We often hear the term personal healing, however, somehow that label doesn’t feel appropriate for this deep emotional and spiritual healing work. Healing may take the commitment of one, and it is a journey back to your authentic self within, but it never remains a personal journey. On a purely physical level, a journey toward wellness impacts every person that surrounds you in one way or another. On an energetic level, healing shifts a whole energetic field and the healing of one life generates healing outward to all those around them like a ripple effect on a pond, or like the “Butterfly Effect”, the physics concept that the single movement of a butterfly’s wings can impact another far off region of the world. The energy shift transforms your way of being or showing up in the world and that shifts the environment around you and every relationship you are in or encounter.
Healing one contributes to the healing of all. Today, so many people struggle to figure out how to make a difference in the world. If they spend a lot of time engaged with media reports, they may find themselves emotionally numbed to the needs of others or they may live in fear with all their attention focused on how to fix all the chaos, ills, violence, and injustices that seem to plague our living generations. The latter state of being can be so overwhelming that a person is paralyzed into inaction, feeling that they can’t make a difference. We search for life purpose and life meaning in all of this chaos. While we have our attention on the wounds of others, looking for a way to fix things, we allow ourselves to ignore our own woundedness. When the focus on trying to fix “the other” stops, again an illusion since no one is actually broken, and a person goes inward to heal the wounds within, this yearning and fear-driven chaotic energy finally ceases to drive their life.
When your own wounds are healed you stop viewing the world through the lens of your woundedness. This is particularly important for anyone in a helping profession. When you work with others through your own woundedness, it is energy deadening for you and for those you seek to help. By engaging in your own healing, you and those you are purporting to help can find wellness.
A person begins to understand that healing oneself creates healing in the world. Your own inner peace, wellness, and self-love are catalysts for wellness and peace in the world. When a critical mass of people engages in their own healing work it can shift a whole community or sector of society. Although it has been tried over and over, you can’t heal society en masse. Healing occurs one person at a time. Healing self brings you in alignment with the whole and in unity with others through compassion. When you approach the world around you from a place of deep wellness and love, rather than from a place of fear, the impact of your radiant energy is tremendous and life changing for all those you connect with and the greater world around you.
