There is a secret to healing that I have learned through my own experience. It is at the heart of all healing practices, all remedies, medicines, diets, trainings, and all medical advice. So simple that it's easy for you to forget about it, or take it for granted. The secret of healing is to trust life, and to trust your relationship to all-that-is.
You are intimately, perfectly, connected to the heartbeat of life.
And you are at home in this world and this whole universe. How could it be otherwise? Once you are able to feel this sense of belonging deep in your bones, you know that you are supported in every way, always. Sometimes it is necessary to come close to death, as I did, to feel this trust.
If you cannot feel trust in life, you suffer. If you are out of sorts with life, alienated or angry with life, disappointed and resentful, doubting or paranoid about the Nature of things, there is pain.
You may be able to restore your trust through appreciating the awesome help from healthcare practitioners, or observing the miraculous abilities of your body to rejuvenate itself, or sitting by the ocean, or from gazing at the infinite starry night sky, or watching the leaves green up on the trees in springtime. Trust comes through the support of friends and partners, and from searching deep into your own mind for the source of your fears and your hopes. Trust can come in prayers, when you sense that you are really in dialogue with something grand and way bigger than yourself.
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