Week Ninety-Four: Seeking Healing Outcomes

In a meeting with my “psycho-spiritual consultant”, a man who offers me many insights along the way, we talked about outcomes that represent healing from conflict, challenges, or difficulties of any kind. His approach is to have a clear picture of a goal in mind, holding an image or idea of how healing of the particular situation would look once it was accomplished, and then to put it away and not think about it anymore. He went on to say that, once the healing outcome is envisioned, no energy at all is to be given to how that the situation might get to that healed place, including what elements might be involved in creating that healing, or in any way attempt to preconceive how the situation would get from where it is now to the imagined healed state. In fact, he emphasized the importance of staying out of the way of the healing process, as we can only know what we know already and can’t begin to encompass the world of possibilities available to any healing endeavor. I agreed with him completely, as I have found that the most powerful healing experiences for me have come at those times when I’ve been able to completely hand over outcomes, after stating or imagining my intentions.

I also remember my grandmother, who was a healer, telling me never to become attached to the outcomes of any healing intervention or practice. Her advice, also, was to do whatever was needed to support healing and then let everything go – to get out of the way so that healing could happen in whatever ways were possible.

And so, the theme of this week’s experiment is to invite you to be aware of outcomes you seek, situations that need resolving or healing, and to affirm that healing will happen. Then, let it all go and allow healing to find its way, no matter how the process may appear on the outside. Allowing this to be an ongoing experiment can remind you to hold curiosity as your companion, and to continue to leave judgments and assumptions open until you see how the situation unfolds. You might even notice the difference between allowing things to find their own way to envisioned outcomes as compared to those times when you work hard to make things work out a certain way. Sometimes we need to be more active than at other times, and it’s useful to get a feel for which are those times when you want to do something, and which are those times when it’s more important to hand it over and get out of the way.

As with all experiments, allow this to be fun – to be an exploration into what’s possible, what feels right to you, what empowers your daily experience.

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