Have you ever thought about the ripple effect you create by every step you take? When you walk around and you smile to every person you see, these people are so much more likely to smile at the next person they see. We all create a ripple effect and for a while I was contemplating at the ripple effect of healing. In this blog I take you through my contemplations.
Sometimes you hear it: 'Healing is selfish'. All these healers and shamans popping up out of thin air looking for a better life.
Shamans used to be chosen. Now most people decide to become a shaman or healer. Does that change the face of healing?
I can only take you through my own process. I was lucky enough to be born in a time where there is enough space to look at our own patterns and heal things from very deep inside. For me healing was not selfish it all. It actually started from a deep desire to help other people around me. And from helping those people, I was helping myself.
So when people say that healing is selfish I look at them and wonder whether they really understand what healing is. Healing is not always easy. It is facing ourselves head first and having the courage to look and change patterns that we have carried for so long. It is actually feeling all those emotions that we have buried deep inside and working through them. It is doing the work so that we become vessels of light for everyone to enjoy.
The more healing you do, the lighter you will become. The lighter your energy body becomes. All the darkness and density gets transformed into light.
This means that you start walking around as a body of light. And in this way you remind other people of their light.
Healing starts within but radiates without. Someone has to go first so that other people can follow. Someone has to be the first to walk through the dark, so that he or she can tell people it is okay to face their shadows. That there is light at the end of the tunnel.
So healing is not selfish. The opposite. It is brave and altruistic by nature.
Then there is another question to face. Are healers allowed to make money with the work they do?
Shamans used to have a responsibility to help and never asked for money. Nowadays doctors have a responsibility to help. But most of the time they are working in an institution where they get paid. Why? Silly question, right. They studied, they invested time and money in understanding the topic of medicine deeply so that they can be of service to others.
It is no different for healers. I spent my entire life working with energy. All my money went to healing or healing practicioners. I did hours and hours of free sessions to built my skills up.
So I deserve to be paid. Just like a doctor deserved to be paid. And you deserve to be paid. Because we all have expenses to cover, bills to pay.
For a long time I let these arguments stand in the way of my business. Healing is selfish and I do not deserve to be paid. But now that these limiting beliefs have been cleared, the path is free.
Still, one thing was missing for me. I make money with healing, cool. But what do I do with this money. Is this money only for me? How can I use my business to do something well for the whole world? How can I allow healing to not only better you, me but also the rest of the world?
By picking something I would love to contribute to! That is why I have decided to spent ten percent of all profits on the Surfrider Foundation, a foundation that works hard for clean oceans all over the world. A Foundation that brings awareness to the use of plastic and finds sustainable sollution against plastic pollution.
And with this the circle seems round for me. My work contributes to a better society. The healing that I do allows you to do the same healing and contributes to a more wholesome world.
Will you become part of the change?
