Not long ago I was getting ready to prepare dinner. I turned on the burner for my electric stove, and was getting ready to put the frying pan on the burner.

When I went to put the frying pan on the burner I realized that the burner was sticking up a little. This sometimes happens because I forget to push the burner completely down after cleaning the stove.

Now normally I notice this and push the burner back down into place before turning it on.

This time – however – I’d already turned on the burner to level 6. (That’s level 6 out of 7.) And I forgot that I’d turned it on, because I was also scolding my daughter about something.

You can probably guess what happened next, but I’ll elaborate for you anyway. I got up on my tippy toes, and PUSHED that hot burner down with both palms.

Within a split second it felt like my heart was leaping out of my chest. I jumped back and when I looked at my hands the burner was literally branded into my skin. Oh my gosh, the pain was immediately searing. It took my breath away.

Oddly enough even with that fresh burst of pain, my mind flashed to the big, nasty scar on my left thigh. I’d gotten that one after spilling hot cooking oil on my leg some years ago.

I believe my mind went there because I hated that ugly scar. And with my hands on fire I felt like I would once again be cursed with another lifelong scar on BOTH hands.

I just couldn’t fathom that thought. So I put cold packs on my hands and decided right there and then that I was going to heal myself.

Yes, it was just that simple. I mentally exclaimed, “I’m going to heal myself, and that’s that!”

A look at my previous healing experience

Ummmm – NONE! I’ve never taken a healing energy class before.

But I’d read a number of books on it. And I was a pretty good meditator (doing it twice a day) so I was sure I could access the necessary energy.

So with my heart pounding from the pain, I rested the cold pack on my hands, closed my eyes, and began to visualize a healing white light penetrating the burned areas.

I felt a little energy running through my right hand, which was the worse of the two. But I didn’t feel anything going through the left.

I did this visualization for maybe a minute or two, then I continued cooking dinner.

That throbbing pain was still very much present, so after a few minutes I stopped and focused my healing energy again.

By the time we finished eating and I began cleaning up the kitchen, I noticed that the pain wasn’t as bad.

I stopped again for a minute to visualize healthy hands. Hands without the burn marks. Hands without pain.

And that’s just what happened. Little by little the pain began to diminish.

All the while I tried to keep busy, so that my rational mind wouldn’t get in the way of this obvious healing. I felt that if I thought about the pain, it would return.

Later that night I was a little nervous about taking a shower because I thought the hot water might re-ignite the pain. But once I got in, the pain was minimal. So once again, I took a moment to visualize a healthy, pain-free hand.

Did it work?

The next morning I got up and began brushing my teeth as usual. Halfway through, it suddenly dawned on me that my hands didn’t hurt.

I looked at them, and the visible burn marks that were there before, had diminished to near invisibility. In fact, there were no marks whatsoever on the left hand.

By the third day, I couldn’t even tell that I’d been burned as badly as I had been. There was NO scarring, nor was there any pain on either hand.

The skin where I’d been burned looked perfectly normal. It appeared as though nothing had happened.

The truth about healing energy

The following week I called a friend who’s a Reiki master and told her what happened.

“Oh my gosh – you’re a healer!” she exclaimed.

Even though I knew what had happened I still found it difficult to grasp the concept that I could actually be a healer.

But the reality is that healing energy isn’t something that’s magically bestowed to a select few. On the contrary, I had to realize it’s something that’s available to each and every one of us.

The thing is, we have to believe that it’s available and be willing to mentally direct that energy to where it’s needed. It is truly a cooperative process between you and the Universe. You simply have to ask for it and expect it.

Unfortunately it’s often much easier to believe that healing energy is some unattainable mystical force. As strange as it sounds, most people will find that it’s more realistic to suffer than it is to believe that healing energy is at our beck-and-call.

Now let me clarify – that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to cure every single ailment you encounter.

Sometimes disease carries gifts far beyond what we can understand and comprehend at that given moment.

But even then, the act of calling healing energy into your life can and will bring about profound emotional and spiritual changes. In other words, sometimes it’s not meant for the body to heal, but instead the mind and the soul, and even the hearts of those around you.

Healing can occur on many levels, we simply have to ask for it.