When we value self-development and awareness, living a conscious life, we potentially always shine the spotlight on every situation to find the lesson or growth in it. It is almost like we are always “on” so to say.
There is the possibility that we can get stuck in a loop of always wanting to work on ourselves, always healing some aspect of ourselves.
While this is all good and well, it can lead to a sort of “healing burnout”, in other words, we forget to live in the process!
What if we don’t need to have it ALL healed before we get to living? What if we can live and have fun in between the moments of self-development?
What if we can acknowledge the pain, understand where it comes from, give it the space it needs, but not let it run the show?
What if we can enjoy ourselves while still having “unhealed” pain?
What if we can loosen the grip on the pressure to heal it before we can do what we want to do?
We don’t have to be prisoners of our pain.
This is where we can reframe the idea of healing.
Healing isn’t some end destination we need to get to, and we are not “incomplete” if we haven’t “healed” certain aspects of ourselves.
What if we use the word restore instead?
We can work on restoring our emotional well-being, our health, our thought patterns, and so forth.
We can restore our vibrancy by doing what we enjoy, by embracing living instead of striving to have it completed, and then only living life.
Ask yourself: what feels better for you, the chase to heal yourself or continuously restoring yourself through uplifting and healthy practices?