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June 16, 2008 |
Daily Soul Retreat at SoulfulLiving.com |
Vol. I, Issue
404 |
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Healing Your Spirit
by Rachel Harris
 We all need to be healed, to feel more whole. Deep down inside ourselves, we know there's more to life, more that we can be. We dream of transformation, like a caterpillar dreams of becoming a butterfly. However, no matter what we do to seek or encourage it, the process of healing proceeds according to its own timetable for each of us. Rarely can we see or guess what the next step of healing will be. There is always an element of mystery to it, far beyond logical comprehension.
It is this elusive component that makes all healing sacred healing. More is happening at the different levels of healing--physical, emotional, and spiritual--than we can know or imagine. Sometimes we can help this process of healing, and other times we need to just allow it to follow its own course. One paradoxical aspect of healing is that someone can be healed during their illness and yet still die. Inner healing, spiritual healing, is not the same as remission of physical or emotional symptoms or cure. Healing is related to our capacity to experience and embrace life as it is. Often this means accepting the unacceptable, making peace with disintegration, and loving whatever we face. These are the signs of healing. They illustrate how healing transforms our relationship to life.
Healing, then, is part of our life's path, and as Stephen Levine, a Buddhist teacher who works with the dying, says, healing is what we were born for. What did we come into this world to heal, and what do we need, within ourselves, to be healed? What can we give and what can we receive? The amazing thing is that sometimes the healing we need can only come from the experience of giving to others...
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Copyright Rachel Harris, Ph.D. This article was originally
published at our website, SoulfulLiving.com, in September
2000,
as part of Soulful Living's
"Healing" Issue.
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"The potential for healing is always present, whether in the healing of our relationships, the healing of ourselves, or the healing of others. We must realize that healing is a spontaneous and
essential part of our spiritual journey."
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