dedicated to healing
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Energy Detox: for improved health
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Healing from the heart
begins with asking and answering ten questions, and the way the head and
heart each answer these questions illustrates a different focus to healing
than typically proposed by Western cerebral-centric biomedicine.
1. What is healing?
The Head:
Healing is the biomechanical
influencing of the body’s systems by direct attempts to fix, correct, and
restore a mechanical system to its version of "normal" functioning.
Modern medicine is the most effective body repair system in history.
The Heart:
Healing is making whole, reconnecting, recovering molecular memories that
promote healing and focusing on the wisdom and energy coming in subtle
fashion from the heart and not just head-invented manipulations and
techniques. Healing with the heart is not "trying to heal" but allowing the
heart’s natural healing energy and all the memories of healings that have
ever occurred to resonate within you, and being still and "thoughtless"
enough to allow one’s own heart to fall into a shared coherence with other
hearts in a form of compassionate prayer beyond words.
2. Why heal?
The Head:
We heal to be able to keep going, do
more, have more, live longer, and get the most out of our individual life.
The Heart:
We heal in order to be whole with the systems around us and to be able to
care for, heal, and protect those systems, including people, plants,
animals, and places.
3. Who needs
healing?
The Head:
Sick or "broken" biosystems need
mending because they have fallen into a state of disrepair. Anyone who is
not "healthy" and normal" according to bioscience is in need of its
intervention.
The Heart:
Everyone and everything everywhere needs healing all the time, because
healing is the process of keeping healthy energy connection flowing within
all systems. Systems, not individuals, get sick. Health and sickness are not
opposite ends of a continuum. All of us are sick and healthy at the same
time all the time because we are chaotic energetic systems in the process of
evolving. Stability does not mean never changing it means a constant
state of flux: "instability is the necessary condition for the stability of
the organism."
In other words, chaos
is sickness to the head but a form of dynamic health to the heart. Amidst
the infinite patterns of snowflakes, there is no one right way to be a
"healthy" or "right" snowflake. The ocean is not "sick" when it is in
turmoil. We should not waste the magic of healing connection by employing it
only when we think we are sick. There is a mysterious reciprocity at work in
the relationship between illness and health, and the best model of healthy
balance is not someone standing firmly on the ground but someone walking
high on a tight-rope, balance bar in hand, and constantly readjusting and
adapting.
4. How do we heal?
The Head:
The credo of head-oriented healing is
"don’t just sit there, do something." There is no better system for making
quick diagnoses and taking quick immediate action than modern biomedicine,
and most of us have experienced its lifesaving power. It is a system
designed to locate failure in a specific biomechanical part and then correct
and stabilize the problem by chemical or mechanical means.
The Heart:
The credo of heart-oriented healing is "don’t just do something, sit there."
If you take a lot of over-the-counter medications, your cold will probably
go away in about fourteen days. If you do nothing at all but take it easy,
it will probably go away in about two weeks, and in the process you may
realize how too much stress lowered your immunity and that you should be
spending more time in your daily life doing what a bad cold often makes you
do—staying home, cozying up under a warm blanket, having some chicken soup,
and reading a good book. A cold can be the body’s expression of the spirit’s
cry to "go home."
Physician Larry Dossey
refers to the value of what he calls "the great wait." While
there are times when urgent lifesaving action is necessary, such times are
rare compared to those when "just being" is the healing thing to do. Through
stillness and gentle, repetitive ritual more than intense action and
procedures, we can learn how to be whole again and how to connect
with the energy we share with all systems. Like a tightrope walker, if we
try too hard, worry too much, and think too hard, we may become insensitive
to the very signals that help us readjust and maintain our state of dynamic,
often shaky, but adaptive, life-maintaining balance.
5. Where do we
heal?
The Head:
We remove ourselves from nature and go
within the most modern, technically advanced, airtight building we can find
that is staffed with the most brilliant, sophisticated, well-known,
objective, highest-paid doctors. We take off our clothes, replace them with
a ritualistic robe that allows others easy access to our body (particularly
from behind), climb into a high bed that restricts any quick escape,
surrender various body fluids, allow ourselves to be submitted to study by
student priests who are often exhausted from the requirement of their
constant participation in an ongoing hazing ceremony, and turn our body over
to the priests and maidens of modern medicine.
A few floral cuttings
and traces of nature may be brought to the temple by visitors, but the idea
is to have as little of the natural world and as few loving family members
around as possible so as to not disrupt the sanctity, codes, procedures,
policies, hierarchy, and bureaucracy of this temple. The more and newer the
machines, the better our chances to heal.
The Heart:
We heal by finding a very energy-friendly place that allows us to connect
more intensely with the natural aspects of our living and by being immersed
in the energy emanating from the plants, animals, and loving people around
us and of which we are an integral part. An ocean or a forest are good
places to heal because they resonate directly with our healing center, our
heart.
6. By whom are we
healed?
The Head:
We are taken from our family and healed
by a parade of smart strangers who look at written tracings that are
symbolic approximations of our body’s functioning and who then prescribe the
action to be taken and what should be done "to us" by them or their
medicinal approximations of natural substances. If we are "compliant," we
may get better. If not, we may be viewed by the priests of the temple as having
"failed to respond to treatment."
The Heart:
We are not healed "by" but "with." We are healed with the presence of
healing hearts all around us joining with our heart and not just doing
things "to it." Research shows that the need for the most common surgical
procedure performed in the United States, Cesarean section, can be reduced
more than 50 percent when a mother has the continuous presence of a
supportive woman (called a "doula") during labor and delivery. Cardio-energetics
suggests that we check the heart and not just the diplomas of our physician
and pick one that our heart tells us "has a good heart" and gives off "good
healing energy."
7. When do we know
we are healed?
The Head:
We know we are healed when numbers from machines tell us we are "back within
the normal range," our doctor tells us we are healed, or an insurance plan
has informed us that our allotted healing time has run out. We are healed
when we have managed to delay death or are able to return to the same
frenzied, hectic life that caused us to require healing in the first place.
The Heart:
Whether or not we are cured, we are
healed when we feel whole, when others say they feel more connected with us,
and when something in our heart makes us feel re-enchanted and energetically
reconnected with the world again. We are healed when we have learned to
celebrate life rather than just struggle to prolong it and when we have
learned how to be more aware of the oscillating subtle instability that is
just beneath what we may experience as "stable health."
8. How does healing
happen?
The Head:
Once we find the part of the mechanical
system that is broken and repair it, healing has happened because we have
been returned to "normal function." There is nothing "vitalistic,"
energetic, or spiritual about getting better, only the re-establishment of
biomechanical function.
The Heart:
Healing happens when we feel a loving energy flowing freely within us again
and when the subtle "love" energy of life, the trees, the
birds, the flowers, the animals, and the life system tell us that we have opened our heart sufficiently to let the
energy flow again. Healing happens when the field of energetic intelligence
within the body system exercises its intuitive powers to restore a more
adaptive balancing between ourselves and our world.
9. What happens
after we heal?
The Head:
After we are healed, we go back about
our daily life business. We may be more vigilant for another breakdown in a
body system and alter some of our behaviors to lessen the chance of relapse
or recurrence, but healing usually allows us to resume, more than change, our
prior life. At least temporarily, until the head resumes its urgent
pressures and forgets our prior suffering, we may become a member of the
group of the worried well and practice "preventive" medicine.
The Heart:
There is no "after" healing because we are constantly aware of being whole,
connected, and of sending and receiving energy from the systems around us.
Sickness is as much a part of life as health, so we learn when we suffer the
pain of sickness to attend more to a healing style of living. We can also
learn from others when they suffer that, by helping them heal, we are
energized in our own healing. Instead of self-oriented "preventive"
medicine, we practice enhancement healing with all systems.
10. What makes a
healer?
The Head:
A healer is someone who has learned all
about how the body systems work and for several years has sacrificed much of
his or her own mental and physical health in order to pass the tests
required to be declared legally allowed to try to heal others and work in
the healing temples. The healer is objective, emotionally distant,
mechanistic, sceptical, and unbelieving of anything that cannot be seen or
touched.
The Heart: We
are all healers, but some are more healing than most because they have been
transformed by serious illness and, as a result, are more cardio-sensitive
than those who have not yet had their turn at confronting their own
mortality. The cardio-sensitives know that self-care begins with caring for
others and with the awareness that none of us is ever truly emotionally
distant or totally objective. The two criteria of a more cardio-sensitive
healer are having learned through a crisis and, in part because of that
crisis, having developed a profound compassion for the energy of and from
one’s own heart and the hearts of others.
Heart healing then is
first and foremost energetic balance, or perhaps more accurate, constant
rebalancing. Heart healing is pragmatic hedonism. It is not just feeling
good but it IS profoundly feeling. The healing heart is one that tries to
connect more than trying to be perfect. It
helps us sometimes to "just be" rather than always trying "to get"
somewhere or something or someone.
Happiness is an inside job.
