The Sun In Each Of Us
Yourself doesn't need healing — only the contractions in your mind and body. Yourself is, it seems to me, best described and experienced as unstoppable boundless love and wisdom. While we may experience unpleasant emotions, sensations in the body, and negative thoughts in the mind, these are just protective contractions of energy in the final analysis. They have often accumulated from countless experiences since childhood and beyond; we can also, if we choose (and sometimes with a helping hand), immediately experience a completely healed place. From this profoundly and unshakeable confident and warm area of wise, patient understanding love, we can face our unpleasant accumulated contracts and let them melt in its light in their own time, at their own pace. Never wishing them away. For they are like a wounded child that needs to be shown there is safety in this world and will only open up when they, in their own time, become convinced the territory is safe. So, in the final analysis, it will only be by showing these contracts consistently a place of unwavering love that they will dissolve.
Whilst psychological processes may help stabilise our minds in the short term, what matters in healing more than anything else is being able to access this aspect of our nature that is already healed and was never damaged. It is there. However, it may currently be shrouded by the harmful noise in our minds and the unpleasant sensation in our bodies. Nevertheless, it is there. We may view such noise and unpleasantness as if we were watching a particularly distressing episode of East Enders on the TV. So absorbing that we forget that we are just watching TV. It is not the TV that is broken. But, in our absorption, we may forget that we are even watching a TV at all - even if the script we are watching is.
There is never a race to heal ourselves. All we need to do is find that place in ourselves that is untouched by harm and then let it shine. Once we have found it, we can shine its light on our inner psychological wounds and heal them in a completely natural way. We do not need to obsess about them or overly focus on them, which will enhance their defensive nature. We can hold them and start to live and share our love, being patient with them. In time they will open up fully. Of that, we can intuitively see. We do not need to 'solve' them. As they open up, we see what we already know, that deep inside each of these contractions is a beautiful pearl - an aspect of ourselves that the contraction was only trying to defend.
Experiencing this, we can live in a liberated manner. We can be free to allow our creativity to flow and see what we already are always underneath, unhindered by psychological pain. So the key is to find that part of ourselves that is the natural, pure part. That is the ultimate psychotherapist. It is better than any psychotherapist or external medicine we will ever see and pay for, probably, notwithstanding the help they and good friends may give. It is the sun in each of us.
