Where Does Self Healing Occur? Exploring the subject of self healing.
Despite having chronic health challenges from my late teens it has took me a long time to begin to interpret the many views and layers to self healing.
I began practising reiki and meditation in my early twenties, over 30 years ago.
Training in reiki introduced me to a form of healing and self healing and helped open the doors to many other types of healing and holistic support.
Meditation in many ways was a somewhat more powerful self-healing tool. As I found the right type of meditation practice can really help you access more of your innate way of being.
The right type of meditation can teach you how to access your own inner calm and strength to cope with whatever life challenge arises to me one of the biggest life skills we can have in this world.
Through my healing journey I got to experience and received many many healing and holistic modalities and trained in many disciplines.
I developed a passion and strong interest for many holistic approaches and self-help strategies as a teenager. And although some approaches helped me with specific health difficulties some health challenges and medical anomalies seemed more difficult to shift.
I really began to witness in my own life how important self-healing was. And how vital it was that the healer did not take the power from the client or create codependent relationship in them or the modality.
How important it was for the healer to realise they were not the one doing the healing but the person that helped support the healing process.
And how important it was for the healer to have compassion and really listen to their clients and encourage them to listen to what was right for their own body and healing.
Sadly really important things that seems to be rarely taught or fully understood today. I have lost track at the amount of time I was manipulated into agreeing to some modality, tool, technique or product that was not right for me. In-fact more than a few that were in-fact harmful and traumatising.
Self-Healing Through A State Of Being
But the biggest insight was when those glimmers of true healing and self-healing occurred when I let go.
Self-Healing began to happen I was in a state of being, almost accepting rather than really focusing on healing.
We often spend so much of our life fighting through our personal challenges, our wounds, trauma, disease, injury, disabilities that we are in a state of resistance, state of survival when we need the exact opposite,.
I had been conditioned to push, push, push, fight my way through ill health, which was even more damaging and destructive.
Even though stress management became my thing a lot of my push was putting me in to fight, flight or freeze mode.
As someone who was highly motivated from a young age, the eldest of 9. I was brought up in a family business background with strong hard working ethics.
So just being, was completely alien to my conditioning and ingrained belief system. For too long what my body was telling me and what I was telling my body didn’t match up. I had tried to control my body with a positive mental attitude of you can do anything and everything but my body wanted and needed rest and release.
Emotionally I needed self compassion, acceptance and understanding instead I faced judgement and shame.
You see, at 19 I came down with a post viral fatigue type illness after mercury poisoning added to some already rare medical challenges.
My symptoms became very varied and dramatic and by my early twenties I was mostly house and bed bound. I developed very rare and bizarre conditions and symptoms including a hole in the back of one eye.
At a time where many believed these to be diseases of the mind with no physical cause.
In-fact it would take me over 30 years to find out that it was in-fact Lyme complications from a tick bite at 14.
At the time mainstream allopath medicine could offer me no treatment or support. While thankfully the holistic industry gave me some hope.
After many approaches that didn’t work and more than a few that caused me serious relapse and other issues, thankfully a few helped me slowly get stronger and stronger.
It took 7 years to get some sort of life back but I managed to get some sort of independence and became a self-employed therapist, healer and coach. Which led me to look at life completely different.
Why Modern Day Conditioning Is A Major Cause of Dis-ease
Sadly we are so conditioned into having everything, trying to control everything in what has become all about consumerism.
We almost expect to have everything at the push of a button, we want everything now.
We are too busy looking at the externals, too busy aiming for the next thing, we don’t want to solve the cause of our disease, like changing our eating, working or lifestyle habits.
We just want a pill, product, injection or some sort of solution that will fix it right now. But too often it never fixes it is just something to hide the wound.
In many ways this way of living is our biggest cause of dis-ease and this approach is killing our healthcare system which is more about symptom management than ever getting to the cause of any disease.
Self Healing Is Not In The Future It Is
We are so focused and busy creating our future we fail to be in the present moment. We are so addicted to being busy and active we sometimes have to be forced and yet again reminded to be, to be in the flow.
Recently I wasn’t actually being or going with the flow. I was actually choking myself, my heart, my soul with a more forceful nature of doing, I was in survival mode. I was doing, doing, doing, planning, planning, planning, forcing, forcing, forcing.
We all try to grasp control over every area of our life, situations and outcomes at times and it doesn’t serve us.
And in many ways this just as much a problem in the holistic, spiritual and wellbeing industry than anywhere else.
When we see coaches who are pushing themselves and pushing their clients to set goals from the wrong place, for the wrong reasons.
And aspects of the fitness industry that is simply focusing on vanity than true health and wellbeing.
The healing industry when it is more about the healer or spiritual teacher becoming famous or having a large following or big subscription list than actually being in truth and integrity.
Self Healing Has Many Layers To It
Self healing can mean many different things to different people. I remember a healer friend telling me that another healer has said to hi that no one should be doing any healing work when they are not healed.
And as he correctly said what does healed actually mean, meaning that we all have woundings, none of us are totally healed.
Some wounds may be more obvious than others. But the healer who things they are healed, just like the teacher who thinks they are fully awakened or enlightened has a long way to go.
Many of us begin the journey of healing and self healing when our pain, our wounds, our challenges or disabilities are obvious and easy to see.
But often it is the unseen and even the further wounding that is done from those supposed to be the healers. When their is a need to be more than the client or patient, when there is a need to think we the healer has all the answers, always knows more than the client or patient.
Why Surrendering And Being Is Where True Self-Healing Occurs?
Deep inside everyone is struggling to let go and let god. Everyone suffers at some point in their life of feeling not enough or feeling disconnected from gods essence.
When we struggle with spiritual connection, when struggle to surrender to what the universe is trying to show us or guide us towards.
It’s funny how these big signs will continually show up in our life and force us to stop or really slow down. I have been forced to stop many times lol
And I have learned that not all healing paths are meant to be a straight line. On my road to self healing which I am still on I am taught that part of that journey involves many initiations many rich experiences that was also meant for my soul.
The Biggest Form Of Self Healing
I have come to realise that the biggest form of self healing comes from being able to detach too much attention to the material world, the superficial world.
You don’t have to be physically healed from every physical ailment, disability or challenge to experience deep peace, happiness and joy.
And despite working with more than a few top healers around the world I can honestly say that the most important thing you can do is listen to your inner voice, and the voice of god.
Because every single teacher, healer, therapist and coach has their own belief, their own ideology which is often just a tiny perspective of the whole picture.
It is just one view from a very wide, broad and deep layers of perspectives. Your healing journey is yours and it is as much a spiritual path as it is a healing path.
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