Healing is a dangerous goal when applied to anything other than your body. While it isn’t inaccurate to describe that there is a process to improving the state of one’s emotions and psychology, it is a deception by a contumacious identity to conceptualize that process as healing. If you are trying to heal yourself, the assumption is that you have been wounded and are a victim who should be even more attentive and accepting of your injury for an extended length of time. This poor little you who thrives on fear can endlessly pick your scabs in the dark and wonder why the wounds never heal. But is that even you?
Glorious amelioration is a victory of total responsibility. It is realizing that you are the authority, not the victim. It's the power of a profound truth that the only injuries that survive more than a mere moment are the ones we choose to keep alive. We may believe we deserve them. This fearful identity isn’t you; it lives as you because you allow it and identify with it as you.
There is a process, but it isn’t best described as healing; it is becoming. It is the shift to identifying with the you that precedes thought and emotion, the truth.It isn’t a process of healing; it's a procedure of cutting off the cancerous growths of yourself infected with lies. It will take courage and care. Healing is a doing; becoming is an undoing.
With every slice of your blade that cuts true, you become free and more powerful. As you do, fear will whisper in your ear that you are exposed, vulnerable, and weak. You have heard that lie before. Doubt will say there won’t be enough substance left if you keep cutting. But you’ll remember that an ounce of truth is more significant than a pound of lies. Pain will tell you that you are cutting too deep, but you observe that your knife can only cut the lies. After all the cutting is done and you have fully revealed yourself without so much as a scratch, you can have a good laugh.
by Dustin Ogle
Author of "We Aren't Who We Are" How to Become