Healing can be a very long process. It can be piece-meal with lots of changes in therapis t(as you look for one who resonates with you), or it can be complete within one session. It all depends on who the person is, the nature of the problem(s), how much healing is required, as well as how resistant the person may be to the processes, and the skill & experience of the therapist.
When we think about healing, some people imagine laying-on of hands, or the Reiki hands of light, or going to the hospital and letting conventional Doctors do tests, make a prognosis, and then go home with a packet of pills.
The type of healing I'm writing about here is profound, not superficial. It changes and raises our vibration at every level, and moves us from a bad situation into the light of a better outcome.
The online Cambridge dictionary defines healing as:
- “the process of becoming well again, especially after a cut or other injury, or of making someone well again
- the process in which a bad situation or painful emotion ends or improves”
For me, healing is about a positive change in attitude or perspective, a means to raise our personal vibrations, divorcing us from negative or dysfunctional past experiences, so I lean more into the second part of the definition above.
I think of healing as being like the beautiful art of Kintsugi (Image credit: Canva).
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of healing a broken pot, vase, saucer, plate, jug or any other broken container or vessel. The person making the mend uses gold to stick back together all the broken pieces of the broken container/vessel, to return the container to its former state of wholeness, but without hiding the way it has been fixed and mended. The gold resin with which the cracks and breakages have been repaired hardens and enables the container/vessel to be used again (as with the tea-cup above) but with an enhanced beauty that was not visible before.
Where the breakages were, there are now golden lines, which enhances the overall appeal of the container or vessel. It demonstrates where it was broken, but instead of being thrown out, the owner has carefully and thoughtfully repaired it (healed it) so that it can be used once more and be once more a valued part of the family.
I use the analogy of Kintsugi as a way of showing how healing works with us, as human beings.
Simply, we take our dysfunctional childhood experience (the broken pieces of our container i.e. of ourselves), we search for experiences that help us to heal ourselves whether that is with counselling, psychotherapy, CBT, Shamanic Coaching, Reflexology, Reiki etc. This therapy or Coaching enables us to come to terms with what happened, and to heal (mend with gold) ourselves of the negative or dysfunctional aspects.
Like the tea-cup above, we may always carry our scars with us, but we may wish to share them as marks of our strength & fortitude, with our family and friends, or to inspire others in some positive way, leading through our example.
Or we may wish to forget the experiences. As lessons learned, they will soon fade out of our energy fields.
So wear your healed scars as a mark of your triumph. A mark of your ability to move forwards.
Your ability to heal the past is important so that you can become the great leader that your family, your friends, your colleagues, & our Society require us/you to become.
No matter how broken you have been or feel you have been, you can always repair yourself, repair your container – IF you want to. Sometimes it is too much effort and we have too many other priorities. Just don't think that those patterns & lessons will go away. They will lie dormant until your next lifetime, and then present themselves in such a way that you will have to take notice of them - though this may take several lifetimes to accomplish.
When we see ourselves as containers, containing our Divine blueprint, our karma, our Dharma, our way of experiencing the world around us and how we interact with that world, all our past experiences from this life, previous lives and our ancestral patterns handed down the generations, we can then know that we are containers holding ALL our past experiences in one place. We may feel scattered to the four winds, to the four corners of the earth, but we all have the ability to seek healing, to transform our rotten experiences, to find inner peace in our time.
For many of us, we need to heal, to transform how we were raised into something ‘better’ and different so that the next generation does not have to heal our wounds as well as their own.
Let me help you to wear your scars with pride! Show the world who you were and more importantly who you have become.
Now is the time to look for ways of transforming the past, to grow like never before, to heal at all levels and to raise your personal vibration to its highest level for the best possible life for you to come.
So take the time. Do the work (there's no quick fix). Look deeply within. Find those scars from the past. Heal them so that you mine the gold that they contain. Grow! Thrive! Live well. Become more beautiful inside than you have ever been before, so that your Light shines out from your scars, golden, shining examples of your courage. Leading the way into wholeness.
To quote Diana Cooper, "We live in incredible times. Never before in the history of humankind has there been such an opportunity for spiritual growth". Now is the time to seek healing. Heal and be free!