Healing

Let me inspire you to heal yourself! Some may think this job belongs to "God"... but I believe this healing comes from our own mind/body/soul/ spirit. Part of the reason I believe this is because of a bible story I hold deep within my heart.

"A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" 31 "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?'" 32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering." -Mark Chapter 5, verses 24-34

You see Jesus does not claim to have healed her... he says the opposite: that her faith has healed her! I think we all have things we can be healed of; both physical and emotional. I am not by any means saying that it is our own fault if we are sick or upset... I am just saying I believe there is healing for us and it is inside of us already.

"Healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been." ~ Joan Borysenko

Rachel Naomi Remen says it this way:

"Healing is natural. It's not magical; it's not mystical. It doesn't require some esoteric intervention. It's your birthright, and mine. Everybody has the capacity for healing. We do it with each other all the time and we don't even know it.

Healing is the very ground of being. Everything is moving toward wholenss. And that's all healing is, that movement. Our task is not to make something happen but to uncover what is already happening in us and in others, and to recognnize and foster those conditions that nurture it. That's all.

We can do that with ritual or prayer, or with many different approaches and techniques. We can simply sit and be together and think about our true nature. No one technique is inherently any better than another. It's simply a matter of learning to trust the natural healing process in all of us and moving freely with it"

I know that I unconsciously carry around lots of baggage that keeps me in need of healing. With the knowledge that my healing is already inside of me I press on to find this truth. They say a journey of a thousand miles starts with one step --- take that step with me. Look inside of you for the faith to be healed!

Namaste!