A frequent comment that arises from participants at my seminars and retreats is that I have reminded them of something they already knew. I've learnt to accept this as being complimentary, rather than derogatory feedback, but one can never be entirely sure about these things!

I can remember when I first read Edward Bach's little booklet, Heal Thyself, there was something shining through in what he wrote, which spoke to me, even though the language he used was rather quaint and old fashioned. Reading some of Hahnemann's writings gave me the same feeling, and it was a feeling of recognizing something very familiar. The word recognize is interesting in itself, because it means literally to know again. Which implies that we have known it already, whatever it is, without necessarily being aware of it.

I've come to appreciate that remembrance or recognition is a crucial aspect of any self-healing process - and it is something which goes beyond understanding. It is an opening into a greater awareness, and yet, there is the simultaneous realization that what is being revealed was somehow always known to us. It's that ah-ha moment when something inside clicks into place all by itself, and we have the experience of being a little bit more whole and complete than we were just a few seconds earlier.

For me, this is where healing - which has the same root as the word wholeness - ceases to be the exclusive domain of medicine, and opens up into a far greater field which embraces science and philosophy, nature, music, poetry and all of the arts. Anything that breaks the shell of a lifetime's conditioning and affords a glimpse of the underlying mystery can serve a healing function if we are awake to the possibility.

The great portrait artist Lucian Freud has said that "There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so."

It may well be that the 'facts' of energy healing do not yet hold up to scientific scrutiny, but the truth of it is something which is being recognized by unprecedented numbers of people.

Just as a great piece of art or music, or a beautiful landscape cannot be explained in any meaningful way, I think that true healing, also, has a mystical aspect from which it draws its potency. It speaks for itself, when allowed to do so, and is always heard by those whose ears are ready to hear.

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