Wed, 21 November 2007  Do You Have The Power To Heal? Welcome back! I’ve got an exciting topic for you this week so let me jump right in and ask “Do you have the power to heal?� I believe that healing presents itself in countless ways. It takes so many forms on so many levels that once you start looking for the experience of healing energy, you become attuned to the myriad ways we encounter that energy each day; a smile, a giggle, a greeting card, a hug, a phone call, or even a sanctuary that can contain you and hold you in its soothing embrace. My garden is just that way; calming me, connecting me to the world outside of my thoughts and holding a space conducive to my absolute wellness. I’m sure you have just such a place that’s equally healing to you. To heal is to make whole, sound or well. And I believe that we ALL have that capacity. So do you have the power to heal? I can answer that with an unqualified YES! But do you KNOW that you have the power to heal? My guess is that most of you don’t. If you were raised in the midst of westernized medicine, you were taught to put your faith in doctors, pills and science. And even those of you who receive alternative therapies, you’re often reminded that there’s someone other than you who holds the ability and wisdom to facilitate your healing. You’re forever told to let others play God in your life when it comes to your health. You’re taught to trust the hero or the authority and not yourself. My own beliefs about the nature of healing were dramatically impacted by my two-year herbal apprenticeship following the Wise Woman tradition. I grew and tended and harvested green allies. I learned about the energetics of plant medicines and how the power of the natural world is available in abundance to serve our needs if only we know how to benefit from them. Most importantly, I learned how to listen to my body and to respond to its call. That’s an exquisetly intimate process of deepening my listening skills on a visceral level. In other words, I had to be able to discern what was happening physically by using all of my sensory powers to collect information. That skill is one I continue to hone as I help others listen to themselves in the deepest possible way. It was during my apprenticeship that I came to understand that the foundation of all healing modalities is UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. As the group of us discussed the affect and meaning of that term, I found myself really questioning whether or not unconditional love was possible. By virtue of my asking that question, it was clear that I’d never experienced it for myself. As a result, I didn’t have that to offer to others in my healing practice. I said, “I don’t get it. There are people in the world who do unspeakable things, evil things to children and animals. They cause suffering and unbelievable harm. How am I supposed to extend unconditional love to people like that?� My mentor told me “You don’t understand. It’s not about them, it’s about YOU!� Oh my God. I got it! Only when I could love myself beyond reason and outside of my ideas of perfection could I access my own power to heal. It made perfect sense. I had to heal myself and, in doing so, I would cultivate my own ability to foster that in others. That’s it. That what this podcast and the passionate work of my life is all about. That’s why I stay up late until it’s done because I am a healer and SO ARE YOU! We all posess the ability to heal ourselves; to become whole again and again through the intentional use of our consciousness by excercising the power of love. Your willingness to do that is a life-giving act. Your willingness to be physically, emotionally, and spiritually well sets the stage for healing. When you occupy your healthier, higher self you’re a living example to the hundreds or thousands of people you encounter each day. Your healed and healing self creates a terrifically nourishing environment for the billions of people who only need to be shown how to do it for themselves. It’s not about what you say, but about who you ARE. By allowing unconditional love for yourself, you permit that in others. It’s not about fixing someone else, but about fostering the conditions for them to harness their OWN ability to love and thereby heal. That is my chosen path. And my true vocation is not to use plants as a means to make others sound but to use words. Words have an immeasurable ability to cause harm but they also have a vast capacity to heal. Words are timeless, borderless, and their force is universal. And what I’ve decided to heal with words is the epidemic of scarcity consciousness; the pervasive belief that you don’t have enough, will never get enough or will ever be enough. I choose to approach my form of healing consisentently and deliberately. I choose to heal myself, by speaking the loving language of abundance to me and to invite you to listen in on my private process. I know that I’m first obligated to practice what it means to be “enough� if I’m to guide others like you to that same deep knowing. You see, the more often you know it, the more it becomes what’s real. The knowing begins to take place on a cellular level. And when you embody that knowing, it becomes wisdom. That wisdom informs every thought, every choice and action. It changes the world starting with you, beginning with me. So you see I love you as you are because I love me as I am. I love you in your perfect humanness because I love the humanness in me. I love that you want to do it all and I know that you’re only one person. I know you have limits and challenges and pain. I know you cry and hurt and long for someone to see you radiant and beautiful as you are. I know it in my own soul and I know we’re all connected. This is the unconditional love from which the entire planet will be restored because each of us is made whole by love’s healing power. Love is the only reason for which we are alive and the only reason to live.
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