The Worralls' Principles of Spiritual Healing

The Worralls identified five basic principles of spiritual healing.  This article presents excerpts from The Gift of Healing: A Personal Story of Spiritual Therapy (1965) by Ambrose and Olga Worrall.  The book was also published with the title The Miracle Healers.

When I was younger, I would see a small ball of light about the size of a pea.  It was like the dancing ball in the old-fashioned "movie sing."  This dancing light would go directly to the place where my hands should be placed. Olga saw this light many times when she was in the room with me while I worked with a patient.  In recent years I do not see this light.

. . . once we have relaxed and opened the spiritual channels to a point of receptivity the forces themselves act upon us in various ways not within our command.

There are five basic principles . . .

Actually, many physicians, knowingly or not, have utilized one or more of these principles in addition to their regular medical therapy.

The first is that spiritual healing is not in opposition to medicine.  It works with medicine, with the physician.  To pray for healing is not to practice medical arts.  To make an individual aware that he has Divine love and infinite healing power available to him does not relieve the individual from the necessity of observing physical and medical laws as well as spiritual; they are different aspects of the same thing.

The second basic principle is that the spiritual therapist has no power of his own.  Even with those who are extremely gifted, the gift is not a gift of power itself but of the ability to be used by the power, to direct, to channel the power to others.

The third basic principle is that we can and we must learn the art of allowing this power to work through us.  This is therapeutic technique, but it is not a technique of res medica.  It is a learning to make contact with a force, to be receptive to the forces around us, to the impression that comes, to the inspiration, to the knowing.

Fourth, we must care.  We must care for others deeply and urgently, wholly and immediately; our minds, our spirits, must reach out to them with whatever we have to bring them in the form of help and succor, without desire on our part for personal gain or private glory.

A fifth principle in spiritual therapy is the importance of the attitude of the individual who seeks healing.  The person who is openly hostile certainly makes it extremely difficult for the spiritual therapist to achieve.  Whatever force field can be established is bound to be made ineffective by this kind of overt antagonism.

Honest skepticism is different from hostility.  A man may say, as one did to me, "I don't believe in any of this myself. But if it can help my wife, then I am for it, then I am ready to believe it."

In that instance the doctors had given up all hope for the wife, and the fact that she was cured completely won the man over to belief in spiritual therapy as an actual fact.

A previous blog article mentioning the Worralls is "Spiritual Healing".