What Does Healed Mean?

What Does Healed Mean?

Healing is mostly used as a term to describe the process of someone who’s been physically ill or injured and then they come back to “health” or “normal”, whatever normal means.  But the truth is, healing is about a transformation that takes place because of any circumstance that takes you out of your present space, and changes you.  It doesn’t matter if that circumstance happens on a physical, mental, social, or spiritual level, you will never be the same.  And so when I talk about healing, I’m describing processing everything that happens in change, and bringing that about to be a positive beautiful thing.

It is not meant to be a negative thing.  It just is what it is.   I am talking about the need to process the experiences and take the very good things that you learned about yourself, life, and spirituality, and make them effective and integral tools for life.

I worked with cancer patients for several years.  It was a unique experience and gave me valuable insight into the idea of healing. The reason that cancer is such a life-altering experience is because there is no question of its effects on every single aspect of your life.  And it is indiscriminate.  It affects young and old, the healthy and infirm, the strong and weak, the rich and the poor, the ones who eat only organic and the ones who eat junk food, the ones who smoke and the ones who don’t.  I noticed that sometimes it destroyed families and sometimes it brought them together. It destroyed fortunes and made others money. It took people out of their present circumstances and forced them to have to change – and those who went with it and accepted it fared better than those who resisted and remained in conflict with it.  Those who used it as an opportunity to be changed and transformed, healed. That does not mean that they lived.  That does not mean that their entire life wasn’t a chaotic mess.  Healing, in the way that I use the term, means that they processed the experience on all levels; physical, spiritual, emotional, social, into a state of wholeness and peace, despite the threat to their physical life and because of the unique experience.

So, when I talk to you about healing, I’m talking about processing the change in you on all levels; body, mind, and spirit into a state of wholeness and peace.  And it does not matter what the outcome of that process is, or becomes.  It does not matter if your relationships are forever different, or your path suddenly changes and you go down an unknown road. It doesn’t matter what healing looks like.  It only matters that it happens.