From Physician to Healer: A doctor's encounters with spiritual healing

by Steven Gaynor

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Center for Light 2005. 132 pp $14 (includes shipping) www.centerforlight.com  

Steven Gaynor was practicing as a board certified foot an ankle surgeon and podiatrist when he unexpectedly found a great gift for healing opening in his life. He found that he had only to hold his hands near a person and invite healing to happen by reciting a Hebrew prayer, and unusual healings would occur. Over several years, his healing evolved in a variety of interesting ways.

Since I believe all prayers go to the same source, I incorporate prayers that fit the patient's belief system. This might be anathema to some people who would say, "How could a Jewish person effectively recite a Christian or Hindu prayer?" But I believe God is present wherever He is welcomed. It never seemed to matter which prayers I used, as long as I said them with the intent to heal. (p. 39)

Gaynor has a keen sense of being a channel for healing, a marvelous openness to allow healing to happen as it is capable of unfolding, and the medical training to describe the problems people bring to him and to assess the unusual progress they make with the healing.

He came to use the visualization of an energetic diamond connecting him with the person in need of healing and with the Divine, as another way of strengthening the healing effects.

The Star of David or hexagram is the symbol for the duality and separation of this world. The two inverted equilateral triangles are joined, yet separate, which mirrors the relationship between our flesh and our soul. The diamond represents the hexagram in its unified form. As humans move beyond their separation from God and become whole, the dual structure of the star shifts to the unity of a perfect diamond. (p. 40-41).

Gaynor points out that we often manifest our mental constructs into realities of health and illness.

When we have an idea or we want to create something, our consciousness makes a call to the divine database to gather everything needed to manifest our creation. The hardware of our brain then provides all the practical components necessary to bring our creation into our reality.

Although this process appears cold and remote, nothing could be farther from the truth. Each time I access the cosmic database and activate the metaphorical software, there's an almost overwhelming experience of love and divine communication. As evidence of its universality, the people with whom I work feel it too. Words will never be enough to express the majesty of the experience. They can't adequately convey how it feels to connect with the divine and experience healing with a fellow human being. (p. 28)

Gaynor is also aware that the healings he offers also bring healing to himself.

I became fascinated by the connection between science and spirituality. I reasoned that if spirituality is related to God and God created the world, surely there must be scientific evidence that links the spiritual to the physical. Soon after having this thought, synchronicities began to occur and information about the physical-spiritual connection seemed to come at me from all angles. It felt as if just by asking the question, I had unleashed a flood of responses from various sources. It was almost as if the materials were waiting for me to ask so they could be presented. (p. 45)

Gaynor describes how he helped people who had pain, amnesia, gangrene, liver disease, lung cancer, and varieties of psychological and relationship problems. He also includes a series of brief reports written by people he helped.

This book is an excellent introduction and provides fascinating insights for experienced healers as well on ways in which healing can be helpful.

(See also a detailed report by Gaynor in this issue of IJHC, describing how severe pain in a woman's foot, which had been unresponsive to every known medical and surgical treatment, responded rapidly to a spirit releasement and healing for emotional problems.)

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