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GOING BEFORE THE PANEL

One of the things which many probationers may dread is going before the membership panel to obtain their full healer credentials. This is really not as dreadful as it might seem, so let’s try to throw a little more light on the process.

PREPARATION
Make sure you are well prepared beforehand - this will do wonders to your confidence! Make sure you know your code of conduct well, really understanding what is behind each of the points it makes, rather than trying to learn it all parrot fashion. You will probably find ways of helping yourself to learn it, perhaps with a friend, and perhaps writing the main points out on flashcards and testing yourself at odd moments. There are lots of ideas - do talk to other healers who have already gone through the process.

Make sure you know how to do the Act of Healing the NFSH way, and are well presented. On the day wear something which makes you feel good and is smart as well as comfortable. This might all seem very obvious, but little things like this will all help to build your confidence. And go to your panel appointment, radiating love and light, enthusiasm, inner peace, all the positive qualities which your Higher Self knows is within you. Just let them out!

THE PROCESS
I am now going to describe going before the Leeds Panel, but panels in other areas will be very similar. Talk to healers who have been through your particular local panel if you’d like more details.

At Leeds the Panel is held at Centenary House, where many of the Leeds healing events are held, probably in room 24, which is a nice bright airy room, but if there is a course running it may be in the room next door which is very similar. On arrival you will find a notice asking you to sit outside the room until you are called. This is the time when you are likely to feel at your most nervous. Don’t frantically try to recall the code of conduct at this stage, but use the time to centre yourself, slowing your breathing and imagining you are breathing in peace and radiating love. You can use your favourite visualisation here, using pink and blue light, or whatever you know best calms you. Ask for your healing angels or whatever higher assistance you feel comfortable with, to be with you.

When you are called in, radiate love and peace to all in the room as you enter. They are all nice, kind caring people, healers who have all gone through this same process before you, so they do understand! You will find three or at the most four people on the panel, but the seating is arranged in a circle ...there is no desk in between ... no “them and you” ... they are on your side believe it or not, and want you to get through, because they believe you will be a wonderful asset to the NFSH and to the healing movement, even more so when you are a full healer than you already were as a probationer.

First of all there will be a general talk about how you got into healing, that sort of thing, to help put you at your ease and help the panel to get to know you a little better. You don’t need to prepare any stock answers for this - just be yourself and let you love for healing and your natural compassion and enthusiasm give you the right words. They will be right I promise!

Then follows the questionnaire on the code of conduct. There are quite a few questions, so don’t be put off by this. They are all just common sense! They should be answered like this, quite simply, in your own words, from your own understanding. Don’t try to repeat the book parrot fashion - the panel just want you to show them that you know what you are talking about. Believe me, they will bend over backwards to help you if they feel that you do indeed know the answers but just can’t seem to get the right words out. There really is nothing to fear there. The whole thing is very relaxed, so every encouragement to keep yourself peaceful and even enjoy it!

One panel member will usually read all the questions, but if you are the only probationer going through that day and there are several panel members, you may find the chairman asks others to take over. This is simply for their benefit, not to try and trip you up. The panel are human too, and like to be involved, so its of benefit if they can all be actively involved in helping you to get through in some way.

Finally you will be asked to do a demonstration of healing. Now here is your chance to really shine. No longer is there just a panel member before you, but a patient! This person is now going to be positively helped by your healing - they need your help in fact or they wouldn’t have volunteered - healers have aches and pains too. So let all your natural love and compassion flow as you really get down to a loving act of healing, demonstrating in your very best manner that you know how to give an NFSH healing. You may be asked to shorten it a bit if a lot of time has been spent on other things, but this is something which you can easily take in your stride and adapt to the circumstance.

After the lovely healing you have just given, you will be asked to wait outside a minute or two. This is just a formality, and you will probably be glowing with a sense of achievement, knowing that you have done your best, and that it has all gone so well. You will then be called back in and congratulated!

Before you rush away to celebrate your new full healer status, you will be asked what you feel you might be able to do as a full healer to help the NFSH or the healing movement in general. Again, this doesn’t require any preparation and you may have to think about it or it might already be bubbling up inside you. You see, we in the NFSH never miss an opportunity to unearth the wonderful talents we know are to be found in our probationers and new healers. Can you blame us?

DOES ANYBODY FAIL?
In practice - very few. Only those who really are in the NFSH for the wrong reasons, and really are totally unsuitable and in some strange way have managed to get this far. Occasionally it might be for lack of preparation, lack of understanding of the basic principles of healing. The panel members are experienced in spotting both these types of people, and will give every help and encouragement to the latter to try again if they feel the person will make a good healer when they’ve done some more work. So the process is not a once in a lifetime chance - it can always be undergone again at a later date.

Most people find going through the panel is a very positive, encouraging and helpful process, which gives them an excellent ‘kick-start’ as a new healer. Many have remarked on the kindness of the panel members and the encouragement they have been given. May you be one of them. I wish you every success as you continue your healing journey.

Diana Hughes. Probationer Liaison.

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