Healing Together

by Christopher Buck

“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion”
~ Buddha

Each of us goes through trials in life:  Rites of Passage, physical illness and pain, mental confusion, emotional trauma, Spiritual distress.  These trials help us to learn compassion.  They teach us how to be a Wounded Healer.

There is a difference between curing someone and Healing someone.  Medicine is a Science, but Healing is an Art.

Science is from the Mind.

Art is from the Heart.

Healing Energy flows when Hearts connect.

“The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected.”
~ Carl Jung

Jung believed that a malady of the soul could be the best possible form of training for a Healer.  The pains and burdens one bears and eventually overcomes is the source of great wisdom and healing power for others.  The Wounded Healer understands what the patient feels because he has gone through the same pain.  The Healer’s experience is what makes him a brother of the patient, rather than his master.  This triggers a fundamental change in perspective.  Because he has learned through experience, he is able to feel empathy instead of just sympathy.  The patient can sense this subconsciously.  This opens a conduit between the two on the spiritual level and connects them.  The suffering patient can be cared for by the Healer and be instrumental in the Healer’s own healing.  Each encounter between Healer and patient can be transforming for both.

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