A Healing Home Run

Spiritual Success in the Physical World

Healing has been a life-long obsession and constant theme for me. I wish I could say this was serendipitous. But I’ve come to see this stretch of my earthly tour as a masterfully architected blueprint for my soul’s evolution; one that I would have gladly handed off to another.

We all know that infamous hero’s healing journey; an iconic rite of passage hailed in spiritual circles. Somewhere along the line, life throws you a curve ball. And you step up to the plate, bat in hand, confident you’ll hit a home run.

Trusting in Universal Law and stints in various mystery schools, you go to work aligning your chakras with the perseverance of a major league rookie training for an incoming season.

After a two-week structured water fast, celery juice and raw veggies are mealtime staples. No alternative treatment, frequency device or herbal tincture is off the table. Daily meditative practices lead to enthusiastic affirmations that healing is complete despite any evidence it is true.

While the results of such rituals aren’t easy to substantiate, you can’t deny a slight energetic shift is inching you towards the win. Or maybe you’ve stumbled on just the right combination of supplements, diet and exercise to turn the corner. Either way, you are feeling stronger and more confident.

Your bat makes perfect contact with the ball, hurling it into the stands. The bases are loaded and the crowd cheers in anticipation. This single hit is the prelude to stardom.

Legendary accounts of spiritual teachers overcoming a major life obstacle are commonplace in our community. I’ve spoken of my own at great length. We all love a good story.

At the darkest hour, supernatural forces open the flood gates to ancestral voices. Answers are revealed and a soul is anointed with healing wisdom. The question isn’t whether these are genuine events, but if they are sustainable and repeatable healing methods intended for others. A blueprint is only useful beyond the construction phase if the next building is identical to the first.

A big win is bound to feel amazing. But much as you’d like to hold onto the glory, it’s impossible to turn one career defining hit into an envied batting average for long. This isn’t because you don’t possess the talent or will. The probability of a home run relies on more than the number of pitches thrown.

The formula for a batting average has only undergone slight modifications since 1876, when the National League officially adopted the definition of hits divided by at-bats. But I think there’s a flaw in the calculation; because each batter is a unique manifestation of consciousness and every moment at bat a rare event swayed by unforeseen variables.

The evolutionary experience that a batter requires isn’t the concern of Major League Baseball; but maybe it should be. Even in the spiritual world, we rarely account for such pertinent periods of soul growth and their impeccable timing.

Despite not being recruited for the major leagues, I was a pretty decent recreational ball player in my childhood. Looking back I’ve come to realize that regardless of the massive gap in technical skills, there isn’t much difference in the ups and downs between seasons. Every major league slugger and 12-year old who dreams of becoming one is bound to have a bad year; as will your most revered healers, channels and spiritual teachers.

This only becomes a problem when the world is counting on you to repeat last year’s award winning grand slam. It’s natural for die-hard ball fans to compare their favorite player against the season’s rankings. And in the off years, it’s painful to admit how far you’ve fallen off the leader board. From the bench, you start to question the spiritual win that your ego so passionately embraced.

Let’s face it. No one wants to shed light on a score that’s plummeting. This would be counterintuitive to beating the odds, especially in the realm of healing.

To confess that you haven’t been able to summit the next mountain suggests that your secret healing sauce isn’t worth as much as you thought. Revealing an absence of intuition would further defile your polished image as a mystic. Eventually, you’d have to admit that your hero’s journey wasn’t the lifetime achievement it was all cracked up to be.

The savior archetype comes in many shapes, sizes and colors, but there is one common denominator. For a savior to be real, the lack of a further insurmountable obstacle is required. This fairy tale is glamorized in Instagram shots of your favorite guru scaling red rocks with outstretched arms in the allure of freedom and everlasting vitality.

But true healing doesn’t look this way because it never comes to an end.

Regardless of how hard you train, some pitches will fall just out of reach of the ego’s need to control. This is by design. These humbling moments at bat are stretching you to evolve in areas that your soul hasn’t before; in ways other than you did in ancient Lemuria or that nagging past life your Akashic records reader keeps replaying.

You are here now to become a different version of who you were before. So if history repeats, it isn’t because you didn’t conquer it then. It’s showing up in a slightly different form because you’ve meaningfully ascended through previous attempts and the universe knows that you are capable of more.

I am not suggesting that savoring a win is wrong; but if rested on too long, diminishes the actual triumph, which is an accumulation of achievements your soul has weathered since its very first breath. The Guides say that we don’t fully appreciate this precious legacy until we’ve reviewed it through Heavenly eyes.

What a soul gains in a test of faith can’t be encapsulated in a podcast-worthy tale or dramatic photo capturing the exact moment a record breaking hit kicks up dirt. It is impossible to quantify through material success or an astral process. In fact, the most cherished attributes of healing are rarely brought to light.

In all my years of channeling for private clients, sessions for the chronically ill scared me the most. It is the only topic that I expect my mind to interfere with. I feel the pressure of what is at stake as my soul is still growing through its own physical vulnerabilities. And the last thing I want is for my ego to taint critical guidance requested at such a tender moment.

I am always surprised and relieved when the message isn’t what I’d expect.

One session, in particular, made an overwhelming impact on me. A regular client was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and coming often to understand why. She eventually asked her Guides for the exact action steps to rid her body of this horrible disease. I was floored when I heard them lovingly proclaim that she was asking all the wrong questions.

They suggested that she surrender her physical healing and instead prioritize how she wanted to live inside of the experience that her soul was given. I realize this gets controversial in the spiritual bypassing domain. It may seem they were putting the blame on her for manifesting this terrible fate. But a soul’s destiny isn’t this exact, despite the best astrologer’s ability to chart the beginning and end of an arduous cycle.

They explain it this way.

You did not decide on every detail of your soul’s journey. You carved a complex wave of vibration through a living legacy. You are not meant to recall every detail of this predestined plan or reason for coming to Earth. In fact, the projection of this from the astral is so massive, it would be impossible to fit into a linear perspective on a physical planet.

You are simply attracting the vibratory equivalent of all that is necessary to become your soul’s next highest expression. This doesn’t mean that your vibration is to blame. It is highly intelligent.

On Earth, we attract from a pool of history that runs through the entire human condition. This isn’t all bad. It gives us a glimpse into what it must have been like to be here before and an occasion to improve on it for generations to come.

We all face prominent karmic themes wound within our past; some related to the body and others to hardships like poverty and loss. The goal isn’t to heal, understand or change them. Their purpose is to change you. When taken to heart, this primal incarnate pursuit improves the entire universe and every part of you that roams through it.

Ascension may imply that you are moving up a linear ladder; yet fragments of your soul are strewn throughout space and time in every dimension of this universe. What you are doing here right now is complimenting incarnations elsewhere and vice versa. Each lifetime is cultivating an expression of energy that touches others uniquely, leaving its time stamp on ones to come.

This activity is quantum.

Something this important could not be relegated to one incarnation. It can’t be labeled with a diagnosis or branded by one season of life.

You see, the decisions that my client would make to heal her body didn’t matter in the end. She couldn’t get it wrong other than to suffer through them, because this phase of her life was programmed into her Divine plan. And its purpose wasn’t to discover a cure.

She was in this predicament, like so many others, to make the absolute best of every day she had on planet Earth, even when it seemed nearly impossible. Because creation isn’t the end result of what we do, but how we experience everything that comes our way.

To rid ourselves of disease, we are called to imprint it with a new energy. The only difference between diagnoses like cancer, multiple sclerosis and diabetes are lab markers and symptoms. But suffering is the air, water, soil and sunlight that keep every disease alive. And suffering runs so rampant throughout the human condition that we all incarnated for the purpose of relieving it.

Sure, cancer has taught us some very important, grounded lessons about toxins, food, our DNA and cells. Within the confines of any diagnosis lies a treasure trove of life altering choices; some with the potential for future generations to inherit stronger bodies. None of these critical decisions go to waste.

But suffering is where the rubber meets the road. It weaves through all physical and emotional traumas. It exists inside of pain, disease, heartbreak and financial loss. And it spreads faster than the next manufactured pandemic.

So to step fully into our multi-dimensionality, we must tackle illness from a slightly different angle than our ancestors did. It’s not that we ignore the physical plane and do nothing meaningful there. The Guides ask us to remain neutral to the outcome of our decisions and open to the possibility that we aren’t charting a path to better health alone.

How we are being inside of the doing matters most because a journey through illness is expanding us in ways we cannot yet see. It is leading us to a new and better reality, whenever and wherever that may be.

My client has since passed on, but I do not believe this is because she failed or wasn’t privy to the right answers. She was given an opportunity to evolve in ways that we cannot fathom while in a physical body. And I think she probably aced the test.

I’ve since come to realize that the highest spiritual guidance will not solve all of your problems. It will not take you from disease to wellness, poverty to wealth or solitude to a soul mate. The best spiritual teachers won’t train you to manifest your problems away. They will help you create a safe space to become present within them.

Guides at this level will walk you through moments of peace, faith and a keen sense of awareness. They will lead you to the inner strength that lies beneath distress. They know that time is your most valuable healing asset and there is no pinch hitter skillful enough to take your place at bat.

To search outside of yourself will only take you straight out of the game.

To rid the world of suffering does not require that we never feel fear, sadness or anger again. But we can use these emotions to constantly self-reflect and improve; to reach for more intense states of connection. They are assets in our quest for ascension, because nothing prepares you to serve a collective more than going through the muck of what needs to be served.

Once your boots are dry, your muddied steps aren’t the most interesting part of the climb. What you learned about yourself in the process is sacred. Who you become inside of the hero’s journey is all that matters, even if you never reconcile what brought it on in the first place.

Yet your soul’s becoming is infinite and the reflection of millions of other spiritual voyages currently in progress. Oneness isn’t some abstract concept we have yet to reach. It is available right now inside every inner battle we face.

Mary Magdalene says that, if you will allow it, suffering can become a passageway between worlds, where a soul has the distinct opportunity to heal and become the healer. In these moments, you must be willing to feel to the depths of your ability, as all restriction is causing separation from God.

Separation is the root of all suffering.

But if we can move through hardship consciously, we gain the skills to detect it in others. ​We possess priceless insight into what it means to be human.

If we reach for grace in troubling times, sharing anything from a place of love comes more naturally. In our daily quest for self-compassion, we begin to hold it for others. And if we are able to grant ourselves understanding, forgiveness comes easier on a planet full of hurt.

Healing of any kind requires humility; because there is nothing we can do to intervene in a soul’s plan other than to remind them that they are not alone. This doesn’t mean that we can’t continue our missions to serve and still revel in the hero’s journeys. But we should remember that there is just as much value in periods of failure as success.

So if you are out there healing and teaching, resist the urge to hide your off-seasons. ​These inconvenient times are magnets to others walking the same path.

The things you struggle with most hold wisdom. Your imperfections make you humanly relatable and your service more personal and relevant. Authenticity brings these rare gifts to the surface.

Instead of trying to muscle a slew of bad pitches into the next heroic hit, I now step out of the batter’s box for a while. I become quiet and mindful. I see these moments as the prelude to great transformation and an occasion to hold hands with those who are also swinging and missing.

In my many healing seasons of life, I’ve learned to stop checking the batting average and keep my eye on how the batter is improving. I have more patience. I allow myself to rest and have stopped calculating my worth on ideals of outward success.

In difficult times, the universe will take a wrecking ball to hidden fragments of ego that you didn’t know existed. I now invite these uncomfortable periods of destruction into my life. Through them, I have gained a deeper sense of empathy, not knowing what season others might be in.

These are my greatest wins.

If you are always looking at the stats, you’ll miss out on the amazing souls behind them. Gently remind yourself that you haven’t walked a day in their cleats and then look down at your own. The mud, grass and rock stuck between them are evidence of what got you to where you stand today.

Regardless of whether you are on the field or in the dugout, every step is cause for celebration.

Category:spirituality

Tags:Spiritual Healing, Soul Growth, Healing Journey, Suffering and Grace, Illness and Spirituality, Divine Plan, Spiritual Guidance, Surrender, Self Compassion, Humility, Conscious Healing, Inner Transformation,

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