198. The Story Of Healers & Channelers

What is a healer? Well certainly, someone who not only heals themselves, but typically heals others as well. Although it can be either or, from the general society standpoint, healers are an identity, a job, etc.

We can of course classify many non-spiritual or non-witchy professions to be “healers”. Doctors, therapists, social workers, etc. Those who heal people physically, mentally and emotionally.

To some degree, even if we do not set out to heal others, we are likely doing it anyway. Even those in society who are considered “negative” whether they are doing negative things such as unintentionally provoking others, or are making inflammatory statements, in some strange indirect way, they may actually be helping others heal. When you sort of “ignite” a triggered response in some way, you ultimately force the other person to acknowledge and accept their own negative energy or trauma which is being triggered. While it doesn’t really resolve it inherently, it allows it to come to the surface for said person to deal with. This is actually quite a big deal, as often times the biggest problem that we face with negative energy is our proactive will to avoid it, reject it and neglect it. It’s hard to do when we’re face first into it.

But besides all of the asterisks and nuances, we can assume that healers are those who set out to do so. I don’t consider those who are unhealed provoking others as the true definition or meaning of healers. After all, it’s kind of like a metaphor. Say for example there’s a messenger who delivers a baby on your lawn. They simply just brought it to you, but they’re not really taking any responsibility. You may be the ultimate person to raise it. instead of someone coming with all of their help along with the baby. This person is likely more healed and can proactively help, support and hold space. The baby is in essence a metaphor for a thought, feeling, emotion or idea. Perhaps a “thing”, a project or a task. It’s not always perfect, but I consider those who are more healed to do more proactive healing work. However, ironically, sometimes the best healers are quite unhealed themselves.

So what makes a good healer, if that’s the case? Personally, I consider those who are proper and great healers to have much wisdom. I suspect that they’ve lived hundreds if not thousands of lives. It’s sort of similar tot hose who experience the same life traumas as one another. If you are proactively going through a drug addiction, you may not want people surrounding you and giving you advice if they themselves do not have the same experience. Or at least experience in this given problem or category. We seem to resonate deeply with people who we share common life experiences. They just “get it”. We somehow see ourselves in them, we respect them, etc. Those who have experienced a lot seem to have the qualifications to dispense not only advice, but valid compassion, as well.

Since it can be challenging for someone to work on behalf of others when they’ve had several traumatic experiences in one lifetime (although certainly not impossible), this is why I consider those who are old souls to be the perfect healers. Now, there’s really no diagnosis for how many lives someone has had, but often times I feel that you can gauge yourself and others pretty well. It’s just if you “feel” it, you know?

However, I wouldn’t get too caught up in this fact. While I think this predisposes healers, I feel that healing is just simply intention. If you want to be a healer in this lifetime, truly, I feel you can do it.

I do strongly believe in the cycling of behaviors, or in other words, the idea that every overarching concept and theme needs to have a positive and a negative. We need to live out the negative aspects of things, as well as the positive. If you were a victim in this lifetime, it’s likely you may have been an abuser in other ones. If we really dissect our lives, we start to understand that we hurt others, the way we were hurt. It’s somewhat of a cruel irony. However it doesn’t need to become a detriment to us, if we can recognize it before it begins, or early in its inception. We can transmute this energy into something positive, productive and helpful.

So what makes a good healer? It’s hard to say, because there are so many ways to heal people. Even through spirituality, physical healing may take place as Reiki. Emotional healing can just be a listening ear. Perhaps mental is suggestions of calming and relaxing activities. And maybe spiritual is intuitive readings. However, there are so many issues and problems, and the same amount of solutions to those problems. It’s truly endless.

Perhaps what makes a good healer is the intuition of how to solve a problem. Perhaps it’s energetically holding space. Maybe it’s the commitment to follow through. Whatever it is, it’s simply just… helpful. It can be a hobby, volunteer opportunity, or a career. But it should always be respectful and purposeful.

Healing often times requires you to connect with someone on a somewhat, if not very blatant, vulnerable level. I suspect that those who are good at healing are quite good at respecting others’ boundaries.

Healing can sometimes be a double edged sword. Even beyond “doing good”, often times we heal ourselves when we heal others. But it can be quite emotionally taxing and burdening. Healers must be good at not just taking on, but releasing old, negative or stagnant energy. Otherwise they may be overburdened themselves, and burned out. It’s okay that healers have somewhat strong boundaries and are “separate” from the collective. Otherwise, they may totally perish in negative energy. Just because you work in the art of pain and suffering, does not mean you need to experience said pain or suffer.

Healing is so incredibly undervalued and underrated, yet the transmission of negative energy is truly whatI I believe will save humanity. You don’t need to be a professional or licensed healer to simply “help”. To listen. To have empathy and be compassionate. These are things and traits we should all be possessing. And it’s so incredibly important. It’s sometimes hard to do, particularly if we are unhealed, so it’s important to prioritize for ourselves. But when we feel up to it, it’s up to us to drive that change and reach out.

It’s important to not feel that there’s something “wrong” with you if you are in active need of healing. Or if you feel like your healing isn’t ending! I promise that it does get better. And you’re not “weak” if you need it. In fact, some of the most powerful people on earth go through the gnarliest healing journeys. Good luck out there :)