As I’ve mentioned before, healing comes from within. Our bodies fix themselves just fine without our help, at least in the vast majority of cases. But physical healing isn’t the only kind there is. Sometimes we are feeling pain or otherwise out-of-whack emotionally. This healing, too, comes from within.
When you hurt, for any reason, it’s typical to turn to others for help. And if you know someone who is hurting, it’s natural to want to comfort and help them. There’s nothing wrong with this… in fact, turning to others is a great way to handle the unexpected. But others cannot stop the pain or discomfort. All their influence can do is relieves some of the stress temporarily.
The healing is, itself, the releasing of all the negative energies (in whatever form they happen to be in). This healing happens internally. When you let go of the last of the negative energies, the healing is complete.
Of course, it isn’t always that simple. Sometimes letting go of everything takes months or years. Sometimes you need to let go of things that you don’t even know are part of you. Sometimes you have to let go of things that aren’t even yet part of you, that come up as a result of other stuff that you haven’t even gotten to yet. Only when the last of it is gone are you ‘over it’.
But there isn’t anything anyone else can do to flush out those negatives. Nobody can take the thoughts in your head and the emotions in your heart and let them go. Only you can do that. Communication with others may give you insight, strength, or perspective, but it can’t do the letting go.
Emotional healing, true restoration, only comes from within us. It comes from the body, the mind, and the spirit finding balance. When we are balanced, we are emotionally fine.
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Quote for the week
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Healthy thoughts,
Jeff
