The Difference Between Willed and Invocative Healing

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The Difference Between Willedand Invocative Healing by Jeffery A. There are primarily two distinct styles of healing with energy. These are willed (also called directed healing) and invocative (also called channeled) healing. Reiki as it is traditionally practiced falls into the latter category. Most other systems of energetic healing fall into the former. In order to truly understand energetic healing it is imperative to understand these two distinct styles. Therefore, this is where we will begin The Complete Guide to Reiki, Vol. II.

This is not a narrow subject of study. It includes the mechanics from every style of energetic healing on the planet. Basically, invocative healing involves the healer allowing energy to be drawn through their body to heal the client. The healer does no specific visualizations except those necessary to state

their intent and maintain their focus during the healing. They do not visualize the movement of energy, nor specific colors or processes. It is generally held that the most effective invocative healer is one with the capability to allow any energy to pass through them that the client needs in order to heal. This, however, is not as simple as it sounds.

The key point here is that the energy is passing through the healer first. This means that the energy must not be blocked by the healer's body and energy system. If it is, it will not reach the client. The path of invocative healing is one of self-healing. The healer's effectiveness depends upon their ability to call in a broad spectrum of energy, which in turn depends on their level of self healing and openness. Most " pure " invocative healers believe that the client is the one drawing the energy through them. In cases where some type of etheric surgery is being performed, they believe that the client

is the one asking for and calling in the " surgeons " .Many healers begin their path in the willed healing community. I also began there. At the time when I first began to research the body's energy systems, I was an electrical engineer and needed what I perceived to be the equivalent of schematics for healing the body. Slowly as my trust in the process began to develop I started to switch more and more to intuitive healing methods. My first exposure to Reiki came when master Jeanne Greening came to my home town over the weekend of my birthday several years ago. At the time I was heavily involved in the study of many things, and I was greatly impressed that no matter what I chose to talk about or discuss, she was right there with me making excellent points. She impressed me, and because of that I gave Reiki a chance I might not have otherwise.

A few days after the class, I was asked to work on my first Reiki client. It was a friend of a friend

situation, and involved a shattered wrist. I decided to put all of my willed healing techniques on a shelf and follow the instructions Jeanne had given to the letter. That was a difficult thing because I wanted to begin to work on the wrist, but instead went one by one through all of the hand positions before working there. I took my time and could feel the draw of energy in each position. Again, I followed Jeanne's instructions explicitly.

Finally, all of the hand positions had been covered and it was time to move on to the wrist. Now, I thought, we'll get down to business. To my surprise, the draw of energy at the wrist was minor and the session soon ended. Eager for feedback when she had returned to waking consciousness, I asked my client what she had felt. She stated that as I was working on her head, she saw streaks of cobalt blue energy shooting down her arm and could feel her wrist reforming. She also related similar experiences at a few other

points of her body, none of which were her wrist.There was just enough time to complete the standard three sessions before her trip to back to the doctor's office. Each of these sessions followed this same pattern with the wrist itself never really taking much time or energy. At the doctor's she learned that in a matter of days she had gone from needing surgery to having a remarkably well healed wrist. For insurance purposes, the doctor would not remove the cast for a few more weeks, however she returned to work and fully used the wrist as if it were completely healed. I took from this experience several major lessons.

I had researched and practiced a great many willed healing styles from all of the popular ones to many little known underground techniques. Most were effective and many claimed to heal on many levels, but from this one session it was clear to me that I had found a new and incredibly effective method which was also very simple. In

my healing work, several things soon became apparent. First, many styles of energetic healing place great emphasis on removing " blocks " from the energy field. The term blocks can mean many things from tangled health fibers in the etheric body, to thoughtforms, to you name it. Generally, it refers to stagnant energy in the person's field which is causing, or has the potential to manifest as, a physical, emotional, or spiritual imbalance. One of the primary tenets of willed healing is to remove these blocks.

A second thing which became apparent is the vast difference in effectiveness between healer selected or willed energy and client selected or channeled energy. In willed or directed healing, the healer is usually the one responsible for choosing the energy that the client needs for healing. This is most commonly seen in the use of visualization involving the movement of specific energies (often referred to by color) into, out of, or around the

client.What it did not take long to learn from invocative healing is that: 1.) The site of the physical problem is often not the most powerful causative place of dis-ease within the client; 2.) A healer has no right to remove a person's energetic blocks and can often cause greater damage to the healing by doing so; and 3.) Much more powerful healing can occur on all levels if the client is allowed to draw through channeled energy which they select. Let's look at these one by one.

First, it may be surprising for you to learn that the site of the physical problem is not necessarily the most powerful causative place producing the disorder in the client. Let's refer back to the example of my very first Reiki session. The client's experiences with her wrist reforming came at locations on her body far from the site of her physical injury. This is a pattern that invocative healers see repeated again and again in their practice. The reasons for it are

varied and often depend on the level being worked on. For instance, heavily psychological problems can relate to " entity " attachments. Frequent physical accidents can relate to a psychological or energy structure which is hidden and producing them from behind the scenes. Manifest illness often relates to other areas of the body where the emotional and mental patterns are stored. They may even entail work primarily on the person's emotional and/or mental bodies. If one seeks to heal just the physical area, most often the accompanying patterns behind its physical manifestation are not dealt with. This may very well result in those patterns manifesting additional conditions in the future. Truly effective healing must clear up what is behind all of the physical problems.

The second point is most likely also a shocker for you. Many of the popular books about energetic healing make it seem like a healer's primary job is to remove all of the client's

energy blocks, so that the etheric " mould " of the physical will once again be healthy. Logically, then the physical body follows suit. This might have some potential to be an accurate statement if we could truly evaluate all levels of a person's subtle bodies.

However, most healers cannot effectively evaluate beyond the level of the etheric and emotional bodies for reasons it would take a separate book to explain. The important thing to realize here is that no one I have ever met could effectively evaluate all levels of a person, and determine exactly where the blocks were and their exact relationships, much less clear the person of them based on their observations. That is a very weighty task. Don't get me wrong, a few healers are able to do a good enough job of this to effectively treat 80-85% of their clients with this style, however these folks are few and far between. Additionally, many of them decided long ago that it was far too much work and

became invocative healers for sheer efficiency reasons and now use combination methods to achieve greater results. An excellent example of an exception to this may be the radionic community with all its complex analytical charts and levels.

In invocative healing, only the blocks that the person is truly ready to deal with and have removed are dissolved. This is very important because it not only means that they will not be overloaded and psychologically threatened, but it also means that each block and its relating conditions and corresponding blocks on all levels are removed as well. And, removed permanently. Healed completely and on all levels. This is a key point, because a block rarely exists on just one level of the person's energy bodies.

A block most often has correspondences through many or even all of the subtle bodies, including the ones that we can't even fathom exist, much less evaluate effectively. The relationships between the

" blocks " (though much better terms can be chosen at this point) is extremely complex and relates to far more than anyone could ever properly evaluate. Only the client experiences their consciousness to an extent which is fully capable of understanding and integrating the blocks, as well as their correspondences and relationships. If we could understand them that completely, we would have the blocks instead of them. Incidentally, the very successful few who can heal with block removal techniques often utilize a style of assuming the client's condition (thus healing them) and then healing the transposed condition in themselves. Depending on a willed healer's skill, enough levels may be cleared that it could take many years for the patterns to reach back down to evaluative levels again, but they often do.

Invocative healing does not depend upon the healer understanding the processes that they are facilitating. Therefore, for the most part, the healer's

consciousness is irrelevant on this level as long as they can remain open to the energy that the client needs. Of course concerns about blocks in the many other levels of their consciousness and energy field still apply. However, this type of healing is capable of working on those levels that we can't even imagine, especially when it is guided by the consciousness of the client. When the blocks are healed, they are fully healed. No pieces are left on other levels like seeds waiting to spring forth once again.

This brings us to our final point. In willed healing, the healer often chooses the energy that the client needs to heal him or herself. This is dictated by the healer's knowledge and wisdom, and is directly relational to their skill. If they offer a broken bone a specific color of red energy, the vibration or frequency of that energy is all the client has to utilize in the healing of that area of their body.

It follows that invocative healing

is often much more effective because it is the client who chooses which energies to draw through the healer to effect their healing. It is not just one or two energies, it is often more than could be related and in combinations that even the finest imagination would have difficulty manifesting. These energies are constantly in a state of flux and are always being formed by the client into more and more effective energetic structures. The body and energy fields are ever changing and in invocative or channeled healing so are the energies that are being called upon to heal them.

In writing the first book of this series, I tried to be very careful to include invocative healing methods almost exclusively. This book has been written to clear up many of the gray areas which are little talked about in the healing community, and also to focus on and explain many techniques which, while common, are little understood. Many of these techniques may partially be

considered styles of willed healing, but I feel quite strongly that more detailed information should be out there about them in our community. A sheet of paper with a seemingly harmless technique on it is not enough, any more than a sheet of paper with a seeming harmless ritual magick ceremony on it would be.

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