Dolf's Blog
Integral thoughts about development, humanity, spirituality
What is Healing?
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During my education, we did an exercise to find our mission as a therapist. Connected to that we had to find a symbol for ourselves.
Mine was a lamp. As a lamp, my mission was to enlighten people. You can interpret that in several ways. In the first place, it means showing people a path to grow and possibly towards enlightenment. On the other hand, it meant that I wanted to bring light to people's lives, help them to heal themselves.
Those two parts have become pivotal in the Integral way of therapy that I am trying to do: healing and growth. I believe you need to heal certain parts in your history before you can grow further. For instance, if we have experienced something traumatic in our youth that still has an impact in our life today, it may prevent us from growing further in a healthy way. The foundation must be strong in order to be able to support the building that rests on it. Therefore, I propose healing of the most relevant parts of our development (that is, as far as they are apparently blocking our well-being at this moment - I am not a fan of never-ending therapy and workshops to dig up all small things that may be out there) and only after that going through growth. Growth without healing is no option - it will make us collapse in the end.
Healing and growth are the basic parts of the path to enlightenment.
