In a healthy person, the energy and experience of that soul is one of flow, rhythm, life, love and trust. In an unhealthy person or anyone in an unhealthy (traumatic) environment, the flow stops; the rhythm becomes erratic; life and love become frozen; and trust becomes limited and conditional. This is not the way your life was meant to be. Yes, we have free will, but healing is when you choose divine order over chaos.

One could say that this restoration is also known as a miracle. The divinely inspired book A Course in Miracles refers to this miraculous healing process as a shift in perception or consciousness at the deepest level of the soul. When this healing occurs, through prayerful healing processes, the effects can, and will, flow down the manifestation ladder until it is perceptible in the outer world. In other words, true healing and miracles must take place in the heart and soul before really reaching the body. However, the body can be used to access the heart and soul.

This leads us to a deeper understanding as to why some of our attempts to heal do not last. We may have experienced a shift in the body or even an “emotional release,” but the healing is not real (i.e. permanent) unless you have healed at the heart and soul level -- the source of the problem.

In the various fields of health, healing, psychotherapy, bodywork, medicine and so forth, each healer believes their modality is effective in the healing process. However, disease and trauma are never experienced nor stored at only one level. For example, a trauma to the body can affect the emotional self just as a psychological trauma can affect the body.

Stated simply, life and love or trauma and fear can be experienced on four primary levels: heart (soul), mind, feelings and body. A trauma to any one (or more) can affect the others. Although trauma or disease can be experienced at any of these levels, it is in the heart and soul that the patterns, core-issues and personal beliefs are stored that can attract the traumas to any other level of experience. That’s right! An emotional crisis, a car accident and even a physical disease are all birthed from the level of the soul. If we change the beliefs and patterns in the heart and soul, then we give birth to new opportunities in all parts of our life and being.

What, then, is the value of any healing art other than soul-level healing? The answer is two-fold. First, the various healing arts can act as a support system to the soul-level healing process. Second, the various modalities of herbs, aromas, bodywork, counseling, energy-work and so on can act as access points and triggers for soul-level healing. For example, if a river is a bit blocked upstream, you can increase the water flow up-stream and it will eventually wash the block away. Yet if you also deal with the block of debris at its own level, you will increase the chances of the stream unblocking sooner. So, in the end, soul-level healing is a necessity, while any other form of healing is merely a wise addition.

There are at least two ways of accessing and triggering a soul-level healing. One way is to directly connect with the soul and its core memory. This, of course, is not a healing method that everyone is familiar with. However, the second approach is one that is becoming more and more accessible for all. This method is that of holistic healing. The term holistic (i.e. whole-istic), in relation to healing, is the same as holographic (whole-o-graphic), in relation to quantum science. Both fields are exploring the theory that all things are interconnected--that the whole can also be accessed in any part. With this in mind, even the heart and soul can be accessed through their microcosmic representation in any other part of our being. This means that some levels of the heart and soul can be accessed through any supportive healing method if the healer and client are open enough to truly treat it holistically. However, the healer needs to see their technique as a means to the soul-level issue rather than as an end.

A trauma can be stored at diverse levels of consciousness, such as in the physical body, the energy body or the emotional body. Therefore, working with these various bodies can be a means to triggering a healing deep enough to reach the heart and soul. To understand this, we need to see everything as energy and vibration. If trauma holds a certain vibration, that energy can end up stored or lodged in any of the levels of our being. An intuitive healer with effective techniques can access and release these blocks. When this is done, it can stir a reaction in all other levels of the being. For example, when a certain trauma is released by triggering a muscle, it can sometimes be followed by an energy release such as uncontrollable shaking.