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. 🙂
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