Call to therapists and healers: How to expand your practice -- give it away followed by a reflection

Harmony
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If you have been paying attention,

Which I know you have,

You know that people are hurting.

In fact, the average person

Is suffering from some kind of trauma,

Whether it is something that happened to them

That left a psychic imprint

Or is happening, such as abuse in a marriage

Or at work,

Or, if, like me, they are empathetic

Or born with a sympathetic nature,

What is happening to the Natural World

Is a constant source of trauma and distress

That exacts a toll on body and mind.

I have written about how we have five bodies,

Four more than just the physical:

We have a karmic body, an Energetic / light body

That is regulated by our (7) chakras,

Our Dream body (psychic body),

The body we identify with in our dreams,

And our Emotional body.

To heal a chronic condition

We do well to engage with therapists

Who are trained to minister to our various bodies.

The physical body is the body

That Western (allopathic) medicine

Is most familiar with.

I am a therapist, a veteran dreamworker.

That means my specialty is the Dream- or psychic-body.

But I have a chronic back issue.

Because I work with my own dreams

I do not have a back problem in my dreams.

But, because my back issue is chronic

The issue is not just physical.

If I am to get to the bottom of it

And find real healing for my back,

I need to work with a range of therapists.

On Monday I am going to have a soul-retrieval

With a shaman whose speciality is soul-work

And shamanic extraction.

I am also working with a chiropractor,

And a masseuse,

But that isn't enough.

I still need to find someone who can help me

Connect with my karmic body.

It took me more than 70 years

To understand that reincarnation

Is not just an idea or a belief-system

Or, as it is often presented in this part of the world,

An esoteric alternative to the Western scientific orthodoxy

Of empirical cause and effect.

Now that I am open to the realization

Of having lived other lives

As other people,

It is an easy step for me to see

How all of our lives are braided together with other lives

Through countless generations

Over vast periods of time.

As I say, I am ready to work with someone

Who can help me differentiate my karmic work.

And I am also looking for someone

Whose gift is working with chakras.

And after that an Ayurvedic specialist,

Or a Chinese herbalist

Who is aware of the role of Tao in medicine.

Maybe a sound healer.

You see, once we open the door to

The prospect of deep healing

The possibilities are endless.

But, and here is the catch,

Deep healing can be very expensive.

But staying sick can be even more expensive!

The path to healing makes no promises.

Total cures are rare

But the healing path guarantees one thing,

That we will learn a great deal about ourselves along the way

And the other thing that is guaranteed is

The feeling of being stuck will dissipate.

Have you noticed that people dealing with prolonged

Serious illnesses often turn

To alternative unconventional therapies

As a last resort or out of desperation?

(desperation being a great motivator).

For me this sheds light on

Another possibility, namely

That it is when we have tried the go-to

Allopathic medicines

And reached the bottom of that barrel

That is when our intuition can finally get through to us

With creative approaches that were blocked before

By our loyalty to fashion, inch onto our radar.

This can lead to a sweeping re-evaluation

Of what constitutes holistic health,

Which encompasses the healing of body,

Mind and soul.

Just healing the physical body

Is not going to unriddle the etiology or trajectory

Of a serious chronic condition

Or a recurring autoimmune condition,

Even if it seems to be all-physical in nature.

Speaking for myself,

I was so comfortable in the space

I had carved out for myself as a Jungian dream-worker /

Shamanic practitioner (with occasional check-ups

With my excellent general practitioner),

I thought I knew enough to manage my own healing.

Turns out I had a lot to learn

(Around age 68).

I realized I needed help.

Luckily there are plenty of professional

Highly skilled practitioners

Whos collective expertise

Covers the whole spectrum

Of holistic therapies. (I'm talking Breath Work,

Ketamine and psychedelic assisted therapy, chiropractic, deep massage,

Physical Therapy, Shamanic therapies (such as extraction and soul-retrieval),

Ayurvedic medicine, Acupuncture, Saunas,

Martial arts (Qi-gong, Tai Chi), a meditation practice coupled with Yoga,

Dream work {individuation]).

Now I would like to take up the question

Broached in my title, the question

Of how to afford healing a chronic condition,

Given the sheer cost of health care across the board

And the abysmal sell-out of health insurance

To run-away cold-hearted Capitalism.

This is where I appeal to healers everywhere

To consider a new paradigm for expanding your practice.

Most people could benefit from your gifts.

Given the state of the world, that is a given.

If the bottom line on your sliding scale is out of reach

Even for a person who has a full time semi-skilled job,

Then you have burned a bridge to your own community

And quite possibly, your own heart.

Now consider this:

If you give away some portion your services and time,

And you are making a difference in the lives

Of people who ordinarily cannot afford you,

Word will spread, not just that you are affordable

But that you are, what's the right word

For someone who cares.

You are a "mensch", a "good person, someone who is both likable

And admirable".

And, the best perk about being a mensch is

The universe will notice.

When you care enough to take care

Of the people in your community,

Your community expands exponentially

And eventually it becomes all of humanity.

So, I appeal to you to open to the new paradigm

Of making a better living by giving away

A certain wedge of your gift

Expecting nothing in return but a good feeling.

Are you with me?

Comprende?

Verstaan?

Shvatiti?

Forsta?

Begrijpen?

Konpraan?

Ho'omaopopo?

A thuiscint?

Fahamu?

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I will not shut up about this, about how we need to offer our gifts and services to low income folks and even no-income folks because it's just the right thing to do. It repairs an old bridge to community that washed out a long, long time ago, maybe when corporate thinking became the Western World's new fetish. Once we accept the reality of reincarnation, that makes it impossible to feel that we are better than anyone else; it leads to living by compassion and practicing empathy and sympathy for all our fellow humans and the creatures with whom we share the earth. Buddhists see this to the extreme of treating a fly or an ant as if it might have once been a relative. I can't quite live that way, but the new mystical Christian movement dovetails its theology with this Buddhist philosophy with their equating the suffering of nature with the suffering of Christ, so every suffering human or creature is an analog of Christ. Same diff, don't you think? I don't care how we get from point A (where we stand) to point Z, where every life-form is either a potential relative or sacred and Christlike. The evolution of the human spirit is accelerating. Don't you feel it?

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