We’ve been misinformed, miseducated, misguided about many things–one of those things is healing.
My inner-alarm went off on this topic when I heard one of my sisters say, “I can’t wait til I’m healed.” The response from my mouth to her in that moment was simply, “keep healing hunny,” but the response I felt in my body, from my soul was so full, so much more. I heard, “there is no such thing.” Maybe that sounds a little dark to you, but it came through like bright light to make "healing" very clear for me, and I offer this message in hopes of sharing clarity with others, with my sister especially.
Healing is an ongoing process towards the state of wholeness. That said, we are always whole, so a more accurate description is an ongoing process toward consciousness of One’s wholeness. Generally, when we are looking for or reaching for healing in our mind, body, and spirit–we are seeking to recapture a sense of all well-being, peace, serenity, completeness (enough-ness). This sense is our wholeness, our healing, our healed state. However, as humans, living life, we all see that life be life’n–in this we recognize that there is always something. All ways of something that shows up to agitate our sense of all well-being, peace, serenity, completeness. These things are not always great and grave, right. There are always little things, like:
in our body being hungry, not knowing what we will eat,
in our minds being afraid that someone may steal from us if we leave our door unlocked,
in our spirit when we’re feeling lost, confused and powerless.
We are always healing something
healing is not a destination, healing is an ongoing process, a continuous journey.
Ever a student, on my own healing journey, once when I was in study, my teacher offered this acronym for what it means to heal:
I want to say that this lesson accelerated my healing, but since there is no end for me to get to, I will say that this really amplified my healing. This amplified my sense of all well-being, peace, serenity and completeness. It taught me how to recognize my wholeness, despite my past, in my present and for my future.
In the command to hold everything as love, I enter a state of acceptance, forgiveness, and surrender. Some things have proven more challenging to hold as love than others, my experiences with childhood sexual abuse, for example; my ex-wife stealing all my belongings, as another. But as long as I held the intention to hold everything, including those things as love, in my commitment to call it so, then, so it was and so it is.
I learned that to H.E.A.L. I have to stop nitpicking any of the things, the people involved, the conditions and circumstances that created them, or even how I reacted from an “un-healed” consciousness. To H.E.A.L. I don’t have to love any of it/them, I simply have to love mySelf in the here-now. I hold everything about ME as love, I hold who I became having experienced it all as love, I hold who I am becoming having experienced it all as love. I hold everything as love, when I hold Me as love. In that, I haven’t had any new traumatic experiences as of late, and I say that’s cause I hold all the little things, the little irritations and aggravations as love. I trust that in exercising this muscle, I will be able to anchor myself in my wholeness the next time something major comes my way, and I won't be rocked by the storm.
So, to my sister, to you, to us all, keep healing hunny. There is no rush to finish, because there is no end, only the continuous process. Hold everything as love, Love will secure your sense of all well-being, peace, serenity, completeness.
We are human, as long as we are living, we are healing. Wishing you much peace, love, joy, freedom and prosperity on your path of our journey.
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