Holy Spirit for Healing: Merging Ancient Wisdom with Modern Medicine [Hardcover]

Ron Roth (Author), Peter Occhiofrosso (Author), Peter Occhiogrosso (Author)

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Publication Date: February 1, 2001

In this book, Ron Roth explains how the body and mind cooperate in the healing process. Because mental programming creates results in our life, we need to begin by healing subconscious attitudes. This book is not so much a study of how to heal, but rather how to stop blocking the flow of life.

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Rather than burden readers with scientific studies, Ron Roth assumes in Holy Spirit for Healing that readers already believe in the power of the body to heal itself through prayer and faith. From this guiding principle, Roth offers a practical manual for understanding how our actions (and our inactions) can lead to illness and disease. "When I talk about healing and the role of prayer, I'm talking from a holistic viewpoint, meaning that the Spirit of God can move and heal and restore you instantly," Roth promises. But it's still up to you to "eat properly, exercise, and take care of yourself and maintain that joy that's part of being free." Herein lie the greatest merits of this guidebook, namely the way in which Roth emphasizes life as a joint venture between you, your body, and God: all three have to work together to restore and maintain health. Roth relies on Christian teachings and biblical scripture to outline this triad of spiritual medicine. Chapters focus on all aspects of health, from the spiritual realm (taking care of "past hurts" and "choosing life" at every turn) to the physical. For instance, Roth offers a beautiful chapter on caring for a sick person by anointing the body with oil and offering biblical readings, such as Ephesians 4:23 and Romans 12:2. --Gail Hudson

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Hay House (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561707066
• ISBN-13: 978-1561707065
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,292,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A spiritual how-to manual for healing ourselves, February 3, 2011

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This book teaches us how to heal ourselves by tapping into the same cosmic consciousness that the great spiritual leaders like Jesus Christ, Buddha and Mohammed demonstrated. Ron Roth was a former Catholic priest and a faith healer for most of his life.

Faith is knowing beyond a doubt that God works through us. I was stunned to discover how quickly I healed myself when I put the principles found inside this book into practice. The authors tell us that we can expect "miraculous," often spontaneous cures, as long as we act with the confidence of the Divine.

After reading and rereading this wonderful book several times, I finally sustained an interest to begin reading the Gospels. For most of my life I found much of Jesus's message obscure and often contradictory. The King James Version uses many words today that are archaic and modern versions of the Bible use words that are simplistic. I discovered by reading this book that the original Greek meaning of Jesus's words is often much more in harmony with his message. For example, the word "repent" doesn't mean stop sinning or something bad will happen to you; its meaning is closer to "change who you are." Much of our illnesses are created by our thought patterns. When we struggle to heal ourselves of illness, we must change our thought patterns and become a different person.

We receive the ability to heal by understanding and practicing the basics of how God's love works. (If we have trouble with the word God or Jesus, the authors instruct us to substitute a universal presence or some other Divine deity for whom we feel an affinity.)

God loves and cares for us and doesn't punish us with ill health or other catastrophes. Many of us think that he does, but this thinking is not the way to spiritual wisdom. A man blind since birth was presented to Jesus. His followers asked which one of the man's parents had sinned. He answered that "neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him." And then what did Jesus do? He cured the man of his blindness. These are considered "miracles" to us but they are miracles only to those who are not very knowledgeable in the ways of God, say the authors. Jesus thought with the mind of God and was able to understand the laws of the universe that today we are beginning to learn about as "energy medicine." Jesus says to us, "as I do, so can you."

The book instructs us to begin our healing process by purging ourselves of negative thinking, guilt, fear, anger, etc. using meditation techniques that encompass words, breathing techniques and visualizations that spiritually vibrate. Peace, love, joy are three words with high healing impact. These words were used by ancient priests in daily chanting. We visualize speaking with Jesus or another Divine presence and we command/decree that the Divine light, the Holy Spirit enter our mind and body. The Light, the Spirit heals but the body and mind must be primed through practice to allow healing to happen.

Real faith is the energy to command the negative energies out of our lives using the God spirit within us. Decree is an ancient form of command prayer and one of the most powerful healing forces we can use. Decree comes from knowing beyond a doubt that we are a child of the Divine and we channel that Divine power to our authority. It goes against how most of us were taught to pray. Many of us when we pray are actually begging and bargaining with what we see as a fickle God. The authors say this is not the way to spiritual wisdom. Spiritual wisdom comes from knowing who we are (a bigger part of God than we realize) and that we have the ability to act in God's name. That's what Jesus did, that's what the Biblical prophets like Elijah did. They didn't ask God's permission, they acted in God's name.

The authors tell us that decree is something we can do with confidence within a certain period of time, but it is important to practice on ourselves before we go out and practice it on others.

There is a caveat. We are encouraged not to fall into the trap of going into remission (remission is what doctors say when they can't explain what happened) and then abandoning our fledgling spiritual practices. We need to keep in shape spiritually to be able to handle the problems that inevitably come our way.

Rossa Forbes is a contributor to Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Holy Spirit for Healing, February 11, 2011

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Robert W. Severs - See all my reviews

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A very definitive description of the author's involvement with his healing principals and the results of "patients" he has helped through his contact of pray energies he works with.
A very helpful book on healing.

Robert Severs

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1.0 out of 5 stars DECEPTIVE TITLE! FRAUDULENT, October 1, 2010

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This book is far from Biblical -- giving the reader the option to consider Buddha or another deity other then the Holy Spirit of God. Unlike the author's writing, the Bible reveals that the Holy Spirit is part of the trinity; God the Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ the Son. The Scriptures state that Jesus is the ONLY way to heaven, so for this author to put forth the idea he is writing about the Holy Spirit and make the statements he makes (including leaving room for reincarnation), he is writing a message that contradicts what the Bible teaches. This is apparently his own idea of who the Holy Spirit is, but certainly not the Holy Spirit that Scripture reveals. I only had to read a small number of pages to see the contradictions. There is deception in creating your own god and the author needs to change the title to be more congruent with its contents and not mislead buyers.