We view our desire to get rid of disease as a desire to live. Although we seemingly want to be alive, in fact we simply want to avoid intensity. By providing companionship and some kind of sympathy, the healer creates a suggestion of health or underlying sanity, which then undermines naive conceptions of disease. The healer deals with the mishandling of the gaps that occur in one's life, with one's losses of spirit. If you and the other person are both open, some kind of dialogue can take place that is not forced.
Communication occurs naturally because both are in the same situation.
For a moment the two are not separate and a sense of authenticity takes place. Someone actually sees through his sickness. The healing process can then begin to take place in the patient's state of being, because he realizes that someone has communicated with him completely. There has been a mutual glimpse of common ground. The psychological underpinning of the sickness then begins to come apart, to dissolve.