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The Gates To Healing

November 3, 2022

Let's look closer at the concept and experience of healing.

When we cut our arm, what happens?

It heals.

Now, we do have to set the conditions for this wondrous and miraculous process.

We scrub the wound, keep it clean, maybe have someone put in a few sutures to help bring the layers together. We make sure the body is functioning well overall with some food and sleep.

But we don't DO the process. With all our intelligence and technology, we cannot come anywhere close to reproducing it. We barely even understand it.

Let's consider for a moment the body's capacity to heal in other ways that are less familiar.

I have always approached this consideration with curiosity, but also with some trepidation because of the desperation of constant deep pain.

But over time I began to unlearn some of the obstructions that had been handed down to me unconsciously through my family and the greater culture. This unlearning cleared the way for considering a broader definition and experience of healing.

It can be so hard to believe that we have ways to sense, feel, and move in a manner that is in alignment with a greater healing process.

But I have found this to be possible. I call the process unwinding.

Simplistically, unwinding involves allowing our direct sensations and emotions to inform healing movement.

This movement obviously means activity in our limbs and torso, but I find it extends to thoughts, beliefs, stories, dreams, nightmares, colors, temperatures, textures, feelings, vibrations, tears, and sounds. . .

Extending to all the gates into what we call this body.

Selfunwinding is the process of finding our agency in entering these gates and following the movement that is this wider healing process itself.

We unlearn the obstructions and learn to trust the body's innate wisdom, just as we do when we healing from a simple cut.

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