Welcome back to this Modern Order of Essenes course!
We are, slowly but surely, moving towards the end of the Healer grade. There will be one last unit after this one, Unit 20 – and then we’re done with the Healer material. Congratulations for getting this far! 🙂
In today’s unit, there is a new element which I hope you’ll find useful in your personal spiritual healing work, the Breath of Acceptance…
Coursework
- To Practice – Blessing Walk, Healing Hands, Foot Reflexology, Muscle Testing
Continue with the practices you’ve learned in the Candidate and Apprentice grades, ideally daily.
- To Study – Breaking the Cycle of Disease
Study “Breaking the Cycle of Disease” in the way explained in the Intro to the Healer grade, and/or use it as basis for your discursive meditation. As always, you are not supposed to blindly believe this text as gospel, but instead to study it thoroughly, contemplate it, and to come up with your own ideas and thoughts about it.
Online Version (only the section “Breaking the Cycle of Disease”)
PDF Version (section “Breaking the Cycle of Disease” on page 12) - To Practice – Hand Reflexology: Continue as in last unit
Practice Hand Reflexology, ideally daily (see instructions and Commentary in the previous units).
Online Version
PDF Version (pages 20 to 23) - To Practice – Essene Healing Breath: Continue as in last unit
Continue to practice the Healing Breath meditation up to and including Step 9, as introduced in Unit 17 – unless you practice another form of meditation, e.g. discursive meditation which you could use to meditate on the theoretical study texts of the Healer grade.
Online Version
PDF Version (pages 15 to 22 in the Apprentice pdf) - To Study and Practice – Breath of Acceptance
Study the instructions for the Breath of Acceptance, and practice it at least once per week while you work on this unit.
(You can practice it more often, if you feel it does you good. And of course, you can continue to practice and use the Breath of Acceptance at any point in the future, too – you don’t have to stop once you’re done with this unit! 😉 )
Note: To the best of my knowledge, the instructions for the Breath of Acceptance are only included in the pdf version, and not in the online instructions on JMG’s Dreamwidth.
PDF Version (pages 15 and 16)
- To Study – What is Spiritual Healing?
This is an essay by yours truly, published here on The Hidden Things. If you have followed the instructions in an earlier unit, you have studied this essay already. But that was at the beginning of your Modern Order of Essenes work, and by now, you might have different insights and a new perspective. Thus now would be a good point to read this essay again, and to contemplate it in any way you see fit.
As usual, you aren’t required to agree with the content, but instead to come up with your own thoughts, ideas, opinions and reflections.
Reflection Question
While you do the work of Unit 19, take some time to reflect on the following question:
How can healing take place on different levels?
Meditation Topics
Note that for the Healer grade, there is a lot of meditation fodder in the study texts. I’m not going to pull these topics out of the study texts for you, though – that’s up to you to chew on for yourself!
But if you should need fodder for your discursive meditations beyond what you have found in this unit’s texts, the following topics should give you something to work with:
- What is disease?
- What is a cycle of disease?
- How can disease be cured or healed?
- How does stress influence disease and healing?
- What causes you stress?
- How can you remove stress?
- How can you break cycles of disease?
- What is acceptance?
- Can acceptance heal, and in which ways?
- What is spiritual healing?
And if you have enough ideas on your own and don’t need any from this list, that’s even better!
Commentary
Breath of Acceptance
The Breath of Acceptance is related to the Healing Breath meditation, but is not exactly the same. That is to say, you can (and should) give it a try even if you regularly practice some other form of meditation, and are thus giving the Healing Breath practice a pass.
Practicing the Breath of Acceptance, you might take to it like a fish to water, or it might take you a while to get the hang of it and see results. Both is fine, and no reason to worry either way. 😉
Your minimum task is to practice the Breath of Acceptance once per week while you work on this unit – or, in other words, if you spend two weeks on a unit, to give the Breath of Acceptance a try at least twice.
Of course, you are very welcome to practice more often if it does you good, and you are certainly very welcome to continue using the Breath of Acceptance after you finish Unit 19… 😉 I.e. the “twice per week while this unit” requirement is the minimum, for you to at least give it a try and gain some very first experience with it.
Breaking the Cycle of Disease
Just like the other study texts in the Healer grade, “Breaking the Cycle of Disease” is not just a text to contemplate and to study, but something you should apply in your own life.
Which form this takes is up to you, and is highly individual anyway – but go ye forth and do something with it, instead of just reading it and putting it aside! 😉
Healing Breath Meditation and Hand Reflexology
As for the main practices of the Healer grade, the Healing Breath meditation and the Hand Reflexology, we’ve covered all there is to cover in the previous units. I.e. from here on, you will simply continue your established practice (which can lead to new insights, new perceptions and new knowledge all by itself, of course!).
Further Resources
Always worth a read are the comment sections to JMG’s posts, accessible via the “Online Version” links in the Coursework section.
Our own prior comment sections are also worth a read, especially as comments continue to trickle in over time. Here’s the link to the comment section of Unit 18.
(And in case you shouldn’t have noticed yet, all my posts have at least one “category” assigned to them, and most also have “topics” assigned. Categories and topics are listed below the actual post text, i.e. you’ll see them if you scroll just a wee bit further down from here. Clicking on the topic “MOE Course” will get you straight to a list of all course posts.)
Outlook
In two weeks (on Sunday November 23rd, 2025) we will continue this Modern Order of Essenes course with Unit 20 – the last unit in the Healer grade.
Until then, I’m looking forward to your comments and your feedback, and I hope you enjoy the work of this unit. 🙂
Paedrig says
So, I have to say, like all the other lessons, the breath of acceptance has come to me when I needed it the most. I believe I wrote in the comment of the last lesson about how I was having bubbles of old resentments, regrets, fears, and pains just sort of bubble up from time to time, seemingly out of nowhere. It seems to occur more and more, especially now that I’m doing more active healing work, regularly doing the healing breath, hands, and walks. I speculated that this is a bit similar to how you don’t start to even notice deep pains and knots in your muscles too intently until you start actually massaging the area.
Well, as soon as I read about the breath of acceptance, I knew what I had to do. My first session with the breath of acceptance was going to be towards my mother’s constant criticism of me, something which has always upset me and which she had, over the holidays, made it a point to avoid doing. Yet, despite us spending some very nice time together where I felt love radiating between us – or perhaps because of it – I was feeling these constant obsessive thoughts reenacting old beratings. This seemed like the perfect time to try and release whatever obsessive stress I was stuck in and fix our relationship.
I sat by my meditative tree. I started by doing seven breaths of the healing breath, just because it was familiar and seemed like a good way to enter the meditative headspace. Then, I began the breath of acceptance. Visualizing being berated, mocked, demeaned, was hard, but I held the image in my head as I held my breath. I breathed out acceptance, and it was like years of built up stress was relieved as I accepted my life and my mother as she is. As I grounded out, I felt years of pain fade away.
I’ve realized many things. Like the fact that my mother is more critical of herself than she ever has been of me. That her self talk must be far worse than mine. Or that she was probably subjected to what we would call abuse today while being raised by a military family, and then was probably not in touch with her feelings during her own military career. That she had always done the best she could with what she had, but she was given a very sharp but limited set of tools with which to express the love and hopes and fears she had in her heart.
The breath of acceptance is a truly powerful technique, of potentially life changing power. I would ask why you haven’t introduced us to it yet, but honestly it seems like some deep level healing that needed to hold off until other healing had been done. Just as you do a surface massage before doing deep tissue, just as we massage and stretch our hands and feet before doing the reflexology techniques, so it was necessary to work out the surface healing before moving this deep. But the breath of acceptance can truly help one work through one’s deep pains, by accepting what has happened to you, who you are, and who others are. I have only begun applying this technique, and I understand that I certainly have a long healing journey to go. But I believe you have given me the key to unlock some of the deepest wounds and hangups withing my heart and mind.
I look forward to the attunement this sunday. I doubt I will follow any more lessons – everything within tells me that I should remain as a healer, and work on healing myself for a long time. I will at least read through and meditate upon lesson 20 before the attunement so I’ve technically finished the material. After that – I promise if you post further lessons I will follow along eventually, but for now I foresee a deep journey within myself in the coming years that will preclude following further on this path.
It has been a very intense journey of almost a year with you, and I can’t thank you enough for doing this. I know you say that most of the work has been done for you, but setting it up in specific lesson plans as you did, keeping me engaged, encouraging all of us to continue on the path, has been monumentally helpful. You’ve truly been an amazing teacher, and if you want to say your predecessors did most of the work, well – who doesn’t stand tall upon the shoulders of giants from ages past? You’ve added a n excellent structure, and made your mark upon the history of the Essene Order, ancient or modern.
Thank you Regine. If we don’t speak with words before Sunday, I look forward to communing with you across the ether.
Regine says
Paedrig,
Thanks a lot for your kind words. 🙂 And you’re very welcome – although I’ve really only added some structure to the material, and my own two cents from time to time…
These techniques are very powerful indeed, although they aren’t always easy. And sometimes things take a while, as you said, but that is fine, too. What has been built up in decades can’t vanish within a day, or we would be totally overwhelmed and, most likely, lose it completely.
As for the Master grade, that’s certainly fine, and if your intuition is to stick with the Healer for now, then you should do just that.
Just to clarify, though, the Master grade is not the same as the Master Teacher (I will explain this in detail in the upcoming course unit on Sunday). Instead, the Master offers yet another layer of spiritual self healing first and foremost. And incidentally, it contains two techniques which might be useful for you, the Bridge of Love and the Breath of Love. I.e. if you should be so inclined, maybe you want to check it out nonetheless, whether now or later… 🙂
Either way, I’m looking forward to the attunement, and I wish you all the best on your own spiritual journey,
Regine