How Holistic Healers and Healing Really Works

There has been a fallacy that has been a part of the holistic health movement and I’m here to change the language, and to shine light to Truth. You see, I was told in Chinese Medicine school and have heard from other healers as I’ve trained that I should not even call myself a healer, let alone let others think I could have some responsibility for the healing of a person.

While I do agree each person who comes to me ultimately is ready for their own healing, I cannot take myself out of the equation that my energy and what I do does not transform and create the healing along with what the patient does. In fact, I am essential to the outcome of the healing of the patient and an integral part of the healing system. My intention and my care, compassion and focus during sessions are what creates a healing outcome.

And this is where the big difference between the Western model for healing and Alternative and Eastern medicine comes in. In Western medicine, there are technological devices that can “tell” a person if they have disease or not. These tools are used to determine an outcome, and the doctor then tells the patient their healing outcome based on numbers and evidence that can only be double blind, empirically tested. This rigidity will never be found in nature. The doctor often gives nothing else to the effect of giving hope to someone who is in a state of dis-ease other than the model they have been given, which has a shockingly low rate of success, and often given without compassion. Which is why people leave and find practitioners like myself.

You see in Eastern medicine we see and use the laws of nature and its principles and apply them to the body to regain health. Therefore, we can see there are cycles that one must go through in a healing process, and have a holistic focus that is absolutely necessary for the patient to heal. You cannot heal unless you address the body (food and movement), the mind (thinking and emotions, how one is in relationships) and how one is to their environment (work, purpose, downtime, etc.). And of course we have to look at the spiritual implications of a person which plays into all of those aforementioned to bring about balance.

So rituals along with prescriptions for a holistic way to heal one’s self is needed, along with the healing heart and hands or tools of the practitioner, such as the acupressure and bodywork that I give. With repeated treatments that address each aspect, and continue to help someone to address those underlying mental, emotional, spiritual and physical things must continue until the patient has been able to shift into new habits, and their spirit is healed.

Another thing that Western medicine seems to forget about is proven by Quantum Physics and this is regarding the “field” and what we think about the patient and their ability to heal. I have had many people come to me with a diagnosis that they are told is life-threatening or that they will have for the rest of their life. Neither is true in my mind, and this is and should be something that every healer should be aware of and be able to convey to their patient. There is no greater gift than hope, and the greatest menace I see is delivered by Western doctors who tell a patient they have only a short time to live, or their only options are drugs, radiation, chemo or surgery, which aren’t always successful for a short time, not successful long-term, and that there is nothing they can do with their diet or lifestyle. Our minds are powerful, and hope as well as negativity is contagious. Sometimes the greatest gift we can give is to tell someone they will get well, and that is enough to create the awareness that can begin to shift an internal belief, and therefore a trajectory.

We are capable of healing, and we are more powerful than we have been told or been led to believe by our families and by our culture. It is time to take our power back. We can all heal from chronic conditions. I have and many others I know have. There is always hope.