5 types of healers you want in your life
Healers are powerful change makers in the world.
They have an incredibly important role to play in what’s happening right now as we all navigate and adjust to a new way of living. Through their facilitation of our healing processes, we become more capable of shifting and evolving with these changing times.
Our resilience increases. Our systems become stronger. Our capacity for change expands. Overall, we become better able to adapt with grace, confidence, and ease rather than with turmoil, resistance, and fear.
Healers show you what’s possible for your system’s potential. They show you where your potency lies and how to maximize the effects of healing so your whole being radiates with a new kind of energy. Imagine that right now. Imagine that you have a new kind of energy filling up your entire system in such a way that you feel more alive than you ever have, more connected to life and other people, more committed to playing a purposeful and uplifting role here on the planet in a new and expanded way.
This is what healing can give you. It creates an imperative. A mission of sorts.
As you undergo a healing process, you become a walking testimony to potential. You can’t help but share your story.
We are storytellers by tradition and birthright. Healers help us reclaim that in the most empowering way. After a true healing exchange, we begin to tell stories of liberation rather than ones of limitation. As you enter into and exit from a healing process, you cannot be unchanged by it. Therefore, your testimony changes, the focus of your story shifts. This is essential as stories are the roots of vision, and you are a visionary activist… or can be should you choose to.
This year, a collective reset happened. To what, is the question. The answer will vary depending on your personal storyline, perspective, and how consciously you’ve engaged in your healing process.
To heal is not just to bring balance and vitality back to an area that was once blocked or in pain. It is also to change your perspective. You think, “If I have healed from this, this thing that had previously shrunk my spirit and imbalanced my body, yet now I am better, then what is possible for others? What is possible for this world?”
As you adjust to a new way of viewing and experiencing your life, you then project that new filter out into the world.
As you optimize and strengthen yourself, you then create a domino effect of this very energy for everyone you come across. You, your essence, and healed, whole self become a catalyst and template for others to follow. Think about how many that can then influence. Pure magic!
Now, let’s bring the rest of the world into this conversation so we can expand on the link around the importance of healers right now…
When you look at what’s going on globally, there’s mass change happening — educationally, politically, economically, environmentally, and most certainly, in the health care system. What you’re seeing is a breakdown. What you’re seeing is a revolution. What you’re seeing is an opportunity. What you’re seeing is a chance to step into a new role — one we all get a choice to play — as a visionary activist.
A visionary activist is one who holds a clear and strong vision of what’s possible. This is a vision that benefits the whole of humanity; built on the basis of inclusivity, diversity, regeneration, innovation and symbiotic relationship. The more you heal, the more you wake up to this meta picture and spiritual imperative to be a visionary activist. How you translate and express it is up to you, in whatever way feels right for your life. That’s what this time and era on the planet is about. Though some of us are more conscious of this fact than others, namely healers.
Given this, there are 5 types of Healers you’ll want to add to your network, circle, and personal support team as they will be invaluable over the coming years. With these folks in your life, your capacity for healing expands, your mind is stimulated in the best of ways, your emotional storms calm instead of swell, your physical body gets fine tuned, and your spiritual connection feels more in tact (though, it’s always there). Who doesn’t want that?!
The 5 types of Healers to add to your life right now:
Integrative Practitioners
Blending both mainstream and alternative approaches, Integrative Practitioners act as a bridge between two seemingly disconnected worlds. They help you make sense of how these supposed opposite philosophies have overlap, and how they can complement each other. Examples of Integrative Practitioners include functional medicine focused Naturopathic Doctors as well as mainstream trained doctors who have expanded their education and approaches, like Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Christiane Northrup.
Holistic and Alternative
In this category, you’ve got Traditional Chinese Medicine (acupuncture), Ayurveda, Energywork, Psychics, Herbalists, Flower Essence Practitioners, Homeopaths, Essential Oils, Tantra, EFT, Holistic Health Educators, Music-Art-Dance Therapy, Spiritual Coaches, Shamans. The list could go on and on! Truly so many options of healers who have nuanced and effective approaches to healing ourselves holistically.
Pioneers and Futurists
These are the ones creating new methodologies, philosophies, and technologies to assist others in their healing journeys. Whether you utilize their services or not, just knowing these folks expands your heart and mind as you open up to a whole new world of what’s possible. They see larger patterns emerging about the human experience. Once they synthesize these learnings, new modalities are created or new aspects of current methodologies are realized. Examples include Gabor Mate, Bruce Lipton, Paul Stamets, and Sue Morter, to name a few.
“Traditional” or Mainstream
These are the doctors, nurses, therapists, dentists, and all those who are trained more in a mainstream model of healing. We often don’t think of those in these roles as Healers, and that’s part of the problem. The top down, mechanical approach gleaned in mainstream education as well as the system it exists within once you are in your professional role, often glosses over or ignores the patient/person as a key factor in the healing process. Once you see your role as a facilitator of a healing process with specific knowledge to help support another human being, it changes the nature of the relationship and enhances the healing potential. Not all mainstream healers ascribe to such ideology as listed above, but some do. It doesn’t make their role any less valuable, just perhaps not as effective as it could be should they view themselves as a doctor and a healer.
Healers in Hiding
Wait, why would you want a Healer in Hiding in your network?! Many reasons, and chances are, you already have one of these types around you (or you may be one!). Having a Healer in Hiding in your circle provides you with a cool opportunity to witness and support a “coming out” process. Have you ever watched another finally step up and own their gifts, follow their passions, and pursue their purpose? You get to be part of their legacy in the making in just the way they need. By allowing them to secretly share their love of healing with you, you become a catalyst in their healing process — making it safe for them to be seen. This is what Healers in Hiding struggle with most — the desire to help and the fear of being seen when doing so. It’s a conundrum that can last a few lifetimes (and likely started a few lifetimes ago). All Healers in Hiding are feeling a call now to step forward. It’s part of a larger stream of energy moving right now on the planet. Healers know it’s their time, even the ones in hiding. Let’s offer them the acknowledgment, support, and validation to own their role!
Healers. Way showers. Light houses. Knowledge keepers. Wisdom holders. Soul mirrors. Thank you.
Are you a Healer in Hiding? Take the quiz to see what type you are and what next steps you can take to embrace your gifts!
Originally published at https://www.vasmith.com on September 12, 2020.
