Healing is like a sore muscle, you have to keep tending to it or it will tighten up and cause pain. Take it from a 57 year old who has been on this long spiritual journey for some time, the key place of healing is when you sit in the crap of it all.

The Beginning Practices

On the beginning of most spiritual journeys, we learn and practice yoga and meditation which is a sly and intelligent move from our spirit guides. Since healing is withstanding the pain of a past trauma and looking at it for clues to heal, this is the exact place. It is similar to those old fashion Scooby Doo cartoons showing where the ‘X’ marks the spot.

Finding the Pain to Heal

When a moment comes where it all feels like it’s crumbling, you’re approaching your own map’s ‘X’. As you begin to feel the pain brought on by the circumstance, now you’ve found the treasure that needs more love. Simply by sitting in the chest and fingering the loot is the place where you find the clues to help you heal.

By sitting in the pain and breathing slowly, ask for help. This is a time when archangels, deities, or those who passed before will begin to help. Reminder, like anyone in your community, no one will help until asked.

Meditate to Stay Calm

Once you ask for help, be sure to do your part. Ah ha, this is where those beginning teachings of yoga and meditation come into play. My belief is that meditation during these tough healing times helps us stay calm. By breathing slowly and surely, we’re helping our blood pressure and self feel love. Here is the time of self love. As moments from your past pop up during meditation, be sure to use them as clues to your healing and not stepping in to relive them.

Allow the Pain to Show Up

You will feel sad and possibly cry, but remember this is part of the healing process. These clues from the past are popping up because you’re allowing them. By creating a calm environment, your mind is allowing these moments to be remembered. Many begin to panic in this moment thinking that this is a path towards being unhinged when in reality these moments must show up for you to heal that point in time. Move forward slowly, calmly, and know that they are there to help.

For instance, there was a time during my self-publishing route where I was trying to format my writing per specific requirements in order to publish my parenting book. Boy, did that ever bring up a lot to be dealt with from my past childhood/elementary years. Yes, we cry in frustration when we work on something for hours and it doesn’t seem to go our way. However, by looking at why the tears, there will come much information.

Ask the Universe for Help

As I asked for help from my writing buddy Archangel Gabriel, I continued to let my tears come forward. Crying out these tears is healthy and a way to unload your anxiety and negativity. Little did I know that a lot of the tears were from my past. Since I didn’t have much support growing up doing elementary school projects, those were my moments popping up for me. Since I pushed them down for so long, they were now coming up during my adult projects. Sneaky trauma knows exactly when to enter.

When I sat in my pain, I was giving it permission to be seen. Out it came, all its hurt, pain, and past events as if I stepped back in time. Surprisingly, at this point we don’t really want to relive it. It’s simply there like a box of mementos and we’re moving the objects around seeking answers and recognizing the feelings they bring up. As I mention a statement of “don’t relive it”, I simply mean not to become a victim of that moment. The best part is confronting that past “you”!

Sit with Your Younger Self

Here is where the healing starts getting nitty gritty. Find your young self within this moment and begin to help her. By sitting with her and speaking to her as the child she is will bring such a loving feeling to your heart. As you let her know you’re sorry for what happened to her and offer love with a dream-like hug, you will feel a sense of caring never felt before at that younger age. You see, that’s what your younger self needed and now you’re providing it. You are healing that part of you, that younger self.

Now as you’re consoling your younger self, pull back a bit and look at the adult moment you’re struggling in. Because an adult project wasn’t working out, I allowed those tears to steer me to my childhood trauma that needed to be healed. It may take several trips to visit your younger self at that age and moment; however, continue to use your yoga to keep stretched. Stress has a way of creating more pain in your muscles. As you continue to meditate ask for help and enjoy the meditations when no past hurt comes up. The universe wants you to enjoy life too.

Your Pain is Healed

One thing I’ve learned is if I go through my hurt in order to heal, I come out better. As I would announce another trauma healed to me Guru Michele, I would always express the simplicity. It always looks like an easy process when all is said and done. I’d say to her, “Why did I wait so long to do this easy-feeling healing before?” She would always reply, “You weren’t ready.”

On a last note, after trudging through the muck and mire of past trauma and finding your treasure chest, be sure to give thanks to the ones who helped. I believe meditating gratitude to all archangels, deities, or past loved ones is a wonderful follow through. It completes the lesson learned and gives strength for the next healing session.