The Healing Process

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Sometimes, many times, I want change to happen overnight. Or maybe in a week. A few weeks at most. But of course, that hardly ever happens. This is more so true for when you are dealing with chronic issues such as chronic diseases or mental states that you have experienced for many years such as anxiety, depression and prolonged states of excessive anger that is detrimental to your well being. These issues can arise from years and years of neurons firing and wiring together in the same way in your brain. You can call them patterns or habits but in Ayurveda, we call them samskaras - they are the repetitive ways in which we think, feel and act. Changing the ones that negatively impact you won’t happen overnight. Taking a few herbs or getting some body work treatments or following a diet for a short period of time won’t create the lasting results that you wish to see. 

If you want to change a samskara it will require:

 

·        Time

·        An Intention based in Love and Acceptance

·        Patience 

·        Awareness

·        Commitment 

·        Deliberate Action

 

Let’s break it down.


Time

Chronic issues arise as a result of a culmination of long held patterns. Understand that you will need time and make it your friend.

 

An Intention Based in Love and Acceptance

Accepting your reality at the present moment is paramount to healing. If you deny, repress or actively resist your current state of being you are stopping the flow of energy. Once you clog your energetic channels, it’s harder to heal (This is probably what brought you here in the first place). Bring love and acceptance to whatever comes up for you during your healing process. If you feel anger, fear, pain, despair, etc. don’t push them away, feel them and then tell yourself that you got yourself - lovingly. Cause you do. You’re the only one who can take care of your inner well being. 

 

Patience

Slow everything down. From the pace of your brain to the amount of engagements you have scheduled on your calendar. Creating slowness in your life will help with increasing the amount of patience you have for your healing process. Here are some useful tools

 

-deep breathing breaks

-watching the sunrise by yourself

-watching the moon at night by yourself

 

Bring whatever helps you create stillness and peace into your life.

 

Awareness

In order to heal chronic issues it’s useful to look back at how they were formed so as to not repeat the same patterns when trying to move forward. Mindfulness is great tool for observing yourself so you can bring more awareness to your patterns. Just observe yourself daily and in moments when you are triggered, without judgement. Bring curiosity to it. Talk to yourself about yourself in third person. This will create some space for objective observation. You can also talk to a therapist or a trusted person who is outside looking in to bring awareness.

  

Commitment 

You gotta commit! Results may not appear as quick as you would like but healing takes time. Don’t ever give up.  

 

 Deliberate Action

The most important part. What are the steps you are taking on a consistent daily basis to change those samskaras? To change the deeply wired pathways in your brain?




M.P
(Skylit Ayurveda Team)


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