04-27-2014, 12:50 AM
I always took the higher self as being the "messenger" for the unconscious awareness of the individual, but I see what you mean. The method I was taught involves a lot of communication and basically talking or sharing through the whole process, and everything is the decision of the individual who is healing themselves.
I have always believed that people heal themselves and the "healer" is just providing an opportunity for healing even before I learned Reiki so I definitely believe the actuality of any and all healing is done at the whim of the individual.
I think I know what you mean by offering the unconscious awareness the opportunity. I never thought about it in that way before but I realize that is what I am doing a lot of the time when I work with people as I most frequently end up speaking with the person internally inside myself as though I am talking to the part which is not caught up in the distortions of the conscious self and it clicks with me now that I am speaking to the unconscious awareness. That explains why there seems to be progress during my healing sessions when a decision is reached in the internal conversation even if there has been no external communication in that way. Thanks for posting these thoughts as they give me some explanation as to what that is all about and why I always experience it in that way.
I have always believed that people heal themselves and the "healer" is just providing an opportunity for healing even before I learned Reiki so I definitely believe the actuality of any and all healing is done at the whim of the individual.
I think I know what you mean by offering the unconscious awareness the opportunity. I never thought about it in that way before but I realize that is what I am doing a lot of the time when I work with people as I most frequently end up speaking with the person internally inside myself as though I am talking to the part which is not caught up in the distortions of the conscious self and it clicks with me now that I am speaking to the unconscious awareness. That explains why there seems to be progress during my healing sessions when a decision is reached in the internal conversation even if there has been no external communication in that way. Thanks for posting these thoughts as they give me some explanation as to what that is all about and why I always experience it in that way.