Spiritual healing has been known,
through the ages, to provide ‘an answer’ for the desperate complaints of those
afflicted mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. And if there’s one common
angle all disciplines adhere to it’s in simply facilitating the afflicted to a
place where they may see their reality as it is; and find an imaginal way of
seeing their reality differently that also works in real life. Every ‘problem’
is fixable.
This involves an inner creative emotional
act:
“Healing
of a lasting kind is the product of an inner creative emotional act.”
~Neville Symington (psychotherapist)
The only difficult thing about
such an act is it requires a great deal of responsibility; to affect our own
healing, even when aided by counsellor, pastor, or psychotherapist—by
continually being able to surrender our losses to God.
Such a thing as surrender is not
as easy as it sounds. It requires a process of problem-solving, and by virtue
of that we take responsibility—to design and implement, often with help, our
programs for renewal and growth onward.
Digging Deeper Than We Are Comfortable
To retrieve our creativity we’re
required to work, and work hard, to invigorate the imagination and even imagine
many different possibilities—some of which will be painful. But this is what we
need to do to break past what we have cycled manically through again and again.
We need to somehow break the
monotony to cause the cycle for healing to initiate.
Our creativity necessarily
requires the use of our emotions, because it’s an effort to break past the ease
and routine of our everyday thinking lives. We need to explore these feelings we’re having trouble with.
With an open mind and an open
heart we open ourselves up in our surrender before God, especially via prayer,
and we allow our Lord to help us touch our inner voids, chasms of loneliness,
and structures of abandonment. Even a glimpse will do to begin with.
Exploring The Inner Life
We all have an inner life. This is
most often closed up to us in our unconscious. But within this inner life holds
the secrets for our adaptation to our world. Within this life all things are
possible. God holds this inner life as our spiritual prize, and those seeking
it will know the most practical of salvation experiences.
Exploring this inner life is a
courageous act, replete with the responsibility of the person demanding,
through honesty and effort, to know themselves.
Exploring the inner life is the
task exposing us to the greatest reward. To know God is the courage to know
ourselves, knowing that everything about God is gorgeous, and, likewise, so it
is with us. There is good reason why God loves us.
We, yes all of us, are beautiful.
God insists on this.
When we understand these truths,
and we can enjoy an inner creative emotional act, which is knowing ourselves, we
can experience healing.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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