Thursday, August 26, 2010

Spiritual Healing in the Sufi Tradition

How Energy Relates To Disease
Spiritual healers symbolize the flowing of the driving life force in the body and in the universe as vortices of energy made up of a number of smaller spiral cones of energy.

  • These are known in Islamic terminology as"lataif", meaning subtle manifestations or layers.

  • The lata‘if (sing. lateefa) are the points of maximum energy intake and are very important focal points of balance within the energy system.
Disease and illness occur if a lateefa is unbalanced.
Lata‘if in adults have a protective screen over them.


  • In a healthy system, these lata‘if spin in synchronized rhythm with the others, drawing energy from the universal energy field into their center for use by the body.

  • Each one of them is tuned to a specific frequency that helps the body to remain healthy.

  • However, in a diseased system these vortices are not synchronized.

  • The energy of the lata‘if that make up these vortices may be fast or slow, jerky or lopsided.

  • Sometimes breaks in the entire energy pattern can be observed in which a lateefa may be fully or partially collapsed or inverted.

  • These disturbances are related to dysfunction or pathology of the physical body in that area.

Towards the Understanding of the 9 POINTS
Healing Through Meditation And Focal Points Of The Lata’if
The feeling of pain can be completely cured by meditation wherein the dormant energy of a sick body is activated by a spiritual ignition produced by the meditative process.This spiritual process uses seven different focal points in the seven layers, the lata’if.
There are seven focal points {plus 2 more} of thelata’if.
This is different from 5 Levels of the Heart

  • These are located above and below the heart,

  • above and below the left breast,

  • above and below the right breast, and

  • one on the forehead.

  • Every Lataif has a different energy color,

  • and every energy has a different effect on a specific disease.

  • The two focal points above and below the heart are green.

  • The points above and below the left breast are yellow,

  • the ones above and below the right breast are black,

  • and the one on the forehead is white.

  • { By Permission the Shaykh will give out The Ismu Allah or Dhikr for each Point and the number of repetitions} This will activate the Points.
Through meditation these seven focal points of the lata’if generate energy.

  • Then, like a magnet, these activated focal points attract more energy from the universal cosmic energy source in the shape of tiny floating spheres of light.

  • The size of these spheres depends on which lateefa is activated, as there is a different sized sphere for every different color lateefa.

  • Depending on the illness, the healer activates the appropriate lateefa needed to cure that sickness.

  • In turn, the lateefa produces more of its energy color which itself attracts from the universal energy source more of the same light.

  • The result of this positive feedback loop is atremendous outpouring of shimmering globes of lightwhich descend from the cosmic energy source onto the person of the healer.
Through this flood of colored energy spheres, the healer is energized to the point where he/She  radiates heat from his body through his hands and projects light from his forehead.

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