“Healing is transformation.”
Himayat Inayati (Sufi Healing Order)
It is this elusive component that makes all healing sacred healing. More is happening at the different levels of healing – physical, emotional, and spiritual – than we can know or imagine.
- Sometimes we can help with this process of healing, and other times we need to just allow it to follow its own course.
- One paradoxical aspect of healing is that someone can be healed during their illness and yet still die.
- Inner healing, spiritual healing, is not the same as remission of physical or emotional symptoms or cure.
Healing is related to our capacity to experience and embrace life as it is.
- Often this means accepting the unacceptable, making peace with disintegration, and loving whatever we face.
- These are the signs of healing. They illustrate how healing transforms our relationship to life.
- Healing then, is part of our life’s path, and as Stephen Levine, a Buddhist teacher who works with the dying, says, healing is what we were born for.
- What did we come into this world to heal, and what do we need, within ourselves, to be healed?
- What can we give and what can we receive?
- The amazing thing is that sometimes the healing we need can only come from the experience of giving to others.
- Doing volunteer work, being a hospice volunteer or a Big Brother
“Where matter and energy are interchangeable, true healing begins.”
Deepak Chopra
Re-source: Retreat
a quiet or secluded place in which one can rest and relax
Golden Light Retreat – Many subtle energy systems, which heal through the laying on of hands use the visualization of filling up your physical body with light to enhance healing.
- Envision golden sparks of light.
- Similar to those god-colored handheld Fourth of July sparklers.
- Enter your retreat. Then for the next fifteen minutes, imagine you can breathe in golden light, let the light permeate through your body into the space around you, like the glow of a candle.
- Continue this process of filling up and glowing with golden light for the full fifteen minutes.
Healing eyes Retreat – Wilhelm Reich (founder of body-oriented Reichian therapy), claimed that one of the most important ways we block the flow of subtle energy through our bodies is with your eyes. His goal was for our energy to be able to flow freely and unrestricted throughout our bodies.
- Simply rub the palms of your hands together in a vigorous fashion to generate energy and heat.
- Then quickly place your hands over each eye socket so that your eyes are at the centers of your palms.
- Let your eyes relax in this warm darkness for the full minute.
- You can experiment with keeping eyes open or closed.
Healing Waters – Soak in a tub of warm water.
- Since we are all wounded one way or another, imagine that whatever needs healing in you at this very moment can be soothed and cleansed by the healing waters.
- Give yourself up to the waters.
Chakra – Sanskrit for “wheel of light”
- For healing as well as spiritual development, we want our energy to flow freely upward through our chakras.
- In this retreat we use breathing and imagery to encourage this energy flow.
- Consciously direct your breathing to each of the seven chakras, spending two minutes at each energy center.
craving and resource from “20 Minute Retreats” by Rachel Harris
