Epidemic in our society is living a life that is outgoing and action oriented. We seem to feel that life is "out there" somewhere. We feel that to heal we need to "do" something. If we're a doctor, we feel we need to "give" an adjustment of treatment, or to "do" something to the person we are working with.
In deeper, truer healing states, however, there is not so much something done as much as something received by both the doctor and the one being healed. Healing is not so much external as it is internal.
The power of healing comes from our state of receptivity. Receptivity is part of the feminine principle in the yin/yang balance cycle, so I shall refer to Innate as "she" when receiving her in a heightened state of awareness and openness and readiness for healing.
Where is Innate and what is Innate? We feel her when we look around. We feel her when we look inside. She directs our breath, our thoughts, and our heartbeat. We see her in the colors one wears, in the gleam of a piece of jewelry, in the light and shadow in one's eyes. She is in the vibrancy of the sky and the sound of the air around us.
When we agree to allow a healing state into our lives, we feel her in the field around us. She talks through people, places and things.
When we approach someone we are serving in a healing capacity with reverence, we feel in their field where she is weak and strong... where she needs to move and from what trap she needs to be released. She tells our hands what to do, where to go and how to embrace her.
As chiropractors, we observe how we feel when contacting certain areas of the spine. She talks back to us in music, vibration, symbols, or sensations. We feel her in our own breath as we receive the information. She wiggles and tingles in our spine, moving with each thought, touch and intent. We feel her when we match the tone of the person being healed and where he or she is at, and not where we want that person to be, or where we feel Innate is in them, right NOW.
"The power of healing comes from our state of receptivity."
We feel her in our fingertips. We feel her in our pelvis as we agree to keep her dynamic energy and wisdom free in ourselves. We feel her direct our hands, sometimes forcefully, sometimes gently.
She is a guiding force, a knowingness. She carries in her wake divine wisdom. She coordinates all activities in our bodies and all interactions in the spheres of the universe. She orchestrates life.
We merge in her love and feel thankful and full. After the kiss of Innate is released from our fingertips, we swiftly move on trusting her power and direction to activate the healing and awaken the one being healed. At the same time of releasing ourselves to her wisdom, we free ourselves to connect with our own innate.
What have we done? Who has done it? What is this life that moves through us, instead of happening to us? She makes our life hallowed when we receive her. She will bless us, and help us bless ourselves. How do we receive her?
When the "I" moves out of the way, she will come. When we surrender to her all-knowingness, we become her all-knowingness. Let us be servants of this power and therefore become masters of our own life.
Let us receive her Grace. Eastern mystics say, "Grace is always there. It is we who put up the veils and are not receptive." In the same way, Innate is always there. Let us remove the obstacles and feel her and allow her beauty and wisdom to flow into our lives.
Let us be receptive to this never-ending, abundant stream of life moving through us, for she is the healing power and her gifts will set us free.
Jan Viaforia, D.C.
