Spiritual Healing
*** Everything on this page should be considered experimental and untested ***
Spiritual Healing
The mind can express many different types of problems and many of these can severely inhibit spiritual progression. Also, broken minds are often inefficient and may incorporate anti-patterns and irrational thought systems into everyday choices resulting in poor life situations. Healing the mind pulls the metaphorical beam out of your eye enabling you to see more clearly how to cast the motes out of your brothers' eyes.
Sins, oaths, unholy thought patterns can all be rather easily corrected by praying to Jesus and appealing to His universal atonement provided by the sacrifice and the blood on the cross. Discovering these problems can be time consuming however, but once worked through and resolved with Jesus's help they are fixed.
A noisy mind may prevent you from being able to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. If the signal to noise ratio is too low this is impossible. Simple meditation techniques and prayer to calm the mind should be effective with time and practice. If you hear mental voices other than your own internal monologue try talking back to them. Ask them questions like who they are and try to answer their questions if they have any.
Much more challenging are so-called fragments and alters which are believed to be semi-independent personalities within a single host (body). This is sometimes labeled Dissociative Identity Disorder and it can have many causes.
Refer to an older article from my former blog for my thoughts on how to approach healing these types of problems. This is pretty scary stuff so I don't suggest reading this unless you thing you have this kind of problem, usually indicated by memory lapses and people telling you that you were acting out of character. It may help explain things you see in others which confuse you though.
For more general healing, insight tells me that we need to be full of the light of God in our bodies, hearts, and minds and that this will both heal us and energize our healing prayers towards others. Don't overlook the power of laying on of hands and praying for King Jesus to authorize your prayer may be needful.
I'm trying to fix my own dysfunctional and self-destructive friends I see in real life and so far this is what I'm doing and attempting, and it seems to be working slowly, so maybe this info can help you fix your friends too!