Our role in healing can include invoking our own healing energies through dreamwork and visual meditation as well a practicing healthy exercise like yoga.
Whenever we speak of healing, we usually experience it as something that comes to us as a gift given. For some it may be a gift of nature, of the universe, or a gift of God. It is seen as something we don’t entirely have complete control over. Be that as it may, beyond the obvious rules of eating right and getting exercise, there are certain things we can do on a spiritual and psychological level that promote healing.
We do have a part to play in making it all happen and there are varying points of view. At one extreme we have people who assume healing is beyond them, especially on matters that medicine can’t adequately treat and will take a fatalistic stance such as “Well, I will either get well or I will die of this disease.”
And at the other end of the spectrum we have those who take on too much responsibility, thinking that if they don’t do this and do that, they will not be healed—acting like it is entirely up to them and not the doctors, God or the healing energy from elsewhere such as the universe, another a healing person or their own healing energies!.
Acknowledging Our Blocks to Health & Following through on Good Intentions
I think there is a happy ground in the middle which takes into account that we do have responsibility for our health yet knowing there is only so much we can do. First, we can, as a minimum, try to acknowledge when we abuse our bodies by eating junk food, over eating or not getting enough exercise. And secondly, we can also make the intention to do what we can to improve our health such as seeing a doctor, eating right and exercising. If we are religious, this includes praying for health or asking for prayers. It seems like such an easy thing to say but the truth is that prayer works in many amazing ways.
Tapping into Our Own Healing Energy
Also, another important way to promote healing is by tapping into our own healing energies, especially by doing dreamwork and/or visual meditation. After many years of working with dreams to create better health, I have learned there is something like an inner healer which is constantly at work to let us know when we are healthy and when we are need of healing, be it psychological, physical or spiritual. This inner healer may appear in dreams as a physician, a care giver or a nurse. Once we’ve seen this inner healer in a dream, we can ask for dreams that will include this inner healer to show us the way to healing. This archetype can become a guide for us, acting on our behalf. It can empower us to heal ourselves and others as we become a conduit for the energy it represents.
Through visual meditation, such as by imagining sick cells being removed and healthy ones taking their place, we can also promote energy healing at the cellular level.
Working so proactively for our health at the dream level reaches far beyond the physical to the energy level, affecting and caring for cells and the ways they communicate with each. What a profound role we can play in our own healing!
