Healing can Happen

Healing can happen

Healing is incredibly powerful, yet more than 50% of the process depends on the person living it. Although this is a truth many people still don’t acknowledge, it happens because no individual, doctor, therapist, or healer can truly treat someone who doesn’t want to be treated, cared for, and healed. As a result, doctors and therapists can only offer tools; the real healing process is born within each of us.

When I faced this truth, it was, in fact, a hard pill to swallow. It even brought me a series of questions:

• To what extent does someone truly want to be healed?
• Are we willing to face the challenges that arise along the healing process?
• How do we know if we need to begin that process?
• Are we prepared to go through with it?
• Where do we even start a healing journey?

So, some time ago, I asked myself these – and many other – questions. And the final decision was clear: YES, I want to heal.

I embraced that with body, mind, and soul! I faced the challenges life placed before me, one by one. And along the way, I realized something essential: this is a lifelong path, not a short race with a finish line just up ahead. Even so, I wouldn’t trade (and I still don’t) for anything. I want to keep living my life fully, open to the best experiences it has to offer.

So, let’s start at the very beginning – which is always a great place to start.

Question: Where do we begin a healing journey?

My answer is simple and direct: it begins with a personal decision. A conscious choice to recognise that something needs to change in your life – and to take responsibility for that change. Then simply say: Yes, I want to heal, and I accept responsibility throughout my entire healing process.

To heal, we need to acknowledge our inner ghosts, our fears, and our fragilities just as much as we acknowledge our strength and our inner power. This journey begins with love in the heart, mind, and soul. Because loving ourselves – and everything around us -should be the central axis of our existence. Healing through love, not through pain. Believe me, it can be done in both ways. We can talk about this when we meet one of these days.

Many authors speak about healing, and it can be seen through different perspectives or philosophies. Each of us can choose the one we identify with most.

Very briefly, I’ll mention three authors who are especially close to me: Carl Jung, the founder of Analytical Psychology, known for his theory of the collective unconscious; Abraham Maslow, known for his creation, The Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs; and Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations, Systemic Constellations, and also in recent years, the Movements of the Spirit-Mind.

In conclusion, we may choose to heal the body, the mind, the soul – or all three at the same time. Still, I deeply believe we live life as one. Our “elements” are not separate. That’s why healing, in my perspective, should be seen holistically, as a whole!

In my healing and personal growth process, I choose that path: to work on everything together – body, mind, and soul – caring for the Essence of our being.

Question: How do we know we need to begin a healing process?

You can start by asking yourself a few questions. For example, have you ever felt – or do you still feel:

• A deep fear or sadness?
• Anxiety?
• A loss that left you sad or down?
• Anger stored inside you?
• Aversions or phobias without a clear conscious reason?
• Situations that keep repeating in your life, as if they were patterns?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this is, without a doubt, a path worth exploring – it’s time to begin your healing journey.

I’ve been doing this work in my personal life for many years, and because of that, I decided to turn it into my professional oath as well. That’s what led me to study what I studied and to choose the journey I’m living: understanding the Human Being as a Whole Integrated Entity.

If you feel the calling, give yourself that opportunity. Join your path to mine. Let’s walk together, allow our lives to touch along the way. Simply like that!

At the end of this reading, I will also share a small challenge to begin this journey – a simple exercise that takes only a few minutes.

For now, I’ll say goodbye with a… see you soon!

Because I know we’ll meet somewhere along the way…

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Exercise

So, before you begin, read everything all the way to the end and get a sheet of paper or a notebook, as well as some writing or drawing materials – choose whichever feels most meaningful to you. Enjoy every moment, bring your thoughts with you, and keep your focus on what you’re doing.

Part 1

Stand in front of a mirror. Look directly into your own eyes and breathe slowly and deeply, inhaling and exhaling a few times.

Then begin reading these words out loud three times in a row, slowly and with your heart fully present (keep breathing and keep your gaze on the mirror):

“I love you always and forever, wherever you may be.

I love you unconditionally, regardless of the decisions you make or have made in life.

Love you forever, and I promise I will never abandon you!”

You can do this exercise more than once – whenever you feel the desire or the need. It’s always good to remind ourselves how much we love ourselves.

Part 2

Choose a place where you can spend 10 minutes contemplating what is around you. It can be by a window at home, on a balcony, in the garden, or outside – choose wherever you feel like being.

During those 10 minutes, ask yourself the following question: What is there for you to see?

• Throughout that time, keep your attention on your breathing.
• At the end, write five short sentences or make about five short drawings/images about what you felt (choose what you prefer).

Also note (just for yourself) whether you classify each sentence or drawing as “positive” or “negative”, without judging the classification. One day you’ll pick up this paper and look at it again, the way you would look at an old photograph.

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Yours in Life,

Essentya

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