Holistic Healing

To heal means to become whole.
To re-connect one's self.
As we grow, we learn to fragment ourselves, and this causes us to sometimes be at odds with ourselves.
So we may have our "head" [read "reason"] warring with our "heart" [read "feelings"].
Our promises to ourselves warring with our unhealthy habits.
Try to feel with the mind and think with your heart.

Who can heal you?
It can be a healer, a doctor, an experience...

How can healing begin?
When you seek out a healer. When you begin to make a choice to be healed.
Sometimes, it is taken out of our control when we have an accident. But even in this case, it is conditions within ourselves that have reached a breaking point that can cause accidents to occur.
Healing begins with a choice we make: conscious or unconscious.

Healers focus on the patient
as a person , not on the illness.

The next step is not always as much in our hands.
Some people in healing professions, who focus on the illness as a problem, and attack it may dispel the illness but with it, also peace of mind. Testing procedures, visits to the clinic or hospital, the medication prescribed: all become sources of stress.
One dis-ease is replaced by another.
The healing professional needs to focus on empowering the healee.

When we visit a healer-- whether the kind of healing
used is allopathic, homeopathic, or any of the other 'alternative' forms of energy or other healing --we feel calm in the presence of the healer. Even if the illness is diagnosed as something that is serious, we come away with a feeling that the healing has begun. If we are involved in our healing, if the healing professional listens to us, asks questions, seems to understand and respect us, we feel empowered even if we are otherwise incapacitated.
The healer and healee form a circle of healing

Points to Ponder

• Does illness serve a purpose?
• Is 'alternative medicine' viable? That is, can it replace modern medicine?
• For much of the world, "alternative" methods of healing are the ancient, established ones, that have stood the test of time!

Meenakshi,

I can't tell you how much your thoughts and observations seem to be so "on the mark", and mean so much to me.

I thought about what you just wrote, and I love it. Because we all come from the same source; we are all one. The call to be 'connected"...instead of" healed'. I think this thought will change my approach to others , and to myself, hopefully for a long time.

In Reiki, I was always taught that we do not do the healing, we are just the instrument for the energy. But always there was the thought of unwell vs. well. Thinking now, that I am the instrument to aid in the 'connection', is such a wonderful way of thinking, and will help me to stay above the worlds of duality.

Thank you so much for your insight, and for your loving light.

May the Blessings Be,
Debby

[This is not holistic!]  Examples from healing where the illness and patient and even parts of the body were seen as separate from the whole. Discomfort, distress, and tragedy result from seeing the patient as a "problem" rather than a "person with a problem".

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