Does working as a healer reinforce the idea that we are a body?

Dear Jeddah,
I have a question about the validity of practicing as an energetic or spiritual healer and whether this is a constructive form of spiritual work. In my work I offer hands-on -healing and I utilize the model of the energy body and energy field as a way of understanding my clients situation. Whilst I have witnessed some wonderful improvements to peoples health and well-being in my work, at the same time I’m increasingly drawn to the teachings of non-dualism and resonate with the understanding that we are not form, our true nature is not the body. I’m questioning whether in offering healing for bodily conditions, am I in fact reinforcing the paradigm that we are the body? I feel that I bring a consciousness to my work which wards against believing the body to be Real, however I am seeking to be in integrity with Truth and would be interested to hear your thoughts on this.

This is an excellent question. Thank you for bringing it to the forum.
It all depends how we approach it – how we relate to what we’re doing as we do it, as you pointed out. Healing recognises that there is more to one’s existence than the body, not least because the healer works with energy to bring about the healing. When we use intent to direct the existential energy bound in form, we are, by our very action, reinforcing that the foundation substance of all form is energy. The healer knows that it is the intent which informs the energy that reorganises substance. So healing as a therapy is immensely supportive of non-dualistic teachings. Notice the conundrum here was created in the mind… for existential energy has no preference…it knows that all existence, energy and the form arising from it, are essentially non-dualistic. It is only how we use our perception of it that creates any duality.
Keep up the good work. Your intention to assist others by seeing Truth yourself is the highest form of healing. Our hands simply reflect this.
Blessings and Light
Jeddah