Deep Soul Healing

There is an old saying that none of us will get out of this world alive. That is the absolute truth, but none of us wants to face that stark reality. We know it is true, but we deny it until it we take our last breath.

I live in a retirement community, and I face the truth of that statement every day. I face my future in the aging bodies and difficult health problems that I see in my neighbors. I know and love many people who have only a short time left in this life. For me and for everyone else, it is not a matter of if, but when and how.

Several years ago, my women’s group discussed the difference between healing and cure. There is not much difference in the dictionary meanings. Healing means to become sound or healthy again. Cure means to restore to health. 

However, the group began to think of cure as a physical process and healing as a spiritual one. When looked at in that light there is a profound difference between the two.  If a disease is cured, it is gone. It is no longer a part of one’s life. There are many ailments which can be cured, and there are many which cannot be cured. There are chronic ailments such as Parkinson’s or MS. You can live for a long time with these diseases. You can compensate for the growing debilitation, but ultimately, there is no physical cure.

Healing, if looked at through a spiritual lens, is not of the body. Healing is for the soul. While our bodies may have an incurable disease, our life’s purpose is to be at peace with our own souls. We have incarnated in this body to learn lessons of love and forgiveness. While we live, we have the opportunity to heal our spirits, to come to terms with who we are and who we have been. We have the opportunity to understand that God/dess loves us infinitely and eternally just as we are. We have the opportunity to be at peace with ourselves and with God/dess.  We have the opportunity to do the deep Soul work that helps us evolve. By being conscious of our Soul’s work, our Souls can be healed even though our bodies die.

As I wrote last week, we must walk through the storms of life in order to become spiritually awakened and strong. And the ultimate storm is facing our own demise with equanimity, knowing that we are upheld and supported by a power greater than ourselves, having done the best we knew how to do.

I believe that we don’t have to get it right in this one lifetime. I believe that we have lived multiple lifetimes. When this body of mine leaves this plane, I will have the opportunity to incarnate into another body and to learn new Soul lessons. I don’t believe that this one lifetime is all there is. I find a great deal of hope in this idea. I am held in the arms of Spirit, no matter what happens to my body. I may not be cured, but my Soul is healed, and I am free to pass into the next life with no regrets. 

Barbara Garland
September, 2021