They're mostly anonymous. Unknown even to each other. They range in age from thirty to ninety. They feel their names are unimportant. But the service they perform, when summoned by their coordinator, can change lives for the better.
"They" are The Healers Network.Their beginning seven years ago was unplanned but fortuitous. Many met while attending weekend healing seminars taught by Patricia Cockerill. With new-found knowledge and practical experiences learned about healing energy they said they wanted to use it to help family and friends who were suffering. Then the "ah-hah" moment occurred and The Healers Network was born.
It started with 25 women who wanted to further pursue energy healing after taking a healing workshop together in 2008. In subsequent healing seminars taught by Patricia over the next four years the total grew to sixty-five women and men healers. At first their work revolved around local family members. Soon the word got out. Requests for healing came to Patricia through various sources - word of mouth, the Women's Meditation Circle, and social media. Before long the reach of the group spanned countries.
Patricia developed a simple but personal email identifying the first name, last initial and location of the person seeking help. The request also included a brief description of the illness or special request that friends or family had submitted on behalf of the person. Each day that Patricia got new names, an email was sent to
the healers. Soon people were writing back with updates on their
requests and with words of gratitude. Many times petitioners would relay
a story of a remarkable healing. A baby girl in the Northeast needed a liver transplant. She would endure many operations in her first two years of life, all with severe complications. The prognosis was not good. But the healers persevered, working on the infant they came to know as "Baby Jaxon." After two transplants and countless near death moments she's now a six year old in school. Another man was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Again, the healers set to work, knowing only this caveat with which Patricia ends each email: "May it be for their highest and best good." His family recently reported he is cancer free. Not all requests have such outcomes. When a healing is not to be, the healers simply hold the space for ease and courage in transition.
The process though is not as important as the healers themselves. Their intentions then and now continue to be selfless. Each one brings a different discipline to the healing work. Some are Reiki Masters. Others are trained in Quantum Healing, EFT, or Healing Touch. A few simply hold space in prayer or meditation on behalf of the sick.
Most of them do their work silently without communicating with Patricia. But when they do it's always something important. The ninety-year old great-grandmother healer reflected that doing this work gives her a sense of purpose in life. It allows her to get up in the morning and sit quietly on behalf of those less fortunate than
herself. Others are very intuitive. They write about "seeing" a karmic
incident or long-buried situation with the person they're working on.
Sometimes a request is so poignant that one or more of the healers will
write that they were compelled to work on the person for an extended
period of time. Without fail, one healer responds to every email
request with the simple, "Healing love and Divine Light sent." The names that come in for healing fill a prayer box. It was named the "Reiki Box" symbolizing the familiar nature of energy healing. The names are left to accumulate in the box for six months. Then, in a very sacred ceremony where each name passes through the hands of a healer, they are burned on either the summer or winter solstice. The names are blessed, the intention remembered, and the small piece of paper released into the flames. After the burning, the ashes are always collected. Those ashes are later buried in another ceremony at a sacred site somewhere around the world.
The Healers Network is an unsung service. It is a service of passion and compassion. The heartfelt desires of those in need are never ignored. The Healers Network hears the cries for help and responds daily. This work is that of selfless beings. They are unknown and unsung heroes who wish no accolades. Their only desire is to help those who are suffering and in need. Is there a greater passion than in service to others?
Jo Mooy - August 2015
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