Do you have a minute to heal?

Can you spare a minute to give healing?

If you paused right now and quietly sent a single minute of compassion to someone in need somewhere in the world, you would instantly become part of a chain of people doing exactly the same thing.

This is such a wonderful concept. Every morning at 10 am and every evening at 10 pm you can join people in many countries around the world who are focusing their thoughts on healing those in need. Simply join in at 10 o’clock your own local time and add your own prayers and/or positive thoughts during one minute of meditation or silence, sending healing energy to those who need it wherever they are in the world.

In 1986 Steve, my husband and the father of our newborn baby, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given three months to live. The doctors said they would help him to die as painlessly and peacefully as possible. We had other ideas.

Through instinct and intuition we created an environment of positivity and healing. Within our Beat Cancer Plan, which covered all aspects of our new life—a life in which we were determined to grow old together—Steve and I included The Healing Minute practice.

I first heard about The Healing Minute when Doreen Glover, a spiritual healer from Wolverhampton Spiritualist Church, told us about it when she gave Steve healing for the first time. At that stage we were open to trying anything and thought, “Why not? All healing is welcome, whatever its form.”

If friends or family were visiting us at 10 am—or even the postman—we would ask them to join in the one minute of healing. It is not a lot to ask—just one minute of a person’s time — but the cumulative and compound effects are tangible.

That one minute each morning and evening gave us focus. It redirected us to a source of energy and connected us with people who cared enough about their fellow human beings to give their time and attention to sending out waves of love and healing.

Thank you to all of you who have practised, or still practise, the Healing Minute.

I once wondered what that might amount to over time:

365 days × 2 (twice a day) × 30 years = 21,900 minutes

21,900 minutes × 500 people (a rough estimate) = 10,950,000 minutes of focused healing energy.

Why not tap into it and align yourself with it? What have you got to lose — apart from one or two minutes a day?

I contacted the Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary recently. Gary Waugh, Communications Manager, told me:

That’s a lot more than I calculated!

Gary kindly provided some historical details via a copy of an article from The Healer magazine (Christmas 2013).

It is believed that the Silent Minute practice may have started on a hill in Jerusalem over 100 years ago. However, its modern form has more recent origins.

On 2 December 1937, a British officer named Wellesley Tudor Pole had a premonition of his own imminent death and of even more disturbing times ahead for humanity. He asked for a daily silent minute to be dedicated to sending strength and guidance from the Divine Creator to all those who would face those challenging times.

In September 1940, Wellesley Tudor Pole met with Winston Churchill to ask for his support in establishing a daily Big Ben Silent Minute at 9 pm, focusing on peace, healing and freedom in the world.

On Sunday 10 November 1940, the chimes of Big Ben were broadcast and the Silent Minute was observed by the nation for the first time.

In 1954, Wellesley Tudor Pole contacted the healer Harry Edwards to discuss healing and the launch of “The Healing Minute—A Call to Action.” Newspaper headlines reporting the launch on 2 May 1954 predicted:

“From Tomorrow Night a Million People Will Join Him.”

Local people may also know that the same Wellesley Tudor Pole O.B.E. later founded the Chalice Well Trust (1959) in Glastonbury. The Silent Minute continues to be observed there each day, marked by the ringing of a bell in the garden at 12 pm and 3 pm.

In 1960 the BBC moved the chimes of Big Ben to 10 pm, and The Healing Minute also moved to that time. The introduction of the 10 am observation followed later.

You can become an official observer of the Healing Minute by registering on the Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary website. The Sanctuary, founded in 1946 and located near Guildford in Surrey, continues to serve as an internationally recognised healing centre.

Once registered, you will receive a card with your enrolment number and further details.

Join me in the Healing Minute—and help those in need.

Mandy

www.mandybrown.co.uk