What Healing Actually Is
Healing happens on different levels — and it does not always look the way we expect. Sometimes we must be open to the gifts that life is ready to give us, even when they arrive in unfamiliar forms. A physical difficulty, for instance, may linger for a while — not to frustrate us, but to teach us something we have not yet been willing to hear.
Sometimes a health challenge is a doorway to a deeper kind of healing. A call from within for attention to a part of us that has been unloved, or that feels separated from the whole.
Healing works on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels simultaneously. None of these can be separated from the others. Touch one, and all are touched.
The word healing comes from the Middle English helen and the Old English hǣlan — meaning, simply, to make whole. Healing is the process of becoming whole and complete in every way. It is not the same as returning to what one was before something went wrong.
Wholeness Is Not the Same as Normal
Wholeness does not necessarily mean returning to a previous state. Even the word recovery is, in some ways, problematic — because who truly wants to go backwards? Healing is about arriving at a place where one lives in full agreement with the world as it is, not as one wishes it to be. It is also about accepting and fully being who you are — with whatever limitations, scars, or changes you carry.
Healing is not the erasure of what happened. It is the integration of it — so that what happened no longer has the power to limit who you are becoming.
When Does Healing Happen?
Whenever we touch or interact with another person with an attitude of genuine love, it is an act of healing. Literally. Love, in this sense, is the return to the frequency of wholeness. It nullifies negative thought patterns and replaces them with higher frequencies — moving us, gradually and naturally, back toward completeness.
Being in the presence of a person who carries a powerful intention for your wellbeing — who holds a clear, loving intention that you return to your wholeness — will have remarkable effects on your experience of yourself. This is not mystical. It is energetic. And it is, at its heart, what healing work is.
The healing you seek is already moving toward you. Your willingness to receive it is the only thing asked of you.