I know what healing means to me. But what does it mean to you?
It doesn’t have to be complicated. Healing is really just feeling better from whatever makes us feel not-so-great.
Physical ailments, emotional hits, mindset shifts, or even grief all fall into the category of things that you may want to heal from.
So here’s the thing, the only person that can determine what we need to heal is us, and it starts with identifying, for ourselves, what’s not feeling good to us.
From there, what can we do to support ourselves in a healing process? Will meditation help us heal? Will finding and using our voices help us heal? Will journalling or writing help us heal? Will learning about the stages of grief and giving ourselves the space and time to go there with no self-judgement help us heal? Yes to all those things, they are all supportive healing techniques and processes.
So is asking for help when we feel we need to. We can reach out to practitioners, holistic or traditional, for help in healing. Having a sounding board, or someone who works in the general field of where you think you need some healing, is often a super helpful way to get clearer, help yourself, and get some intervention if that’s what you feel you need.
When it comes to healing, what you do and how you do it is your call.
A friend of mine suggested the other day that the term healing makes us think there is something wrong with us, and perhaps she’s right. I love to consider other perspectives!
I like to think that healing isn’t fixing something that’s wrong with us, it’s acknowledging what isn’t working for us, for our bodies, for our minds, and for our souls. Then we can do what we feel called to, and move the block to our own self-alignment.
And here’s the best part. When we heal, we are moving past those blocks and that opens us up to things and experiences that we couldn’t reach before. I think my friend calls that progressing upward. 🙂
That’s healing to me, and it’s kicking your own ass.
Where do you want to progress upward into?
