The Art of Ancient Healing

The Art of Ancient Healing goes back thousands of years. We have scripts, carvings, and diagrams of healing rituals that influence us today. We continue to learn so much as archeologists investigate and piece together paths and ceremonies at known ancient baths, ruins and temples.

For example, the English town of Bath was named after the ancient hot springs naturally rising from the land. In use since the beginning of time, the Romans built Aquae Sulis, a huge Temple and Spa Complex in AD 60. People came from far and wide to bathe in the healing, mineral fed, warm waters. They worshiped the goddess Sulis Minerva. A reconstruction of this sacred site can be visited today with it’s columns, arches, and oil fed lamps.

Today, I have friends and family who make vacation pilgrimages to hot springs out west. Ojo Caliente in New Mexico provides individual pools with each casita to languish, renew, and refresh mind, body, and spirit. Another, this one near Ouray, Colorado, is Wiesbaden Hot Springs Spa & Lodgings with a large pool of soothing, continuously flowing natural hot springs. They also have unique vapor caves with therapeutic healing waters in a sauna space. In addition, a wide variety of rooms and suites offer private pools.

The Art of Ancient Healing was Holistic caring of body, mind, spirit.

Even before Rome, 2400 years ago, Ancient Greece had Asclepius, a physician surgeon who seemed to work miracles. He taught his followers to heal a patient’s mind, body, and soul. He eventually was made a god Divine Healer, with 300 healing Temples following his practice. Pilgrims came from miles around, hoping to be admitted to the miraculous retreats.

First they were interviewed, to be sure they would stay the course over many days, following the prescribed method. Each Temple Complex was built around natural spring waters and near caves.

Entering the Sanctuary, a person would be purified with a series of baths, then purged of digestive impurities over a number of days with a natural cleansing diet. Next, creating music and art purged their emotional body.

They spent time walking the sacred paths, gathering offerings for the gods to grant them healing. Prayers and verses were recited to uplift and ease their minds.

Each night, they entered Dream Therapy. Incubated in a private cave alcove, incense smoke filled the air, as hallucinatory foods opened their doors of perception. Patients would record every image, action, and dream experience, since this is where their healing appeared. Physician priests would interpret their dreams and create a prescription for them to follow. Mystical, ritual, and sacred, each made their own journey to magical wellness.

The Art of Ancient Healing influences us today

I follow these same steps in my own personal healing. A detox diet sets the pace for me to get back in alignment. My emotional purge is painting with colors and images that soothe my soul. Lately, my bodywork is physical therapy, targeting my hands, wrists, and shoulder. My shower becomes my Spa of healing waters after doing a careful workout to broaden my range of motion, strengthen my hands, and treadmill my whole body. A morning meditation sets me straight as I make a mindful gratitude list of all that works and uplifts me. A notebook next to my bed helps me keep track of strange dreams and images that flow in throughout the night. Channing Tatum!???

But you know, pain, dis-ease is elusive and personal. I’ve experienced pain that just fluttered away like a butterfly while in an hypnotic session. Dis-ease is fluid. It moves, dissipates, dissolves, and can even disappear. Believe it and it will happen.

Start by not calling in the word ‘pain’. Give it a new name. Mine is Little Bear. Talk to it as though it’s something outside of you that just came in one day, and can just as easily leave. In its place I see brilliant, beautiful light, and colors of gold and turquoise.

Visualize yourself in the future flowing with ease, comfort, and health, doing all the things you love. Then bring that image in for today, this moment of time. Time is not set in stone. We are all moving, shifting, evolving particles that can return to health and happiness in this now moment of power. Make it so!

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