The Wounded Healer

[wonderinglight]

I found this article on-line and felt it was useful to anyyone who enjoys spending time interacting in this forum, I didn't now know where I shoud of posted it, but this article felt like it belonged in here. We all have our thoughts and opinions when it comes to interpreting dreams, but I feel this article has allot of truth to give to all of us.

Souls seek their spiritual connection - with self - a savior - God - Christ consciousness - all of which are labels - and all of who have promised to return and save us at some End Time of light and revelation.
But what does that mean? Return to do what? Save the wounded souls from what? Lead them where?
This is all about the 'wounds' of the 3D experience giving way to balance and movement to higher levels of consciousness. It is about letting go of the ties that bind you to the emotions of the physical realms and the rebirt of your soul/cosciousness in higher light - higher frequency of thought and understanding.

Saviors - such as Jesus - seemed to have experienced great pain and suffering - wounds inflicted and imprinted on their soul marker. It would seem that you must think of saviors as sharing your pain and suffering so they may understand the human experience - after which we ressurect and rise passed the phyiscal experience.

Human consciousness has come into awareness that it is dysfunctional and needs healing to create balance. It is where we are as a race created to experience emotions which go from love to the pain inflicted by the wounds we and those around us create. It is in truth all about growth and experience which is why we often feel abandoned by our god-figure who allows us to suffer.

We spend much of our time healing our wounds. We come to metaphysics for answers we cannot find in the world - for our souls know the truth is not in the physical.

Wounds are thought to be burned away by the sacred flame that ignite the spirit and the return of the Phoenix. One often speaks of buring off karmic ribbons and healing wounds with the Violet Flame.
Thise healed become the healers...

But...can we become healers if we have not been wounded? It would seem that most healers have experienced great pain and suffering and are here to help others release their pain and create balance. The 'wounds' - of many lifetimes need to heal.... This is the spiritual pulse of the world grid.

But what happens when the Wounded Healer is healed and has had enough drama with healing? It is then they are shown the truth behind the illusion of reality.

Who is The Wounded Healer? Many articles and books have been written about 'The Wounded Healer.' It is the person who has gone through suffering, sometimes great, and as a result of that process has become a source of great wisdom, healing power and inspiration for others. In fact, the archetypal wounded healer undergoes a transformation as a result of their wound, their suffering and pain. They can actually transcend it, and successfully lead themselves to a path of service. It is as if the wound itself helps you drive yourself to an inner journey that becomes the transformation itself. One strips away the selfish, ego-based feeling of being all alone in our wound and expands to see others and how if one chooses a different role, one can help.

The Wounded Healer is often the Victim - He who must suffer the wounds of life to understand. Do you set yourself up to be a victim?

There are many wounded healers that we all know, once we start to think about it. Christopher Reeve, 'Superman', became paralyzed and is now a champion in fighting and researching how to cure such spinal paralysis. Lance Armstrong has continued to win cycling tournaments and is a fundraiser for cancer. They have gone beyond their illness and suffering, and it does not define them, despite the fact that their wound might still be visible.




Many women who have survived breast cancer go on to lead support groups, sharing their counsel and experience in service to heal and help others.

• The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals. But when the doctor wears his personality like a coat of armor, he has no effect. - Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul.

Carl Jung's archetype of 'The Wounded Healer' originated with the Greek myth of Chiron who was physically wounded, and by way of overcoming the pain of his own wounds Chiron became the compassionate teacher of healing.


Contemporary psychotherapists latched on to the concept of this archetype and soon began to see themselves as 'The Wounded Healer' in their societies, whereby they use the pain of their own life experiences to facilitate the mental health and healing of others. 'The Wounded Healer' that Carl Jung was referring to, is the teacher who is able to self-empower others to trust themselves to the extent that they finally give themselves permission to FEEL that which has been too fearfully painful for the emotional body to cope with and FEEL.

It is only when the mental body has the opportunity to comprehend (create thoughts about) these FEELINGS, that the mental body is able to release belief systems that have created an old and worn out paradigm, which implies that the mental body should seek healing from outside of itself.

In astrology, Chiron, is called 'The Wounded Healer'. Since Chiron's discovery in 1977, at one time or another, the cosmic rock named Chiron has pretty much been called a - planet, planetoid, comet, and asteroid. Since Chiron is a relative newcomer to astronomy and astrology, having only been discovered by astronomers in 1977 - it's taken astrologers a while to begin getting a grasp on what effect (if any) Chiron has in the birth chart.

Chiron's orbit generally lies between Saturn and Uranus. So Chiron is sometimes described as a shamanistic bridge or link between time and space reality (the outer limit being Saturn) and the archetypal, generational, outer planets of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

In Greek mythology Chiron was a centaur. Centaurs were creatures who had a horse's body and legs, yet they had a human's torso and arms. As a rule, these half-horse, half-human Centaurs had the reputation for being wild and unbridled critters, being primarily known for their insatiable sexual appetites. They belonged to the wild Dionysian crowd.

For the most part, centaurs weren't exactly on very friendly terms with mortals. The centaur, Chiron, was the exception to this rule. Chiron was known as a wise teacher, healer and prophet. The Greek mythology encircling the figure of Chiron, 'The Wounded Healer,' is of great assistance in acquiring a deeper understanding of the energies reflected by the Chiron in our sky.

Astrologers may look at the Chiron placement for one's wounds. In the birth chart, Chiron reflects the archetypal energies of the shamanic wounded healer and teacher who potentially lives within each one of us. It reflects an accidental wounding we received most often in early childhood. This Chironian wounding is an injury to our instinctual nature and and a wounding of trust.

The wounding was generally brought about as the result of a stupid, careless, thoughtless accident.... so there is normally no one who can be blamed with purposely, intentionally, maliciously wounding us. The wounding was generally done by someone close to us...., someone we thought well of and trusted. So the wounding is a wounding of trust. Further, a Chironian wound is an injury that will never, ever totally heal. We learn, suffer and grow from dealing with this sensitive area of wounded instinct and trust.... but the wounding will never totally heal and go away. This Chironian wounding can then, later in life and after much personal struggle, become a special area where we can help others by sharing our healing and teaching powers with them. We each have the ability and perseverance to go beyond our issues, our problems and troubles, and not have suffering label us as who we are. There are many men and women - probably in our daily lives - who are an inspiration and testimony to that.

[brifae]

I have been thinking of Chiron lately.
The quote healer heal thyself comes to mind.
Because I work in the healing profession, it is ni ce to be needed
but not be a martyr and look after self so the ability to look out for others is there.
Sort of like balancing power and compassion.

The shamans used to say to be a healer or shaman a traumatic experience is needed.
I like how wondering identifies that with the path of the earthwalker.
But as we know some incarnates are further along that we can see those ahead of us
AS well people such as trained shamans used to introduce a profund or traumatic experience (not necessarily negative)
with the use of pyschedelic drugs, forced isolation or other ways to shift conciousness, learn energy work,
sort of even a death and dyimg experience as the soul is reflected.

[wonderinglight]

I have been thinking of Chiron lately.
The quote healer heal thyself comes to mind.
Because I work in the healing profession, it is ni ce to be needed
but not be a martyr and look after self so the ability to look out for others is there.
Sort of like balancing power and compassion.

The shamans used to say to be a healer or shaman a traumatic experience is needed.
I like how wondering identifies that with the path of the earthwalker.
But as we know some incarnates are further along that we can see those ahead of us
AS well people such as trained shamans used to introduce a profund or traumatic experience (not necessarily negative)
with the use of pyschedelic drugs, forced isolation or other ways to shift conciousness, learn energy work,
sort of even a death and dyimg experience as the soul is reflected.

Naturally our body's fight to heal it self, but with the aid of a knowledgeable Doctor/healer we are able to understand our condition, and their for better our healing process.

Healers sometimes takes on the pains of those who have been inflicted with ills, in order for the sick to be healed. This would be a transfer of energy and knowledge. A spiritual healer transfers it's divine healing energy over to the sick, and the sick transfers their negative emotional feelings over to the healer.

This symbol will gives a really good visual of this understanding.

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Psychedelic drugs, I would assume would calm the mind, and ease the body's anxiety, and tension.

Forced isolation or other ways to shift consciousness. Now this seems interesting, because when we are secluded we tend to unravel the ego's of all those who we were once among. I have understood that if we are receptive, and aware of our empathic nature, we would absorb other peoples energy, thus creating part of our persona along with others who we interact with.

Lao Tzu, describes this really well in the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu used the metaphor of the uncarved block, (the uncarved block is formless yet has within it the potential for all forms, and once the block is carved, there will be names). I personally found great wisdom in this quote by Lao Tzu, especially when I was studying psychology and learning about the unconscious.

Learning energy work is something I find interesting. Not to long ago, I picked up a book on energy psychology which I have yet to read, but from other sources I have read, it's best done with a experienced practitioner who is knowledgeable, and discipline in this area, because their influence and experience will help pave the way.

Near death experiences, for some reason I have been discussing this with allot of people lately, but from what I understand, people who go through such a traumatic experience, usually goes through some sort of spiritual transformation, they become in touch with their soul, and sometimes in contact with spirits, angels, and God. The soul also reflects truth to the body's awareness about the past in the present, and the future. The healers greatest teacher becomes God, and the healer's greatest lesson is penitence.

[brifae]

I agree with alomst everything you said.
A death & dying experience would bring about an ego loss, or view into the soul, which can then help others.

I disagree with penitence though, as it is a medieval chrisitan term:

Date: 13th century
: the quality or state of being penitent : sorrow for sins or faults
synonyms penitence, repentance, contrition, compunction, remorse mean regret for sin or wrongdoing. penitence implies sad and humble realization of and regret for one's misdeeds <absolution is
Date: 13th century
: the quality or state of being penitent : sorrow for sins or faults
synonyms penitence, repentance, contrition, compunction, remorse mean regret for sin or wrongdoing. penitence implies sad and humble realization of and regret for one's misdeeds <absolution is dependent upon sincere penitence>. repentance adds the implication of a resolve to change <repentance dependent upon sincere penitence>. repentance adds the implication of a resolve to change <repentance

I have no regrets and I make no apologies for what I am however all humans strive to improve and this is humanism.
Since we are born into sin in the christian view this is partially what that is for along with sinful deeds along the way.
Whereas I see setbacks or bad choices as a learning experience and no moral judgements are needed because I know my heart.

[Blank Rune]

I agree with alomst everything you said.
A death & dying experience would bring about an ego loss, or view into the soul, which can then help others.

I disagree with penitence though, as it is a medieval chrisitan term:

Date: 13th century
: the quality or state of being penitent : sorrow for sins or faults
synonyms penitence, repentance, contrition, compunction, remorse mean regret for sin or wrongdoing. penitence implies sad and humble realization of and regret for one's misdeeds <absolution is
Date: 13th century
: the quality or state of being penitent : sorrow for sins or faults
synonyms penitence, repentance, contrition, compunction, remorse mean regret for sin or wrongdoing. penitence implies sad and humble realization of and regret for one's misdeeds <absolution is dependent upon sincere penitence>. repentance adds the implication of a resolve to change <repentance dependent upon sincere penitence>. repentance adds the implication of a resolve to change <repentance

I have no regrets and I make no apologies for what I am however all humans strive to improve and this is humanism.
Since we are born into sin in the christian view this is partially what that is for along with sinful deeds along the way.
Whereas I see setbacks or bad choices as a learning experience and no moral judgements are needed because I know my heart.

Brifae please help me to understand where you are coming from as I find it confusing.

"I disagree with penitence though, as it is a medieval chrisitan term..."
Does that mean you disagree with all medieval christian terms?


"I have no regrets and I make no apologies for what I am..."
What does this have to do with penitence? Are you saying that "what you are" is something that you should repent for?


"Whereas I see setbacks or bad choices as a learning experience and no moral judgements are needed because I know my heart"
If I did something out of greed, anger...that hurt you, I would feel sorrow/regret and would apologize for it. I would do my best not to repeat that behavior in the future. The fact that it happens to be a bad choice or a setback and serves as a learning experience does not change that.
Are you saying that you never, never, never...apologize for your actions? You never feel sorrow or regret when you've done something wrong to someone?

[wonderinglight]

Penitence is something we all naturally do weather we go out and make amends for our wrongs, or bury these suppressed emotional guilty feelings we hold within. Normally people end up drinking, and doing drugs to escape from their personal pains. Even at times they become abusive to them selves, as well as others.
When I said that the healers greatest lesson is penitence, I meant by paying for the sins of those who are guilty. The healer or saint take on the burdens of those who are guilty and begs God for forgiveness. Ones soul is unable to evolve to God consciousness when they are full of anger and greed. The healer has no desire for what the guilty have, because the healer only feels their pains within, and to escape the feelings of desires and greed the healer practises penitence. This of course will require the healer to abstain from earthly pleasures so they can stay in connection with Gods truth.

Jesus said, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

The healers goal is the kingdom of God, because the healer is aware and believes.

Those who live in guilt and suppress their pains with out penitence are bound to the physical world, and will only re-incarnate back when time comes again for that soul to live a life. Every incarnation is an opportunity for a soul to evolve back to God consciousness.

[brifae]

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Does that mean you disagree with all medieval christian terms?
Pretty much because it is not my point of world view, as I am not christian per say.
You have to understand the terms in the sense of what they mean to their faith, and not inferences.
I like to try to understand ethymology ?sp/ the origin of words to get at their true meaning. I look to things more modern or ancient for inspiration.


"I have no regrets and I make no apologies for what I am..."
What does this have to do with penitence? Are you saying that "what you are" is something that you should repent for?

No I am what I am in this moment of time, and I am something different at the same time, and at other times. I am as I was created, or as I was originally, and when I am an imperfect human now, well thats the way I am, we all are. If we were created this way, and christians give all sorrows and blessing to god, then why not your imperfect nature to him as well? I do not beleive in original sin and apologizing the rest of your life because you were born.


"Whereas I see setbacks or bad choices as a learning experience and no moral judgements are needed because I know my heart"
If I did something out of greed, anger...that hurt you, I would feel sorrow/regret and would apologize for it. I would do my best not to repeat that behavior in the future. The fact that it happens to be a bad choice or a setback and serves as a learning experience does not change that.
Are you saying that you never, never, never...apologize for your actions? You never feel sorrow or regret when you've done something wrong to someone?


LOL

Yes it may hurt me according to too many variables of the situation, or I could choose to percieve it differently. I see ego and emotions as associated.
I feel remorse in a more intellectual/logical and even spiritual than emotional way, so any emotion I feel except love is very fleeting and sadness is rarer as imrovements are made.
I follow up with change, and I know I won't do it again, my resolve is so great that any remorse/regret is quenched. I tend not to regret doing because its better than living life of regrets of never doing anything out of fear. I forgive extremely easily, so the offender taking it as a learning experience does change that for me because i try not to take it personally and view it as a systemic problem or evolution. Now I realize not everyone is like me or prone to the same realizations, so yes i can apologize, but I'm not really that sorry, I just want you to feel better because I have learned and thats what humans do.
Do grudges not have an impetus on the victim, turn the other cheek mentality?

I choose not to live with regrets or grudges and proclaim BYGONES im my mind!
My motivation to change or do good has nothing to do with the selfish desire of not wanting to feel bad (remorse), or worried I will go to hell, it is a a more humanistic motivation to ascend the human race and myself. If we are one then I hurt you, it hurts me, I also beleive in karma so once something happens that may offend you justice is already meted out. I try to have prefect trust and love in the universe, but noone is perfect.....

[brifae]

Wonderinglight
Penitence is something we all naturally do weather we go out and make amends for our wrongs, or bury these suppressed emotional guilty feelings we hold within.
I agree with you in a non medieval christian meaning of the word as more of an action as a remedy for suppresion rather than emotion or thought pattern as penitence as I have replied To BR.

Normally people end up drinking, and doing drugs to escape from their personal pains. Even at times they become abusive to them selves, as well as others.
I think that people who have blame or guilt mentality are prone to internalizing which they then project or color others with, pot calling kettle black, we are all sinners but not victims etc.

When I said that the healers greatest lesson is penitence, I meant by paying for the sins of those who are guilty. The healer or saint take on the burdens of those who are guilty and begs God for forgiveness.
In a christian path yes but I disagree with this. As a energy healer you do not want to take any of the
sickly enrgy onto yourself nor use your life energy to heal, but to tap in and change, direct energy. Healers and saints are both humans/sinners in that path so I'm very confused. Now a boshisattva, I understand enlightened souls returning to a physical existance/suffering to help others along the way, but again its a different vantage point. Pagans tend not to grovel or beg before deity becasuse we are all one and not seperate and do honor ourselves as spirit.

Ones soul is unable to evolve to God consciousness when they are full of anger and greed. Agreed
The healer has no desire for what the guilty have, because the healer only feels their pains within, and to escape the feelings of desires and greed the healer practises penitence. This of course will require the healer to abstain from earthly pleasures so they can stay in connection with Gods truth.
This is not the only way or requirement, and I discussed healer as only a human themselves.
Jesus said, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

The healers goal is the kingdom of God, because the healer is aware and believes.
I agree the spiritual healer has no need for riches, but maybe as far as pentinence and reorganizing one's prioirities in life, dont think you can do that for others.

Those who live in guilt and suppress their pains with out penitence are bound to the physical world, and will only re-incarnate back when time comes again for that soul to live a life. Every incarnation is an opportunity for a soul to evolve back to God consciousness.[/QUOTE]

I think we have some amount of choice in reincarnation, being minigods ourselves. I disagree with the last statement, not every incarnation has the duty to evolve back, some are already there and have other missions and incarnated but may have drank from the well of forgetfullness in varying ranges of spiritual degrees. Sometimes life just exists for the glory and splendor of it all as a vast library of creation should and realizing you are there in the zero point of perfect love and trust.

[wonderinglight]

Pagans tend not to grovel or beg before deity because we are all one and not separate and do honor ourselves as spirit.
But what about honouring the great spirit, the one God, creator of heaven and earth.

To grovel or beg before a deity is a lower form of worship, we should all honor our selves as a part of God. We are all spirits, but each spirit evolves separately, and that's why we must love one and other in the physical world, because loving each other in the physical is the challenge for the soul to evolve back to God. And because we are ignorant about God, and all we have are texts to guide us, but with out the right influences, spiritual texts are just words with out any real meaning. Knowledgeable gifted pagan's are able to communicate with souls weather they are earth bound, or have crossed over to the other side. They don't worship these entities, but they do communicate with them for knowledge about people who exist in the physical world.

We are unable to reincarnate with out the approval of God, it's God who decides our path, before we enter into the physical. What we do in the physical is up to us, because we are given free will to decide and differentiate between what is right and what is wrong. We can choose what we would like to be, but God will have to approve of it. See what we do in this life will reflect the next life, and this is how it's determined. If I was a murderer in the past life, and before entering back into the physical, I ask God, let me be a saint, or a healer to make amends for what I have done wrong in the past life. God will appoint me a role in which I can evolve in that direction. God may not make me a saint, or a healer, because my soul has not evolved, but has the potential to become in a incarnation. God may guide me to be a physician's assistant before I become a doctor, and maybe in one incarnation I may become a spiritual healer so I can evolve back to God consciousness.

Every life we incarnate in the physical world is an opportunity to evolve back to God consciousness. This can't be done in one life time. This is a slow evolving process that takes many life times. One would have to live and know their many past lives in order to evolve back into God consciousness.
To go back to God we must have nothing to prevent us from reaching God head. God head is a liberating feeling that words can not express, it's a feeling of unconditional love that allows one to escape the physical, it's Gods faith in that individual.

[Blank Rune]

1. I look to things more modern or ancient for inspiration...

2. I do not beleive in original sin and apologizing the rest of your life because you were born.

3. I feel remorse in a more intellectual/logical and even spiritual than emotional way, so any emotion I feel except love is very fleeting and sadness is rarer as imrovements are made.

4. I tend not to regret doing because its better than living life of regrets of never doing anything out of fear...

5. Now I realize not everyone is like me or prone to the same realizations, so yes i can apologize, but I'm not really that sorry, I just want you to feel better because I have learned and thats what humans do.

6. Do grudges not have an impetus on the victim, turn the other cheek mentality?

7. My motivation to change or do good has nothing to do with the selfish desire of not wanting to feel bad (remorse), or worried I will go to hell, it is a a more humanistic motivation to ascend the human race and myself.

8. If we are one then I hurt you, it hurts me, I also beleive in karma so once something happens that may offend you justice is already meted out. I try to have prefect trust and love in the universe, but noone is perfect.....

1. More modern than now? More ancient than the beginning?

2. Apologizing for the rest of your life because you were born? Where did you get that?

3. How does that work? "Hey I would apologize for hurting you, but the sorrow required to do so left about 3 minutes ago" ...but hey the good news is that I've made some improvements that should prevent me from being a b*tthead in the future. Don't try to understand because "I feel remorse in a more intellectual/logical and even spiritual way" than most...

4. Wait a minute, so if we don't let ourself hurt someone else then we're just not "living life"?

5. So in this system you're speaking about...it is ok to apologize, but not really be THAT sorry. This is because you just wanted to make the victim feel better, because you learned?

6. Still trying to make sense out of this one. What are you trying to say? Considering the definition of impetus and the fact you followed with "...turn the other cheek mentality?", I'm not following...maybe I'm just too sleepy right now.

7. So now it changes from not wanting to hurt someone to a selfish desire of "not wanting to feel bad"...smooth. I can also understand how the motivation to ascend the human race would be more attractive as it is more glorious.

8. Yeah right, I can just see you slapping the crap out of someone repeatedly while saying, "We are one, so it's like slapping myself...don't worry Karma is kicking my b*tt at the same time".