Healing. Heal what? Am I broken? I don’t have an illness..or a broken bone…so do I need to heal? Does this mean there’s something wrong with me? Thats not very positive or supportive to say. That’s not very accepting, or spiritual, or kind, or inclusive, or chill!
Healing means more than healing from the flu, healing from a broken heart, healing from a skinned knee. Healing means becoming more whole and we all can do this because we all are fragmented in some way. We are individuated consciousnesses that remember being part of the whole. We were once inside our mother’s womb. We have cellular memory of what it feels like to be completely surrounded and supported by another. We are also literally made up of particles that have been on this planet, in this universe forever. This speaks to a profound connectedness between all life. And some part of us imagines, remembers, knows, and longs for this connectedness. Perhaps there is another memory of wholeness from sometime before or beyond our birth. Perhaps we were once part of some greater Universal spirit. Perhaps we were once united with God/Goddess/Budda/Allah/Tao/Gaia/Atman/ or whatever you call it. Perhaps we were and perhaps we weren’t. We don’t know! We will most likely never know for absolute sure. And that really doesn’t matter. We don’t have to know for sure. Whether it is fact of fiction, the story of merging with something greater is a valuable story. The popularity of this story also speaks to that memory or longing for wholeness that is real for many of us.
So, this is what I mean by healing. Becoming more whole, integrating more of yourself, more of life into your consciousness.
A crucial part of health and happiness (for individuals and for the human species as a whole) is for people to be who they are. To be all of who you are, to integrate with yourself. We are all unique, combinations of genes, earth matter, sea matter, star dust, and spirit in arrangements that have never existed before and never will again! There will never, ever be another you. We don’t know what the meaning of life is. We don’t know what will become of everything. But it appears that life is moving more and more in the direction of wholeness, and inclusion and so the more we can align ourselves with that energy, the better we will feel, and the more we will help the whole world. On the individual and on the global, we need to work towards more integration, balance and acceptance of all that life is. And this includes the stuff in the shadows….
Some people believe there are parts of life, parts of our psyche that we need to repress, kill, and keep in the shadows. What do you think?