The process to healing

I have always had healing on my agenda. I have been aware especially how yoga, spiritual practices & meditation are great for us and that they can lead to healing. But over the past few weeks, I've started to question what healing is all about. It didn't wash for me anymore just to use the word when it might lack intention and meaning to me.

What brought me to start this little mini project was my new years intentions. I created a little ritual and meditated on what my theme was for this year, what I wanted to work towards and from there I decided on my intentions. What kept coming up was this. I felt a deep urge to give myself adequate time and space to heal this year. I was guided towards really sitting with this. Firstly, I'm totally down with intuitive practices and allowing everything just to flow as it is attended, but also part of me questions so much. I was thinking "so what is space for healing all about?", "what does healing really look and what does it feel like?" I wasn't willing to just write it down as an intention and just be done with it.

To be perfectly honest, it can be difficult to get "real" with yourself and dig deep. In fact it can be challenging, intense and difficult, BUT I felt like this was actually all part of it (the healing process, that is).

I felt as though in order to heal myself I had to get really clear about what it meant to me.

If you google the word healing, good old wikipedia has a nice little definition.

"Healing (literally means to make whole) is the process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased or damaged organism."

This definition was a like a lightbulb "a-haa!" moment...

All this healing malarkey was about BEING WHOLE, being one. Connected to oneness. Right...of course it bloody does. I was getting it all completely wrong. So so wrong up until now.

From my stand point previous to this, I felt healing was something almost external from myself and was something I needed to do to "fix" a given problem to make things better etc. When we think we need to fix or change something it comes from a place of lack. This is the danger and trap which I think we can all fall into. We think we need to heal or make ourselves better than we already are. When we look at ourselves as whole and complete beings, this can be the greatest gift you give yourself. You don't need to fix, change, transform anything, as right now as you read these very words, you are complete, whole and a badass human being.

I offer you some time now to sit with that.

Pause here.... take a few breaths and let this sink in.

YOU ARE COMPLETE AND WHOLE AND TOTALLY AWESOME

May this bring you some insight, self-assurance and empowerment. May your 2018 and the years to follow be abundant with healing power

Namaste x