Transforming C-Virus to B-Viral

The mundane, physical awareness and dutiful compliance that the coronavirus demands can be transmuted into blessings that go viral (B-Viral) through our attention, intention, and action.

Staring with the basics, C-Virus insists we pay attention to where we physically put our hands, e.g. surfaces, handles and doorknobs and our own face; and how we physically touch each other, e.g. handshake, hug, elbow, or fist-bumping. How clean are our hands? Did we let the handwashing last for the recommended 20 seconds? Did we hold onto a handrail up and downstairs? Did money exchange hands? Did we hold the door for someone? Did we push the cart at the store without wiping it?

The level of attention we must now pay to our hands is unprecedented. They are the most powerful purveyor of germs…so basic habits become our mutual health and survival.

Now let’s take a deeper dive and interpret this preoccupation with our hands as an invitation to understand another power they have…the power to heal.

The idea of our hands as transmitters of healing energy goes back to Greek mythology, when Chiron, a Centaur famous for his wisdom and knowledge, taught the God of Medicine, Asclepius, the art of healing through his hands. Authors Ron Lavin and Penny Price write,

“The practice (of hands-on-healing) was so revered that Grecian statues of Asclepius were made with gold-gilt hands, celebrating the power of touch to heal. This was also the source of the Caduceus, modern medicine’s symbol of healing and the word Chi-energy, which evolved into ‘surgery.’”

Both Allopathic and Chinese medicine descended from the legends of Greek mythology. In addition, Therapeutic Touch was established by registered nurses as a research-based practice, demonstrating for the first time that qualitative biochemical metrics could detect the impact of direct hands-on healing. Experiments showed that hands-on-healing could increase the hemoglobin levels in recipients. Richard Gerber, M.D. reports on the results of other experiments which found that when healers focused their hands over plants, they significantly increase chlorophyll levels.

Then we can add religious practices that spoke of the healing power of the hands.

Starting in Judaism and later adopted by Christianity, hands were used to confer consecration, which was to set something apart as sacred. In the New Testament, laying of hands transmitted a blessing and was a means of miraculous healing. Although founded by Buddhist monk, Dr. Mikao Usui, Reiki was a form of hands-on-healing he wanted to be accessible not only to religious or medical professionals but to everyone.

My personal wake-up call regarding this topic came through a dream I had during a six-week sabbatical I took from my grueling, big-six consulting job:

I was following a tall, older man in a turban through an open field at first light of dawn. I had very long, dark, thick hair and was about eighteen years old. While I knew in the dream that this young woman didn’t look like me in this life, I was also aware that I was her.

We arrived at a hospital. As we entered, the very few people taking care of patients bowed toward the man ahead of me, who apparently was an important doctor. He told me to lay my hands on particular patients. I did as I was told, closing my eyes, bowing my head, and feeling tingling moving from my hands into each person’s head. After doing this with multiple patients, and as the next shift arrived, we took our leave.

When we returned home, I saw a book on the fireplace mantle. It was in a foreign language with many characters. As I stared at the book, I said in frustration, “I know what this says, but I cannot remember how to read it.” Then I woke up.

As I began to wonder what that was about, I turned over and went right back to sleep. Immediately I saw two arms that were glowing with golden light from elbow to fingertips on a black, velvet background. There was nothing else in the frame. “They are so beautiful!” I exclaimed. Then I took a sharp in-breath as I realized they were attached to my upper arms, and they were mine! I awoke.

I went downstairs and said to my then-fiancé, Paul, “You won’t believe the dreams I just had!

They were so vivid. Not like regular dreams. I have to tell you about them!”

Paul was painting the Chinese calligraphy characters that he learned from a class he was taking. He stopped at my excited voice.

I told him about the dream, and as I got to the part about trying to read this book on the mantle, I said, “The characters were like…like…” At that moment, I could barely speak as I pointed to his canvas and weakly said, “Like those!” Then I blurted out. “Those are the characters in my dream! What do they mean, Paul?”

He slowly traced the letters with his fingers as he said, “They mean ‘healing hands.’”

That was the first time I made the connection between healing and hands. Over time, and as I began to intuitively read clients, my hands would move without my ego’s permission. My hands moved in particular ways even when I was facilitating large scale change in Fortune 100 businesses. Embarrassed because I could not control them, I used to clasp them together behind my back…that is, until an intuitive told me (without knowing about my hand clasping) that my hands were clearing and aligning energy. She told me to stop preventing my hands from moving when I was working!  I have now used my hands as a channel for healing in over 10,000 readings.

Let’s get back to the Coronavirus. Now aware of our rich human legacy of hands that heal, every time we think about hand-hygiene, we can also intend energy to move through our hands to heal and bless others.

This is simple awareness:

• I hold the handrail (perhaps with my glove on now) and I move my attention into my heart and send healing love through my hands to everyone who has touched the rail or will touch it, with an intention for their health and wellbeing.
• I open the door for another with my elbow, and I intend that person’s heart to open to greater love.
• I pay for an item and imagine my hands blessing the entire supply chain of individuals that brought me this item. I receive the change from my payment and ask that the person giving me the change receive a thousand blessings for their wellbeing.
• I pat someone on the back and imagine energy moving from my hand into their heart, opening and healing them in whatever way is best for their highest good.
• In private, I think of a loved one and raise my hands, imagining loving energy flowing through my hands to their hearts and filling them with whatever they need to be their best selves.

I invite you to join in the preoccupation of how our hands can heal moment by moment, sending blessings viral, transforming C-Virus to H-Viral. It costs us nothing, it takes only seconds and it brings light to the darkness of the palpable fear around us.

And of course, our blessing returns to us as giving and receiving are the same. We are all healers.

Let’s together commit to bringing greater light to our world.