What does it even really mean to heal?
Healing, healing, healing. It's kind of a new-age term, but what does it really mean? Why is it important to my life? And why should I be concerned at all with even pursuing it?
Well, healing is a term used to point to something that's broken; if something needs healing, it's often because some damage has occurred in the physical sense. We often use the term healing in relation to something that needs time to recover. Healing can be understood as the time or distance from the impact of something painful to the recovery or mending of that impact. But why is it used in the mental, emotional and spiritual sense?
We will dive deep today in this article to understand what it means to "heal" and why taking time out of our busy lives is essential to address our "feelings". Now, most get caught up in thinking that feelings and emotions are the same but are not. Emotions are chemical reactions in our physiology; they are responsible for the different sensations we can feel in our bodies. For example, exercise releases endorphins that make us feel good, and warmth and affection release oxytocin that causes us to feel relaxed. Stress causes cortisol levels to rise, making us feel anxious and uptight. Emotions are chemical reactions, but being able to feel those reactions in the body is a sense perception called feeling. Sense perception is part of what you call our awareness, and it allows us to perceive the world around us and the world within us.
Our perception or awareness is our ability to be conscious of our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, behaviours, and environment. It's our ability to notice something happening within ourselves or outside ourselves. While science suggests that our perception is a function of the brain, our awareness extends beyond the mind for those who have used it to awaken and into the awareness of the universal mind or divine intelligence. This is crucial because our awareness enables us to recognise that something needs to be healed within us. It's our combined awareness and healing that inspire us to awaken to the intelligence of the universe.
So, let's dissect this to gain a more comprehensive understanding of why healing triggers an awakening and why awakening triggers the realisation of unconditional love, from which we realise god. Most of us live on autopilot, never challenging who we really are or delving beneath the surface of our thoughts and behaviours. We're so fixated on the world around us that we rarely take the time to introspect and ask profound questions like "Who am I".
The fixation and pull of the world become somewhat hypnotising to our minds as we get lured into ideas and desires about what the world can offer us. Don't get me wrong, the world can offer plenty but cannot provide us with the permanent fulfilment, peace and happiness we desire, although we might glimpse it. In Fact, the further we go into the world around us, the more we feel less fulfilled.
Whilst a great job, family and finances for the lucky ones might seem like the winning ticket, the truth is these promises of everlasting happiness just come up short of the mark, and that's because the world and its materialistic possessions and gains also come with their losses, breaks and pains. The truth is nothing out there is everlasting, and nothing out there is sustainable forever. In Fact, the world often causes great heartache, pain and confusion. Why is that?
Well, most humans are seeking their own happiness, and that comes at the cost of greed and things never being enough; we prioritise mainly our own wants and desires over others and in the pursuit of happiness, we never slow down and ask where this drive of needing more coming from. Throw into the mix break downs of relationships, life situations and loss of loved ones, and you have the recipe for mental breakdowns, struggle and a society that turns to alcohol, addiction and mind-numbing devices for relief. Welcome to 2024, where mental health is at an all-time high, ADHD is becoming a regular diagnosis and sensitivity among human beings is at an all-time high. But why all this now?
What's happening here is the world is changing, Mother Earth is shifting, and with that comes a rise in frequency. We might look at these ADHD diagnoses as some kind of chemical imbalance in the brain, but the truth is the world needs more intense, sensitive people. Now, we see many adults in their 30s and 40s being diagnosed because this energy shift started in the early 70s. So many kids of the 80s and 90s went undiagnosed, myself included. ADHD borderlines autism, and having been one of those undiagnosed kids and having a son with ADHD, I know it very well. With sensitivity and intensity comes great pain, especially if you have ADHD.
The world is becoming more sensitive; with that sensitivity, everything, especially our emotions, becomes heightened. Humanity is being pushed into more self-awareness, and we as a collective are being called to start looking within. Healing is not just a new age term, but it's now a necessity because for humanity to transition with Mother Earth, we must be restored to balance with her. You see, humanity is out of balance, and we are hell-bent on destroying the earth because, on a subconscious level, we are hell-bent on destroying ourselves.
This is why, as we awaken more deeply within, we begin to see the destructive patterns driving our behaviour as human beings. These destructive patterns are mainly built from an undercurrent of emotional pain, forming what we commonly refer to as the ego. Painful beliefs we hold in our subconscious around not feeling good enough create greed and consumption, abandonment traumas that create trust issues amongst each other, and emotional neglect that causes self-sabotage and destructive behaviour patterns. In an emotional dark age, we have yet to fully see how our subconscious holds within it all the pain of human suffering, and at the core of that pain are the beliefs that we are not worthy of love, and even more profound than that we, deserve to be punished. The sensitivity we now feel towards this subconscious suffering is becoming so intense that we are seeing a rise in mental health and more people being called to find healing.
Pharmaceutical companies and doctors, lagging behind in their understanding of human suffering, continue to address so-called 'chemical imbalances' with medication. These drugs, while numbing and desensitising patients, also strip them of their ability to experience positive emotions and process their feelings. The result is a numbing of life's zest and a disconnect from the world around us.
The world is in a mess but more importantly human beings are in a mess. Out of touch with our emotions and out of touch with our creator. The reason for this is because most people are trying to overcome how they feel rather than to dive deep into their feelings to find the answers. That means healing is to first head into what we are feeling rather than run away and try to fix it with medication or the world out there.
We must dive deep into our pain, our subconscious and our emotions. This is where actual change begins, and human suffering transforms into enlightenment. As we awaken to our pain by relearning to connect with our bodies and emotions held within the body, we start to see our own suffering.
We begin to connect with the painful experiences we pushed away, we meet the parts of ourselves that are in pain, and we begin to feel all those emotions that were too painful to deal with when we experienced them. Now, most of those painful emotions develop in childhood, and in an emotionally unintelligent society, the only way to deal with painful experiences of emotional neglect is to push those experiences away. Many people believe they had good childhoods, and that's because what's painful to us as children is what we push away and lose contact with as adults.
What we really lose contact with is our ability to feel our emotions, and so they remain unprocessed in our bodies as unresolved emotional experiences. These painful emotional experiences are not just emotions; contained in those emotions are beliefs we hold around those painful experiences. When we push those emotions away, we lose awareness of the beliefs those experiences hold. Those painful beliefs in our subconscious then attract people, situations, and experiences that reflect those painful beliefs, and we continue to repeat painful cycles in our lives.
The pain we hold triggers the anger we feel as we blame the world and people around us, not seeing that these situations are just reflections of the beliefs we hold, and this keeps the perpetual cycles of pain and suffering that have shackled humanity since the beginning of time going.
Healing is the key to awakening, and it can only be achieved by turning our gaze inward. Through self-awareness, we rediscover the pain, release it from our bodies, and come to understand our true selves. Self-awareness, love, and acceptance are the tools that facilitate healing. As we learn to reconnect with ourselves and remember what we've buried, we bring awareness, which is the light of our conscious understanding, love, and acceptance into our own darkness. We meet our inner child and begin to rebuild our relationship with ourselves. We confront the wounds within us, and instead of pushing away the painful parts, we welcome them back into our awareness with love, compassion, and empathy. Each painful experience we navigate through brings more love and acceptance into our lives; the more profound our healing, the deeper the love we feel for ourselves.
Love is often misunderstood as an emotion, when in reality, it's a frequency. True love is the acceptance of everything, and as we heal, we experience more of it. As the darkness within us heals, love becomes more prevalent in our lives, until we reach the pinnacle of unconditional love. This profound love first blossoms within ourselves and then extends to the world. Awakening is the realisation of unconditional love, but to reach this understanding, we must first 're-member' (put ourselves back together) that love is our essence, especially when we can love the parts of us that feel unloved and unlovable.
Through healing, we remember that all is one, and our greater intelligence awakens to life beyond this physical reality. We awaken out of suffering and into unconditional love that reshapes everything we know about ourselves and life. As we awaken to the greater intelligence we all are beneath the ego, the pain and our lives change, and the world around us shifts for the better. This interconnectedness that comes with healing makes us feel united and part of a larger whole.
The time has come for us to stop running away from our emotions and it's time to learn how to process the pain we all carry because on the other side of that process is the paradise we all seek. On the other side of that process is the knowledge of the everlasting nature of god or universal intelligence.
Much Love
David Cronin
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