Principles of Healing: A Discussion

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I have a question.

Can you heal others when you yourself are not fully healed? Is your capacity to heal only as great as the extent to which you are personally healed? If the intent to heal is pure, does it matter what state you are in?

This is a great question.

My opinion is that trying to heal someone without being healed one's self, derives from a desire to heal. This desire is in place because healing is needed for self, and so empathy is highlighted for others as well. 

In my opinion, the greatest healers would be those who have no desire to heal. They are healed. And their healed energy translates itself to others. It's not that they don't have empathy or compassion—what I mean is that they have no desire to fix anything. They simply exist as healed entities who by their energetic examples, lift the whole, or by their nature translate a healing state to those who recognize it and are attracted to it.

Being of service to others can be difficult when coupled with free will. Here is a simplistic example. A friend has cancer. The friend wants to live (in his/her conscious state). But the friend's chosen life path is to balance some karma by suffering through cancer. That path may end with healing or not, depending on how things unfold. So here is my point—the desire to heal the friend may be in conflict with the friend's soul journey. So in my opinion, compassion and unconditional support are best—not trying to heal the friend. And by being around the friend unconditionally, the health you have will be an energhetic field that the friend can access, and in that way you have provided all that is needed. This is my working theory anyway.

Yes, this comes back to the idea of a 'natural' state which you so often see. I think that 'health' and thus wholeness is actually the natural state and sometimes part of the difficulty in getting in to a healthy state is convincing ourselves we ARE whole. Not just that we CAN, but that we ARE, right now. This is, however, more difficult with physical issues. I have had physical difficulties for quite some time now and I do also believe that sometimes or maybe often we induce our own dis-ease through our own actions and choices, however removed from the actual cause. There have been many humbling lessons in injury and illness and a greater compassionate viewpoint has grown in some cases, while in others I have come to know the darker sides of emotion.

I do agree that thinking that you can heal anybody is probably shooting yourself in the foot. Instead, I think it is more practical to think in terms of how can you support their healing of themselves. This is more how it works I think. Sometimes it has to be mutual it seems. Mutuality might have more to do with it than we suspect. In a way, people might be drawn together as a natural function of the healing process.

I think healing can be viewed from two perspectives - microcosmic and macrocosmic. Microcosmic healing is that of our body, mind and souls in the incarnation and the manifestation. That is the ongoing balancing process of our complexes. Macrocosmic healing is the process of the Creator as it perceives and explores the density by division and gradually returning to a perspective of wholeness and completion. These two are tied together of course, with the microcosmic healing acting as the 'gears' of this sort of giant mechanism and the macrocosmic healing acting as the body and chassis. It is through the work of many lives 'brought to wholeness' and completion that the greater healing of the Creator returning unto itself is accomplished without needing to be accomplished.