What is healing? Some thoughts.

A friend of mine and I had an exchange on what healing is. I wrote the following:

Healing is not about the healer or necessarily the person being healed in the individual sense. Healing is often the lifting of our perceptions so we may see the unseen -- that which we have consciously or unconsciously denied. There is no blame in healing -- veils of perception are gently lifted so we can see and experience our own value and the value in others. In fact, our value cannot be revealed unless we offer ourselves completely to the healing process -- that means seeing and activating the value in others through listening, teaching, acting, being.

Music and the arts, which are "living compassion" are conductors of that energy. As healers, we are mere conduits for that energy. There is nothing special about what we do. Healing energy is available to all and in all -- some folks just somehow get connected with it and therefore seek to give it away sooner so that all may have. When we give that energy up, God instantly replenishes it. There is no hoarding or withholding of creative energy -- it is ever-renewing living water. It's a river without end, an ocean without bottom: healing energy.

Healing is the continuous sharing of creative and positive energy at any/all levels with or without the outcome we desire. That's why there's no fault or blame in sickness -- as long as we love and share joy then that is in and of itself healing. We can call illness or hurt a blight or we can call it an opportunity -- physical healing is one manifestation of success but so are renewal of family relationships, inner peace, revelation of personal gifts and expression. Let's not limit what healing can be or mean with our limited understanding.

No sooner do we heal others we are healed ourselves. No sooner that we are healed then we can heal others. The healed become the healers instantaneously.

One body, one mind, one community, one world, one Universe, one beyond . . . a divine dance! Illusions of separation -- vanish.