Energetic & Spiritual Healing

Temporary. Everything, all of it, even the best of it, especially the best of it. We only have so many years to know human love, and do human things.
Love them, all of them, even the painstaking ones.
They, too, will not last. They are human.

They are the experience. The insecurity? The experience.
The heartache? The experience. The confusion? The experience. The joy? The experience. The risk? The experience.
There is nothing lost if we learn something from it.

Your willingness to fail is proportionate to your potential to gain and to grow.

The timer never stops running. All you will regret is not reaching harder for the things you actually wanted, while they were still in front of you.
- Brianna Wiest

🎨Claudia Barbu

I’m telling you, she does not belong.
Not to one person,
not to one place,
not to one set of ideals.
Her mind changed her heart,
which changed her mind.
And she was nothing
if not completely free.

Maybe we’re just afraid
of anyone constantly searching.
Anything that didn’t clip her wings
or make her feel caged
was exactly where she was meant to be.
You’ve got to respect the things unafraid
of going off path.
And she would always be the type
to lose herself
trying to find her way.

I suppose the river doesn’t compete
with the earth,
it carves its own path.
It doesn’t brag,
or boast,
or beat its chest.
It just flows.
And the moon doesn’t try to outshine
the stars.
It just glows.
The flowers amongst the trees
which radiate and uphold life,
they only grow.

She wasn’t free because she knew where she was going.
She was free
because she didn’t need to know.

J. Raymond
Poem from Spades/Let Her Run

THIS!!! Oh my gosh, so much this! I’ve never heard a better explanation for the process of healing, and why I work gently with you through your process, than this.

Your Psyche Resists Healing...
(And why it's so hard to change... or get 'them' to change)

This is something that is nowhere near talked about enough.

Healing is HARD!

It is not a lovely traipse through sunflower filled fields on your way to your highest bliss.

Wait, well... it kind of is, sometimes.

But other times it's filled with all the unhealed swamps of our past.

To heal is to revisit and reorder everything that wounded us.

Which means to feel it all again.

And that's often not a very comfortable thing at all.

Most people do everything they can for their entire lives to resist that process... because it's scary!

When we were hurt, our little child bodies didn't have the tools or emotional bandwidth to process the damage occurring to us, and so we segregated it, fracturing our psyches in a way that allowed us to continue functioning.

To heal means to enter into that dark closet, and look under the bed, and see and feel and know all the demons that were hidden away.

No thanks.

I'd rather drink or smoke w**d or be promiscuous or shop or immerse myself in work or fixate on my weight or pump iron endlessly or do 10,000 hours of yoga a day.

For anyone who has been on a healing journey, you know all of this already.

BUT...

The other thing that healing includes is an ENTIRE restructuring of the self.

In order to truly heal we need to become someone else, a healed person.

Which means thinking, feeling and behaving in ways that are different than the ones we have been doing habitually for however long.

The problem is, humans are homeostatic beings.

We maintain equilibrium as best as we possibly can.

Our blood temperature, for example, needs to stay constant, and we feel sick if it isn't.

The body is always seeking to return to a stable state.

If you exert yourself in exercise, while your heart rate will elevate, and your breathing will become laboured... the moment you stop your body will shed heat and do everything it possibly can to return to normal.

Our psyches are the same.

It doesn't want to change... change is dangerous...

When a psyche changes too much too quickly we have what is called a psychotic break.

This doesn't mean we can't heal and change and grow though, we just have to understand what we are dealing with.

Even though we resist change, particularly rapid change, we also have mechanisms that adapt to new conditions.

Back to working out... while your body is furiously trying to return to baseline and heal all the micro-damage that exercise causes... if you continue to consistently engage in exercise over time it starts to adapt.

New baselines emerge, and your physique changes.

One workout session doesn't really change anything.

But 6 months of them, does.

Our psyche does the same thing, with the principle of neuroplasticity.

When we apply positive pressure to our sense of self over time, it starts to adapt to become a new self.

If we meet and feel our unhealed wounds with loving compassion, over and over, eventually they melt.

If we make new behavioural choices, such as not shouting those horrible things at our partner when triggered, we become someone who doesn't do that.

But it requires repetition.

The world of marketing has trained us to look for miracle solutions.

How can we get there as fast as we possibly can, with as minimal discomfort as we can.

"Rapid Release"
"7 Minute Miracle"
"Instant Breakthrough"
"Fast Track"

Yet nobody successful at ANYTHING in this world achieved their success like that.

Michael Jordan got to the gym earlier than anyone else, and trained longer and harder than everyone else. That's why he became the greatest.

Healing is no different.

Anyone can heal and completely and totally turn their life around.

They just have to be committed to the process for long enough.

✍️ Damien Bohler
🎨 Unknown

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” ~ C. JoyBell C

https://www.facebook.com/share/7H17mJ5Xeth2B3VX/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Your magic is in your spark. The way you speak about a topic with passion, the people that get to feel your love right from the depths of your soul, the lives you touch as you move throughout the world.

The way you make someone feel heard, how you say hello to the barista in the morning, the memories friends hold dear of adventures you've shared. You leave magical marks and pieces of you, everywhere you go.

You ripple, even when you can't see it. There are rooms that light up from your presence, eyes that twinkle, bellies that hurt from laughter. Don't dull the spark that makes you shine. The world needs it to be brighter.
- Em Manuel

🎨Beltrán Bofill

EVEN THE HEALER NEEDS

Sometimes we are exactly what we need.

Eventually, the Helper will need Assistance. The Encourager will need Uplifting. The Comforter needs Reassurance —and even the Healer needs to be Healed.

Through our emotional needs, Life makes itself known, exposes our similarities and insists on the importance of connection within the warmth of empathetic presence.

Developing an awareness of what we need to be healthy, to take in love and to feel safe in the world, then cultivating clear and peaceful language to express each one vulnerably, is a process that can open
the door to Harmony.

So, may you learn to listen and follow your heart's insistent cries of longing back to the origin of your earliest pains and bring forward your needs to be heard, finally, with recognition, understanding, and acceptance.

And may you likewise know the content and deserving blessing of feeling met and tenderly received. ❤️. (-words written by https://m.facebook.com/SusanFrybortPoet/)

Just decide to love the heck out of your life and if you truly can’t, then you simply must make it more loveable.
Change things around.
Move things out, add things in.
It’s your life.
You can do that.
Do whatever you need to do to get any kind of joy, every day.
And start now, right this minute.
The future is promised to no one, what are you waiting for?
This is it my friend,

this is it.

Donna Ashworth

Art by Veronique Wibaux Veronique Wibaux

One of my biggest pet peeves! 

"Life is so beautiful, especially when I'm absent from it. Don't get me wrong, Jim Carrey is a great character, and I was lucky to get the part, but I don't think of that as me anymore. I used to be a guy who was experiencing the world and now I feel like the world and universe experiencing a guy. So there's kind of been a shift."
“That peace that we’re after lies beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
“You will only ever have two choices – love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.”

Jim Carrey

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