I've studied with, and been the client/patient of many healers. I've often been struck by how such different techniques, stemming from different models of physical, emotional and spiritual health, derived from utterly different belief systems, can all have efficacy, can all move one toward self-integration.
I will cover my belief system in detail in another post, but suffice it to say that it has often been directly contradictory to that of a healer who has been able to help me. We all filter reality through our own lens, from the most devout Christian or Muslim or Jew or Hindu to the most self-sure Atheist. Most of us had a belief system essentially gifted to us (some might say foisted upon us), that we have either accepted, or perhaps we've modified or even discarded as we've gone through life. We stick with what we were taught, or we alchemically mix it in with other things to derive a new system of beliefs, or perhaps we throw the whole thing out and adopt a different religion, or atheism, as we grow into ourselves.
The fact that this belief system, this version of reality that we hold to be 'true', or at least 'most accurate' in its conformance with what we've observed and/or want/need to believe, can utterly 'disagree' with that of the healer we're working with, yet we can derive a healing experience from their work, is something I am intensely curious about.
I've often tried to 'figure it out', as I do so many things, but the only conclusion I've come to (derived, of course, from my own system of beliefs) is that there is such a thing as karma, or perhaps, destiny, and that when we are brought into contact with someone who impacts on that destiny, resonates with it, is key to its next step, we can grow immensely with them, whether we accept their view of reality or not. And if we are both coming from the heart, or we can reach the heart-space together in our work, then we can both derive healing and growth from the experience.
I will cover my belief system in detail in another post, but suffice it to say that it has often been directly contradictory to that of a healer who has been able to help me. We all filter reality through our own lens, from the most devout Christian or Muslim or Jew or Hindu to the most self-sure Atheist. Most of us had a belief system essentially gifted to us (some might say foisted upon us), that we have either accepted, or perhaps we've modified or even discarded as we've gone through life. We stick with what we were taught, or we alchemically mix it in with other things to derive a new system of beliefs, or perhaps we throw the whole thing out and adopt a different religion, or atheism, as we grow into ourselves.
The fact that this belief system, this version of reality that we hold to be 'true', or at least 'most accurate' in its conformance with what we've observed and/or want/need to believe, can utterly 'disagree' with that of the healer we're working with, yet we can derive a healing experience from their work, is something I am intensely curious about.
I've often tried to 'figure it out', as I do so many things, but the only conclusion I've come to (derived, of course, from my own system of beliefs) is that there is such a thing as karma, or perhaps, destiny, and that when we are brought into contact with someone who impacts on that destiny, resonates with it, is key to its next step, we can grow immensely with them, whether we accept their view of reality or not. And if we are both coming from the heart, or we can reach the heart-space together in our work, then we can both derive healing and growth from the experience.
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