What is healing?
June 28, 2007
A yoga teacher once said to me that she didn’t have any interest in healing. She said she was healthy and didn’t feel she needed healing. This was shocking to me. Didn’t everyone have some need for healing? Later, she was one of the people who tested our Everyday Energy Healing CD. She loved it. She enjoyed the experience of giving and receiving a chakra balancing. She wanted to learn more. It was then that it dawned on me that the difference in our interests was a matter of how we used the word healing. For her it was confined to having a physical problem. For me, it was about all of life. It was about coming into greater balance and wholeness.
I continually ask the question — what is healing? At this point, the word has almost lost its meaning, as I see all of life as a process of “becoming whole”. Unless I am using the word in a very narrow way to refer to the healing of an injury or illness, I can’t really say anymore what healing is. This is a very interesting state of affairs for someone who has a website called “Heart of Healing”!
When I first started the work I called Heart of Healing, I was very focused on making things better. I certainly haven’t lost my interest in better physical, psychological and spiritual health, but what I’ve discovered to be the most healing is the growing acceptance of life just as it is. An intensive focus on healing can result in the kind of goal orientation that makes it impossible to relax and enjoy what you have right now. I haven’t in any way abandoned my focus on health and healing — it’s a way of life for me, but I have been learning to let go of the outcome of my efforts. This kind of acceptance, for me, has become the ultimate meaning of healing.
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[...] Rather than a single minded focus on healing itself, perhaps it is better to let it go and find patience and acceptance to achieve the deepest healing, as Heart of Healing suggests: “An intensive focus on healing can result in the kind of goal orientation that makes it impossible to relax and enjoy what you have right now. I haven’t in any way abandoned my focus on health and healing — it’s a way of life for me, but I have been learning to let go of the outcome of my efforts. This kind of acceptance, for me, has become the ultimate meaning of healing.” Heart of Healing [...]