I was told recently by a dear friend I admire that she sees me as a healer. She said that “Everything you do is healing. Art, The Reconnection, your interests, the way you speak. Everything.”. I was rather startled, stunned and yes, pleased. That is a lovely thing to hear about yourself. Yet I have a problem with being called a healer. I believe if I accept that label, my ego will get involved. I also firmly believe that all of us are healers and many have not awakened that facet of themselves. Some of us may be capable of allowing healing to occur in others and ourselves.
We too can transform!
What I am becoming more and more aware of when I think of it, is that I am merely a conduit or an activator or an facilitator for another’s healing. It is not me doing the healing. I really don’t want that status. It’s not coming through me. All healing comes from Source/God/Love. I think of myself as the party coordinator so to speak of the other’s person to their own healing.
Energy healing falls under the heading of alternative medicine. Besides physical healing, energy healing can also result in mental, emotional and spiritual healing. You are not limited to one type of healing either with energy healing. In Reconnective Healing, you can receive a healing in one or all four. The Reconnection process can also result in healings too but it is really here to put you on the fast track for your own spiritual growth.
For other people working with energy healing, how many times have you worked with someone and they don’t receive a healing? Maybe they aren’t ready to be healed. Yet if we believe that we are the healer, then it brings up all those issues of failing. True healing occurs when the person receiving the energies is open and ready to receive the healing. As a practitioner, we cannot force another to receive a healing. So if they don’t get a healing, have we failed? No. It’s not up to us to receive the healing, it’s up to the client, actually to their higher self and Source. A person may consciously want a healing and it may or may not occur. The higher self or soul does not agree with the conscious self.
As Love Grows by Julieanne Case
I am now comfortable with saying I a healing practitioner and I love facilitating another’s healing. The healing really occurs between the person needing the healing and what I call Source/God/Buddha/Allah, substitute what is comfortable for you. I’m the facilitator and I love that part. I love playing with the energies. Yes, I certainly love seeing people receiving a healing – it’s a big payoff for me. It’s gratification that I was able to serve another. Yet I always remind myself that I’m not the one who did the healing. I just got to be a spiritual matchmaker of sorts, if you will. I know that even when it’s not apparent, they got some form of healing and the results will appear at another time. Acceptance is an important key to all of this.
So what is your take on the term healer? Does healing come from the beings we are or from outside of us?
Thanks for this. I really needed to see the part where it’s not my failing if the healing doesn’t occur. Had a recent bout with this feeling of failing in this arena. …and of course, that’s mind and ego. I’m not in charge of that…
I was just getting ready to shut down when I saw this. I’m so pleased that it helped you. I was even surprised that anyone knew I had posted it! We all do that, Rowena. We forget though that it is not our doing Our culture is one of we do it all. I know that a couple of my clients who felt they didn’t get a healing felt that I didn’t live up to my end. It took everything in my training and talking to another practitioner to remind myself that I didn’t have control over that part of the bargain. But our society expects that from everyone including energy healers and doctors. Funny, they will go to a doctor for years and never heal and they will give a healing practitioner one shot at it! It takes education to get them to understand that they are part of the equation. And I know that everyone of my clients got a healing. It just hasn’t come forward yet. Or they may have gotten a healing they may never know about. It’s pretty incredible. May your dreams be free and easy and make you smile all night long! Thank you for your post. It means a lot to me!
I was just getting ready to shut down when I saw this. I’m so pleased that it helped you. I was even surprised that anyone knew I had posted it! We all do that, Rowena. We forget though that it is not our doing Our culture is one of we do it all. I know that a couple of my clients who felt they didn’t get a healing felt that I didn’t live up to my end. It took everything in my training and talking to another practitioner to remind myself that I didn’t have control over that part of the bargain. But our society expects that from everyone including energy healers and doctors. Funny, they will go to a doctor for years and never heal and they will give a healing practitioner one shot at it! It takes education to get them to understand that they are part of the equation. And I know that everyone of my clients got a healing. It just hasn’t come forward yet. Or they may have gotten a healing they may never know about. It’s pretty incredible. May your dreams be free and easy and make you smile all night long! Thank you for your post. It means a lot to me!
I was just getting ready to shut down when I saw this. I’m so pleased that it helped you. I was even surprised that anyone knew I had posted it! We all do that, Rowena. We forget though that it is not our doing Our culture is one of we do it all. I know that a couple of my clients who felt they didn’t get a healing felt that I didn’t live up to my end. It took everything in my training and talking to another practitioner to remind myself that I didn’t have control over that part of the bargain. But our society expects that from everyone including energy healers and doctors. Funny, they will go to a doctor for years and never heal and they will give a healing practitioner one shot at it! It takes education to get them to understand that they are part of the equation. And I know that everyone of my clients got a healing. It just hasn’t come forward yet. Or they may have gotten a healing they may never know about. It’s pretty incredible. May your dreams be free and easy and make you smile all night long! Thank you for your post. It means a lot to me!
I really like the idea of matchmaker! I don’t do energy work, but I have received it, and I know that my response has so much to do with where I am in my process. I’ve worked as a professional in counseling and speech-language pathology, and no matter what the approach or the nature of the concern, this reality that you are talking about remains: people respond depending on where they are in their development, what they are ready for, and how they can open up to what you offer. Sometimes there is a great match; sometimes less so. Sometimes the time is ideal; sometimes you are present for the very beginning of a germination.
Our egos do not get tired of trying to take things over!
Judy Stone-Goldman
The Reflective Writer
http://www.thereflectivewriter.com/blog/
“Word maven loves–and learns from–ordinary life.”
I love that you get it. So many people don’t realize they are a big part of the equation in their own healing. Our lovely egos! Yes, they want to take over everything. I always remind myself before, during and after a session, that I am just the party planner, the conductor. And what happens is between source and the client. Some sessions are easier than others to do that. The one thing I know is that the less attached I am to the outcome, the better the session is for everyone. That’s a great incentive!
I love the concept of “matchmaker.” I am one who has difficulty opening up to healing, although I’m working on it. I agree that you can only facilitate and it is the other’s place to allow healing to occur.
Funny, when the matchmaker idea came to me, I thought “Oh, boy, I wonder how this is going to be received?” But I went with it anyway! It felt right. I’m so tickled that it is being received well and understood.
Opening up to healing is really just trusting that the Higher Power/ Source/God has your back and will do what’s right for you. It’s letting go and trusting. And it may be that nothing is to be done at that moment. Trust that too. We all want to control our lives and what happens to us because we somehow think we know what’s best for us. We don’t have the big picture. I’ll argue with the Universe for days until at some point I’ll say “Maybe this is supposed to happen. Let go and watch it.” Be the observer in your life especially when it gets tough. Not always easy to do but it is doable. Thanks for sharing!
Well done Julieanne- I agree with the healing as I’ve been self-healing for 4+years myself initially with the help of “healer” who taught me how to help myself. I think that people want to label others because then they can blame when the healing does not happen instead of taking responsibility to help heal themselves in whatever form that is, self-love, worthiness, or letting go. I admire you because I see myself in you..we both are growing into who we are really meant to be, but seem to struggle with letting go of who we had been..at least for me and what I have observed, so can’t say for sure if that is true for you. It’s what I’ve felt in some of the meetings we been to together. You are a special person.
Thank you, Wendee. I appreciate your comments and I’m touched. Many of us have not been taught self responsibility. It’s easier to think it’s something else’s fault. It just takes time to let go of the old pattern and shift into the new. We’ll get there. I sometimes deal with others wanting me to be what I was and then I have to look at that and say “Did they say that or is that coming from within me?” The journey … to be continued! LOL! See at the next function!
Healing from the inside out…you, Julieanne, are the guide. When I think of the word ‘healer’, an image of the medicine man comes into view with his hand raised high shaking away the evil spirits. The injured, believing in the powers of the medicine man, becomes well again–raising both his body and the medicine man’s stature among his tribe. Mind over matter. But if it weren’t for the suggestions implanted into the injured’s mind, he probably would not have survived. He needed to be guided back to health. I believe that most of us are guides, professionally (life coaches, insurance agents, doctors, etc) or personally (parents, siblings, friends, etc). As we offer our own knowledge, our recipient chooses to take it, believe in it, prosper by it….or not.
Funny, I never see the medicine man. I see a priestess from the Greek times wearing long white robes who assisted others to heal. I think we have a big responsibility to ourselves to choose wisely when it comes to healing modalities. I can’t imagine a doctor ever telling me to look at the mental, emotional or spiritual aspect of the illness. I sure wish they would though! Thank you for sharing.
Julieaane,
You have hit the nail on the head!! Thank you for voicing what is so hard to explain at times. 😉
Claire Staffa
Reiki Practitioner
http://www.thembsc.com