Here are some general principles of healing and also examples of some specific techniques.

Our responsibility for healing

The planet as a whole, and all the various forms and systems that comprise it, have certain needs, some of which can only be served by man. The complex eco-systems of organisms, habitats, elements, and the exchanges which occur between these have mostly evolved over a long period of time, so they have an intelligence about working together and surviving that usually surpasses man’s attempts to understand. WE need to respect and protect these complex systems, which are sometimes fragile and delicately balanced. Because we, as human beings, have such dramatic effects upon these eco-systems, due to our population, our powers to dominate and our childish behavior of waste and greed, we also must be responsible for overseeing that these ecologies are continually sustained, alive and working. Therefore; much of our work is maintenance and protection.

Another part of our work is with healing, either on the physical level or the subtle vibrational level. Physical healing of particular life forms or of whole systems of life is very needed, especially because of man’s previous mistakes and abuses of the land and it’s resources. Whenever we take or make use from the natural resources we must also be responsible to re-establish these or at least to insure their long-term sustainability. Areas which have been over-used or over-abused need a re-supply of new energy and life. They require some form of re-establishment or reclamation.

Many areas of land also need some healing on the subtle energy level. Subtle energies, of differing qualities, flow through and accumulate in certain area. These effect us emotionally and even physically, though most often we are unconscious of these influences. The pure nature of these energies can be distorted by wrongful action on the land, and they can turn against us instead of feeding us as they are intended to do. Their free flowingness of movement can get blocked or reversed, due to the misplacement of our buildings, roads and created structures. Some areas of land have been psychically abused by our violent emotions and actions, and the land remembers every action and feeling upon it. Many special sacred areas on the planet, which have a special purpose for our well-being and our future, have been abused or built upon, which creates much harm to those involved as well as the whole planet. There are some ways to heal these errors, which the geomancer studies and practices.

Our creativity on the planet can also be healing. Artistic and functional forms or buildings can be of great benefit to the subtle energies and beauty of an area, if they are placed correctly and compliment harmoniously with the surrounding environment. Our creative transformations of the natural environment can be healing as well as useful. We can design and transform our environment to best serve ourselves and the overall eco-system. The planetary destiny is an evolving story of new creativity and transformation, and human beings are the leading players. Hopefully, we will learn to play without getting hurt and create beauty, love and harmonious order.

Another part of the subtle healing work involves our recognition and love of the land we walk upon and the lives of nature we encounter. We have this opportunity to awaken the divine spirit within all life through our heart and consciousness, and be a part of the spiritual evolution of the planet.

Healing work

All healing or helpful work must begin with recognition and acceptance of the reality at hand. Next, one needs to distinguish between what can be changed and what cannot be changed. It is useful to first understand what cannot be changed. The patterns and energies of the surrounding land are probably not open to change, and also at any particular area of land are features, circumstances, and ecological conditions that are not presently changeable. So we must begin from this acceptance. Only then should we proceed to consider what could be changed -- in structure, design, use, and also with the subtle energies.

Moreover, one needs to see and understand the greater interconnected Whole of which any particular area is a part. In other words, the greater surrounding area of energies and circumstances must be known and respected. Then two basic questions can be considered. One is a question of how to best work in harmony with the surrounding Wholeness, but also one might question what is possible to change or effect in this surrounding area.

Respect and cooperation are the foundation of healing. True healing is a re-connection or integration of things within the Whole. It is re-establishing relationship with the Whole, including all the parts within it. It is cooperating with the integrated growth of the Whole, helping to build harmonious threads of relationship for stronger unity. Within the Whole and for the Whole, we can be creators of health, harmony and beauty.

Our interactions and relationships between eachother and the natural world can be mutually growing and beneficial. The awakening of new potentials within us and on the earth can unfold into expression, serving the life around, and giving new understanding and meaning to our lives. The unfoldment of consciousness, love and will shall bring new creative energies into play and new ways of being creative. The gradual transformation of ourselves will effect transformation of our world, and an evolving world will affect transformation in ourselves. ⁱ

Healing land is like bodywork

The planet is a living being, with mind and body. We can understand this mind/body of the planet by using the analogies we know from studying ourselves, because the same basic principles apply in promoting health and healing. We study everything as a system of relationships within the greater whole, and try to work with the land in a holistic manner.

Our body is properly maintained and can be healed through taking in and assimilating needed nutrients. The planetary system also requires nutrients or different substances, and these must be transformed and digested, which occurs throughout the eco-system. Life-forms on the earth flourish due to good conditions for growth, and of course lots of exercise. Our body needs a strong and integrated structure, our bones and muscles need to be in their proper places, and work together for ease and grace of movement. Our spine and posture needs to be properly aligned, to move in harmony with gravity and the various situations we encounter. On the planet, our structures need to be properly aligned and in relationship with energies and natural structures of the surrounding land. The structures and patterns we create need to be in integral relationship with the natural realities and laws of this world. Like our bodies, there is a right place for anything. We can help the movement of energies be easy, freer and graceful with correct placement and patterning of structures. Incorrect, habitual postures taken in the world can be healed through a re-patterning of how we creatively move in life.

Our body energy needs to be fully alive and strong for well-being. It needs to be flowing and in polarity balance. If there are blockages of this energy flow, or under-stimulated or over-stimulated areas, then our system works with imbalance or impotency. The energies of the land also need to be freely flowing and in balance. Certain flows on the land are often blocked due to structural mis-alignment or memory trauma, and these can usually be healed in some way. We might need to stimulate or relax certain energies, depending on what is imbalanced. The polarity of yin/yang or the relationships of qualities and elements may need some balancing.

Healing our bodies often require some hands-on work, massage and movement of energies. In body-work healing, one may give vital, healing energy. One might massage sore, depressed or over-used muscles, loosening and relaxing strain or holding patterns, and repressed feelings and hurts held within the body muscles may come out to be healed. Through massage, acupressure, shaking, vibration or deep breathing, one can work the body energies and fluids through blocked areas.

In geomancy, we work to help free movement, release, vibrate, exercise and balance energies. We unblock areas to open up the flow, and heal un-necessary strain or pain. We help bring forth hidden potentials, and strengthen the ecological “muscles” and energy centres. We work to align structures with correct “postural” pattern and placement to better serve the overall working order of the environment.

Analogies between geomantically healing the land and healing bodies is a potentially vast topic. This was merely a hint at what others will see further into. ⁱⁱ

Human-caused Negative Areas

Humans create negative areas by inappropriate or disrespectful uses of the land. Unfortunately, previously sacred areas can reverse themselves, becoming negative vortexes when humans harm or destroy the eco-system or the subtle energy fields, through activities disrespectful to the earth. Mis-placed constructions and violent actions taken upon other people are most often the cause of human created reverse spirals. Use of electrical equipment at power spots can cause strange effects and can even reverse what had been a positive vortex. Another cause of negative energy on the land, besides inappropriate or disrespectful use, is from an occurrence of physical or emotional violence at this area.

The land and the sacred energies, flowing like blood through it, can be traumatically shocked, as can occur with all life forms, due to sudden ecological destruction, improper constructions, or violent intentions and actions at the site. These shocks to the eco-system and subtle energies, or emotional pain from violence, registers within the psychology of the land, and is held there until redeemed. These human caused traumas can be called, “negative memory vortexes,” because they are created from negatively traumatic memory patterns held in the land. Some of these harms to the land can be healed and re-reversed with proper knowledge, using various methods.

We must remember that our actions on the land always have some effect through time and across the space of our planet. Everything is registered in the land to some degree, not only affecting the immediate area, but extending throughout the planet. The earth is alive and pervaded by mind and memory. It is adaptable and self-healing, but nonetheless can be hurt from shock or continual abuse.

Negative memory spirals can develop over time from continuous abuse and thought-fields of selfish attitudes, etc. Continuous thought and activity of a harmful or inharmonious sort will cause a em field and pattern of that kind, which will grow into the land, eventually causing many areas to reverse themselves and possibly some catastrophes sooner or latter, like earthquakes relieving slow, built-up tension.

Reverse spirals are also created from blockages of the subtle energy flow (ley lines ) on the land. If the ley meets obstructions which it cannot go through or bounce over, it will back up on itself and cause a negative, reverse spiral in that area. Obstructions are caused by misplaced or wrongly oriented buildings, walls, roads, electrical and mechanical equipment, sheet metal, and trash piles, to name the most common ones.

Improper constructions on the land hold a negative memory point in place and can continue to increase the harm and intensify the negativity over many years, but sometimes it is possible to still heal the negative pattern without actually moving or erasing the structure. Of course some places are too badly damaged to heal quickly, but something good can always be done and complete healing may be possible given enough time.

The required healing in these areas is mostly change of habit and some re-balancing of the energies. Planting new vegetation, trees and flowers can also help, or any action to help create positive order and beauty. The keys are to help heal any wrong done to the land, to renew the land, and to help bring in positive energies. It is possible to renew, rehabilitate, revitalize, harmonize and heal the land, by re-establishing a flourishing eco-system, giving love back to the land and using certain healing methods to erase the painful memory pattern.

Healing negative energies or harm done

Many areas of land on the planet are in need of some healing, because of harm done at that area or even around in the surroundings. Harm can be done to the environment in many ways and to varying degrees, and this influences how subtle energies effect us, physically and psychologically. Yet, we need permission to do healing work. We can’t sneak over to some negative influence, even if it effects us, if this is on someone else's land, without there permission. But, we can do things to protect our own land, or at where we are permitted to work in, and heal any negative influences there. The first and easist thing to do that I have always seen is to clean-up un-necessary disorder. Trash or un-used bits of things here and there, scattered around or piled up haphazardly, can cause a disordering and scattering of subtle energy, and can even create a negative vortex at that spot and block ley lines. When we clean-up areas and give a defined sense of order to what is on the land, the sacred energies can more easily flow through and organize themselves with greater stability of actualization. We may need to re-place things or defined area of use to make the order of our land-use more in harmony with the energies that be. Sometimes the land is way out of balance with incorrectly placed or proportioned structures, which can cause imbalance and distortion of subtle energies. It is impractical and often impossible to re-do a whole land-use design once it has been established, but we can help to re-establish energy flows and overall balance on the land.

If the land is weighed down with too much of something in one place, we might counter-balance this with something else of an opposite kind in another area to create a better balance and proportion of energies and qualities. We might see how we can bring a better balance of yin/ yang or masculine/ feminine to the land; thus healing with polarity balance. In general, the creation of beautiful form and pattern, as well as conscientious, responsible use of the land and TLC in our work, promotes healing energies to come into and out of the land. When the land is able to express its potentials and sing, then there is healing. When it is recognized with gratitude for being our sustainer and healer, then it will sing healing songs to us.

Sometimes, places on the land hold painful memories, which cause grief, stress and depression in the emotional psychology of the land. A negative vortex will manifest at these places or nearby. We can heal these areas through work on them in some way, and re-reverse the vortex. One needs to enter this place with the purest of motive to help, and work with gentleness and lots of TLC, along with firm strength. One basic way to heal this place is to work the land to re-vitalize it with abundant and beautiful growth of vegetation or landscaping, which establish a new and higher vibrational pattern there. Another possibility is to place a symbolic marker or monument to resonate healing energies.

A simple technique, though not easy to master, is to create a specific healing pattern on paper, wood, metal, or with potentized rocks or stones (brought in from another area), placed on the site to be healed. At some point in time when the healing has fully completed, this pattern would be removed and the area used in some way or left alone. There is also a technique of acupuncture, which uses metal rods pounded with force into the ground at the very center of the negative vortex or in a pattern around it. It is best to use iron rods with copper heads, approximately 1/2” diameter and 18” long, the copper end going into the ground first, and pounded in with 18 blows, with firm intention and concentration. At some point in time the rods may need to be removed, after the new em field has completely stabilized. This technique is very powerful and useful at especially negative spots. It pinpoints the exact area of pain, gives recognition to it, and vibrates the land with its pounding and penetration. I should note that only someone experienced in this should attempt it, because the rods must be placed with a high degree of accuracy, sensitivity, authority, and conscious loving intention.

In working with any of these techniques, the painful memories and emotions held within the land will come out in even greater force at first, as they are released in recognition. We do not want to be blown away by this, so to speak, or allow them to attach to us or be sympathetically effected by them. We can safely sense what is being released, and give our conscious, loving recognition to this, but not be sentimental about it. Just allow it all to pass by impartially and without judgment or reaction. Some aspects at these areas do not want to change or be healed, and they can put up a good fight, screaming and kicking out of fear. So the practitioner needs to be clean, strongly determined and constantly alert with care. Cleanliness of body, mind and emotions is very important, so that negative energies do not attach themselves to us, and we should always clean well after any healing work. The choice of what technique to use, as well as how and where this is to be accomplished, should be well visualized and agreed upon before beginning any actual physical work.

In any healing work it is most important to remember to find and tap into the source of healing, and not just try to deal with the problems themselves. The ultimate Source of all healing is the power and consciousness of Love, which manifests through our compassion and commitment to help, and can be found within the living energy of the earth itself.

Another form of harm and negative influence on the land is due to power sites which have been reversed. When special power sites are built upon or used improperly, they can reverse to a negative vortex. This can cause much harm far and wide. Healing this can be most difficult, indeed, and require a lot of work, using the principles and techniques already discussed.

Another kind of problem is the blockage of ley line flow, often causing a negative vortex. Here, the flow of energy backs up on itself, causing a reverse spiral and negative influence at that area. We have here a combination of problems: an area being deprived of the flow, the overall ley line pattern being disconnected or broken, and a negative vortex influencing the area. The best way to deal with this is to work on the place where it is being blocked, but if that place is on someone’s land and we haven’t permission to work there, then we need to work at drawing the ley line around the block and onto our land.

But let us now consider how to work on the area of the actual block, fist discovering what is causing it. The most usual causes are incorrectly placed structures, ridiculously idiotic architecture, chaotically dumped debris, trashed autos or machinery. Electrical power lines, and all sorts of abusive activity to the land. It’s impossible to be real specific as to what things will actually block the subtle energy flow, because it depends upon the power of the ley line to pass by and the overall circumstances on the land, so one needs to study each situation uniquely.

The first choice of action would be to remove whatever is causing the block, either place it somewhere else, re-order it or just get rid of it, and re-open the flow. If this is not possible, then we have some other means available. One is to heal that place or structure, using pattern or acupuncture techniques, thus allowing the flow to pass through. Another possibility is to build a balancing structure or landscape in front of the directional energy flow, which will anchor the ley line before it meets the block and help move the energy through more easily. The third possibility is to bend the ley line around the offense, or split it into two lines passing on both sides and merging again past it. In this way the ley line by-passes the offense without even trying to pass through. To accomplish this one uses techniques for anchoring, reflecting and re-concentrating energies. ⁱⁱⁱ