Healing- Seeing into the darkness

Healing- Seeing into the darkness

I was contemplating the concept or the idea of healing recently and it make me wonder what the word healing actually means. According to the dictionary is states healing is “the act or process of regaining health” which is an acceptable description, but it also goes on to state “a new drug to accelerate healing”. Unfortunately, this description is at the core fundamental issue we are seeing in today’s society. Healing through taking a pill to block or cover whatever symptoms you have. Western medicine’s perception of healing is to cover, block and numb the body so you can’t feel the anxiety building within you. Anxiety is not something that can be suppressed or blocked. Blocking anxiety will always be a band aid approach and never a true healing remedy. Anxiety is a result of previous or existing emotional trauma that is suppressed or blocked, it’s sadly not the cause

The shamanic perception of healing holds a very different approach. Shamanic shadow work is focused on healing the trauma that causes the anxiety. This work is about the energetics of the trauma and di-ease within the bodies energy system. This can only be done with courage, commitment and time. This is not a quick fix pill, neither is it easy, it’s about being honest and open to what your body, your mind and your soul have been trying to say to you. Anxiety is about your body saying “I’m not happy, please listen to me”

30 minutes after a mare gives birth to a foal it can stand, walk around and hopefully start suckling from its mother, all on its own. Human children are utterly dependant on their caregivers for its every need. Human nature has made its so that because of that dependency children are genetically wired as youngster to love their parents. I once read a statement that really stayed with me, and I see it countless times in clients and also in my own journey. Because of this dependency if children and young adults are impacted with emotional, physical or mental abuse, the child doesn’t stop loving the parents, it stops loving itself!

Children and young adults, even some mature adults don’t seem to have the understanding to be able to express these emotions authentically, so they suppress them because they believe them to be wrong, or because they feel like no one will understand. This causes the blocked or suppressed emotions to restrict and impede the bodies energetics and causing a dis-ease in the body. This dis-ease can manifest in a variety of outcomes- anxiety, depression and disease. Shamanic practitioners call this shadow...

Shamanic practitioners have been delving into this for millennia. They teach us that anxiety is not the cause, but the result of other deeper underlying imbalances in the bodies energetic system. Shadow walking is the art of seeing or feeling the way through a person’s rejected or hidden parts of themselves that are unloved and generally thought to be unwanted. Being able to see the client’s energetic blocks, to be able to walk into the consciousness of that client to see if their soul has fragmented during severe trauma. This is what true healing is about. It’s about being authentic, being raw and being brave enough to walk through those traumatic experience so you can understand why your inner child is upset, angry, sad or just tired of life.

Your shadow is part of you, it’s not some horrible part that is wrong or negative, shadow is in balance with the light, both light and shadow are needed for balance and for total personal sovereignty. Only once you shine a light into the darkness can you truly heal and release your past in authentic heart-based acceptance of yourself...

My journey was about walking myself through my own darkness and shadow, falling over in the darkness until I found my inner child sitting in the corner of a dark room angry and alone. Only after sitting with myself in the shadow and the darkness did I begin to rebuild my soul and heal the trauma and my lack of self-love and self-worth issues.

Seeing into the darkness is part of healing, in fact maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Nigel @ Wolf Healing