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Let's face it, there are times when we really believe that all there is, is the world of duality (relative reality). In this world we can perceive separation and brokenness and usually find someone to agree with us. Whether it is really real that we are broken or not doesn't matter. The fact is that we perceive ourselves as broken and in need of healing.
Now many people would lead us to believe that healing takes place by some method of patching up things within the context of duality. Example: Jack and Jill are fighting. So called healing at the level of duality would suggest that just getting Jack and Jill to shake hands and make up means healing has occurred. This diagnosis would be stated even if Jack and Jill have only stuffed down the deeper dynamic of feeling separate that had risen to the surface in the form of the fight.
I would suggest that there is another deeper definition of healing, that true healing doesn't occur until we have bridged the gap between having a perception of separation and having a full experiential awareness of true unity. At this point we are no longer looking for reconciliation within the relative reality of dualism. Instead our experience reaches past the illusion of dualism into a place of recognizing the unity that always exists. We experience that there is nothing broken and nothing separate that needs to be fixed or healed. Herein lies the paradox of healing. True healing comes in experiencing that nothing is in need of healing. It is only our misguided perceptions of separation that need healing and yet they are but illusion.
By now you may be thinking "Well that's an interesting theory, but how does it work in a world of practicality?" If one experiments with embodying this theory it opens up a choice of two different paths to walk when recognition of being caught in a "problem" occurs.
One path is to look at the "problem" in small terms. Weighing out the pros and cons of both sides. Trying to make a dualistic judgmental decision based on what is wrong and what is right. Basically getting caught up in trying to figure out the small details.
An alternative path would be to expand out to the BIG picture while remembering that there is always only one "problem" (the belief in separation) and that the "problem" is only a misperception. The belief in separation covers our recognition of the unifying power of love and our awareness that it is always available. Once we have expanded out to the BIG picture we will recognize that we had only temporarily forgotten the unifying principal of love.
The next step is to be willing to open to the recognition of love once again. This puts us in a receptive state where we are open to Spirit inspired, intuitive inspirations. If we follow these inspirations they will lead to a solving or dissolving of what we thought to be a problem.
Let's go back to the scenario of Jack and Jill fighting. If one of them were to expand out to the BIG picture as in the alternative path (the path of the heart) the inspiration might come to appreciate something about this other person. You may ask "What does appreciation have to do with the problem?" The answer is that it has nothing to do with problems. Rather appreciation is one tool used to start to access the bigger realm of love where the solutions lie. Finding a true solution first starts when Jack and Jill remember that they are on the same team. They are not enemies in the BIG picture. They only see each other as enemies when lost in the misperception of dualism and separation. So through appreciation, Jack and Jill get on the same team and start to see that each of them has just brought up one side of a dualistic issue. When they recognize this and stay open to intuitive inspiration, what before looked like two separate apposing issues that could never be resolved, can start to be seen as two sides of one whole that is wanting to come together. The fact is that there was always unity but Jack and Jill's minds have been fractured and split off from seeing that unity. Jack could only see one side and Jill could only see the other. So Jack and Jill are drawn together like magnets to heal their misperceptions. They carry a gift for each other. They may still have to face old pain and burn through it but now they can support each other as a team. (You don't heal separation by staying in a place of feeling separate and trying to do it by yourself). Once the misperception is healed Jack and Jill live happily ever after.
Okay, okay they live happily for the next two weeks or two minutes or however long the period of grace happens to be before the next misperception comes up for healing!
If you are tired of struggling with problems, try the path of the expanded BIG picture. What have you got to lose except a lot of headaches?
