Healing Healing and medicine are two very different disciplines. The treatments and therapies used at HolEssence are not medical in nature, rather healing—and work on a complementary basis with conventional medicine.
The recommendations and suggestions that Laurie Buchanan makes as a Holistic Health Practitioner do not constitute medical advice or prescription and should not replace conventional medical attention. Consult your medical doctor or other health care practitioner regarding health issues.
In the context of Energy Medicine, the word Healing has a somewhat different meaning from the widely accepted meaning. The widely accepted meaning for healingis to cure symptoms, for that seems to be what medical doctors do in their practice.
The other meaning for healing, used in the practice of Energy Work, is the process of bringing aspects of our self that are out of balance back into balance again—the return to greater wholeness.
There is an ideal form each of us has, this ideal form being the highest and clearest expression of who we are. Pain or disease comes from any deviation between the person’s current form in the three-dimensional physical world and this ideal form. Healing, then, is to assist the body back to its natural state of homeostasis—the ideal balance between all major parts of our being—body, mind, and spirit.
Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit - The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, defines the difference between healing and curing as follows:
“Healing and curing are not the same thing. A ‘cure’ occurs when one has successfully controlled or abated the physical progression of an illness. Curing a physical illness, however, does not necessarily mean that the emotional and psychological stresses that were a part of the illness were also alleviated. In this case it is highly possible, and often probable, that an illness will recur.
The process of curing is passive; that is, the patient is inclined to give his or her authority over to the physician and prescribed treatment instead of actively challenging the illness and reclaiming health.
Healing, on the other hand, is an active and internal process that includes investigating one’s attitudes, memories, and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one’s full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one’s external circumstances in an effort to recreate one’s life in a way that serves activation of will — the will to see and accept truths about one’s life and how one has used one’s energies; and the will to begin to use the energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health.”
Anatomy of the Spirit — The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, by Caroline Myss, PhD
