Every individual who carries a call to healing is a person who carries a great heart and generosity of spirit. So how do I as a healer, or a health care professional, renew myself?  What sustains me, what regenerates me, what heals me?

You may think of yourself as a doctor, nurse, health professional-  and yet in many traditional societies, you would be called a medicine person, a shaman. You would be called a shaman because you have the privilege to steward the Mysteries, and one of the Mysteries is illness, which is an initiation to coming home again to a deeper sense of self and well-being.

The greatest healing force on the planet is love, and all the arms of love- gratitude, acknowledgement, appreciation, forgiveness, laughter, play. Which of these do I bring when I’m asked for help? Where can I trust the healing presence that I bring?

 I’m reminded of an old healing prayer that comes from the Central American indigenous peoples:

Do all the good that you can,

In all the ways that you can,

By all the means that you can,

To all the people that you can,

In all the places that you can,

For as long as ever you can.

Healing does not take place in the fast lane, nor does it take place as only stewarding the techincal.  For anyone who is called to the medical profession or the healing arts, the true calling is to access the deeper healing gifts that we carry within.

So my hope and wish is that you do all the good that you can, in all the ways that you can, for as long as ever you can.

Steward of the Mystery

You have been called to a healing path, and cross-culturally, you would be seen as having a holy privilege of stewarding the Great Universal Mysteries,of birth, initiation which is illness, and death. When it becomes apparent that the person is not going to get well, and is entered into preparation for death,  it is essential that you steward the Mystery that the patient or the client is facing, in an honorable way that aligns with a universal experience of deep spirituality.

Traditional societies believe that at this juncture you have been blessed to steward someone to the spirit world, which is the greatest healing journey we can make. At the juncture we attempt to control, we move into fear, we see death as a failure in the healing arts, rather than seeing that we have done the best job that we possibly can.

At that time we would assist the comfort of our patient, in anticipating the needs they may have, not only physically, but also spiritually or emotionally.  

My wish for all of us who have that holy privilege, is that we recognize it when it is occurring, and that we do not become expedient, and yet open to the deeper Mystery that is present, and the holy privilege it is to begin to steward someone home, to the spirit world.

The traditional prayer that I’d like to offer, comes from the indigenous people’s of this continent. When you find yourself with someone who has entered into the death and dying process, remember this blessing.

Fear not death. Befriend death.  A Holy Mystery awaits you for your own deepening and your own healing.

 May you be a steward of the Great Mystery


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