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The Alchemy of Healing
al·che·my: transformation of matter ; to convert base metals into gold or to find a Universal Elixir.
Awareness
‘The wound is the place where light enters you’ - Rumi
Healing requires change, and that change starts with awareness. Deep-rooted traumas are stored in our cellular memory, locked within our tissues and suppressed emotions until something triggers them. These triggers can arise in unexpected ways through situations or people we encounter. Life presents these challenges as opportunities to face and heal the underlying causes of our physical and emotional imbalances.
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It indicates that the body cannot hold the pain anymore and is ready to release what has become toxic.
Our bodies are wondrous. All the cells working together in a complex harmony and balance stemming from our conscious awareness is a magnificent symphony. When cells become injured, disrupted and imbalanced the disease process begins. When we are traumatized— whether physically or emotionally— we go into shock and protect ourselves and the wound gets enclosed in flesh. Life leaves an impression.
The adrenals kick in with the survival response (fight, flight, freeze) and over time the physical wounds heal but the emotional wounds may not. Instead, they get pushed into the deeper layers of the skin eventually affecting the organs and tissues that have an affinity to the emotions being held in the body.
These areas of the body become sensitive and weaker and over time eventually disrupting the integrity of the body and mind. The body is always seeking homeostasis – balance. Those sensitivities, holding old emotions, become triggered showing us what we need to heal to create balance, health, well-being, and ease. We have to become aware of what triggers us. To become aware, we must learn to observe; to be mindful. To respond rather than react.
Acceptance
‘Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside awakes’ - C. Jung
To heal, we must first see and feel it. Awareness is the first step. Once we recognize our thought patterns, emotional triggers, and coping mechanisms, we can acknowledge and accept them. This acceptance allows the emotional charge to be released, making way for new neural pathways and responses to form.
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Until then, especially under moments of great stress, we automatically find ourselves re-acting, playing out the old script and old neural pathways.
This process of release occurs in waves and layers, with the more recent traumas and emotions being released first. Almost chronologically, beginning from now back into the past, we release the old emotional charges and scripts. What has become hardened will be dissolved by the forces of life, allowing us to find our voice and our true self; our true nature.
Like any death, the old needs to be reflected upon, letting go of the negative charges, and allowing grieving in all its stages. This is generally the stage of the healing crisis, when we connect to different aspects of our self stuck in time and space due to trauma and unprocessed emotions viewing the present through the eyes of the past. By allowing release of blocked energy, allowing emotional release, more clarity regarding our wound(s) is possible. Our posture reveals what we are holding.
Action
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” - E.M. Forster
Surrender is an act of will. True letting go happens when we realize we can’t control everything, and holding on takes too much energy. As we begin to release, exhaustion surfaces from years spent maintaining control and coping patterns. Like a heavy suit of armour we’ve carried for years, we eventually collapse under its weight, struggling to remove it.
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“Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.” George Feurerstein
Surrendering allows us to move into the flow of life. To find trust in life again, and with it, the natural forces of healing and change. Self-forgiveness is essential for healing, without it we cannot let go. Forgiveness frees us. We can let the past and our wounds define us, or we can let them refine us.
In each moment we can choose to respond consciously or react unconsciously, and there will be moments of both for some time before the new neural pathways override the old connections. It takes time, trust, commitment to self, openness, tenderness, compassion, humility and vulnerability. Healing requires love with many doses of laughter. When in such a vulnerable place, before integration, any harshness will elicit a protective defense against further wounding. Wounds only heal when touched by compassion.
‘Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease’ Hippocrates
Healing encompasses the act of letting go of who we thought we were and allowing who we really are to emerge, integrated and whole – body, mind, and soul.
‘Healing is an inside job” BJ Palmer
Integration - as we let go of old aspects of self that were based on other’s opinions and coping mechanisms we go deeper into our wounds. Releasing the unprocessed emotions that arise helps us recover those parts of our self ( shadow parts) that had otherwise been frozen in time, either through trauma, abuse, betrayal, rejection, abandonment, loss, neglect, or inappropriate responsibility. When we react, we act from the emotional age in which the wounding occurred, especially the deepest wounds, which can blindside us in their immediacy and intensity. But when we respond, we are no longer behaving from the child or teenager. We have lived and learned and been transformed by life, tempering our character and directing our actions. At this point in healing, it’s time to assimilate and integrate our lost parts within.
These parts offer much wisdom when embraced and accepted. Integration can be done in many ways and take many forms; journaling, storytelling, drama and acting, working with archetypes, can help us to let go of the ‘personal’ story and understand our story from a larger perspective. During this period play is important, laughter crucial, body and breath-work essential, and sharing those parts with others whom you trust and respect vital to real and lasting change .
