By Dr. Lissa Rankin MD

 

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

 

I just finished teaching a workshop at Kripalu about the 6 Steps To Healing Yourself from Mind Over Medicine, and one of the questions that came up over and over was “How do I learn to hear the voice of my intuition?” We all know there exists within us this part that I call your “Inner Pilot Light” and it holds the keys to not only optimal health, but healthy relationships, finding and fulfilling your calling, tapping into your connection with the Divine, and making aligned decisions. Yet many people don’t feel connected to this inner voice.

 

My dear friend Shiloh Sophia and I are teaching a virtual art workshop recently about how to strengthen your relationship with this part of you. (You can view the details here.)  I asked Shiloh to help us understand what it might mean to tune into this wisdom force and come into alignment with this guidance system. In this guest blog, she shares 5 keys to unlocking your Inner Healer.

 

Take it away, Shiloh!

 

“I’ve tried all the ‘heal yourself’ techniques that have cured others, so why am I still sick?”

 

“I feel like no matter what, I just can’t quite figure out this self healing stuff, and I am ashamed to tell others I have been unsuccessful.”

 

“I think I must just be too damaged from the wounds of the past to ever be truly whole, I am just broken.”

 

If you have found true healing to be illusive, perhaps you have found yourself saying things like this. These statements become beliefs that block healing.

 

Unlocking the potential of your Inner Healer begins with a choice to make a connection with your inner world. Here you can get access to the keys that open the hidden places within you where healing information lives. These keys belong to you and are used to define your own journey and experience of personal power on your own terms. You don’t need to be ‘all better’ or have your ‘stuff in a pile’ to have an experience of wholeness right where you are, right now. The Inner Healer is a powerful presence within you that is a consciously chosen relationship, one that can change everything about how you relate to your wounds and your worlds.

 

These ideas and inquiries are designed to provide you with immediately applicable practices, or keys, that serve to unlock access to the healing information that may be available to you. The “wound” you are grappling with might be a physical illness, or it may be an energy blockage or an emotional wound. The wound is whatever it is that ails you, and also, informs you. As Rumi says, “The wound is place where the light enters.”

 

5 Keys To Unlocking Your Inner Healer

 

1. Key of Surrender

 

There is freedom available when you are willing to let go of knowing, or needing there to be a reason.

 

Resist the idea of it being someone’s fault, especially yours.

 

Hopelessness, frustration and confusion often result when you are trying your hardest to do everything you can, read every book on the subject, and see every healer and still, you aren’t able to cure what harms you or holds you back. Maybe you feel even worse after you have been trying a while, because not only are you not healed, now you feel ashamed because your visualizations and affirmations aren’t yielding the desired results. The effort you make in gaining control often feels fruitless – and can be exhausting. We keep searching for the ‘reason’ or the meaning and often this informs us, but it can also hold us back. There is a great mystery in our world and not all of it has clear reasons.

 

Perhaps you think getting wounded in the first place is your fault, or the fault of someone else. Even if that is ‘true’ on some direct or indirect level, the energy of blame is not conducive to creating healing pathways. Perhaps there isn’t a reason or an answer to be found. Blame is a hindrance to communicating with your Inner Healer. Forgiveness opens the channels, but only when you are ready to surrender needing to have all the reasons.

 

2. Key of Choice

 

Choose to establish a conscious connection with the life force known as the Inner Healer.

 

All of us have the capacity to heal, but not all of us will heal.

 

Regardless of a full healing the experience we have of our lives is determined by our perspective and what we believe is possible. A relationship with the Inner Healer is a call and response. This connection enables Information to travel from the unconscious realm where the clues to healing often live into the conscious realm so that you can take informed action on behalf of your healing.

 

Everyone has an Inner Healer who is in the on-going process of awakening. Even if you don’t know what that means yet, you have the opportunity to be open to the possibility so that systems can begin to come into alignment and bring you information that wasn’t available when trying to think and act yourself well. Consider the realm of distance healing where we know that the human mind employs Quantum Physics to make an intent for healing be realized. We have heard many stories about it happening over long distances, over the phone, and through prayer, and most of us believe this evidence, and yet we have trouble believing that we can send a message the brief distance to our inner world and have it heard! When the messages begin to flow more freely, the connection will be strengthened and potential will be released.

 

3. Key of Authority

 

Choose to be the one to define your experience of both your wound and the way it is being transformed.

 

Choosing to work with your inner Healer is an invitation to overcome the shame of being sick.

 

CONTINUE READING

 

Previous articles by Lissa:

• 7 Stories That Will Make You Believe in Miracles
• The Role Of The Doctor: Pharmacist Or Therapist?
• 10 Health Habits They Don’t Teach in Medical School
• Coming Out of the Spiritual Closet
• 8 Ways Overcoming Fear Can Improve Your Health
• 10 Fun Ways to Reduce Your Cortisol Levels
• 6 Stories To Make You Believe In The Power Of The Mind To Heal You
• 6 More Stories To Make You Believe In The Power Of The Mind To Heal You
• A Radical Way To Grow Spiritually In A Relationship
• 5 Questions Guaranteed To Help You Know Yourself Better
• The Health Benefits Of Finding Your Tribe
• 7 Tips For Finding Your Tribe
• 10 Surprising Things That Trigger “Fight-Or-Flight”

 

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