A PERSONAL, EXPERIENTIAL, AND CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE

HEALING TOUCH ABIDING

Pure Mind, Trauma Healing, Emotional Purification,
and the Wisdom of Caring Presence

Prepared personally for G. Ross Clark | August 2026

WHAT IS IN THE MIND IS ALSO IN THE BODY.
What is held in the body may be met by awareness, touch, and Love.

CENTRAL UNDERSTANDING Healing Touch Abiding is not an attempt to make the body perform a release. It is a way of remaining with the body so gently that fear, pain, memory, energy, and emotion no longer have to be faced alone. Pure Mind creates the inner space; Abiding gives that space continuity; Healing Touch makes care tangible; Love leaves no part out.

This report is intentionally not research-informed. It is a personal contemplative framework shaped by your training in Healing Touch and Reiki, more than thirty years of meditation, your direct response to the words “PURE MIND,” your developing understanding of Abiding, and a lifetime in which physical illness, pain, loss, fear, spiritual experience, and perseverance have all met within one body.

It does not ask you to prove an energetic mechanism. It asks a more useful question: Can this way of touching, attending, and abiding help Ross feel safer, less abandoned, more whole, and more able to take the next warm and wise step?

1. Why Healing Touch Abiding fits your life

Your body has carried many years of illness, pain, medical procedures, early grief, fear, family strain, disappointment, and experiences of being overpowered or misunderstood. It has also carried spiritual devotion, professional competence, disciplined meditation, sensitivity to subtle feeling, care for others, and a deep wish to become a strong and gentle man. Healing Touch Abiding honours both histories: the history of suffering and the history of wisdom.

Because you are a trained practitioner, your hands already carry meaning for you. They represent attention, skill, compassion, prayer, energetic sensitivity, and the wish to help. The new movement is to turn that caring capacity toward yourself without changing self-care into another duty or performance.

Today, Ross will not abandon Ross.
These hands do not have to fix this body.
They are here to remain.

The practitioner and the person

The practitioner in you may want to scan, interpret, rebalance, or complete a technique. The person in you may simply need warmth, protection, and companionship. In Healing Touch Abiding, the person comes first. Technique serves relationship; relationship does not serve technique.

A NEW RULE Resource before wound. Relationship before interpretation. Choice before depth. Integration before repetition.

2. The theme: What is in the mind is also in the body

For this practice, the theme is a statement of wholeness. Thoughts, memories, meanings, emotions, spiritual longings, and protective reactions are not experienced by a mind floating apart from the body. They may appear as breath changes, bracing, tightness, heat, cold, pressure, numbness, trembling, fatigue, tears, coughing, a clenched jaw, contracted toes, a heavy chest, or a wish to disappear. Likewise, comfort in the body may help the mind feel less threatened.

The sentence must never become blame. Illness is not evidence of wrong thinking. Pain is not spiritual failure. A sensation does not prove that a particular memory or emotion is stored in an organ. “What is in the mind is also in the body” means that the whole person participates in experience; it does not mean that every disease was created by emotion.

It can also be read in the other direction: What is in the body enters the mind. Pain can narrow attention. Fatigue can darken interpretation. A dry mouth, shallow breath, or pounding heart can be read as danger. Healing Touch Abiding therefore works from both directions: the mind offers Pure Mind and wise words to the body, while the body offers sensation, pacing, limits, and truth to the mind.

A whole-person translation

A thought may become a contraction.
A memory may become a posture.
Fear may become stillness, vigilance, or a wish to withdraw.
Grief may become heaviness, tears, numbness, or a long exhalation.
Anger may become heat, pressure, jaw tension, or protective energy.
Love may become softness, warmth, spaciousness, a smile, or quiet strength.
Pure Mind may become lightness, joy, silence, and room around experience.

IMPORTANT These are possible translations, not a codebook. The same sensation may mean different things on different days. Let the body describe itself before the mind explains it.

3. What Healing Touch Abiding is

Healing Touch Abiding is the practice of placing or hovering one or both hands with gentle intention while resting in Pure Mind and remaining compassionately present with what is. It can include Reiki or Healing Touch language when that language feels true and helpful, yet it does not require you to diagnose an energy imbalance or produce a particular sensation.

The four foundations

Pure Mind: the spacious awareness in which sensation, memory, emotion, and healing can arise without condemnation.
Gentle Awareness: the close listening that notices what is here without pressing, chasing, or interrogating.
Abiding: the willingness to stay kindly present long enough for the body to feel accompanied, while remaining free to stop.
Enduring Love: the intention that no frightened, angry, grieving, ill, or exhausted part will be rejected.

Pure Mind sees clearly.
Gentle Awareness stays kindly present.
Enduring Love remains.

What it is not

It is not a demand that the body release, shake, cough, cry, or feel energy.
It is not a contest to find the deepest trauma.
It is not proof that an organ stores a particular emotion.
It is not forgiveness forced before protection, truth, or readiness.
It is not a substitute for medical assessment, prescribed care, psychotherapy, or practical boundaries.
It is not failure when nothing changes.

4. A new understanding of trauma and purification

Trauma can be understood here as an experience that exceeded the available protection, support, choice, or capacity of the person at the time. The body may continue to organize around that experience through guarding, freezing, alarm, collapse, numbness, or sudden activation. Healing does not require recreating the original event. It requires enough present-day safety for a small part of the old response to be known without taking over the whole being.

Purification by inclusion

Purification does not mean removing a dirty, bad, or unspiritual part. The frightened younger Ross is not an impurity. Anger is not contamination. Grief is not weakness. Purification is the healing of the relationship to these experiences. What was hidden may become known; what was rejected may be welcomed; what was fused with identity may be held within Pure Mind; what was isolated may rejoin the whole.

Burdened relationship	Purifying movement
Fear of sensation	Steady witnessing and appropriate care
Shame	Dignity and compassionate truth
Resistance	Permission and choice
Over-identification	Experience held within Pure Mind
Isolation	Caring contact and belonging
Forced forgiveness	Forgiveness at the speed of safety
Unprotected openness	Warm boundaries and gentle strength
Compulsion to explain	Curiosity, humility, and not knowing

Release is one pathway, not the goal

Release may occur as a sigh, cough, tear, tremor, warmth, softening, memory, word, image, or spontaneous movement. It may also appear as less dramatic change: a clearer boundary, a reduced urge to defend, a willingness to rest, or a sense that the body is no longer alone. Stillness may be release. Saying “no” may be release. Calling a physician may be release from uncertainty. Choosing not to continue may be the most healing response.

Nothing needs to be expelled.
Nothing needs to be performed.
The body may respond in its own way and time.

5. Twelve principles of Healing Touch Abiding

Begin with the present room. Before entering the body, see where you are. Notice light, colour, sound, support, and the date. Present orientation protects against being swallowed by the past.
Establish Pure Mind first. Say “PURE MIND” and receive whatever genuine softening is available. The resource is contacted before the difficult place.
Ask permission. Silently ask, “Body, would touch, hovering, or no contact be kind now?” Respect the first clear no.
Use the least necessary contact. A hand may rest lightly, hover several inches away, touch clothing, or remain on a neutral area. More pressure is not more healing.
Work with a fragment. Attend to one edge, one sensation, or ten percent of the experience. The whole trauma does not need to enter the room.
Keep one anchor outside the difficulty. Feel the couch, feet, room, a neutral hand, Pure Mind, Jesus, or Love while noticing the activated area.
Describe before interpreting. Use location, temperature, movement, pressure, texture, size, and intensity. Let meaning arrive gently, if it arrives.
Allow, but do not encourage, discharge. Coughing, tears, shaking, or movement may be permitted. They are never manufactured or prolonged to prove release.
Let no change be acceptable. A session is complete when kind presence was offered, even if the sensation remains.
Close every opening. Orient, move, drink water if appropriate, name the present, and choose an ordinary next action.
Measure integration, not intensity. Ask whether you have more choice, kindness, clarity, dignity, steadiness, or capacity afterward.
Let wisdom outrank the practice. Medical symptoms, active danger, exhaustion, or overwhelming activation are reasons to stop and obtain the right kind of help.

6. The core Healing Touch Abiding practice

This is the central 8- to 15-minute practice. Shorten it freely. On a difficult day, completing the first three movements may be enough.

Arrive. Keep your eyes open at first. Feel the couch or chair. Look at three stable objects. Say, “Here.”
Receive Pure Mind. Silently repeat “PURE MIND” one to three times. Do not demand joy. Let it mean a clear, welcoming inner field.
Find the resource hand. Place one hand on a neutral, receivable area such as the forearm, thigh, shoulder, or upper abdomen if medically comfortable. Or let it hover.
Listen for consent. Ask, “What form of contact would be kind?” Notice approach, hesitation, softening, bracing, or no response. No response means proceed minimally.
Name what is present. Use impersonal language: “There is tightness,” “There is sadness,” “There is not knowing,” or simply “Sensation.”
Add the second hand only if helpful. Place or hover it near the area asking for care. Keep the first hand connected to safety or resource.
Introduce the sacred and. Say slowly: “Yes. There is this sensation. And…” Pause. Let the pause itself be a doorway rather than rushing to a solution.
Abide with a trusted resource. Complete the phrase with “Pure Mind,” “Love,” “Jesus,” “Gentle Heart,” or “Healing Presence.” Then become quiet.
Allow a natural response. If breath, tears, coughing, warmth, movement, memory, or stillness arises, witness it. Do not intensify or interpret immediately.
Ask the warm-and-wise question. “What does this body need now?” The answer may be rest, warmth, water, expression, a boundary, medical care, prayer, or no further action.
Separate and close. Lift the hand slowly, feel the space after contact, open the eyes fully, look around, move the feet and hands, and name one ordinary next action.

PURE MIND.
Yes, there is this body.
And Love is abiding.
Nothing has to be forced.
What is the next warm and wise step?

7. Three main Healing Touch Abiding practices

Practice One: Pure Mind Field

Purpose: to establish spaciousness before touching a difficult area. This is especially useful when waking in freeze, when pain feels like the whole world, or when the practitioner mind is trying too hard.

Feel the support beneath you and orient to the room.
Hold both hands open or rest them on the thighs.
Say “PURE MIND” slowly three times.
Imagine no colour or energy unless it arises naturally. Simply notice that awareness is larger than one sensation.
Rest for three ordinary breaths without controlling them.
Close with: “This body is within Pure Mind; this body is not abandoned.”

Practice Two: Two-Hand Abiding Bridge

Purpose: to keep suffering and resource present at the same time. This adapts your Two-Hand Abiding work into a Healing Touch form.

Let the left hand represent or gently contact the place of suffering.
Let the right hand rest on a neutral or resourced place, or remain open to Pure Mind, Love, Jesus, or Healing Presence.
Name the left side: “There is fear,” “There is grief,” or “There is pain.”
Whisper inwardly: “And…” Then pause.
Name the right side: “Pure Mind is abiding,” or “Love stays.”
Feel both hands without making one defeat the other.
When ready, bring the hands together or rest both on the thighs. Let this symbolize reunion without erasure.

There is suffering.
And…
Love is abiding.

Practice Three: Purification by Loving Inclusion

Purpose: to welcome a protective or wounded part into the larger field of wholeness. Use only with a tolerable fragment, never with the full force of a traumatic memory.

Begin in Pure Mind and touch a neutral area.
Invite only the smallest receivable part: “A little fear may be here.”
Offer the hand as companionship: “This part does not have to be alone.”
Say, “No part left out. No part forced in.”
Ask what the part protects and what it needs now. Accept silence.
Bless rather than analyze: “May this fear be well held and understood.”
Return to the room, date, feet, and one ordinary action.

8. Nine specialized practices for your day

1. Morning Freeze Refuge – 60 to 90 seconds

Keep your eyes open. Do not immediately enter the most painful place. Feel the bed or couch, rest a hand on the forearm or thigh, and say: “PURE MIND. Here is Ross. Today, Ross will not abandon Ross.” Let the practice be successful before you stand up. One percent more room is enough.

2. Healing Hands Without Contact

When touch feels invasive, painful, or too stimulating, hover the hands or place them beside the body. Sense the relationship rather than an energy diagnosis. Say: “Care can be near without entering. My body has choice.” This is particularly valuable when trauma has involved powerlessness or unwanted closeness.

3. Pain Companion

Place a hand beside the painful area or on a neutral place. Notice the boundary, temperature, movement, and rhythm of pain without searching for its emotional cause. Use: “There is pain. Pain is pain. May this pain be well held and wisely cared for.” End by asking whether the body needs medical attention, medication as prescribed, repositioning, rest, or help.

4. Anger and Forgiveness at the Speed of Safety

Let one hand acknowledge anger and the other represent the possibility of forgiveness. Do not make them merge. Say: “There is anger. And forgiveness may become possible in its own time.” Forgiveness does not remove a boundary, excuse harm, require contact, or deny fear. Sometimes the purification is simply that anger becomes protective clarity rather than self-burning resentment.

5. Grief Cradle

Cup one hand inside the other, or rest one hand over the heart area only if physically comfortable. Allow grief to be held as something precious rather than defective. Say: “There is grief. Grief belongs to Love. Nothing precious is being thrown away.” Tears are welcome; tears are not required.

6. The Body-Region Inquiry

When attention gathers around the right side, left side, chest, belly, feet, jaw, or another region, stay descriptive. Ask: “What sensation is here? What feeling, memory, need, or protective impulse comes with it, if any?” You may use organ-emotion symbolism privately as an invitation, but not as a diagnosis. The safer sentence is: “This region may have a story; I will listen without deciding too soon.”

7. Witnessing a Cough, Sigh, Tremor, or Contraction

If a spontaneous response arises, reduce effort. Sit up if needed, let breathing be natural, and keep one anchor in the room. Say: “A response is happening. I do not have to produce more.” Afterward, note whether there is relief, fatigue, activation, pain, or breathlessness. The response may be meaningful without being given a certain explanation.

8. Healing Touch Boundary Practice

Touch can symbolize protection as well as connection. Place one hand vertically in front of the body, palm outward, and the other gently on the chest, forearm, or thigh. Say: “Love is here, and this boundary is here. I may remain gentle without allowing harm.” Imagine the field around you becoming clear, spacious, and private rather than rigid.

9. Nightly No-Part-Left-Out Sweep

Move the hands slowly from head toward feet, touching lightly or hovering. At each region say only, “Included.” Do not review the whole day. Finish with both hands on the thighs or one hand held by the other: “All of Ross belongs within Love. The day is complete enough. Let the body rest; let the mind rest.”

9. Phrase medicine for different levels of activation

For light activation

Sensation… Abiding.
Pure Mind.
Love stays.

For moderate activation

Yes. There is fear.
And…
Pure Mind is abiding.

For a memory fragment

A memory is arising.
This room is here now.
Love is abiding with me.

For self-forgiveness

There is pain about the past.
And forgiveness may grow gently.
Ross is still worthy of care.

For spiritual companionship

Jesus, abide in this touch.
Pure Mind, hold this whole experience.
Holy Love, leave no part out.

When words become too much

Here.
Hand.
Love.

10. New ideas that deepen the practice

Pure Mind is the inner treatment room. Before a hand is placed, a non-condemning space is prepared. The quality of that space may matter more than the sequence of hand positions.
Abiding is the medicine of duration. The healing element is not dramatic intensity but the experience that caring presence remains without taking over, fleeing, or demanding.
The body is a partner, not a project. You do not work on the body as an object. You listen with it, receive its limits, and let it influence the session.
Self-touch can become re-parenting. A caring hand can offer the younger and more frightened parts of Ross a present-day experience of protection: “Someone kind is here, and that someone is also me.”
Touch can communicate a boundary. A hand may say “enough,” “not there,” “not now,” or “this space is mine.” Protection is part of healing.
Non-contact may be the deepest contact. Hovering or simply staying nearby allows the body to retain choice. Distance can be loving.
The sacred pause after and is an active practice. The pause prevents a healing word from covering over suffering. It gives both truths room: there is pain, and there is Love.
Energy may be described without being declared. Use “I notice warmth, tingling, density, movement, or spaciousness” rather than “I know what this means.” Felt energy can guide gentle attention without becoming certainty.
Wholeness does not require symptom removal. A person may be whole while ill, grieving, afraid, or in pain. Healing can mean relationship, dignity, and wise care even when cure is unavailable.
Ordinary action completes subtle work. Tea, water, medication as prescribed, a meal, a phone call, a boundary, sunlight, or sleep can ground a spiritual or energetic session in life.

11. We heal in many ways

Healing is larger than any one technique, belief, or visible release. Healing Touch Abiding becomes wiser when it recognizes many doors into wholeness. One day the door may be energetic or spiritual; another day it may be medical, relational, practical, creative, or simply restful.

We heal through touch, and sometimes through respectful distance.
We heal through words, and sometimes through silence.
We heal through tears, and sometimes through stillness.
We heal through insight, and sometimes by stopping analysis.
We heal through forgiveness, and sometimes first through truth, protection, anger, or a boundary.
We heal through prayer, Pure Mind, Jesus, Love, nature, music, beauty, and the felt presence of the sacred.
We heal through physicians, medication as prescribed, rehabilitation, nourishment, sleep, movement, and ordinary care.
We heal by helping others, and also by allowing ourselves to be helped.
We heal when symptoms soften, and also when dignity and meaning remain during illness.
We heal through time, relationship, humour, grief, creativity, service, and grace.

Healing may release.
Healing may restore.
Healing may protect.
Healing may simply remain.

12. Discernment: How to know whether the practice is helping

Do not judge the session by warmth in the hands, energy movement, coughing, tears, visions, or intensity. Those may occur, but the deeper test is what the practice makes possible afterward.

Am I more present in the room and body?
Is there slightly more choice and less compulsion?
Do I feel kinder toward the suffering part without becoming swallowed by it?
Can I distinguish sensation from interpretation?
Am I clearer about a boundary or next action?
Do I feel more dignified, supported, and less abandoned?
Can I stop without feeling that I failed?
Does the practice help me participate in appropriate medical and relational care?

THE BEST SIGN The practice is helping when it increases warmth and wisdom together. Warmth without wisdom can ignore danger. Wisdom without warmth can abandon the heart. Healing Touch Abiding seeks both.

13. When to pause or stop

Because you are 76 and live with significant cardiac, autoimmune, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, pain, and fatigue burdens, this practice should remain low effort. Your spiritual sensitivity is a strength; your physical limits are also teachers. Stop the session, open your eyes, orient outward, and obtain appropriate help if the practice brings overwhelming panic, a flashback, loss of time, unreality, collapse, severe agitation, or inability to reorient.

Do not press deeply on the chest, abdomen, neck, painful joints, swollen areas, wounds, or recent surgical sites.
Do not force breathing patterns, breath-holding, coughing, shaking, crying, or prolonged emotional intensity.
Do not continue merely because the practitioner in you believes a treatment is unfinished.
Do not use energy or emotional explanations to delay assessment of a new, recurrent, or worsening physical symptom.
Do not change medication or medical treatment because of a session without consulting the appropriate clinician.

URGENT MEDICAL SAFETY Call 911 or seek urgent medical help for severe breathing difficulty, crushing or persistent chest pressure, fainting, sudden confusion, blue or grey lips, a large amount of blood with coughing, or another symptom that feels immediately dangerous. Healing Touch Abiding may accompany medical care; it must never replace emergency care.

14. A simple morning, noon, and night rhythm

Morning – Receive

Before standing, orient to the room and rest a hand on a neutral area. Say: “PURE MIND. Here is Ross. This day does not have to be solved now. Love is abiding.” Practise for one to three minutes.

Noon – Rebalance

Use Two-Hand Abiding for one or two minutes. One hand acknowledges what the day has brought; the other receives Pure Mind or Love. Ask: “What is the smallest wise adjustment?”

Night – Include and release the day

Use the No-Part-Left-Out Sweep. Let each body region be included without analysis. End with: “The day is complete enough. No thing to do, fix, or become. Let the body soften; let the mind rest.”

15. A personal observation page

Use this brief record only when it supports curiosity. Do not turn healing into surveillance.

Notice	Personal observation
Before	What is present in body, feeling, mind, and energy language?
Resource	What word, hand position, image, prayer, or external support feels receivable?
Contact	Touch, hover, or no contact? Where does the body seem to say yes or no?
Response	Softening, stillness, breath change, warmth, cough, tears, movement, memory, or no change?
Meaning	What interpretation arises? Can it remain a possibility rather than a certainty?
After	More grounded, clear, tired, activated, tender, connected, or unchanged?
Next care	Rest, nourishment, medication as prescribed, boundary, conversation, medical contact, or ordinary activity?

16. The deepest understanding

Healing Touch Abiding may become a natural meeting place for the many streams of your life: Healing Touch and Reiki, MBSR and Buddhist meditation, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, Pure Mind and Love, the wounded younger Ross and the wise elder Ross, the body that suffers and the consciousness that can still know joy.

Its deepest purpose is not to create a special state. It is to establish a trustworthy inner relationship. When fear arises, someone remains. When pain speaks, someone listens. When the body says no, someone respects it. When joy comes, someone receives it without grasping. When nothing happens, someone still stays.

There is this body.
There is Healing Touch.
And Love is abiding.

The healing is not only in what leaves. It is also in what arrives: presence, dignity, protection, tenderness, clarity, forgiveness, spiritual companionship, and the willingness to care for the next moment. In this sense, purification is not the removal of Ross. It is the return of all of Ross to Love.

The master Healing Touch Abiding sequence

PURE MIND.
Here is this body.
Yes, there is this sensation.
And…
Love is abiding.
Nothing needs to be forced.
No part left out.
What is the next warm and wise step?

Personal practice note: This guide is intentionally experiential and contemplative rather than research-informed. It offers a way of organizing your own trained, spiritual, and embodied practice. It is not a diagnosis, a claim about the physical storage of emotion, or a substitute for medical or trauma-specialist care.