I would argue that we all must claim our roles as healers. Yes, any of us who do it well do it as “healing facilitators.” We do not “fix” someone else. We just serve to hold up the mirror so another PInkie can find the magic within them to heal themselves. But that, by definition, makes us healers. We don’t fix others, we empower them. Own it, girlfriend. YOU are a healer.

The way I see it, the wound within me sees the healer within you. The healer within you sees the wound within me. And in this place, we connect. This is where true healing happens.

Why do they not teach us this in med school? It PISSES me off.

We hold so much power within us.
Love to you,
Lissa

http://thesoulawakener.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/i_can_sir/

Anges the Soul Awakener

As a healer (the term is not even appropriate – I should say a healing facilitator) I know one thing: we are the only ones who can heal ourselves. Others can give us the tool but the healing power is in us. Nowhere else. And it happens when we connect to our souls <3

Antoinette

Hearing Erin’s story in the comments reminds me of many that I have helped with conditions like ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s, IBS, and for many of these people, when the underlying emotional traumas are finally released (sometimes from childhood!) the conditions seem to just disappear, as if by magic. But it is so important to understand that it isn’t magical at all. It is how our mind/body complex works, and WE ARE ALL WORKING PERFECTLY… we just may have gotten into a situation where the input to our body/mind is not really appropriate for us any more, and so the body responds.

But you also bring up a much larger issue which I talk about with many of my friends in the healing professions… which is that “health” is not always what is right or needed for a person, and if that is the case, you can do whatever you want with them and they will not get “healthy” but they may get WELL. We in the healing fields must begin to consider a much bigger picture of the individual — what are we here to do? why are we who we are? we need to consider our karma or our spiritual purpose as well as just the connection of thoughts and physiology. As the amazing story of your Dad demonstrates, not only can we sometimes heal what cannot be cured, sometimes we can also cure what cannot be healed, by simply being true to ourselves instead of external expectations or the desires of others. He got what he needed out of his life experience — he go to be present for a most precious moment in his family, and then it was perfectly ok with him to go. Not only had he healed his symptoms, he “cured” for himself the idea of this physical affliction ruining things for him or taking him from the experience of his grandchild’s birth. Death is not an illness. It is a natural part of life. Just as even illness can sometimes be our cure. Often people will become sick because at a deeper psychological or emotional level they NEED some rest or attention or quiet time, and that need is greater than the need for physical health.

I want to encourage your readers to consider health on a more big-picture scale, and realize that if we are in balance in our minds and hearts and energies, then we can be healthy or healed even if our bodies are damaged, and the body is often almost a metaphor for what we are experience in our total being. So if something is not working so well in the body… what does that part of the body represent? (i.e. SPINE represents support, Feet=grounding, COLON=release vs. holding on, SKIN=boundaries etc.)

We are what we perceive ourselves to be. This doesn’t mean that the body isn’t real, or that you can think yourself out of any illness, but rather that the mind is always a good place to start with any challenge we are facing. When you have control of your thoughts, you can access the full potential of your body. And I believe that our true nature is LOVE, and so if our thoughts and actions and words are in resonance with love, we are aware and clear and truly expressing ourselves, but if our thoughts or words or actions are not in resonance with love, we have fallen asleep at the wheel. This applies with illness as well as other areas of life. If I can be loving with myself and my body even when my body is in pain or discomfort or danger, then I am truly awake!