Healing for the Terminally-ill

It might seem like a paradox to imagine that any healing can be offered to the terminally ill. One might ask, what’s the use—beyond our last-ditch attempts to frantically save our loved ones with yet another emergency procedure? And when even that fails, doctors themselves often suggest prayer. Some turn to the Mahamrityunjaya Japa, while others now seek spiritual healing.

We all hope to die peacefully, surrounded by love and prayer. When the Angel of Mercy arrives, we want to slip quietly into the Light. Even in the midst of intense physical pain, the soul can still be at peace. This is the true purpose of healing: to bring light and wholeness wherever possible. Healing is about supporting the person, whether or not the body survives.

Over the years at Inner Journeys, this has become the heart of our private healing practice. Many people approach us when they feel helpless, watching their loved ones suffer despite all that modern medicine can offer, which eventually reaches its limits. Others come when doctors and family dismiss a person’s deep intuition that it is time to leave the ailing, broken body behind. Often, patients themselves say, “I want to go home.” No one wishes to die away from loved ones, confined to an ICU and surrounded by tubes. Would you? At such times, people turn to prayer or seek out healers.

In our healing work, we help clear the karmic baggage the person is carrying—through Remote Karmic Healing (Akashic Records Healing) and Astro-Akashic Healing—so that their remaining time, as well as future lifetimes, may be lighter. Just as importantly, we release emotional baggage, hurts, trauma, and grudges accumulated over many lifetimes, so the soul can depart with minimal unresolved weight from the present one. As the physical body deteriorates, the aura often weakens. Like a house with fragile walls, it can then become vulnerable to disembodied souls from the environment or to the souls of past-life enemies. These energies can disturb the person, making them more restless and prolonging their suffering.

“अनायासेन मरणम्, बिना देन्येन जीवनम्। देहान्त तव सानिध्यम्, देहि मे परमेश्वरम्।।”

“हे प्रभु, मेरी मृत्यु बिना किसी कष्ट  और लाचारी के, सहजता से हो।

मेरे देह का अंत आपके सानिध्य में हो । हे परमेश्वर यही वरदान मुझे दें ।”

“Grant me, O God, a painless death, a life free from dependence,

and your presence at the time of my passing”.

(This beautiful prayer is traditionally recited sitting at the steps of a Hindu temple.)

The Final Stretch

This often appears at our door at the last stage of an illness—say, stage IV cancer—when the family asks, “What can we do to help them?”

The truth is, there’s a lot we can do.

But first, we need to understand what the soul desires at that moment. What are the spirit guides suggesting, regardless of what the family wants? When the family cannot let go, or when the person themselves is unable to, it only prolongs the suffering. Medically, this often means another round of chemotherapy, a higher dosage of medicines, or, God forbid, a ventilator.

Many people lose faith in God because their prayers seem unanswered. We forget that no one can heal beyond their karma—not even the gods when they incarnate as humans. Suffering is a part of everyone’s journey. As the saying goes, death only needs an excuse; when it is time, it is time!

That is why some of our most powerful prayers are, “May Thy will be done,” or “Please do what is best for the soul.” These may be the hardest prayers we ever say, but such difficult choices are often what make us stronger.

The Healing

Step 1:

Through Spirit guides, we first discern whether the soul holds a survival script or has already chosen an exit. Based on this, we gently encourage the family to stop frantically searching for new treatments and doctors and to begin accepting the approaching transition.

Our first step is often to bring the family together, so the person and their loved ones can find true closure. This is a sacred time to voice hurts and unspoken words, to share love, kindness, gratitude, and, importantly, forgiveness. In essence, it is about making peace—with the reality of the situation, with the human condition, with the natural cycle of birth and death, and most of all, with one another.

In earlier times, elders and wise ones would visit to help the dying accept their transition with grace. Ceremonies such as Shrimad Bhagwat Katha or Akhand Paath were organized for those who were bedridden, and many would travel to sacred cities to leave the mortal coil. Today, by contrast, many people die in the frantic atmosphere of an ICU. When it is clear that the time is near, it is often best to gather the family around the person who is preparing to depart. Surrounded by love and prayer, the final goodbye becomes gentler.

There are also times when someone has been bedridden for months or years, enduring profound suffering. In such cases, families sometimes ask us to offer healing so that the person’s pain may be eased and they can make their exit. The timing of this transition, however, is always orchestrated by the soul in harmony with their spirit guides.

Step 2:

For this step, we first begin with Karmic Healing (Akashic Records Healing) or Astro-Akashic Healing. All suffering has its roots in past karma, often from previous lifetimes. Many souls choose intense suffering towards the end of a lifetime to clear karmic baggage and learn difficult lessons, particularly humility and compassion. Most people are not truly afraid of death itself; they fear *how* they will die—being bedridden, dependent on others for everyday needs, and losing their dignity. That thought deeply unsettles many, so they say they would prefer a sudden death. Yet life, and karma, often have other plans.

Once the healing begins, we address the origin lifetimes of the current suffering—the incarnations in which we harmed others and accumulated curses or heavy karmic burdens. The intention is that, although the body will eventually die, the soul need not carry this suffering into future lifetimes. Certain curses may require healing, and the karmic load may need to be lightened so that future births, as well as the transition from this life, become easier and more peaceful.

While our primary aim is to ease suffering, sometimes people experience unexpected physical or emotional improvement. For example, a friend’s father with late-stage oesophageal cancer realised that his illness was linked to his inability to “swallow” the reality that the siblings he had raised and supported in business left him as soon as their own lives were secure. Consumed by resentment, he had made life difficult for his immediate family. During Karmic Healing, it was revealed that these siblings had been his business partners in a past life, whose money he had taken unjustly. In this lifetime, they were born into his family so that he could repay that karmic debt.

With this understanding, he softened, and his suffering eased. According to his daughter, he lived another two years in relatively good health. Only in the final two weeks did he become seriously ill. He passed away peacefully, without the intense agony and anger that had once consumed him. Such experiences show how timely spiritual intervention can ease suffering and bring deep solace, within the limits of what karma permits.

Critical or Sensitive Cases: For critical situations—such as advanced-stage cancer or prolonged suffering—we recommend Astro-Akashic Healing, a powerful modality that works with astrological doshas or blocks through Akashic Healing. If you believe in astrology and know your date, time, and place of birth, this can be a deeply supportive option, especially for those who feel they may not have many more opportunities to receive healing at this stage of life. Read here.

Possibilities

Upon healing, two things can happen: the soul may either choose to recover and spend more time with family, or it may choose to exit. In the latter case, Transition Healing can help the soul release the trauma and intense suffering of its final days or years, allowing it to cross peacefully into the Light.

At times, timely healing has led to deeply moving and meaningful experiences. Death, in its true essence, is a sacred passage in which the soul transitions into the Light, leaving behind the body’s pain and suffering.

Experiences

One such instance involved a woman who had been bedridden for a long time, with no hope of recovery. We received an unusual guidance: “Donate a cow.” Though it puzzled us, we shared it with the family. Trusting the process, they brought a cow the next day, found a kind family to care for it, and, through the old lady’s hands, completed the donation. To our surprise, she passed away the following day.

What amazed us even more was what we perceived when we tuned into the moment of the cow’s donation (Gau Daan, गौ दान). The soul of the cow appeared to bless the soul of the old woman, having sensed a good life ahead. This blessing seemed to free the old lady from her remaining karmic bondage.

In another recent case, a comatose woman remained unable to move on because she needed to symbolically feed 15 children to clear a karma from a past life, in which that many children had gone hungry because of her actions. When her soul conveyed this to us, we asked her son to whisper in her ear a promise that he would feed those 15 children. She passed away peacefully a few hours later, in the early morning.

One sweet, elderly lady had been suffering in the hospital for a long time, leaving both her family and the doctors feeling helpless. Her soul simply said, “I want to die at home.” When the family finally agreed to bring her home, she left her body within two hours.

Another time, a young girl on a ventilator wanted to die, but the doctors had kept her body on life support while her soul watched helplessly, longing to leave. Once the family agreed to let her go, she passed within two hours—her soul free and grateful.

On some occasions, we received guidance to move a scheduled healing session earlier. Much later, we would learn that the soul chose to exit just a few hours after that session. Knowing this brought us relief, as it felt that the soul could move on to the next lifetime with less karmic baggage.

Each new person and family who comes to us seeking hope and answers is unique and calls for a unique healing approach. We cannot offer an old solution to the soul standing in front of us. We truly never know what guidance will come from our guides, so we begin only after waiting in silence and prayer.

This work is both deeply challenging and deeply rewarding. We see it as a sacred opportunity to lighten someone’s burden and ease their suffering in the final moments of their journey on this planet. At the same time, it becomes an opportunity for us to grow and learn—about healing methods and about the human condition as a whole. Our shared ground is death and suffering; we are all in this together, helping each other in the best way we can. We feel happy, and truly blessed, to have found healing as our way of spreading light.

ॐ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः, सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः ।

सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु, मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत् ।

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

As this ancient Vedic prayer reminds us, “May all beings be free of suffering…” That is our prayer and our mission. If there is an impending transition in your family, do connect with us. Maybe we can help you in some way.

Love and Light

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Additional Resources:

• Remote Karmic Healing

• Astro-Akashic Healing
• Understanding Karma

FAQs

A. We humans don’t have that kind of power. To reduce or elongate life span. That the soul and Spiritguides decide. We can only reduce Karmic baggage and the resultant suffering. 🙏🏻

Q. Can I also know how much time my loved one has left to live?
A. We don’t offer such information. Nor it is advisable to ask. However, often people in the family get a premonition about an impending death.

Q. I am a caregiver for a terminal parent, how can make it an experience that would help me grow?
A. Serving the dying is also part of our karmic clearance, thus a karmic opportunity! Some profound learnings come our way, as we approach this phase, even though tiring both physically and emotionally, it is indeed a rite of passage.

Q. I have got the Reading done for my family member, but now I don’t want to spend that much money, is it ok?

A. No. Getting a Reading done, and then not helping a person by getting Healings done, would be like getting a diagnosis done and not paying for their treatment. Karmic Reading is a Karmic Diagnosis. So many times, when this has happened, a dying parent or sibling has cursed while dying for it. Get a Reading only when you are sincere about helping someone. Even if they are dying and you tell yourself, “They are anyway dying, so why spend money?” 

When we make an intention for Sewa or help someone, the heavens move things for us. With intentions, soul contracts (karmic contracts) are formed and we and our loved ones become beneficiaries of the blessings from the souls and Spiritguides, whom we intend to help at the physical level. Thus opening pathways to our own healing.

So honouring the contract is taken for granted by the Spirit World, and is thus advisable.

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