Healing
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Healing
Healing is the process of repairing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual damage incurred by the Physical Unit, either accidentally or as a consequence of this planet's Toxic Socialization process. Healing restores the Physical Unit to a condition of health, Alignment, and Connection.
Related Terms
Healing > Essential Needs, Health, Human Development, Medical Model, More-Than-Human, Neurodecolonization, Technologies of the Self
Syncretic Terms Healing
Healing Outcomes
List of Healing Practices
Healing Practice > ACT Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, Fusion Therapy, Integral Medicine, Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, Positive Psychology, Spirit Canoe, Transpersonal Nursing
Notes
The struggle begins with men's [sic] recognition that they have been destroyed." [1]
Healing and Spirituality
Healing is one aspect of Authentic Spirituality. All authentic religions, all authentic spiritual practices whether they be institutionalized or indigenous, modern or ancient, concern themselves with healing. See the LP's substantive definition of Religion.
- "Prior to colonial subjugation of AI (American Indian) cultural and spiritual activities, AI communities maintained therapeutic knowledge for 'doctoring' (or healing) a wide variety of maladies."[2]
Robbins, Hong, and Jennings point out that mystical perspectives go together with the healing traditions in fol and tribal worldviews.[3]
Healing is a common outcome of authentic Connection. "Such transpersonal states can have a very beneficial transformative influence on the recipients and their lives. They can alleviate various forms of emotional and psychosomatic disorders, as well as difficulties in interpersonal relationships. They can also reduce aggressive tendencies, improve self-image, increase tolerance towards others, and enhance the general quality of life. Among the positive aftereffects is often a deep sense of connection with other people and nature."[4]
Shamanism, as practiced in ancient and modern times, revolves around the healing power of connection and connection supplements. Krippner provides an interesting survey of healing practices in various contexts, and by various actors, including shamans, priests, mediums, sorceres, witches, and the like.[5] For more, see the page on Shamans
Healing, whether that be physical, emotional, psychological, or spiritual, is a critical and pervasive component of all Authentic Spirituality. It is central to traditional Sioux spirituality[6], a key component of Alcoholics Anonymous,[7] which is traditionally deeply spiritual[8]...
Meredith McGuire points to several studies where Connection and Connection Experience have led to significant personal healing, mostly conceptualized superstitiously as attunement to agencies responsive to human communication.[9]
Connection often leads to significant, even miraculous, healing. Bill Wilson recounts the Connection Experience that cured him of his alcoholism and activated him to create Alcoholics Anonymous. He notes that after the experience, one of his unmet needs, the need to feel love and belong, was instantly met. [10]
St. Teresa of Avila speaks of the healing power of connection:
God does not allow us to drink of this water of perfect contemplation whenever we like: the choice is not ours; this Divine union is something quite supernatural, given that it may cleanse the soul and leave it pure and free from the mud and misery in which it has been plunged because of its sins.[11]
Bobbi Parish notes that the "spiritual discoveries...and the self-esteem they gained [from Connection Practice was healing in ways standard therapy had not been."[12]
Deloria speaks of the centrality of healing practices in indigenous religions and notes that "the healing disciplines came originally from religious beliefs and ...practices."[13]
The LP HEALING Framework offers a framework understanding the core issues of the healing process.
Advanced Healing Practices are practices that take into account the significance and importance of Consciousness and Connection to the healing process.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 2005.p. 68
- ↑ Gone, Joseph P. “Decolonization as Methodological Innovation in Counseling Psychology: Method, Power, and Process in Reclaiming American Indian Therapeutic Traditions.” Journal of Counseling Psychology 68, no. 3 (2021): 259–70. p. 260.
- ↑ Robbins, Rockey, Ji Hong, and Aaron M. Jennings. “In the Pause and Listening to the Little People: A Folk Healer’s Journey.” The Counseling Psychologist 40, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 93–132. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000011410892.
- ↑ Grof, Christina, and Stanislav Grof. The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformational Crises. Penguin, 1990. https://amzn.to/2UtkgP1. p. 41.
- ↑ Krippner, Stanley. Spiritual Dimensions of Healing. New York: Irvington Publishers, 1992.
- ↑ Rice, Julian. Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality. University of New Mexico, 1998. https://amzn.to/2C9fM5E.
- ↑ Wilson, Bill, and Bob Smith. The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Kindle. New York: Renegade Press, ND. https://amzn.to/2tVJ1nY.
- ↑ Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984. https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5.
- ↑ McGuire, Meredith B. “Discovering Religious Power.” SA. Sociological Analysis 44, no. 2 (1983): 1–9.
- ↑ Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984. https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5.
- ↑ St. Teresa of Avila. The Way of Perfection (Dover Thrift Editions) (p. 67). Dover Publications. Kindle Edition.
- ↑ Parish, Bobbi. Create Your Personal Sacred Text: Develop and Celebrate Your Spiritual Life. Harmony, 1999. p. 21 https://amzn.to/2I4zRi7.
- ↑ Deloria, Vine Jr. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Colorodo: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003. p. 294.