Should you find yourself feeling uncertain and overwhelmed as you undertake your healing
journey, understand that these feelings are natural and experienced by many. There are countless
paths you might take, and it can seem an almost hopeless task trying to identify which is the right
one to travel.
The primary reason I am such a proponent for holistic healing is that it takes the whole self into
account. This focal point is due to enhanced self-quality. You get to dream, manifest, and move
closer to a healthy mind, body, and soul. Here, we unify the conference narrative; our people can
start to see ourselves and take our lives back.
For this article, I have focused on holistic health. I have broken down the following tips to cover
spiritual healing, mental/emotional healing, and physical healing (all through the lens of
spirituality). Hence, you can follow these steps and experience advanced impact.
Holistic healing involves treating the whole person: body, mind, and spirit, as opposed to just
treating symptoms or specific diseases. The concept is rooted in the belief that when you take the
body, mind, and spirit and add them up, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Holistic
healing sees these things as inextricably connected, and when you treat one area, you affect the
others. Every person’s journey to healing is unique, which is why practitioners often rely on
multiple methods, including meditation and other types of alternative therapy, on top of
traditional talk therapy, to help patients.
Self-reflection is a potent tool that helps us heal. Everywhere you can find places to self-reflect,
you should. Here’s why: The number one sign that you need to heal is demonstrated through
symptoms. So spend time in self-reflection and review your symptoms. A symptom might be
stress, anxiety, or even neck or lower back pain that you feel all the time. Spend time in self
reflection and make the connection between how you feel and your physical health.
Stress, anxiety, headaches, holding tension in your neck or shoulders, and the oil light are all
established symptoms of long-term illness taking place in your body. When these immediate
symptoms are present long-term, they can morph into sleeplessness, irritability, difficulty
focusing, and even chronic ailments such as fatigue, body aches, and more. When these chronic
issues occur, your body is telling you there is something wrong.
This point is critical to all things natural health and teaching you how to heal your body. Now
that you’ve done all of this hard work and marathon reading, you probably already realize that
you have been doing some things that are not in your best health interest. At this point, you’re
probably being bombarded by the concept: wow, I need to deal with me and work on me and
acknowledge that I’m a mess, and if I do, then I can achieve healing. And, if I work this out and
journey on this as a conniving, conniving scavenger hunt, I just entrusted myself to the positive
healing on my own. Marketing businesses with their fast answers will be out of another victim.
Healing needs to come from the inside out, we cannot build a wall around a chronic issue and
call it ‘healing.’
This points to gradual uprooting so you can become on the inclusion list of health results that
affect curative (sustainable) health outcomes. Take your time to self-reflect on which one you
strongly feel would resonate with you and get started!
Holistic practices look at the whole person, their mind, body, and spirit, to help them reach
optimal well-being. There are many different types of practices which you may have already
heard of. Acupuncture is a technique involving thin needles inserted into your skin at specific
points. Yoga combines both physical and spiritual elements, promoting suppleness and
mindfulness. Meditation is the practice of increasing your ability to be clear-minded and
emotionally calm. Herbal medicine is precisely what it sounds like, using plants to promote good
health. The list of different holistic practices is extensive, and everyone is going to react
differently to each kind of practice. It’s essential to try various practices to see which ones (yes,
plural) resonate with you most.
When researching to see if a holistic practice is right for you, first form a set of questions that
you want answers to. What are my health goals I want to meet? Find what interests you – it can
be whatever you want to achieve well-being, just as long as it is somehow tied to well-being. For
example, you could choose physical strength, stress reduction, or even patience, because these
topics can be searched for and will yield results on specific technical or spiritual practices.
Websites that give general rundown articles of different practices (basically list articles) are a
great place to go to because you can click around and view different ones. YouTube might be
another great place to head to on this journey. There are tons of people who dedicate their lives
to these practices and who post videos explaining what they are and how they can help.
Just look somewhere. Look anywhere. Like yoga, maybe (wink wink). Go to an actual place.
This kind of activity is better experienced than read because when you read, your brain has to
make up that sensation based on the words you see and their sequence. I’m not saying this way is
bad, just that it is not as effective as experiencing it firsthand.
Creating a healing plan is the next step on the journey toward total, all-body health. Spend a few
minutes, or as long as you’d like, reviewing your physical, emotional, and mental health, and
how much of your healing is currently focused on self-assessment to identify anything else you
should be focusing on (1). For me, the areas I knew I needed to work on were stress
management, physical fitness, and emotional healing (2). Just as setting goals to be specific,
measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) is ideal, consider adding a loosely
time-bound aspect to your goals list.
However, only accompany your goals with a realistic, corresponding due date that’s still a
challenge but achievable enough to feel accomplished eventually. When deciding my goals, I
realized that my mini-goal to improve my mental health with mindfulness should be
practiced once per day. I set my daily goal in a SMART goal, time-bound-oriented fashion to be
10 minutes per day, every day, for the next 30 days.
If you are seeking sources to create a healing plan now, there are countless resources available.
Head over to your local bookstore or the personal development/self-help section and choose to
read ‘The Healing Self’ by Deepak Chopra. Don’t live near a bookstore, or want to take an online
course? Head over to the introduction page of self-help learning platforms like ‘Coursera’ or
‘Udemy.’ To write these goals and all the places you can learn about yourself, consider visiting
any local college or community center that you know loves to teach classes to others.
Utilize these opportunities to make being a beginner at something transformative!
Finding a qualified holistic practitioner can mean fewer complications and a better overall
experience. Of course, credentials always help. Most professionals got their credentials from a
legitimate organization of some kind. This means they’ve demonstrated a commitment to the
field and have had to study at least the basics in a controlled, academic setting.
You don’t become a healer to get rich (at least not in most parts of the world, in this century), and
so, a healer who has been in business for many years is probably doing something right. They
have seen a variety of cases, even “incurable” ones, and thus will have a deep bench of
professional knowledge to draw from. So don’t be shy. Ask how many years they’ve been at it
and who some of their clients have been.
The healer-to-be might ask you some personal questions during the free consultation, but this
could also actually be an ice-breaker for you to ask your set of questions. Look in online
directories that are specifically for “alternative” or “holistic” professionals. Better yet, see who
among your “healer” friends knows of a “healer” in other parts of the world with whom they
could network on your behalf. A “healer” with a current, relevant database of positive
testimonials is probably someone you could trust.
Maintaining motivation and a sense of accountability is hard. When your goals are long-term, try
to set crystal-clear, achievable milestones. Check in on your progress regularly. Break it down: if
your goal is huge, what are the smaller tasks you can “win” soon? It can often be enough to have
a quick flick through a completed journal or “done” list on a productivity app to remind yourself
just how much you’ve crushed it recently.
Motivation is also driven in part by a sense of community. Get involved with groups (whether
that’s in an online forum, a local group, or just a collection of cool people doing a similar thing to
you whom you follow on Instagram) to chat about your experiences and hear about others’
experiences. Be reassured when you hear about the difficulties other people are facing. And
celebrate each other. Others will complement you as fellow travelers on the same route toward
the same goal.
Understanding that “the journey” is the very essence of who we want to become is a massive part
of the battle in achieving our goals. We can’t visually identify the circular development process
before it occurs, and we are sometimes disappointed when faced head-on with the realities of our
goals. You can gently discourage anger, frustration, and other adverse reactions when we are in
an unhealthy, unrealistic mindset.
Every healing journey is personal: the slow walk of it, no matter how fast or slow it is, should be
celebrated. The slow walk looks different for everyone: for some, it might be healing from
heartbreak, for others, it might be physical healing, and for many more, it might be a consistent
connection to source and spirit. So, if you’re someone who might have the “set” of “life
circumstances,” “betrayals,” or “wounds,” that seem “greater:” more “invalidating,” more,
“heartbreaking,” more “intense” than usual, it almost becomes a game of what this person might
or might not be doing “right” (or wrong). Not ever, fully appreciating that it is not a “race,” to see
“who can.” The only race is to love: to remind everyone that there is no “race,” there’s only you,
with yourself, and your “truly” personal relationship with life or source. I can genuinely
appreciate every method of healing: for some, it might be “journaling,”- in complete peace, for
others it might be “jumping out of a plane,”- “partying it up,” or in any other type of “activity,” or
“creation”- the key is to listen, if you start to let go of everything “others” want for you, only
then, can you begin to remember.
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