About Us

History of Heart of Healing Website

Heart of Healing was the name that Mary Maddux used when she first opened a private practice in energy healing. She started the Heart of Healing website in 1999 to share her work. As she began to write, the phrase “heart of healing” came alive and began to take on a life of its own. It has revealed many meanings over the years, and the website continues to grow as a medium for the exploration of various topics.

Beginning with their collaboration on the creation of The Ease of Being CD, Mary’s husband, Richard Maddux, became increasingly involved in the work of Heart of Healing. The newly revised and expanded Heart of Healing website is a reflection of their work together as they blend their backgrounds and talents.

Our Philosophy

We acknowledge that anything is possible in healing. The body is a marvelous self-healing mechanism, and we often underestimate the ability of the body and the human spirit to recover from illness and trauma. At the same time, we emphasize the difference between “curing” and “healing”, affirming that while curing does not always occur, healing is always possible.

We support the broadest possible definition of healing — “to become Whole”, acknowledging that the experience of Wholeness is available regardless of any situation or circumstance. Above all, we feel that while the pairs of opposites are always present in life — pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, darkness and light — it is nevertheless possible to experience inner peace. This is possible through an expansion of awareness which allows us to embrace a larger perspective and discover more refined qualities of love, compassion, gratitude and joy which lie beyond surface appearances.

When it comes to matters related to healing and spirituality, we are all involved in a journey of learning. When we learn something with someone, we may call them a “teacher”, but in reality, everyone’s understanding and experience is unique. We are all “self-authenticating” — even when we decide something based on an “authority”, it is ultimately our judgment that that person is an authority and we make the decision to honor the perspective or information received from them.

We encourage everyone to believe in themselves and what rings true for them. We hope to encourage freedom of exploration and expression, as well as trust in oneself and the larger Life of which we are all a part. There are a myriad of viewpoints, as many as there are people. As ones perspective becomes broader and one grows in wisdom, tolerance and compassion, it becomes clear that no one viewpoint is “correct”. The best test of the “rightness” of a belief is whether it serves you and supports you in having a fulfilled life.

Our Website Products

When we began recording guided meditations in 2002, we started to offer the CDs on the website. Since then we started adding other products which we feel are exceptional for promoting expansion of awareness and healing.

The name “Heart of Healing” came to Mary in a dream. In the dream she felt her awareness penetrating deeper and deeper into the nature of healing, and awakened hearing the words: “This goes straight to the heart of healing.”          

You are invited to an exploration of the meaning of healing, and to investigate what it is you seek as you seek healing. This is an invitation to go deeper, to find a more profound level of healing. The larger invitation is to discover that which is “beyond healing” — That which lives in the very depths of healing’s heart, that which is already healed, already Whole.

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Comments

4 Responses to “About Us”

  1. barbara heap on November 3rd, 2008 11:55 am

    Will a person who has to wear a cardiac event monitor 24/7 interfere with
    a person doing healing touch on a client?

  2. Mary on November 6th, 2008 1:17 pm

    Hi Barbara,

    My feeling is that this would not interfere with the effectiveness of someone giving Healing Touch. The energies involved in the healing work shouldn’t be affected by the monitor. Of course, this is just my intuitive feeling. Best way to find out is to try it out — it certainly can’t hurt!

  3. jesse on February 6th, 2009 4:49 pm

    hello well i don’t know really what type of healing you do but my mom called us quondathedoss wich is another word for healler and i would like to know what it is ??

  4. Mary on February 13th, 2009 2:09 pm

    Sorry, Jesse, I’ve never heard of this word for healer.

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