 I am often asked to describe or qualify what healing is. I can share my understanding as a result of my own life and experience and that is all any one person can give, but my answer is often in the form of a question - what does healing mean to YOU?
This is the most important point to remember: you define your own healing. Of course this may be influenced by many things - books, opinions, therapy, others’ experience etc - all can be supportive, but ultimately what has healed others may be far removed from your own needs. You are so individual; no one in the world thinks like you do; you are the only one with your answer.
Every step along the way brings us closer to personal understanding. Healing is constantly on the move. Life comes one day at a time. Take your healing at the same pace, gently, with patience and trust in the process.
Health is maintaining the delicate balance between two polarities. Everything has an opposite, good/bad, up/down, in/out, light/dark, negative/positive, and healing is where there is no opposition or resistance, just harmony in existence.
Healing happens when you are able to move out of the situation where your inner being was compromised by someone or something, your equilibrium was challenged and the result was an imbalance or dis-connection from your truth.
To make any progress you must first assess, with honesty, where you are. If you wish things were different, change them. Start with small changes: from small acorns mighty oaks are grown. Conscious change is empowering, far better than responding to an imposed change.
You can change nothing if you approach with the same awareness that got you there in the first place. Something has to change. Your choice. You can choose where to start, how far to go, and when you’ve had enough! For the time being anyway.
It's all just an ongoing process. There is never a right or wrong decision. The result of any choice will always bring you to a place that reveals an experience of pain or pleasure to some degree. The energy of either will be the motivation to take the next step. If it hurts too much, this will allow you time to rest, to gather strength for life’s next instalment. Keep moving. It takes courage to move forward, and courage to stay where you are. That’s why we have choice.
For me, healing is a partnership, a marriage within one’s own being. Taking time to listen, hear, and respond to the needs of my own life-force, taking the responsibility to provide that very essence for myself.
Accepting me, not expecting me.
Accepting others, not expecting others.
Healing is the gift we give ourselves in accepting.
Take a look in the mirror; are you truly best friends with the person you see there? The healing process is often difficult, lonely, and bewildering. Take hold of the hand of that friend you see reflected in the mirror; in all the world they are the one who knows you the best, understands your ways and thoughts, and is your dearest companion on this healing journey. They will bring you to the greatest gift of all - yourself - beautiful as you are. How the world will rejoice and benefit as you step out, ready now to share an inner sense of innocence with others.
This is no secret, but the law of self-attraction, and self-love, the reward you receive as you remember this friend. They never left you, you just ‘stepped out’ for a while.
At a point in my life where I had forgotten this, I wrote a poem to remind myself. It helped me then, and still does. I offer it to you in your quest for healing.
The Ladder of Healing
When your energy’s low, let TRUTH be the guide,
To open within you the blocks held inside.
Emotions will surface as you face the day,
Revealing the secrets kept hidden away.
Accept and acknowledge, surrender and know
That what lies within you will pass - bringing peace
As the memory lets go.
Acceptance brings freedom to breathe, and to find
That new thoughts surround you, new dreams fill your mind.
Forgiveness is everything, starting anew,
Not only for others but your own self too.
Hope born from courage, your energies rise
To see new horizons in another disguise.
Maybe - just FAITH will dispel all the fear,
Bring LOVE to your soul, now all becomes clear.
Joy as your heart blossoms again.
May the peace found within you truly remain.
LOVE – the energetic vibration of life – is the only way.
Mary
To make a donation toward Mary's forthcoming voluntary healing trip, please make cheques payable to ‘Healing Hands Network' and post to Cygnus Bookshop, 2 Market Place, Lampeter, Ceredigion, SA48 7DS.
Mary Wainwright LCPHom
A Registered Homeopath, Reiki and Seichem Master and Teacher, Mary offers Reiki and Seichem treatments or homeopathy and flower essence treatments at our shop in Lampeter. She also visits the Cygnus offices regularly, sharing her wonderful healing skills for the benefit of all the Cygnus staff. She is dearly loved by us all, and we thank her with all our hearts for everything she does for us, and now for sharing her health and healing tips with you.
Mary has garnered several flower and tree essences: her collection is called Flowers of Freedom.
Text & photographs © Cygnus Books 24-May-2007
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