Energy healing abilities — the capacity to affect another person’s physical state through focused presence and intention — appear in Newton’s framework as soul abilities carried forward across lifetimes. This story from Memories of the Afterlife follows a woman who had never claimed to be a healer but had been quietly and consistently functioning as one for years. Her past life regression revealed where that ability came from, and why it had arrived in this lifetime at a moment when it was most needed.
She treated this as a personal curiosity, filed under «I don’t know what this is.» When it came up in her LBL session — not as an explanation to be requested but as material that arrived on its own — what emerged was a lineage so specific and so long that «curiosity» no longer seemed adequate.
Documented in Memories of the Afterlife (2009) by a certified therapist from The Newton Institute, her case offers one of the most detailed accounts of healing soul mission in the published LBL literature: a soul that had been working with the capacity to channel, focus, or transmit healing energy across many lifetimes, arriving into the current incarnation carrying that capacity in its most developed form yet.
The Healer’s Lineage Across Lifetimes
The therapist reported that the client’s past-life sequence in this session was unusually coherent — not a series of disconnected lives but a recognizable thread, a developmental line that ran through very different cultural and historical contexts without losing its essential shape.
A physician in an ancient world for whom the distinction between physical and spiritual healing had not yet been made — who worked with herbs and prayer and touch as aspects of a single integrated practice. A woman in a medieval community who occupied the role of local healer in the full sense of the term: the person you went to with everything, from fever to grief to the difficulty of dying. A nineteenth-century figure working at the edge of what the medicine of that era acknowledged, pushing at the boundaries of what counted as treatment. A contemporary woman who put her hands near temples and didn’t know what to call what happened.
The client recalled under LBL hypnosis a quality about the sequence that moved her: the consistency of the care. Across all of these incarnations, the orientation was not primarily toward the capacity itself — not toward the power of healing, not toward recognition for it — but toward the person who needed it. The gift had always been in service of the other, and the other had always been specifically present to this soul, not as a case or a condition but as a specific, beloved person in a specific moment of need.
According to Newton’s method, this quality of person-centeredness is characteristic of what might be called the healer soul type: a soul whose primary developmental orientation is toward the wellbeing of specific others, and whose capacities — however they manifest in a given lifetime — are organized around that orientation rather than around self-expression.
How Healing Capacity Works Across Incarnations
One of the questions the client had been carrying, the therapist reported, was not whether she had a healing capacity — she had accepted that something happened when she used it, even without being able to explain what — but why it was inconsistent. Sometimes the headache went away. Sometimes it didn’t. Sometimes she felt, in her hands, a clear sense of contact with something; other times she felt nothing and the result was correspondingly nothing.
The client recalled under LBL hypnosis an explanation from her guides that addressed this specifically. The capacity she carried was genuine, developed, and real. Its inconsistency in the current lifetime was not evidence of weakness or failure — it was the natural result of working with a real energy that operates through multiple variables simultaneously: the state of the person being worked with, the client’s own state, and the degree to which the client was fully present versus partly elsewhere.
According to Newton’s method, healing capacity that operates through the subtle energy systems — whatever the precise mechanism, which LBL methodology does not claim to specify — is sensitive to the full quality of attention. The healer who is fully present, fully focused, and genuinely in relationship with the specific person in front of them is working with the most important variable. The capacity functions most reliably through that quality of presence. Technique matters. State matters more.
The client recognized this immediately. The moments when the capacity had worked most reliably were the moments she had been most fully there — not thinking about whether it would work, not monitoring herself, but simply present with the person. The moments of inconsistency had almost always involved some form of self-consciousness, of watching herself from outside.
The Soul’s Unfinished Business With Its Own Gift
The therapist reported that what made this session more than an account of past-life capacities was what emerged about the current lifetime’s specific challenge.
The client had been carrying this healing capacity for many incarnations. She had, in most of those incarnations, been in contexts where the capacity was recognized and given a role — where the community had a framework for what she was and what she did, and where she could work with her gift openly and with support.
The current lifetime had not offered this. She lived in a professional context that had no category for what she could do. The friends whose headaches she had helped were people she trusted. The children she had held were hers. The capacity had been exercised only where she felt completely safe from scrutiny — which meant it had been exercised in a fraction of the contexts in which it could have been useful.
The client recalled under LBL hypnosis a conversation with her guides about this pattern. The council’s interest was specifically here: not in whether she had the capacity, but in the degree of self-authorization she had developed around it. Could she work with it openly? Could she claim it as hers, offer it to people who needed it, without the protection of secrecy and the particular people she knew would not judge her?
The healer across lifetimes had always had a role. The work of the current lifetime was to develop the capacity to work without one.
What the LBL Session Revealed About Energy and Healing
The client recalled under LBL hypnosis a quality of understanding about how the healing capacity worked that she had not previously had access to — not as theory, but as felt knowledge. In the between-life state, the usual barriers between intention and understanding were thinner, and she experienced directly what she could only approximate in ordinary language.
What she understood was that what moved through her hands when the capacity was working was not something she was generating. She was a conduit — a specific, developed, carefully cultivated conduit through which something larger passed. The development of the capacity across lifetimes had been, in essence, the development of her ability to get out of the way of it: to reduce the interference of self-consciousness, self-monitoring, and the specific forms of energetic static that human personality generates.
The most developed healer was not the one with the strongest output. It was the one who had learned, most completely, how to be a clear channel.
She had been developing that clarity for a very long time. The current lifetime’s challenge — learning to work openly, without the protection of secrecy — was, from the soul’s perspective, the next phase of developing it further.
Coming Home to What She Already Was
The therapist reported that the client left the session with a phrase she said had arrived during the deepest part of the between-life state: «Stop asking permission.»
She had spent her entire adult life asking, in various implicit ways, whether the capacity she had was real enough, sanctioned enough, legitimized enough to be offered. The between-life review had answered the question she had been carrying: it was real, it was developed, it had been developed deliberately across many lifetimes by her own soul, and it was not waiting for external authorization.
What it was waiting for was her.
She had not claimed what she was. She had been the healer who wouldn’t use her own name. The session had called her by it. Now the question was whether she would answer.
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