What is Healing?

Healing seems like a mystery. The degree to which we need healing is dependent on what wounds we have incurred over time — perhaps you just have a cut, or you’ve been in a car accident, or you have long-term Lyme disease. Regardless of the extent to which you need healing, there is something ineffable and mysterious about healing in that it doesn’t occur by purely mechanical means.

We have been programmed to think that if you’re sick, you should go to the doctor to have him/her make you better — most often we think this is why we need medicine in the form of pharmaceutical pills. We think that it’s a quick fix, and then we go home and continue our lives. But actually, this isn’t true. Healing is not in the hands of someone else. The role of the healer or the doctor is to facilitate your own ability to heal yourself.

What are all the ancient healing lineages based on? Music. Reiki. Tai Chi. Ayurveda. Acupuncture. They are about aligning yourself with a higher power to allow that higher consciousness to flow through you — your body acts merely as a vessel for this energy.

We should change our mindset when visiting any type of doctor or healer — conventional or alternative practitioners. We should always go in with the understanding that we ourselves are our own best healers, and visiting this person is merely enhancing our own efforts to heal ourselves. So many…