What is healing (and what it’s not)
At some time in your life (or many times), you are likely to seek or have sought healing for a physical or non-physical injury or ailment. And as you’re visiting my website this very moment, seeking healing is probably a major priority for you.
So let me ask you this…
What comes to your mind when you hear the word healing? What does healing mean to you? What are you looking for when you seek healing?
As with many words in the English language, we give them different and multiple meanings so that not even different dictionaries define healing in exactly the same way.
Dictionary definitions of healing
Here are some examples of the definition of heal from different dictionaries:
Dictionary.com defines it as to make healthy, whole or sound; restore to health; free from ailment, to mend, get well.
Merriam-Webster includes to make free from injury or disease, to cause (an undesirable condition) to be overcome, to restore to original purity or integrity.
The Cambridge dictionary includes: if a bad situation or painful emotion heals, it ends or improves, and if something heals it, it makes it end or improve.
In addition to having no one agreed meaning, there are many words treated as synonyms for healing such as repair, restore, fix, and cure that we use interchangeably, at least in our conscious or unconscious expectations.
What healing isn’t
Healing is not curing or fixing.
Sometimes people seek healing hoping for a cure, for problems or ailments to be removed or fixed. Sometimes this happens as part of the healing process and sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it isn’t possible to be restored to an original state, but what happens through healing is that we birth ourselves in new forms.
The origin of the word healing
If we come back to the origin of the word heal, which in Old English is hælan, in Old Norse is it heila, and in Old High German it is heilen, the original meaning is whole.
So to understand what it means to heal, we must consider what does it mean to become whole?
Here’s some Dictionary.com definitions of whole:
Comprising the full quantity, amount or extent
Containing all elements properly belonging; complete
Undivided; in one piece
Not broken, damaged or impaired, intact
Uninjured unharmed, sound.
My definition of healing
When you come to me for healing, here are some of the ways I am helping you into wholeness:
Soothing emotions and clearing emotional residue from the body and energetic system.
Clearing energies that aren’t yours that you have picked up from others or environments or you have carried through other lifetimes so that you can be unburdened, unblocked and rest as you.
Disentangling you from patterns and behaviours formed in this life in response to different experiences or have come through past lives or ancestors.
Processing trauma and trauma energies and to support the nervous system so that you can experience deeper levels of safety in your life.
Connecting and relating in new ways to yourself, loved ones, life and your life experiences.
Supporting clarity so you can see what lies outside your primary awareness that you can’t see from your current viewpoint. This can include:
a. connecting with and integrating gifts and qualities that have been marginalized or never known
b. supporting inner child parts who are hiding or very hurt
c. retrieving soul parts that have fled or hid
d. helping you gain clarity and find your direction and next steps.
e. empowerment by connecting with your personal and spiritual power
My own definition of healing is coming into a state of wholeness through soothing, clearing, disentangling, processing, safety-making, connecting, relating, clarifying, retrieving, unshaming, accepting and empowerment.
In my work, healing is about helping you feel safe so that you can be who you came here to be and do what you came here to do.
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