​Healing Is Your Journey

Today, “acting kind of random”… I pick up Holy Wow! Volume II… Yikes! Yuck! Yum! Yay!... and open to page 163. My eyes fall on the bottom of the page:
“About our human healing process… here is a worthwhile note to self… a useful tip. We humans think “healing” means there is something ‘wrong with me.’ That I need to ‘be fixed.’ At this point in my Life… having spent many years being human… many years being a healer… many years excavating my own healing process… I have come to clearly understand… your ‘healing’ doesn’t have much to do with you being ‘messed up.’
Healing is your journey… from numb, hurting and apathetic… to awake, aware and alive.
We heal as we travel from… unconscious to conscious… unhappy to happy… numb to aware… asleep to awake.
For many folks, numb and unhappy may feel all kinds of familiar. But do they make a satisfying Life?”
A lot of people resist therapy or counseling. “There’s nothing wrong with me!”
Shifting your perspective… realizing “healing” is not focused on “something wrong”… allows you to see… there’s so much right with me!
Unless you had spectacular, caring, engaged parents… (lucky you if that is the case)… you enter adult Life at a deficit. With a negative self-image, doubting your capabilities. Awash in harsh, toxic thought habits.
In my early 20s a voice in my head said… “You are the only person who can help yourself. You are the only person who can hurt yourself. You are the only person who can make yourself grow.” Very helpful information.
Where you are in your Life right now… turn your attention to your healing process. Just think… “I am open to my own inner healing.” Make a mantra for yourself… “I welcome and embrace my healing.”
Give yourself to your healing process. Exercise this healing mantra. See what happens.