Getting in Touch with Our Healing Process People seek healers in doctors, metaphysicians, and psychics thinking that healing is a product they can purchase when in fact it is a process, an ongoing process that doesn’t end. Our bodies, minds, and hearts are a road map to document where we have been and how far we have distanced ourselves from our place of original hurt. Even the subtlest distancing is an integral part of the healing process. If we look at our arms, legs, hands, faces, we see that everything is not smooth or monotone. We are no longer pristine and perfect as we were when we entered this life…in fact, our journey has continued to brand us with physical imperfections from which we recover. We accumulate age spots, rough spots, calluses. If we find a scar and recall how we acquired it, we slide back in time and then return to the present almost effortlessly without re-experiencing the original event. That ability to move from the original pain and recognize it objectively as just another notch on the headboard means we have healed.   Appreciating Scars from Our Often-Hazardous Life Path Our scars are not flaws but physical testaments to our recovery. The process itself is subtle and natural. If it works for small splinters and scraped knees, then it is possible for the larger, life-altering dramas we experience. Wounds heal, and scars fade. That occurs internally as well. We don’t credit ourselves for our successes though the healing journey often enough. More likely, we berate ourselves for not healing quickly enough and continue to seek out others to validate that we are pain or “heal” us within a one-hour appointment. By using our own ability, even subconsciously, to get through (as opposed to getting over) a situation, we...

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