Universal theme overview
Healing is part of the Universal themes series and part of the Process theme family. This is a theme overview post.
Healing is to restore to normal health or condition. The process of returning to wholeness or completeness. A regeneration to desirable function.
Big ideas
- We must experience something fully before we can move on.
- Health is a process, not an outcome.
- Anything that affirms our humanity is healing.
- It is never too late to improve, repair damage or to do something positive.
- Encourage creative energy and beauty wherever you go.
Healing key concepts
- A catharsis is a purifying or cleansing of the emotions. Relieving tension and anxiety by feeling emotions and processing painful experiences.
- A substance or action that erodes its target is caustic, either physically chemically or figuratively. Harshly critical or biting language.
- A correction is a change that makes right a previous wrong.
- Destruction is the act of tearing down, demolishing and otherwise breaking up an idea or something physical. An act that ends something.
- Exhaustion is the state of being let out or used up completely when all resources are used up. The power is empty.
- Forgiveness is the state of giving up resentment against someone. Stopping the collection of the debt or seeking retribution.
- Recovery is the act of getting back something that had been lost or taken away. A return to health, consciousness, or a sense of balance.
- You reform something by removing its faults and defects To make it better. Ending abuses and bad practices.
- Regeneration is being renewed after a loss or decline. A spiritual rebirth or physical transformation.
- A renaissance is a revival or rebirth of creative energy along with the sharing and expansion of ideas.
Archetypes
animals: jackal, platypus
birds: grosbeak, vulture
flowers: goldenrod, verbena, yarrow
foods: pomegranate
mythical: elf, phoenix
roles: healer, nurse
settings: cave, hospital
symbols: pot of gold