Healing

I have been a soother for many years and I have always left healing to others. The others are those who have taken specialized courses or training to inform their natural inclination to place healing hands onto the suffering bodies of others. Some people are just naturally comfortable as healers and are healers even if they never were trained that way. As a soother, I have always acknowledged that true healing comes as a gift from the pure heart of love within the divine or from somewhere sacred within the universe. Soothing offers gentle comfort to those who seek healing from the divine. Healing never really did originate in the people I knew but it often did flow through them – as if they were a lens. So I want to say in this moment that healing is a beautiful and important act. I acknowledge that I am willing to allow healing to flow both ways through me and that soothing will always be known to me and others in all cases where we are the only plank present in what could be the blessing of healing. I have written to describe my rough-edged and unpracticed beliefs about healing below and it is my intention to approach participating in the process of healing from now on. Healing is a sacred process that has kept me at arms length and frightened in some way for so many years. I don’t know why I believed it lay so far beyond me when I was truly born into the very center of it.

Healing may be one of the most important experiences we can have in a lifetime. The healing process is fully attached to ascending life and is inseparable from it. Healing has always been a defining force of nature and continues to play its role in sustaining the universe which, I believe, will always remain bathed in unpredictable change. Healing may even be a central process that continually facilitates and balances evolution and change within ourselves, on our planet, throughout our solar system and possibly across the universe. Healing may always remain a powerful and invisible force that is known intimately to the divine but is so often overlooked and misunderstood by those of us who strive blindly for betterment under the lonely human clouds of time and isolation.

Healing draws two parts into its make-up and relies on both a healer and on one who suffers from illness to come together fully in trust. The seeming contrast of healer and ill-person may emerge to meet and combine from two separate entities or may join hands from within a single soul. The process of healing can arise and occur in any direction between two animals or two humans or a human and an animal or even between a landscape and a soul. Sometimes, many souls can be drawn into a healing at the same time. The two simple and fundamental ingredients of every true healing are love and forgiveness. No substitutes for these two authentic ingredients ever seems to work.

True and selfless Love is simple and proud forever and is always ready to carry the weightless magic of healing. Forgiveness invites openness and can expose the imbalance and suffering that illness inevitably flowers into. Forgiveness draws its supple but unbending power from compassion and is unable to be silenced and never bleeds shame. Both love and forgiveness need to be fully present for the process of healing to ignite. Unselfish love swims with us into an ocean of wholeness filled with freedom and joy while forgiveness enables an infinite vision of knowing in the one who suffers. This vision allows free entry into the past, the present and the future as it has been, as it is and as it will be skewed by illness. When an impediment is seen and released with compassion then freedom is experienced and healing has occurred. True or authentic healing can never be forced by giving or taking but only occurs when truth and a deep agreement exist together. The agreement is a perfect fit like two pieces of a puzzle that joins the perfect and powerful friendship between love and forgiveness seamlessly together. Wholeness is offered through love and compassion while forgiveness allows old beliefs to be replaced with new life.

It is odd but common for one who suffers from illness to fail to see in their own self something that often stands so obvious to others. Sometimes, it is as if one person for some uncertain reason has two noses on their face. The two noses are plain for others to see but remain ‘invisible’ to the one that carries them. In this way, illness can sit like an elephant in the middle of a living room conversation taking up a lot of space and crushing the furniture but still, no one ever asks why it is there. In any moment when love and forgiveness are present together the magic of healing can ignite to give birth to a new and healthy world. The miracle of a single healing can touch several generations behind a soul at the same time as it will smile on generations yet to come. All this can happen in a single instant.

Although, the magic of healing seems to reside in that timeless place we left behind, we do bump into it every now and then as we make our way through life. Healing is a simple and stable force of nature that can be experienced as a joyful moment of being able to see behind the drape of this world into something larger. It is also a sharing of ‘oneness’ between immortal souls and welcoming the grace that can flood into our earthly lives. In this way, healing can be a process that shines light on freedom and immortality at the same time. To participate in the lightening strike of healing is to gain true knowledge through the deepest blessing of a lesson. There is no evil and nobody looses in such a moment. Even the illness that we sometimes mistake for ‘bad’ eventually leads us to experience the blessings of love and forgiveness and to know infinite wholeness for at least one moment as we continue on our journey home and toward the divine that we carry within us. Both the healer and the healed can in that shared moment of oneness feel the energy of all creation flow through them as they float weightless toward their own new birth into freedom and peace without judgment.

For the most part western medicine is based in chemistry while Eastern medicine is based in energy but they are both just tools to be placed in the hands of loving healers. Some people know both. The point is that our presence and our authentic feelings are the real tools that we bring to the healing process and our ego really has no meaningful place within the true healing process. The mind is, however, well placed to learn about the pills and energies or the practices and procedures that can facilitate healing. In the end, and by that I mean at the end of this life, our soul will carry our experiences of healing with us forever while our mind may lay down all that it has observed and all it has picked up and all of the beliefs it has carried during a challenging time here.

Let us all know the blessing of healing as we come to need it and as we come to offer it.

Love John