The Heart of Healing

This writing is to the theme of what is healing - or indeed sickness - in the light of the current reversal of a pathologically driven system, not just of medicine, but across the spectrum of social & economic institutions and endeavours.

There are fundamental beliefs and definitions in individuals and as cultural inheritance that frame all that proceeds.
Trying to communicate that to those who currently identify in and perceive through such beliefs is exactly the issue we meet when trying to reach a virologist (professional or lay believer) with the serious proposition of its non existence - or at least with there being no basis in empirical reality to support its claims.
Among other 'companioning guides' I find A Course in Miracles one of the most clear expositions of the nature of a breakdown in communication running as a masking defence against disclosure to lack of foundation.
The primary healing is the undoing of fear as a basis for denial, attack, conflict, sacrifice, & masking defence in substitution for love of life. The body is not credited with a creative will, but the confusion of levels in a split mind has assigned part of its own will to external conditions, symptoms and projections - just as many do regarding a pathogenic hijacking virus.
A Course in Miracles primary invitation is to the opening of conscious relationship with the 'Holy Spirit' - which is given us as the means of reintegration to an underlying wholeness we have dissociated from by mis-taken identity, in lack-based judgements by which we seek adjustments to a sense of self and world in conflict.
A Course in Miracles holds the ego of self image as a clinging to limitation, division and control, that uses the body - including its sickness and frailty - as its most powerful defence against our truth in Spirit - which is beyond the body but blesses all that is true within our miscreative errors - such as to renew and repurpose from a mind set for 'getting' to a mind for giving and receiving as one.
The Miracle is thus any witness to love's reality, such as can be recognised and share in even an instant of willingness. The healing or awakening is not at all what the ego would gladly engage in as a reflection of its own sense of becoming, and so like all that it takes on the form of - operates a reversal - not least by first making sickness real and then seeking to solve it.
The judgement that locks us into reaction operates as if we already know and thus do not pause to ask and listen or wait on answer to reveal.
I have had many occasions for quoting the Bible to the current revealing/reset of a covert identity:
"And WHO told you you were naked?" said the Lord.
Taking 'naked' to its root of a self-consciousness set in dissonance that is driven to mask in mutually agreed definitions or 'groupthink', is then naked in the light of being - now associated with a self-dissonance or self-wrongness that can attach and associate itself with anything and everything - until released.
Complete healing back to God is then associated with total loss of self and world, and so the attempted compromise between love and fear that becomes their reversal, when we fear & hate to love and yet love to hate (in the mask of false virtue by which to mitigate or escape blame and penalty).
The gift of the Holy Spirit is the stirring in our being of the freedom to ask and receive answer truly, as distinct from the questions framed by and for the masking over unowned or denied conflicts.
Because healing is release from fear, those who are not ready to receive meet an accommodation that allays fear through mediations that join with a patient' current beliefs such as to take a step from fear set in self-conflict towards release of conflict.
Gaslighting is always a self-attack or else it wouldn't draw a corresponding reaction.
In sketching FROM the Course's terms can seen abstract or unworldly. But its application is always specific.
There are other guidances for wherever we that witness for integrity of being and function.
Joy is our function as the freedom to be who we are rather than self-evasions that lead us unto WHO we are not! Spirit is the Context in which realignment to heart in health is restored as a place to live FROM - instead of a goal set in some OTHER moment to GET to or attain.
A pathological or negative appreciation of life sets gratifications in self illusion as the drive for a fulfilment that is gone even as it seems to be had. The bottoming out of an addiction is the 'Prodigal son' theme. I find this a better metaphor than the ego-alien adventure of being trapped under a predatory and alien Power.