How the leaven of Truth helps others see who they really are

As a result of reading (and re-reading) the assignment, I have felt a deepening sense of the efficacy of healing. Here are a couple of instances that speak to me about how what we are learning—the truths we are internalizing and knowing—has an effect.

As part of a leadership program, I conduct a session that helps people learn to express more of who they really are. During my session, participants have to think about who they are and then present that to others. What they choose to share and how they do it is up to them. Such a degree of self-reflection and expression is generally new to this population.

Recently I saw a woman that I worked with three years ago; she is a physician. She approached me and said, “I just want to tell you what your work has done for me.” She explained that during the session I conducted, she had witnessed in others and experienced in herself that she was not just “a bag of bones,” but something much more real. After the session, she had been hospitalized for a year as the result of a stem-cell transplant. She said she had gotten through that illness by daily holding on to her new concept of who she really was, and that had “literally saved her life.”

In another instance, a woman that I worked with about a year ago said that she had a tremor in her voice that was hereditary—her father had the same tremor. At the time, I mentally knew that she was free of any such inheritance, that she had never been created that way. Her only inheritance was from her Creator, and despite what she might think; any other sense of inheritance was not true.

In our short session, I gave her some exercises—more mental than physical, such as imagery of how to place her voice away from her throat. As the result of these exercises, she was stunned (as was everyone else in the session) to hear herself speak clearly and fully without impediment.

A couple of weeks ago, I received a call from the organization that had sponsored her, asking if I would be willing to speak with her again, because she was experiencing difficulty and had asked to work with me. In the course of our conversation, she reported having been almost strangled to death as a child. We talked about how her real self had been untouched by that vicious attack.

She also told how she sometimes became trapped in the physical manifestation of a limited voice, so all of her attention would go to that limited sense. Again, we worked to turn her attention away from the fearful experiences and the paralyzing sense of fear and its manifestation to a freer sense of what was true about her and her voice. We then worked though a presentation that she was planning to give (much of her work is on the radio and on webinars).

She wrote me a just a couple of days later, saying, “You once again have worked your ‘magic.’” She had given her presentation, and after a minute or two of feeling shaky, she had settled into a “clearer place” where she felt whole and free. She said it was the best presentation she had given in years.

While I did not mention Christian Science in either of these situations, it is very clear to me that the leaven of Truth was in operation—that knowing the Truth helps set people free.