Healing or Whole-ing?

No human endeavor is to be understood without an understanding of the human mind. Our survival depends less on exploring the stars than exploring ourselves. 

As a healer we are often engaging people in crisis. Their pain could be physical, emotional or a mental conflict such as a crisis of conflicting beliefs. We must in all gentleness understand that without this pain, our clients would have no use for us. Under our care they may grow in exciting and liberating ways, but their motivation is seldom growth itself or self knowledge. 

In the subtle realms of healing work - of soul and spirit -  people may be asked to revisit intense states of feeling that they hoped they would never have to face again. They would have to examine their life which has been constructed within a polarity of seeking pleasure without pain. Such a polarizing strategy usually ends in failure and becomes a life strategy trade of bland existence within a relative comfort zone. 

Even as the unsatisfactoriness of this strategy dawns on them and people turn toward seeking some form of liberation, the path they choose is predicated on the promise that it will not hurt. This consideration is usually dominant over and above the effectiveness of the path.  

But there is a lie here that must be addressed. The lie is that we are not strong enough to bear again the pain of memories past and challenge the decisions we made in their regard. The lie is that vulnerability will weaken us and perhaps even destroy us. 

The truth is that the past is the past even if it was yesterday. The truth is that our past is as the boogie man under the bead - there is no substance to the image apart from our own minds.  To look is to dissolve the fantasy. To look is to be free.  To look is to exit the mirage and become courageous and creative. 

To be a healer or a spiritual guide is be the courage for the seeker, to inspire and reassure. It is to guide the  seekers looking and hearing and feeling until old beliefs fall away and the world in view becomes creative play. 

In my view this is the supreme sport and universal play whose mastery gives excellence in every game of life. It makes every person a winner in a win win world as measured by the standard of unqualified happiness. This requires a shift in understanding ourselves as world leaders currently engaged in crisis management with our clients. 

Perhaps a bigger picture is in order. We are pathfinders of possibilities others can not as yet dream. We few have caught the vision in part but have yet to understand its ramifications. 

Religion, politics, legislation, and philosophy have failed, and science too seems currently under the reign of the profiteers. Our social justice and philanthropic work is a drop in the bucket of need. Thousands of years have passed and history imitates the words of Paul: "That which I would do I do not, and that which I would not, I do."

The time of the healer sages is a possibility now. They are an evolutionary voice and force, a witness for what it is to be human, wholly human, wholly alive, wholly in community with the whole of life. 

I for one seek not a profession of healers but raise my voice for a culture of healing. There is education to be done, much education, which which goes against much of what we have been taught. 

Some suggest that we teach meditation to our children. That is a start. I have suggested that we add a forth "r" to the curriculum ... Relationships. Yet in this time when healing models are so simple that even children can do them, I say let them, encourage them to be healers. The path of happiness and self esteem we already know lies in service. Let them be hero's all  We need not enforce this, only allow it. 

Does anyone have a better idea?

Let's say we want to build healing center. 

It is easier to make changes at the level of the architect than the level of the contractor. And it is easier to make changes at the level of the contractor than after the building is finished and you discover some materials are substandard. So too it is easier to make changes at the level of energy and consciousness than adjust manifest conditions. 

Saying NO does not mean ignore. The negative evokes its image like trying not to think of an Elephant. Once the Elephant is clearly recognized it can be consciously released or deleted New possibilities become available - new choices.  One has only to remove the tusks and add horns and it no longer an Elephant. Adding gratitude that you have the resources may change your relationship to bill paying. Change can be that simple. Being open to the possibility seems the harder part.