What Does Healing Mean To You?

What does "healing" mean to you? What does it mean to be "healed" of something?

To me, it means "to make well or whole". To restore what once was broken, damaged, or sick. When we talk about healing, it is important to include the individual work that goes into such efforts. You may go to a doctor when you're sick. The doctor will often prescribe medicine or something for you to take in order to help heal you. But the doctor themselves doesn't actually consume the medicine. You do. You have to "follow the doctor's orders" if you expect to be healed.

So too must we put the work in if we seek healing beyond our physical needs. Perhaps you seek out a shaman or medicine man for such things. They will not "wave their magic wand" and make your sickness disappear. They will equip you with the things you need to heal yourself, and guide you on the path towards restoration. But you must put in the work yourself.

We must also remember that healing is restorative. Would you continue to take antibiotics after the bacterial infection you contracted went away? Would you keep on wearing a cast after a broken bone is healed? No, you wouldn't. The same is true of all sickness, whether physical or otherwise.

So, allow yourself to be healed. To be made whole. And once you are, release yourself from the chains that kept you bound in that sickness to begin with.

And become free.