Healing

I have beaten the dead horse named Planning and Preparation to a point beyond recognition over the course of the past 3 weeks, as I have been participating in the reverb10 initiative.  So, as I was thinking about today’s topic, Healing, I realized that this year has been as much about healing as it has been about, well, planning and preparation.  Healing has been both an objective, or ulterior motive, and a natural outcome of the activities, events, etc…of 2010. 

This process of healing was not sudden, rather an evolution which has been taking place in fundamental areas of my life, and the decisions, the mental shifts and the realignment of areas in my life, in my world, in which it has been desperately needed.  While this seismic activity has been profound, so has the healing, the rebuilding been equally so.  However, it is the process in and of itself which has shown me that not only is it possible, but also to a great degree how to heal.  It is as much about the process as it is the outcome, if not more, and I would argue that the process has yielded more than simply being healed.  It is experience which teaches us, which is not simply the experience of which we need healing, but the process of that healing as well.  It is only when we heed the lessons learned through both the experience and the subsequent healing process, can we truly say that experience has taught us well, and that we have truly learned from that experience.

I have to say, however, that I am still, and will continue to be a student in the art of being healed, as we all are.  2010 has definitely been a process of many dimensions, and acknowledging that time does not provide clean lines of demarcation between cause and effect, or those which mark a clean slate (read the New Year), I look forward to 2011 in anticipation of more healing in areas that still remain, and continued growth in the same manner which 2010  has provided.