Openness to Healing: What are blocks to healing?

The openness to healing….

As I think of where I wanted to start with my first blog and what I’d like to share first, so many areas and topics flooded my mind. I’d love to share what I learned from my Mama, who grew up in the depression.  What an example she was…so many things I learned from her. And then there is my Dad, with what I thought were quirky and different approaches. I need to share how those things relate to my life now. How about the discussion of what health looks like?

Oh! And then there’s my health story, what I’ve learned over the years with my own health struggles, and how to even break that down into bite-size pieces.

With so many natural techniques I have tried, studied, used and incorporated…where to begin?

But as I sat down this cool morning approaching March 2024, the topic suddenly became clear…. Openness to Healing. Why would this need discussion or be worth a read?

Surely, everyone would be open to healing, right?!  Especially you reading this!

Why else would anyone go to doctors, take off of work to do so, submit to test after test, take medications they are not sure they want to take in the first place, and spend money to do so, if they didn’t believe they would get better?

Why would they ask someone to pray for them if they were not open to healing? I’ll start with...because they don’t know or even have the energy to consider what is underneath.

I say this because I have been in the desperation to have healing myself.

I had faith. I have been brought up in faith.

How could I not be open to healing?

Well... in a sense I was.  But there were too many things in the way to see it.

I did the right things. I read medical explanations. I applied what I knew to apply.

My approach was as healthy as I could be!

I prayed.

My faith was strong.

I believed.

What I have since learned is that yes, healing is a process in most instances. But at the same time, things can shift immediately and healing can happen as in the miracles we see and hear about. (I am always open for those because it can happen!)

But what I have learned as I have studied and incorporated first, in health coaching, life coaching, and then through training in removing emotional blocks and subconcious blocks has been life-changing.

Was I open to healing before?

Yes. As much as I understood to be.

Was my mind, body and spirit in alignment?

No.

Were there things I was “carrying” that I was not aware of that were holding me back?

Absolutely.

And this is where things excellerated for me. And I’ve witnessed it first-hand for others too. Subconscious beliefs or things that are underneath they didn’t realize.

Maybe someone experienced something that caused them to have a subconscious belief that they were unworthy. They don't even tell themselves they are unworthy or put themselves down verbally. They have pulled themselves up from their past, and are plowing through with determination! But what if they have not dealt with that nagging feeling of unworthiness underneath? How easy can it be to heal, if, deep down, you feel unworthy?

Think about that. Say that again...How easy can it be to heal, if, deep down, you feel unworthy?

I'm doing everything I know how to do to get better, but in the background, underneath it all, I feel I am unworthy. That is going to create a push and pull affect. A back and forth, maybe even like a tug-of-war. Have you ever been up and down with your health? You seem to be getting better, and making progress, then, not only do things get worse again, but you have another issue to deal with on top of that! I hope not...but I have been there. It is not a fun place to be.

What about trauma from your past? Whether physical or emotional? How quickly can you heal if you have been through so much that you feel uncomfortable believing you can heal?

Or what if there are childhood or other traumas affecting your healing that you have not even touched? Yes, you want to heal..it is evident that you do.

But please do not ignore something you may not have thought about...an openness to healing.

Aren’t there other factors to healing like eating right, addressing your body’s needs…and faith and prayer?

Yes, all of these still apply! They are important and I do coach clients in those areas as well.

However, it may take an openness to healing.

This can mean looking at what is blocking your healing and keeping you from being completely open to healing. Maybe there is a mental block.

Maybe you think you can only heal by doing x, y, or z.

And that's it. But what if it is not working? Maybe you haven't considered or tried approach a or b?

I say all of this to say, if you are doing all of the things, yet still not finding the progress you desire and believe is there, or it may even be that things are going in the opposite direction and you received one more health issue in addition to the list of things needing attention and improvement….or one more thing went wrong…There is hope.

I want you to have hope!! And keep the faith!

Things can turn around. It may take a different approach instead of just a pill.

It may take looking within.

It may take more time, and it may take a fresh approach. It may take an openness.

So, do I have everything taken care of now and have nothing else to work on? I laugh at the notion…I believe we all have things to work on and that life is a learning process…and we are all students of life. Sometimes, we are "busier students" than at other times.

But to answer, I feel I am mostly in maintenance mode compared to where I was years before…while there are still things that are not perfect, or things that present itself.

There are times when I have an issue that needs more balance and attention. I try to be aware and be open.

There it is… life teaching me…again.

To your health and healing, Traci

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