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Are you getting a balanced healing diet?
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The “everything in moderation” message also applies to spiritual work.
Balance is an important word when it comes to our health. Getting everything back into balance. Finding a work-life balance. Eating a balanced diet. But what about when it comes to our overall healing of mind, body and soul? Are we unwittingly gorging ourselves on external treatments while our inner healer is starving?
Is it time to do some restructuring of our healing pyramid?
The Healing Pyramid
Consider for a moment if we applied the same “pyramid” principle to healing as many have done with food.
Rather than boxing ourselves into particular methods or modalities, think of it rather in terms of the ways in which we can progress on our healing journey and where our efforts might be best spent relative to other activities.
Challenge yourself
every 1-3 months
If you are constantly questioning yourself, your motivations and direction, you can find yourself spinning your wheels.
On the other hand, if you never stop to assess your progress, you can get stuck in a rut.
Consider challenging yourself once every 1-3 months to ensure that you are still making shifts (however small – it’s not about judgement) and that you’re not getting lost in a healing “comfort zone”.
Treatment
every 1-4 weeks
As we are coming to rely more on our inner selves for healing and guidance, it’s still important to be getting some help from the outside. Connecting with healers and practitioners of modalities that work for you on a regular basis help to keep things moving and often provides much needed physical and emotional support along the way.
For some, this may consist of appointments on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, but during different times in your life, you may be getting assistance more or less often. The intention here is not to be prescriptive, but to offer a relative scale.
Teaching & Learning
every week
Whether it be formally through a course of study, or simply by spending time watching a child play or a plant grow, or anything in between, we move forward and inward in response to what we learn, not so much by the mind but by the heart.
Open-hearted life learning is on offer to us every day. It is free, it takes little time and has a great deal to offer.If your heart hasn’t consciously learnt something new at the end of the week, take a moment to review what you might have missed.
Teaching belongs in this section because, whether you teach workshops or classes, or simply offer those around you the chance to learn by example, every student is a teacher and vice versa.
Looking within, self-healing
every day
We are our own best healer.When all of the layers of personality and past are stripped away, we find that part of us, right at the core, which knows exactly what we need at any moment in time.
Whether consciously through meditation or in simple daily reflection, communion with one’s higher self is an essential part of the healing journey.
Time within offers us the opportunity to integrate all other healing that has taken place by external means. Reflecting on a healing session afterwards increases the potency of the healing immeasurably and can be the determining factor in whether or not the healing is effective, particularly in the long term.
Walking it – living with awareness
every moment
We can ask ourselves endless questions, visit scores of practitioners, try every healing modality under the sun, take every course on offer, even meditate every day, twice a day, all day; but in the age we are all living in, it is only through walking it – living our lives consciously and through awareness – that we can truly step into our mastery.
Thus, this is also our greatest challenge, so unlike the bread and cereal of the conventional pyramid, this one isn’t asking you to simply go to the cupboard.
Most people are only just waking up, so in truth, getting the other steps in place is an exciting place to be. Be gentle with yourself and allow the final step to find its way more and more into your life, celebrating the moments when you are fully conscious of everything that’s playing out and accepting the moments where, in reflection, you realise you were asleep.
So take a moment to look at your own healing journey.
Are you making the most of the treatments, books and workshops that you pay for by integrating all that has been gained? Does your inner questioning serve to moderate the direction you are heading in, or do the questions come so thick and fast that you get muddled and lose your way?
Find true, lasting healing by consistently ensuring that the lion’s share of the responsibility for your own journey away from pain and suffering and towards self realisation lies in the best possible place – with you.
About the article
First printed in Inner Self magazine, East/West Edition 17, page 27
About the author
An astrologer and Reiki master, Claire Hennekam runs workshops and weekly meditation sessions in addition to seeing her own clients. She works out of Sahu Healing Space in Melbourne (www.sahu.com.au), a centre she created to provide the space and resources for clients and practitioners to pursue their own healing journeys. You can contact Claire on 0407 359 347, or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
