The Wounded Healer

The Wounded Healer

Carl Jung’s archetype of "The Wounded Healer" originated with the Greek myth of Chiron who was physically wounded, and by way of overcoming the pain of his own wounds Chiron became the compassionate teacher of healing.

Contemporary psychotherapists latched on to the concept of this archetype and soon began to see themselves as "The Wounded Healer" in their societies, whereby they use the pain of their own life experiences to facilitate the mental health and healing of others. Psychotherapy is professionally cataloged as a Mental Health Profession. The inherent problem with this cataloging is that it denies the core issue of healing, which is healing the emotional body trauma.

Human beings consist of a four-component energy system. Thanks to the Kirlian Camera, we know that three of these components are measurable as Light - - the spiritual body, mental body and emotional body. The fourth component is the densest form of this energy system - - the physical body. When life experiences produce pain that is rooted in the emotion of "fear" (i.e. insecurity, jealousy, hatred, anger, shame, guilt, separation, etc.), and when the degree of that fear/pain is too much for the emotional body to cope with or to give itself permission to "feel," the emotional body stores, stuffs and hides that fear/pain somewhere in the dense darkness of the physical body. This hidden fear/pain energy creates disease, dysfunction, disorder and degeneration in the physical body. Thus, the core issue of healing is to heal the emotional body trauma, not the mental body.

The mental body establishes its belief systems for one purpose only, and that is to maintain the survival of the physical body through which the Soul functions in this dimension of time and space on the water planet Earth. The mental body establishes its belief systems (or its level of consciousness) based upon the data it receives from the emotional body. The mental body creates thoughts about what is safe in this world, and these thoughts are created based upon the feelings generated in the emotional body from the life experiences. Not only is healing the emotional body trauma necessary for the health and wellness of the physical body, healing the emotional body trauma is also necessary for the evolution of human consciousness via the mental body establishing that it is safe now to release certain belief systems.

"The Wounded Healer," that I believe Carl Jung was referring to, is the teacher who is able to self-empower others to trust themselves to the extent that they finally give themselves permission to FEEL that which has been too fearfully painful for the emotional body to cope with and FEEL. It is only when the mental body has the opportunity to comprehend (create thoughts about) these FEELINGS, that the mental body is able to release belief systems that have created an old and worn out paradigm, which implies that the mental body should seek healing from outside of itself.

That worn out paradigm was created by fear. Fear is the primary tool used by those, who are of a greed and abusive power consciousness, to control and manipulate humanity. And guess what?--it worked!! The matrix of this paradigm basically instilled in humanity’s mental body, that due to the nature of our shameful unworthiness, we can no longer rely on healing to come from "within" our own self - - and we must turn to outside sources for healing.

Somewhere in my readings about the psychotherapist concept of what "The Wounded Healer" is, I came across a statement so absurd that I nearly fell off my chair when I was reading it. If I could recall where I read it or who wrote it, I would gladly give credit to the source. I cannot remember where it came from, but I read that "pain validates your existence." And I AM here to tell you, that is NOT true. Pain does NOT validate your existence. Your I AM PRESENCE validates your existence!! Your spiritual body is the connection to The Source - - The Source Of All That Is - - God - - Great Spirit - - Creator - - The Infinite Intelligence - - The I AM. It is your "I AM" that validates your existence, and it is your "I AM" that is "The Wounded Healer."

The idea of pain validating your existence is of equal absurdity to that of someone’s interpretation of the biblical scripture in Psalms, Chapter 51, Verse 17, which reads: "The sacrifices that are acceptable to God are a broken spirit and a broken and shameful heart." I wonder who was responsible for that interpretation/translation - - and I will leave that up to the discernment of your own spirit and heart - - but I will say that the responsible party knew full well that the way to control and manipulate humanity and human consciousness is to break the human spirit and heart (the spiritual body and the emotional body) and to consistently reinforce the mental body’s belief systems of having a shameful heart (or a shameful emotional body). "Guilt" is all about what I did, and guilt is relatively simple to heal. "Shame" on the other hand is nearly impossible to heal, because shame is all about what I AM. Shame is the emotional body response to The I AM being unworthy, and it is the healing of this shame of The I AM that establishes the core issue of healing to be healing the emotional body trauma, not the mental body.

Millions of people all over the world have returned home to the truth that healing comes from within their own self - - not from sources outside of themselves. And millions more are seeking teachers, who can facilitate them to comprehend this truth. Please be wise in seeking the facilitator, the teacher. If the facilitator claims to be "The Wounded Healer" or any other kind of "healer," then the facilitator is seeing herself/himself as the one doing the healing, which is an ego trip, a power trip, and it sets the stage for co-dependency. The new consciousness of humanity in the new millennium is recognizing that true healing comes from "within" - - and deep "within" ones own self is where the true "Wounded Healer," The I AM, presides.

This is the year 2002 - - it is appropriate to ask your therapist, doctor, health care provider, etc.: "Are you a healer or are you a teacher of healing?"

So Mote It Be.

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