Healing – Consciously

There is a lot of talk today around “Consciousness”

We embrace it in new practices such as “mindfulness” and “awareness”; in yoga and in books such as Eckhart Tolle’s Practicing the Power of Now and Ram Dass’ Be Here Now. It is a movement borne of the need to become conscious of the unconscious; to understand and work with the circuits and paths of the brain used in the automatic processing of parts of its environment and responses. We are efficiently coded so that we need to expend less and less time on those functions that have become mapped in our brains. As a result, we are not paying attention, we are on automatic pilot, so that we can use our conscious, controlled response mechanisms for those items we choose. This is all well and good as long as our automatic responses are healthy. When we have put things on automatic response that are not healthy to our well-being, we are suddenly and consciously confronted with dis-ease.

“The first wealth is health” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Actually, the word wealth is a derivative of Well and Healthy. That amorphous vision of perfection to which we all aspire. There are dissertations, essays, books, volumes and religions based on finding this “Paradise Lost”, yet it will not be found out there somewhere because it is the individual perfection of each person, plant and thing that is the goal of the infinite whole. And so for each one of us individually our life journey becomes one of healing. A path to perfection that goes through many roads and valleys as we welcome both sickness and health into our life experiences.

What is Healing?

Healing is not something others do to us. It is the inward intention on our part to move toward the highest, most perfect and whole state of health – finding our “wealth.” It is an almost ruthless intent – one that holds in it no mercy for the dis-eases we have incorporated in the fabric of our being. One that is ready, willing and eager to cut off our hand or pluck out our eye if we find it to be the place of discord and dis-ease in our lives. Not that we are called to such extreme measures to heal, but that we have the inward zeal to part from that which makes us ill. That we have a full vision of that which is whole for ourselves and that we will no longer make space in our lives where we tolerate that which is not part of the wholeness of our being. It is the opening wide of our arms, hearts and minds to receive whatever wholeness is into our lives, trusting that that which is health is better than that dis-ease to which we have clung and become accustomed.

In such a state we are all ready to heal;

to actively enable those resources we choose to use to work for our best outcome.

One of the dangers of modern medicine is that it has taught us to be passive in our relationship to our health and disease. It has taught us that we are not capable of dealing with disorder. We must go to someone else and use something external to fix, in an analogy, the engine of our lives, or patch up the hole in our tires so we can keep going. While modern medicine incorporates the life learning and dedication of many brave researchers and pioneers in their field, and is capable of producing modern miracles, we are not the passive recipients of such learning and knowledge. Every healing begins from within. It is a partnership of the soul with the universe in an intervention to remove the dis-ease that has manifested itself in physical form in our bodies and lives. Modern medicine is one wonderful tool available to us for use in healing that which is dis-eased.

Mental and emotional disorders are no different. By the time an imbalance manifests itself as behavioral problems we are in a crisis situation to restore wholeness to an imbalanced system. The medical community works diligently to research, understand and track these disorders and find ways to counter-act their effects to bring us some immediate relief, and perhaps complete restoration of the physical imbalance, but the process is not passive or one-sided. Our very first decision to go to the doctor states 1) our recognition that something is out of order in our lives and bodies and that 2) we are seeking relief. There are many who do not make these choices. There are many who curl up with their dis-eases and live with them until they die from them. A slow extinguishing of the light of the life of the soul. Even after we have consulted with medical or alternative healers, many do not make the changes needed to heal. We choose our health every day. Becoming conscious of these choices is key.

What can we do to aide conscious healing?

Whether working with the medical community on a major life-threatening or minor health situation, or alone at home with depression or the flu, we have the power to choose our health and the resources to support that choice.

In working through some recent times of sickness, I realized I am now using a healing process. I have shared it with you here.

The Inner Process of Healing Consciously:

Accept you are sick – we fight this and try to be well by not accepting being sick, or by being angry, despairing or afraid. This does not work as we are expending our energy on futility. Go ahead. Be sick. You cannot get well if you do not stop to look at your unwellness.

Be open to being well – trust and envision wellness; know that the universe wants you well and supports you in your wellness. Become ready to receive healing and be well. This is not always easy. Have a vision of your wellness. Create one. A whole soul.

Accept where you are really sick – in your soul, in your energy body, in your mind, in your heart. Do not be afraid. Look honestly and dispassionately at your life and your illness. Ask, assess. See – as if you were outside yourself looking in. What chakra area is holding dis-ease? Is it your head and higher connection? Your throat and expression? Is it your heart and chest, your lungs? Are you enmeshed in grief or loss, do you feel life has betrayed you? Where are you ill?

Have compassion for yourself – be enfolded by that same dispassionate compassion for your own plight. Forgive yourself for being human. We all are. We all must.

Release what is making you ill – give your ill parts – thinking and thoughts, feelings and fears, actions and reactions – up. Do whatever helps you in this. Write them down and burn them as an offering to love, hope and health, see yourself releasing them like a dandelion gone to seed with its puffs of fear dissipating on the breezes of heaven. Fall into the arms of softness and love. Draw, write, sing, drum. Get quiet and go inside. Go outside and get help and support. Whatever your chosen tool or tools, use them. Go to healers. Get loved. Learn new thoughts by choosing them. Find new being by practicing it.

Whether at home or with expert medical care,

Work with yourself, be an active participant in your own healing. You are the key. That engine that we talked about earlier doesn’t work, no matter how well repaired, until it fires and combusts. When the inner processes of life activate unimpaired and we express and share love and trust we are healed. Even if we never regain the use of our lives, even if the body rusts and decays, we can take a well-oiled, fully functioning engine (soul) with us into the next journey; one that will be filled with faith in the workings of a larger loving universe of true wealth, rich with many healings along the way!

How does Reiki help in Conscious Healing?

Try Reiki!

When you have set your intention to heal, your mind, body and spirit actively welcome the infusion of Reiki energy and love. (Energy follows intention!) Reiki will assist and support all your healing intentions and efforts, as well as facilitating any type of treatment you are undergoing.

I have a good friend who recently supplied me with a list of chakra wounds that I am sharing with you here. They are a wonderful healing tool. A big thanks and shout to Judy Giovangelo.