What is Healing?
‘Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.’-
What is Healing?
The healing journey is the journey back to who we truly are at the very core of our being. It is the re-discovery of our authenticity, once it is no longer veiled by the limitations and wounds of our past.
As children, we are born connected to our soul, our essence, our core. As we grow older, we are faced with the projections of limiting beliefs and negative programming of our wounded parents, teachers and authority figures. On a subconscious level, we mistakenly buy into the limiting beliefs of worthlessness and powerlessness and carry these wounds into our lives. We hold on to them and develop personality masks to protect the pain of our past. Life takes a turn from expressing and living our true authentic self to defending our wounds in a quest to survive. We forget who we are and we disconnect from our core essence. This process can be described in the following steps:
- Unconscious Love: as a child, you are connected to your unique soul energy, your true Self. The highest expression of this energy is Love. It is reflected in the fearless, uninhibited and open-hearted nature of the child.
- Unconscious Fear: in early childhood, you begin to experience the limiting fear-based projections of your caretakers, which restrict the free expression of your true Self. Because a child absorbs all surrounding energies without a filter, the subconscious mind soaks up the limiting beliefs and carries them through into adulthood. Fear develops unconsciously because it is no longer safe to be your true Self.
- Conscious Fear: life brings experiences into your life that will reflect and activate your subconscious fears, wounds and limiting beliefs (through your emotional reactions) to help you become aware (conscious) of them. This is the point at which we begin to feel the discomfort of being disconnected from the love within ourselves as the accumulated baggage of our past separates us from our essence for love and fear cannot co-exist. Healing begins when we decide to reconnect and rediscover who we are, transforming fear into love.
- Conscious Love: as you begin peeling the subconscious layers of fear, sadness, shame, guilt and anger associated with the negative programming of the past, you begin to lift the veil and re-connect with your Core-the very essence you so freely expressed as a child. You become your Self again.
Healing is the path we undertake from step 3 to step 4. As we heal, we remember ourselves. As you let go of old belief systems and allow yourself to release the emotions attached to them, you start to open the space for your true Self to express itself. Healing is the journey of clearing space for love within ourselves.
