Principles of Healing: A Discussion

[Agua del Cielo]

I have a question.

Can you heal others when you yourself are not fully healed? Is your capacity to heal only as great as the extent to which you are personally healed? If the intent to heal is pure, does it matter what state you are in?

That would depend on the, lets say method of healing!

In the case of "energy healing", I would say being healed completely would not be required.
I have to say though, that I am not familiar with stuff like Reiki for example, so my experience is limited on that.

The kind of healing I found most effective on my path, would be different, i will outline it shortly:

What I mean is a therapeutic or maybe shamanic approach. (I am NOT talking about psychoanalysis, which many think about when talking about therapy).
In short, this requires ultimately getting to the very root of the issue, distortion or how you want to name it.
You are going back to the very situation the issue developed.
In the case of lets say sexual abuse in childhood, you are re-experiencing (it takes quite some time to get there) the very situation when this happened in your early life.
But this time you are experiencing it consciously with support from a therapist or shaman.

by doing this, you release the energy that created the blockage, and additionally you replace the "bad experience" by a new, better experience.
Just to outline this very short...

The therapist or healer does create a space of absolute safety and unconditional love, where the client can let go of control and suppression.
ultimately the little child will show and be in the original traumatic situation.
Under now circumstances may the client, which is a little child now, be left alone, neither on a physical nor a heart-level, otherwise a re-traumatization will occur!

In a work such as this, it is ABSOLUTELY necessary, that the therapist has already healed the issue in question in him/herself.
If thehealer hast healed this, he would resonate with the energy and emotions arising in the "client".
As long as thehealer has not been ready to face this energy in himself, he cannot allow the client to get to this emotions and would either have to keep the client from getting there (by unconscious manipulation) or has to cut the connection (heart-connection) to the client.

This would mean, under no circumstamces should a work such as this be performed, when thehealer hasnt resolved these emotions. When thehealer still believes, he even doesnt have theseissues in himself, it is even worse, because then dissociation and denial in the healer would be even greater!

A side note:
This is exactly what happens, when people go on psychoactive substances and are neither prepared nor accompanied by a reliable person. The trauma can arise, but not be healed, so a retraumatization occurs.