Rewiring Consciousness

The Difference Between a Healing and a Cure

Before we move on to Step 4 of Spiritual Mind Treatment, I want to pause and talk about healing. What is it? And is it permanent?

I have often wondered about the healings described in the Bible. Jesus raised the dead, multiplied the loaves and fishes, told the cripple to rise and walk, healed the lepers—and so much more. And yet, after many of these healings, he would say: “Go and sin no more.”

As a young Catholic girl, I thought this meant that those being healed had done something wrong—that they needed forgiveness. But through my study of New Thought and Spiritual Mind Treatment, I have come to understand something very different. The word sin originally meant “missing the mark,” like in archery. So, what was really being said? Begin again. Remember who you are. Stop identifying with limitation.

We are expressions of Divine Energy. There is nothing flawed about us—only what we have come to believe about ourselves. “Go and sin no more” simply means: Return to the awareness of your wholeness.

This brings us to an important distinction: The difference between a healing and a cure. A cure is the disappearance of symptoms. A healing is a transformation of consciousness. Healing is the shift in consciousness that makes wholeness visible.

When someone is truly healed—when their awareness moves from a belief in limitation to an experience of wholeness—the cure often follows. But not always in the way we expect. Sometimes, healing means peace. Sometimes, healing means release. Sometimes, healing means a complete transformation of consciousness that allows someone to move on—free from fear, guilt, or suffering. Healing is remembering and embodying one’s Divine Identity.

When I was a young practitioner, I thought my role was to cure people. I had it all wrong. Sometimes, people didn’t want to be cured. They wanted peace. They wanted resolution. They wanted freedom within. As I matured in my practice, I began to understand the difference—and to meet people where they truly were. That is why, in my treatments for health, I often include the statement: “Divine right action is taking place.” Because I don’t always know what someone’s soul is truly asking for beneath their words. And it is not my responsibility to decide that. My responsibility is to treat for their highest good.

If someone asks me to heal their body, I don’t begin there. Instead, I ask questions. I listen. Because there is always something deeper—something in consciousness—that is asking to be seen, understood, or released.

Healing is a beautiful thing. I have experienced it many times—through relationships, through physical conditions like sciatica, and even through recurring financial challenges. Healing brings peace. It restores clarity. It aligns us with Truth. And from that alignment… the cure may follow. Healing is not something we get. It is something we remember.

Pace, Gioia, Amore per sempre,
Rev. Dr. Rita Andriello-Feren