Because we are all connected, all events effect us. If the events are harmful, we need healing practices to help us regain our sense of connectedness. Healing makes it possible for us to weave together the broken threads that connect us one to another in a complex web of relationships, to give us back a sense of being intact and well. While we all want that sense of connectedness, we know far too little about how to achieve it. The study of healing opens a door to that understanding.
Individual healing is shaped by the meaning wholeness has for a given individual.
No matter how many people tell you that you are well, you are not until you believe you are. We need to learn a great deal more about the best healing practices that assist people in knowing that they can regain a sense of wholeness. We need to find the best ways to assist people to achieve that sense of personal integrity. When we heal, we do not go back to our prior state. Even with a paper cut, there is a tiny often imperceptible scar.