Comments on: You are your own best healer! http://dragonflyreiki.net/2009/12/you-are-your-own-best-healer/ Reiki treatment, classes and coaching for healing, wellness and life transformation. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:30:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dana http://dragonflyreiki.net/2009/12/you-are-your-own-best-healer/comment-page-1/#comment-170 dana Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:57:31 +0000 http://dragonflyreiki.net/?p=179#comment-170 Thanks Sherri! I am going to check out Wayne Dyer's books. I've received several recommendations for them recently, which tells me it's something I need to explore. I also agree with you that many of us hold on to our issues and illnesses as a way not to deal with the frank introspection and discomfort involved with making necessary changes. However, as my husband wisely told me once, "When the pain of staying the same becomes too much, then change usually occurs." One of the things I have observed is that some people hold on to the issues and illnesses is a way to validate their experience. Unfortunately, what happens over time is that the person is not just having the experience of being sick, of being victimized or hurt in some way - they <em>become</em> that experience and their suffering intensifies. While that can get some emotional needs met in the short term, it really doesn't get to the root of the problem, wherein the healing truly lies. I had to do a lot of work like that over the years and the experience of letting go of all the things that no longer served me was liberating. It's not always easy work but once you submit to it, as you said, it's amazing how the pieces start to fit together. Thank you, as always, for your insightful comments! Thanks Sherri! I am going to check out Wayne Dyer’s books. I’ve received several recommendations for them recently, which tells me it’s something I need to explore.

I also agree with you that many of us hold on to our issues and illnesses as a way not to deal with the frank introspection and discomfort involved with making necessary changes. However, as my husband wisely told me once, “When the pain of staying the same becomes too much, then change usually occurs.” One of the things I have observed is that some people hold on to the issues and illnesses is a way to validate their experience. Unfortunately, what happens over time is that the person is not just having the experience of being sick, of being victimized or hurt in some way – they become that experience and their suffering intensifies. While that can get some emotional needs met in the short term, it really doesn’t get to the root of the problem, wherein the healing truly lies.

I had to do a lot of work like that over the years and the experience of letting go of all the things that no longer served me was liberating. It’s not always easy work but once you submit to it, as you said, it’s amazing how the pieces start to fit together.

Thank you, as always, for your insightful comments!

]]> By: Sherri http://dragonflyreiki.net/2009/12/you-are-your-own-best-healer/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Sherri Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:57:31 +0000 http://dragonflyreiki.net/?p=179#comment-169 Dana, I totally agree that our healing ultimately all comes from within. We can get a fix from medicine sometimes, but the problem will appear again, in another form or disease, in aging, or other means, if we do not heal the root cause. Like you, I think that Reiki is one of many tools. The process often facilitates our opening to healing, but we still have to be accepting of it, and also be willing to work on the cause - or even to just let go of the cause. I use many tools as well, including prayer, meditation, introspection, and surrender in getting to that root healing. The surrender process has been big for me because it involves both acknowledgment (getting out of denial) and release (letting go of it). We sometimes have a tendency to hold on to our issues and ailments because they give us excuses to stay where we are, but the act of release sets us free and also makes us accountable, so that we don't have as many excuses left. I love Louise Hay's book. I also love Wayne Dyer's latest, "Excuses Begone" (and pretty much all of his stuff). Both are good tools to help us realize that our healing and our spiritual growth are in our own hands. Thanks for all that you do to promote healing! Dana,
I totally agree that our healing ultimately all comes from within. We can get a fix from medicine sometimes, but the problem will appear again, in another form or disease, in aging, or other means, if we do not heal the root cause. Like you, I think that Reiki is one of many tools. The process often facilitates our opening to healing, but we still have to be accepting of it, and also be willing to work on the cause – or even to just let go of the cause. I use many tools as well, including prayer, meditation, introspection, and surrender in getting to that root healing. The surrender process has been big for me because it involves both acknowledgment (getting out of denial) and release (letting go of it). We sometimes have a tendency to hold on to our issues and ailments because they give us excuses to stay where we are, but the act of release sets us free and also makes us accountable, so that we don’t have as many excuses left.

I love Louise Hay’s book. I also love Wayne Dyer’s latest, “Excuses Begone” (and pretty much all of his stuff). Both are good tools to help us realize that our healing and our spiritual growth are in our own hands.

Thanks for all that you do to promote healing!

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