How to Start a Daily Holistic Healing Practice
I used to think of healing work and practices as something we do when we are:
- sick,
- injured,
- struggling,
- or in the recovery process in some way.
Traditionally, we do not seek the support of wellness and healing practices when life is cruising along. I can’t remember one client over the last 25 years who came to me with the statement, “Michelle, my life is doing great! And I would like some help to expand and engage more with it.” That would be awesome! Yet, something that typically doesn’t happen.
Instead, many of my clients find my services when they have gone through every door they can think of to help themselves address and heal a current crisis, challenge, or illness.
While yes, practices can help us tend to our “healing” journey of bringing balance within us physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually, they are actually designed to help us do so much more!
I just recorded a new video teaching on How to Start a Daily Holistic Healing Practice that is designed to help you cultivate support for ALL of you, accessing the inner states of joy, resourcing, connection, peace, courage, and yes, to help create more wellness and balance too. Check it out!"
Quick Highlights From the Video:
Holistic Approach
The type of Healing Practice I teach to my clients is not solely focused on improving their physical or mental wellness; it also includes spiritual wellness. This allows them to integrate their Heart and Soul’s voice with their daily lives, work lives, and family lives.
Active Companion and Teacher
When we partner with our Healing Practices as “living” teachers, they become a Life Companion, helping us in all facets and expressions of our life.
This practice invites us into real-time conversations,which are centered around helping us explore:
- What is present right now?
- How am I missing connections with parts of myself, life, hopes, and dreams?
- What/how can I support myself in shifting that stance, connecting with those aspects of myself and life in a more balanced and aligned way?
Sacred Witness and Contemplation
A willingness to interact with your system:
- With the Medicine of the Sacred Witness - turning toward our reflections with curiosity, compassion, and acceptance.
- In dialogue and deep listening with what the practice is bringing forward.
- Beginner’s Mindset - willingness to learn, shift, change, and engage with what you are witnessing within a new manner.
Bookend your Week
Start your week off with a practice of selecting “teacher” and set your intentions for the week.
End your week with final reflections of what came forward throughout the week with that “teacher”.
Steps of a Daily Healing Practice
The practice is centered on the intentions you create based on different weekly:
- quotes,
- short spiritual or wisdom concepts,
- or even a passage of a spiritual, wellness, or growth based text.
Begin Each Week by selecting a Quote that is calling to you.
Throughout the week, take the selected text or quote and:
- Set your Intention: Read the quote daily. As you read it, set the intention to partner with the quote as your “teacher” for the week. Invite exploring the energy, spirit, and actions held within it. Explore different phrases, meanings, and the essence of it.
- Notice your Attention: Invite your attention to check in with your different aspects of Self and see how they feel toward the messaging of the quote: Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul Beings.
- Be open to Flow: Create a way to reference it throughout the week. There are tons of ways to help bring the “practice” into your daily routines: record a short voice memo you can play back while walking or doing chores, take a picture of it and make it your home screen, write it down and put it in your meditation space, on the side of the mirror, or on the console of your car.
- Engage with its invitations: Let the teacher guide you into witnessing your thoughts and interactions through the lens of that intention throughout the week. This can be in the moment of them, prepping for a meeting, or as a reflection afterward.
- Let yourself change: Be willing to allow the impressions you gain from working with the quote to change old habits, ideas, thoughts, and even expressions to bring the whole of you into greater attunement with its teachings.
End Each Week with reflection and integration. Sit with the teacher, the quote or text, and ask if there is anything else that wants to come through it to help support you.
Rinse and Repeat. Set the intention for Spirit or the Universe to help bring the next mini-teacher, a quote or short text, forward. Let your attention be guided to the next quote or teaching that wants to be with you in the coming week. And flow into that practice, setting it up in the same fashion.
Looking for support in starting a similar practice?
Each week, I share the Healing Practice that I’m working with that week and I would love for you to join me!
Wellness and Healing Tip: We gain more willingness and flow when we are in community! Joining and following along with us via our Social Media channels of your choice you don’t have to go it alone!
I have weekly short guided practices to start each week on YouTube, graphics you can download and keep with you within our other channels, and everytime you share your ah-ha’s it strengthens your integration of the practice AND it ripples out to serve and help others too!
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Offering light, love, and JOY!
Michelle
