What Can Be The Purpose Of Illness?
Is it true that many healers have experienced especially great difficulties in their lives? And if so, is there a purpose to this? There is a long-standing archetype of the Wounded Healer that many point to in order to answer these questions. Some feel that often healers have had challenging experiences to move higher and higher in their consciousness, as the painful events have often led to transcendent experiences. The traumas, illnesses, and many other wounds have often led to profound transformation and the opening of eyes.
The Power of the Wounded Healer
One important way of understanding illness or difficulty is to see these states as processes by which a person becomes transformed and is then able to assist others. Called the “wounded healer” paradigm, it is for many a process of initiation and of connection to a more expanded way of life. Of course, not everyone who enters difficult times becomes awakened by them. But for some who do, it is a process of metamorphosis. The difficulties can become opportunities for true liberation.
Moving to Another Level of Your Life
You may have your own experience with this. Your Soul Self may create something very difficult in your experience. Perhaps it is a great physical or psychological illness or an addiction or a loss. You may even be called to the brink of death. And then your Wise Mind might speak to you, telling you of the possibility of moving into another level of your life. When you move to another level of yourself, your life changes. Your personality and interests change. You may be led to work with others to help uplift and heal them. You cannot go back to the life you once led. You are operating on an entirely new plane of existence.
New Ways of Being
This is the transformation of the wounded healer. It’s a process of becoming initiated and transformed, in which you lift yourself into epiphanies of insight and new ways of being. Healers and shamans, for example, have awakened from their own personal illusions of darkness. Sometimes they experience dire illnesses in which they are on the brink of death, they hear an inner voice telling them that a new life is on the horizon, they understand the illusions of their particular predicament, and then they awaken to a new life.
Opportunities in Illness and Challenges
You can ask, “What would my Wise Mind like to tell me about this situation?? And you can then channel your own wisdom to find deeper understanding.. Through the wounded healer paradigm, you can come to know that whatever you’re experiencing is an opportunity for transformation. You understand that the greatest difficulty may be the springboard for ultimate illumination. This kind of understanding goes beyond the idea of controlling habits or getting rid of symptoms. This way of seeing knows that healing is a process in which consciousness is being awakened. You move beyond your difficulties into higher and higher states of wisdom and love.
