Holistic Healing

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

The Buddha

Throughout time, every culture and civilisation has had their own tradition and methods of healing.

Our Druidic forefathers used a combination of Earth Magic, Ritual and Chanted Rhyme to bring about healing.

Traditional Paganism used very similar methods. the only difference being that Druidism relied heavily on the male aspects of healing where as Paganism and Wicca relied on the ‘Sacred Feminine’ aspect of healing.

If we look at the healing traditions of the North American Indians, we will see that their traditions are not so far removed from those of the Druids.

They both have their ‘ holy men’ both use some form of vision quest or shamanic travel to gain knowledge of other worlds and other dimensions, and where healing is concerned very similar methods were employed.

Today we seem to have lost many of these traditions that we shared, and healing now is done in hospitals and specific places that share nothing with our origins, and have little or no 'spiritual' element to them.

Sometimes the pendulum swings too far….

Modern medicine has cleared up many diseases that were otherwise killers in the past, but it has also created  new and perhaps more deadly ones…to say nothing of the result of drug misuse. We look at things now and at the body in a purely mechanical way. We reduce it to the sum of its parts and use drugs to treat each separate part, or surgery to remove that part if it is felt to be un-repairable.

We are not just our bodies, a collection of spare parts! Even if we disregard the roll that the Chakras and the Aura play in our well-being, we cannot disregard the spiritual/emotional part of our selves.

In other words, things that we can relate to, and feel good about can often trigger self-healing.  And what matter how healing is actually triggered?  It is healing nevertheless!

Yes I believe that we should take what we can from modern medicine and modern practices… but we should also take full advantage of all the knowledge that is available to us from our ancient backgrounds in healing. All the herbs that can be used to ease situations and to make us comfortable (and from which many of our modern medicines initially derived, and which soon may be illegal to use in a healing capacity!)

A hands-on healing such as spiritual healing or Reiki, which is touching us at a much deeper level… in fact working at soul level to help heal us.

It is when we bring all these disciplines together with modern practices that we really stand the best chance of being 'well' once more, perhaps one day we will realize this?

 We are more than the sum of our parts, we are more than arms legs head and body!  We are also Spirit/Soul and Aura and perhaps something even greater who knows….