V. The Unhealed Healer P 6
6 What, then, should happen? When God said, “Let there be light,” there was light. Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance? Healing is not mysterious. Nothing will change unless it is understood, since light is understanding. A “miserable sinner” cannot be healed without magic, nor can an “unimportant mind” esteem itself without magic.
Journal
“Can you find light by analyzing darkness…” is the key idea I am taking from this paragraph. I am not going to find the answer in the story, and I am not going to understand what needs to be done by looking at the story. In fact, dwelling on the story is going to keep me in darkness and confuse me further.
Whether working with myself or with someone else, I try to move out of the story as quickly as possible. The story, what seems to be happening in my life, can help me see that I need correction, but it is not the story that needs to be corrected; it is a belief in my mind that needs correction. Further analysis of the story would help only if I were going to try to make myself feel better by reordering my story. This is trying to heal through magical means and it has never worked and never will.
What does help is to realize that the story is just a symbol of a thought in my mind that has been projected outward and seen as if it is real. If I don’t immediately recognize the symbolism, it can help to look at how the situation makes me feel. For instance, if I feel like life is not fair, or that I was unfairly treated, then I know that I believe I am a victim of the world I see.
This can’t be true, so I ask the Holy Spirit to remove that thought from my mind so that I can see the truth that lies just behind it. When I ask for healing it really is like a light came on. I see what was before obscured by the dark thoughts in my mind. I do this each time I notice that my story triggers fear or guilt in my mind.
Practice has taught me that I could have peace instead of this, and I have learned to desire peace more than I desire the story of victimhood. As I remain vigilant and as I consistently choose peace, there is transfer of learning. I begin to automatically choose peace, and there is not that uncomfortable period of suffering while I decide I want my mind to be healed.
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