Reconnection: A Reframe On Healing

I’ve been a cancer patient. I’ve been on the receiving end of domestic abuse. I have big and little trauma, like everyone else. I’ve spent years using and honing holistic healings, self-healing practices, meditations, and spiritual connections in the name of self-healing. 20,000 hours plus, if we’re counting.

No, I’m not a western medical professional. What I’ve learned and experienced they don’t even teach cohesively, or at all, in any American university. As far as credentialing I am a certified minister, yoga instructor, wellness counselor and tools for transformation teacher.

So let’s put a disclaimer on this: If you want medical advice, go see a medical professional. If you want distilled expression of personal experience in multidimensional healing, then this is the correct blog for you.

Often times, we think of healing as the action that we use to fix something “broken” or “damaged”. This is an extension of consumerism, which absolutely has a strong hold in our medical systems, where we are conditioned to buy into quick problem solving. Don’t get me wrong, modern medicine is tremendous, and I have benefitted from strong science and experienced physicians in many ways.

I am talking about multidimensional healing, aka overall wellness. Wellness, meaning greater levels in harmony of body, mind, emotions and spirit. This is the realm of wholeness.

In this context, I define healing as a reconnecting with aspects of ourselves that we have consciously and unconsciously been disconnected from. We’re not broken, we’re simply reconnecting, and as humans we are hard-wired for connection. It’s what we’re here to experience— deep connection with ourselves and others. In meta terms, this is the love legacy we leave on the planet and in the cellular memory of fellow humans.

I love being Meta, but I also love being specific, intentional and practical. So, I’ve gathered a few basic wellness questions that doctors, shamans, and healers have asked for centuries that your GP probably isn’t asking you. They are an organic, powerful baseline for healing, greater wellness, and overall wholeness of mind, body, emotion, and spirit.

On A Consistent Daily Basis Do You:

Connect with nature?

Drink enough water?

Eat nourishing food as your primary diet?

Have supportive relationships you can count on?

Have something you love you do for simple pleasure?

Have someone you love?

Choose joy in your interactions (be light, silly, playful)?

Sing, dance, or engage with music/rhythm?

Move your body until you sweat?

Choose moments of stillness or rest?

Chose to admire beauty around you?

Choose to appreciate all you have + are experiencing?

Choose to believe in your own growth, beauty, and potential?

Choose to believe you are supported by yourself, others, and a higher order?

These are practices we all are responsible for. Healing is a personal journey, and one of personal choice. You have the power to hold yourself— absolutely everything you think, feel, and do. Always remember this. No one is broken, and you can choose reconnection to yourself and the world around you at any moment. The only thing that feels like brokenness is the sense of disconnection, and the inevitable effort it will take to choose the repeated action steps of reconnecting.

We need connection to thrive; connection to our bodies, our sense of play, our sense of fulfillment, our sense of creation, our sense of relationship to others, and our belief in something greater than we can’t necessarily see, but can absolutely feel.

Cheers to our collective healing, and reconnection.

Love, Ash