The Healer’s Journey, Are You Ready For Challenges?

The Healer’s Journey, Are You Ready For Challenges?

By Bart Sharp

When we take on the title as healer it encompasses more than being someone who is willing to change people’s lives.  First and foremost the person that we are required to create the biggest healing is ourselves.

If we examine the history of the healer, the shaman or the magician we see a person we typically find a person that seeks a deeper knowledge.  Someone that is willing to blaze paths into unknown worlds whether that be in another physical reality or the hidden worlds within our own body, mind and soul.

Healers of today have similar responsibilities to their clients.  They explore the places that our clients have yet to venture in unresolved conflicts, suppressed emotions or shadow sides that hold the fears and/or energies that prohibit the person from transforming.  Each modality has its gifts to offer.  For example, if we are a psycho-therapist we explore the undiscovered sides of the psychi or a Reiki Master activates  energies associated with nature and lighter realities within the client.

To become the best possible healer we cannot limit ourselves to learning the parameters of what is prescribed in our modality.  A therapist will be exposed to their intuitive abilities just like an energetic healer will have the darker sides of themselves come up as they bring lighter energies into their reality.  It is a natural process of doing inner/energy work.  If personal challenges for growth are not occurring then the healer might ask why it is not for them.

The path of the healer is a holistic process of evolving all of the person: body, mind and soul.  Anyone that works with other people will have psychological issues come up.   When we help open someone else to a deeper place inside themselves we create that same possibility for us.  Therefore our own inner issues will be opened with our work.  Our body will find some way to communicate with us that we are confronting our unknown so it is paramount we pay attention to how our sessions affect us.

If we neglect our awareness the issues brought forth will find a way to manifest into our body.  It is our body’s way of trying to resolve issues, create a protection or as a way to send a more direct message to us.   For example; a therapist may gain weight as a way of protecting themselves.  An overworked massage therapist may have elbow and shoulder problems as the issues that they carry manifest into the places they work the most.  A Reiki practitioner may take on the limitations of their clients through their energetic intimacy with the client their own unresolved issues on the topic lock it into their own body.  Listening to our body will always guide us from getting stuck in the issues that we are helping our clients transform.

Our body wants us to release these issues therefore it will find ways to communicate to us what we are ready to release.  Our body is holding all of our suppressed emotional issues that are a weight upon it.  When we open the door to finally letting these go through our healing work our body welcomes the release and will help us.  That is one reason we should always be open to listening to our body’s messages.

The more important issue at hand is that our work with others will be a doorway for our own limitations to surface.  At some level we give the message to us that we wish for this to occur by working with others.

To complement our own journey we will attract clients that are ready for the depths we have achieved within us.  Clients will consciously and/or unconsciously know that you have something that will help them.

We will also attract clients that we are ready for the challenges we are ready to confront within ourselves.   This concept comes from the belief that we have been on this earth for so many life-times that we need to be open to the possibility that we have done or been everything or encountered it in some way.  Therefore, we always need to be open to the possibility that we have some kind of limitation with any issue a client brings up.

This is why when we work with others on a regular basis we know it will bring issues up for us.

The issues of our clients as what they bring to the table is absorbed into us.  Each healer is confronted with how they interact with what they are projected onto by the people they work with.  This is where I see so many healers create health issues because what they take on from their clients is more than their body, mind or spirit can absorb.