August 2007 Laura Alden Kamm

Compassion and Healing: Loving Yourself Through the Healing Journey:

When you are ill or life has just not been going your way, there is a legitimate voice inside that feels powerless, afraid, or alone in the world. If you have felt any of these feelings, take a deep breath and know that a compassionate, cleansing breath goes a long way to help you heal.

 Healing, like life or illnesses, can be a complex process. It’s never easy to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps when it hurts too much to reach down and try to find them in first place. Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, or sit in your chair and breathe. It may not be what you want to do, it usually isn’t. There is so much to do on your list, and that list is getting longer by the moment. But one of the many gifts embedded within the healing process is the power and permission to prioritize who or what is really important in your day, and in your life.

To create healing in your body, your mind, and certainly within your sweet spirit you begin by being compassionate with yourself. You can not start or wander your way through such a journey by pushing and criticizing your body for not doing what it used to be able to do. I know. I’ve been there. In fact, my “been there, done that” was so much so that I was dead. That’s about a low as you can go. The journey out of that place had the same healing steps that yours or anyone’s journey has. Although everyone is unique, there is common ground.

Four of the most profound components to healing are not physical. Yes, your food, environment, and your emotional and physical support from others is essential. However, what if you don’t have those available as regularly as you’d like? What if people around you are working or tired themselves? You’ve got to do the doing. You’ve got to press through, to the degree that you possibly can in each moment and bring yourself back to wellness—one small step at a time. Developing the attitude of “is-ness” and compassionate acceptance brings about the knowing that healing takes the time that it takes. No more, no less. You stop pushing and fretting, being frustrated or angry. Your mind stops looping in crazy ways and you sink into compassion and the moment with grace. Those thoughts will come again, that’s their job. Your job is to be mindful, compassionate and watch them move by you like clouds. It is not easy, especially when there is physical pain.

In light of that, when pain arises feel your way through it. It will rise and fall, it will hold constant for a while. It will do what it does; and you hold compassion. Emotions will slide in and out of your mind. Fear, pain, suffering, frustration, they all have a front row seat. You know you can harness your inner power and your healing will happen, along with an awaken state that is the power behind the healing.

I would like you to take out a piece of paper and, on that paper, write the following four words in the following order:

• Trust
• Faith
• Power
• Compassion

Place this piece of paper where you can see it all the time—on your refrigerator, your computer monitor, the bathroom mirror or any place in your home that calls to you (remember to use your intuition).

Before you place this paper in it proper place, and it is perfectly fine to make more than one, take a moment and look at these four words. The beginning of any healing must begin with compassion. Having compassion for yourself, whether you know or understand all the facts or components of your condition or not, you must absolutely must hold compassion in your heart for yourself and for your body. Sometimes, your body may feel like it is separate from you; that is a common feeling during such a time. Treat your body with extraordinary acts of kindness and compassion. As you do, the physical and emotional wounds, the fear and loneliness will abate.

Compassion brings with it love. Love and a loving state release healing chemicals into your body, as well as penetrate your energy field with healing frequencies which will heal the energetic levels and physical cells of your body. Compassion and feeling that level of love and attention will bring a sense of power to you. Not a power that is overbearing or directed at someone or something thing. You don’t want to feel or think in that way. You want to feeeeel empowered by the compassion you have for yourself, which brings a reflective understanding of where you are on your journey and what you need to do to move forward, at whatever pace your body agrees to. That is power. Power indicates a connection. Connections heal.

Now faith arises within you and merges with your power. You notice that you are more secure in your self. Your have faith in your body to be well. Faith in your intuition, and in God, becomes stronger and guides you fluidly on your path; and in an unfailing way. You know what is yours will come to you, no matter how long or short the journey.

It’s not easy at times, especially when you take those infamous “two steps forward and three steps back”. When that occurs do your best to rest easy. You know that experience is part of the path of healing. If fact, it indicates that you are healing. If you look deep within, it is clear that the spiritual warrior in you knows the truth. Healing is not a straight line.

So, you begin again, with compassion firmly rooted in your heart. Breathing in and out, the energy of compassion fills your lungs, your body, and your energy field. You may feel like you are not getting better, but you are. You are! With each compassionate breath you are refreshing the healing. You are allowing it to bring you new intuitive insights, energies, and perspectives.

Once again, you trust in the universal support system that weaves its way throughout nature and life itself. You have a knowing that you are doing just fine. That knowing is your intuition—your spirit’s and body’s wisdom, which fosters the power, faith, and trust necessary to guide you. You watch the energy of healing move you toward your highest good; and it always moves you toward what is next for you.

Most importantly, you trust that your spirit, that God, never leaves anything undone. You know that what has begun will always be completed. That is a law; a sacred law of healing and of life. I can assure you that no mater what happens, you will always be okay; and that you are forever, forever loved.

Laura Alden Kamm, founder of the Center for Applied Energy Medicine (www.energymedicine.org), is a medical intuitive and healer. She is the author of Intuitive Wellness, a guide to using your body's inner wisdom to heal. Her new audio course, Unlocking Your Intuitive Power, is available at www.soundstrue.com.