Finding Balance in the Healing Arts

Hanging ourselves up for total annihilation — Finding Balance in the Healing Arts

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Healing ourselves can become a trap. It can become a never ending, and all consuming loop of betterment, where we try and annihilate every single little thing that causes us troubles or makes us feel uncomfortable within. 

This is where we can in fact get caught on a perpetual spinning wheel, a wheel that at times can help us shift some integral things within our reality, yet, if its taken too far, for too long — can rob us of our joy. 

In an attempt to be and feel better about ourselves and our reality, we grasp for unreachable perfection, counteractively experiencing a less than full life.

In my experience there is no end to our healing. 

We carry lifetimes upon lifetimes of things that have impacted us at soul level, we also have very deep ancestral roots that carry the trauma within our lineage, not to mention the collective wounds in which we have to face too.

We could be doing healing practices every single day for decades and still be finding parts of ourselves that are coming up to be processed and healed. That’s why they say that the healing journey is a lifelong one — if not an eternal one. 

So, there most certainly comes a point where we need to stop. Where we need to get off the wheel, where we need to invite in other energies and experiences into our lives. 

We need to remember to stop and smell the flowers, to feel the wind on our skin, watch the waves crashing on the shores — as well as allow ourselves to indulge in the oh so sweet nectars of life.

We need to find a balance — as with all things in this life.

There comes a point that participating in the healing arts can become onerous, it can take the joy out of life if done in excess, as well as dim our reality with an overarching sense of seriousness — it can really become self flagellation, and furthermore self absorbed and highly egotistical.

It’s so important to remember that the point of healing is to actually allow us to participate and experience life to the fullest. Not to continually be feeling that we lack something, or we cannot do something until we have reached this point of resolution.

Quality healing is all about how we integrate ourselves into life, and the experiences we long for.

We are all human, we all have our quirks and foibles. Yet what is inherent in us All, is the soul level need to play and have a good time, to experience life around others — and more than anything, to commune with all aspects of ourselves — not just the serious parts.

Sometimes the most healing times are actually the fun ones. 

The times that your standing on a dance floor full of your mates, energy going wild, the bass pumping, stomping your heart out, or, the times that you’re sitting at home on the couch, laughing your head off at your best mate who is telling a funny story, and your smiling so much that your face hurts, and your abs hurt so much that you think you’re getting a six pack.

Healing can come in mysterious ways, that are outside our preconceived and usually serious notions of what healing should look like. This is a call to be open to all aspects of life, and more than anything know when you can jump off the continual wheel (it will always be there to jump on) — and just simply enjoy.

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