What is Healing?

What does it mean to be healed?

In her book 'Why People Don't Heal and How They Can' Caroline Myss PH.D states "Even after healing, we have to keep working on our healing. Healing is not a process that has an ending."

What do you think she means by this?

What does healing mean to you?

To me healing is feeling at peace, I feel at peace if I am unaware of any "negative" aspects of life like illness, pain, upset, anger or fear. I don't feel healed or at peace if my body has pain, my mind is overactive, I'm worried, stressed, frustrated or sad....
my life of ease becomes a life of dis-ease.

Does this mean that to be fully healed would be to have peace at all times?  Is this possible? Would we even want this?

I don't think I would because I feel there are reasons why our peace, or wellness, is disrupted. On a physical level we may get a headache to tell us we are dehydrated and remind us to drink some water, on an emotional level we may feel so angry or frustrated about something that we're moved to create changes that could improve our life or someone elses, and on a mental level our mind may be racing and over-thinking to keep our thoughts and focus on an issue that needs to be understood and resolved.

Situations like these disrupt our peace and cause dis-ease for good reason but if we do not act to resolve those situations and return ourselves to a a life of ease then we struggle i.e. the headache may become a migraine, the anger becomes a tightening of the muscles leading to joint or back pain, the over-thinking may stop us from sleeping and lack of sleep leads to a whole lot of physical, mental and emotional problems. Like Caroline states "even after healing, we have to keep working on our healing" as situations will continually arise that require this.

So healing does not mean never again being ill or being completely cured of all dis-ease it means having the understanding that dis-ease is not a bad thing, it's really an alarm to get us to look at what's underneath our symptoms and to work on that. Once we have this awareness disruptions to our peace can be seen as opportunities to learn, grow and create change and having this awareness helps us heal and move on - as we work on our healing we are healed.

What areas of your life require healing?

How are you creating that healing?
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