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Hi, welcome back to Radio Headspace, to Wednesday, and to this moment.
It's Dora here. So the other day, I caught myself responding to something that usually would have sent me into a spiral, but I responded differently.
I was able to stay centered and even playful.
Shortly after, I took a moment to reflect on what had just happened.
I responded differently to a situation that would have thrown me over.
I still experienced the same thoughts, emotions, and sensations towards the situation, but my response was completely different.
This moment had me asking myself, is this what healing is?
Am I healed? And is a change response and the ability to recognize that change what healing is?
If there's anything I've learned over the last decade, it's healing is not a pursuit.
It's not something of perfection.
It's not a performance or punishment.
So often we can strive to heal and try our hardest to be the best that we can be.
We want the entire world to know that we're doing the work, and if you're anything like me, sometimes we feel resentful because we're the only ones in our family doing the work.
But what I've found, similar to what happened in that moment, is healing can be found in a changed perspective, in having patience with ourselves and being committed to this lifelong practice.
And there's an emphasis on lifelong practice.
Similar to understanding the mind and meditation, this is a journey that we'll be on for an entire lifetime.
For some that's liberating and for others, it's kind of scary.
When we let go of the idea of what healing should be and commit to the process, we start to realize that each and every day there's something that we can learn about ourselves.
And in each and every moment, we're being given an opportunity to choose and respond differently to life.
Every Wednesday, I teach a community meditation class at Black Being in Ingoode.
It's a one-hour class dedicated to healing and practicing in community.
We meditate, talk, laugh, and sometimes cry.
One evening, I decided to share on this topic of what's healing with the class.
I asked questions like, why do we do it?
What's the importance?
And what does it mean to heal?
The room was filled with such beautiful conversation and curiosity.
For some folks in the room, they had never stopped to consider why they were on this path in the first place.
For others, they felt as if they had no choice.
Some people described healing to be found in community, while others found healing and being in solitude.
What stuck with me was what one person had shared, where they had likened healing to a scar on their arm and how in the beginning it was painful, and over time, once they tended to the wound, it began to heal.
It never quite goes away, and it's a part of you forever, symbolizing that something painful has happened, healing has occurred, and represents the ability to be resilient throughout that process.
Now back to that choosing a different response scenario that I had mentioned at the beginning of the episode.
This is what mindfulness affords us.
We can either be so consumed by the thoughts, emotions, and sensations that arise, or we can acknowledge them, knowing that they'll always be there and choose something differently.
I think for me, that is what healing is, choosing something different for ourselves.
Similar to the metaphor of the wound, we can either be so focused on the wound itself, caught up in the stories around it, whatever that might be, or we can begin to create the conditions for the wound to heal.
So just something to think about.
If you're on this path of healing and transformation, how did you get here?
What made you to decide to embark on this journey?
And what's the importance of it all?
Feel free to share with me over on Instagram at dora.com.
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