.  Feeling sorry for them diminishes them.  Giving them respect honors their soul’s choice.  Talk with them, walk with them a ways and learn from them, for they are here as great teachers, as well as students of this life.  They are usually joyful beings, and many are angels in disguise bringing lessons to humanity.  Bet you didn’t know that.

If you are a doctor, a surgeon, a nurse, an energy worker, or caregiver, I can help you in the understanding of emotional, physical and spiritual health for your patients and yourself.  I can guide you, if you ask me, to the best means of treatment for your patient, and how to take care of your own health.  I also work with veterinarians and animals.  If you are an owner of an animal, as it seems most people are, call on me if you feel there is some discomfort with your animal.  Just putting out love to them and laying your hands on them with my assistance can alleviate much.  Ariel can help here as well.

Many people wonder why animals are suffering from human ailments, such as cancer.  This appears to be more prevalent of late.  Your domesticated animals have come so close to you that they take on your stress, your moods, your beliefs, or your own neuroses.  If you have fears, your animals will more than likely hold the same fears.  If you are stressed, your pets pick up on that.  Animals are sensitive beings and they bond very closely with those they are with, so it stands to reason they would feel these things and have the same cellular changes in their bodies as a human would.  This is especially true for dogs.  Cats seem to be more resilient, as they maintain a more independent way of being.  They seem to be more elemental in spirit, whereas dogs live their lives to please their owners.  So as the world has become more stressed and with less healthy food being sold, so do animals have more stress and also eat less healthy food.  Be aware of what you put into your bodies, and your pets bodies as well.  Fresh food is always best if it is not from a food lot, but that can be very expensive and time consuming.  If you feed your dogs or cats hard food, read the ingredients and make sure that it is made with whole meats and not by-products or grain as a first ingredient.  There are decent hard foods out there, so read the labels.  This will help.  Your thoughts, however, are the biggest ingredient of all, not only for your own health, but also for your pets.  I have seen animals and people survive to a ripe old age through their attitudes and perceptions due to love more than anything they eat.  Belief is key.  But eating foods that hold more nurturing ingredients does not hurt either.

Do know that I cannot do anything against your free will.  I cannot intervene unless you ask me to do so.  Do not pray to me, just talk with me and ask for my assistance and I will be so very happy to help you through any health issues you feel you have.  Health is a mindset.  Dis-ease and illness are mis-conceived thoughts or negative thoughts that take hold in your cells.  Changing your thoughts can truly change your health.  Do not blame yourself for your illnesses, for you have been conditioned from childhood to believe that certain things happen to your body, genetics for example.  You see this as reality, for you see families that pass down things like cancer.  But your thoughts can combat any conditioning to genetics or any other form of illness.  Your conditioning to these things is what makes it difficult to believe you can overcome them, but you can.  If one person can do it, all can do it, and more than one person has done it.  The saying is you are what you eat.  That holds truth, but the bigger truth is, you are what you think.

Much love to you, dear ones.  We are all here for you, so please call upon us to assist you in your world.  It is a time of upheaval – of governments, of weather, of the planet, and therefore, you are feeling perhaps unsettled or with symptoms of things you do not understand.  The shift of the planet does create some of these, but flow with them instead of worrying over them and they will pass.  And call on me.  I will come to your side and help you through.

With much love and respect for you all,

I AM Raphael.