What is a Healing Space? A healing space is any space in which a person is capable of relaxing the stressors in their mind and body to the point where they have access to their most resourceful and optimal state.
So much dis-ease and disease is the result of stress in the mind and body. Some of this stress is genetic (generational) and some the result of life events that have created trauma, sorrow, or fearful thinking. For many people, stress is so commonplace that it has become a way of life. Stress isn’t always bad: i small to moderate doses it can help you perform under pressure and motivate you to do your best; in emergency situations stress can save your life. But stress is generally a disempowering state of being, and when you constantly experience an underlying current of fear, worry, anxiety or pressure, your mind and body pay a price. stress starts as dis-ease and ends up as disease. When this happens, stress has become part of your personal gravity, holding you back from moving into higher levels of well-being, fulfillment, and joy. A healing space is therefor any physical or non-phyical space which allows for stress release and decompression so that we can access our most resourceful and optimal state of being. A healing space is like an oasis in time where the heaviness of daily pressure and material concerns can be transcended; a space in which harmonious, integrating energies are enabled, and disempowering, disintegrating energies are disabled.
When we nurture a healing space for ourselves, we activate energies that promote relaxation and inner connection, and release tension and stress. (An additional benefit is that when the stress that suppresses our naturally functioning immune system is released, the immune system is better able to do the job for which it was designed.) We are then primed to access the resources employed in healing the propel the transformational process forward.
Cultivating a Healing Space
Dr. Alex Loyd wrote in The Healing Code, "The deepest healing every person on earth needs is not physical or emotional, but spiritual, and it involves healing and disruption with a loving presence." In each person's own self-transformation journey, the deepest healing every person needs involves healing any disconnect with the intelligence of the heart and soul so that we can move closer to the realm of Spirit and its vast healing capacities. In order to enable that connection, we need to cultivate a healing space, a place that feels safe to be ourselves, to let go, and find peace within that space. Each healing space has its own unique feel and energy; no two spaces are exactly alike. For example: the space of Yoga in DeMun. You are free to create whatever it is you desire, in any way you choose, as there is no prescription for how a healing space is cultivated. If you have not intentionally created a healing space before, the first two practices are excellent starting point for how it is done: Slow it all down, sync wit the rhythm of life and spirit,a nd infused the space iwth spiritual energy. It is also helpful to start observing the qualities all healing space share, the defining characteristics which signify a space as a healing space, and reflect on how those can be brought to your work and your service for others. These characteristics include:
Cleanness and spaciousness
Breath
Relaxation
Calm, peace, serenity
Safety
Silence
Harmony and grace
Natural rhythms
Freedom to be
Detachment from thinking
Practice 3- Nurture a Peaceful, Healing Space
As the cultivator (yourself) of a healing space
It begins with who you are being. If you are driven by your intellect, your capacity to nurture a healing space is diminished. A healing space opens when you tap into your heart and soul, and when you choose to be your most loving and authentic self, the space that you nurture for yourself or for others becomes the energy fields which radiate comforting and nourishing presence. As a loving presence, that energy field emanates from you, filling the space, bathing it in healing light, and opening the door for others to access their healer within. In time, as you practice nurturing healing spaces wherever you find yourself, you will come to recognize an extraordinary truth: you are the space. Ther will be a shift in your perception of a healing space from something that is outside of or an extension of yourself, to perceiving yourself as the healing space. You are the space! And you will carry thsi healing presence with you wherever you go.