How Our Wounds Can Heal Us

I came across a quote a few days ago that stopped me in my tracks:

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ― Rumi

The poet was probably speaking symbolically when he used the term “wound” above, referring to those places within us that have yet to be healed. But certain indigenous cultures take this concept much more literally and use these words of wisdom when treating their sick.

For thousands of years, people in the Amazon jungle have regarded physical dis-easeas something to be embraced, rather than feared. Illnesses are viewed as messengers of Pachamama or the earth mother, sent to humanity as teachers that can bring us closer to her and back into connection with our source, or “the Light”.

The shamans work with disease, not against it, listening for a specific message the health condition is trying to relate to the patient: What is it that must be confronted, changed, or healed on an emotional or spiritual level?

Once these underlying “wounds” are acknowledged, something remarkable happens to the patient. In the words of shaman Roman Hanis,

“When the individual has learned the deep lessons their disease has to teach them, they are re-birthed into a new, higher-evolved life.”

Opportunities for Relief and Growth Abound

The essence of this sacred interpretation can be applied to our everyday lives as well. Upon waking, you can either see the day in front of you as a buffet table loaded with painful and pleasurable experiences, or you can look at every encounter as spiritual training – with the goal being to become more clear and resourceful in the moment.

Here’s a little secret: children are amazing barometers of how we adults are operating. After all, they haven’t been conditioned by growing up – so they’re intuitive masters.

When my mighty four-year-old son, River, comes into the room and asks me a question, he immediately knows whether or not I’m giving him my full attention. He sees straight through any clouds of distraction and does whatever it takes to shake me back into the present moment.

On the flip side, when I am completely engaged in our interaction, River and I experience a fluid dance of souls. As we whirl, he teaches me things with his words and gestures that are too deeply gratifying to express.

Is it possible for us to tango with crisis and pain in the same way we would with a loved one? Seems kind of absurd at first, but the masters see the good and the bad, the light and the dark, the joyous and the terrifying as two sides of the same coin. They aren’t tempted by the fleeting comforts of the “good” nor are they rattled by the shadows that can sometimes be found in the “bad”.

Once we get past their foreboding exterior, we begin to see pain and crisis as something far more sacred than we ever knew. A shaman might call them a catalyst for spiritual evolution.

Answer this question honestly: Is there a point of pain or stress in your life right now that is actually a misunderstood doorway to your more evolved self?

There sure are a few in mine. 🙂

Stay curious,

Nick Polizzi

Originally published on The Sacred Science 
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November 11, 2017

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