Does “sending light” make a difference?

In January 2021, I received a scary medical diagnosis. To my own surprise – as someone who values privacy – I actually told people besides my immediate family and close friends. I even posted on Facebook.

I received an astonishing number of “good-wishes” messages. It was heart-warming and humbling.

On surgery day, my daughter accompanied me to the hospital. As I was on a gurney, hooked up to tubes and wires, getting wheeled away to the operating room, my daughter called out, “A thousand people are sending light, Mom.” 

I could feel it! It was like being in a cocoon of light.

I was wheeled to a waiting area on the way to the operating room. So there I was, all alone, lying on my back, unable to sit up, looking at a white ceiling and white walls. The only thing not white was a clock on the wall.

Hmm. All alone with no distractions and nothing to do but wait for surgery. A set-up for anxious thoughts, right? But no. I could feel the cocoon of light.

I can honestly say I did not feel a speck of anxiety. I began to imagine that if there was anything in my physical body, my emotions, my thoughts or my spirit that did not serve me well, it would move into the lump that was going to be surgically removed.

Thanks to the clock on the wall, I can say with authority that I was in that white waiting area for 46 minutes. During that time, I actually had fun imagining that anything not helpful was being surgically removed.

Does sending light make a difference?

On surgery day, if I hadn’t known before, I knew with every cell of my body that I was safe and protected in a cocoon of love and light. There’s no doubt in my mind that the energetic support I received was one factor in the easy recovery and return to health I experienced in the weeks after surgery.

There are other stories. I was once part of an experiment by James Twyman. I don’t know how I got on his mailing list, but I was one of several thousand people invited to participate. At the time, there were many violent incidents in Jerusalem. Due to various records, the average number of violent incidents per day was well known.

In the experiment, Twyman and about a hundred other people visited Jerusalem. At a specific hour, they focussed on peace and love in Jerusalem for sixty minutes. During that exact same hour, in time zones around the world, many other thousands of people also focussed on peace and love in Jerusalem.

The result? During that hour, and for a few days afterwards, hard data showed that the number of violent incidents in Jerusalem dropped significantly. Twyman believes that drop was at least in part because of the high-vibration energy being directed by thousands of people around the world. I believe that too.

Clearly, violence in Jerusalem and the middle east has not ended. But the fact that it declined for a time after the focussed high-vibration energy gives me hope.

One process for sending light

So – how do you send light? However you imagine it!

It’s helpful to move into a semi-meditative state, relaxed and feeling grounded and anchored in the earth. Then bring into your imagination the situation or person or location that you’d like to support with high-vibration energy (love, peace, joy, integrity…). In whatever way comes to you, simply imagine the perfect kind of energy infusing the situation or person or location.

Caution: not attached to a specific outcome

Your personality self may have some thoughts about what you’d like to have happen in the situation or person or location to which you’re sending light. It’s okay to have preferences – you’re human and possibly opinionated! – but do not try to send light unless you can do so without attachment to a specific outcome.

When you move into a meditative state, focus on a phrase like, “energy for the highest good of all” or “the light of unconditional love” without being attached to any particular form or outcome that “highest good” or “unconditional love” might have.

It cannot do harm

I’ve been taught that, as long as you’re not attached to an outcome, the process of sending light and love cannot do harm. If for some reason it is not appropriate to be directed to a specific situation or person or location you have in mind, it will go to somewhere else it will do good.

Given that reassurance, where might you like to send light during the next week?

Reflection question

When have you experienced your version of being in
something like a cocoon of light, safe and loved?

Where might you want to send love on this day?