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Healers of the future: New ways to succeed
Copyright 2005 Suzie St George

Currently healers of all kinds are experiencing the pressure of transition as humanity undergoes the massive changes associated with planetary and human transformation. The weight of this change is heavy upon healers as clients turn to them to solve the discomfort and disease arising from an inability to cope with change. Today healers are, and need to be, change agents: midwives to the future. It is no longer sufficient to be a “fixer.”

Under C19th and C20th models of healing, all healers (being mainly doctors trained in scientific method) were expected to be godlike experts able to produce effective healing almost instantly. Patients and clients did not question their methods, but accepted their advice and treatments wholly. Responsibility rested entirely with the healer. There was no notion of client responsibility. However today responsibility is becoming a key issue. Clients are either attempting to take some kind of responsibility or they are, in fear, demanding that healers take responsibility for issues far beyond their area of expertise. This is leading to the credibility crisis in many areas, and litigation “blame games.”

For clients, the problem is made more difficult because there is a vast range of modalities and “cures” available. This is confusing for healer as well as the client. What type of help is best suited to a client whose core problems more appropriately rest outside one’s area of expertise?

In response to these issues, healers are either trying to keep up with demands through more and more mental education and harder work, or they are trying to “stretch” their modality beyond its natural limitations. Some are leaving healing fields altogether. Emotionally, energetically, and physically healers are being exhausted as clients cling to them for solutions to distress they cannot offer. The first and second chakras of healers are as vulnerable as those of their clients: they find themselves emotionally, mentally and physically drained.

In order to solve this problem, healers in the near future will have to become open-minded and flexible enough to change their sense of identity and their ways of operating. This will mean:

1. Changing one’s professional persona from “expert” to “assistant.” This includes releasing old images of the healer as an all-compassionate martyr to that of a truthful friend or mentor.
2. Understanding and accepting the limits of one’s own modality and being able to define and communicate that effectively to a client .
3. Becoming a good educator and information resource along with the “dispensing” of appropriate cures or processes.
4. Being willing to focus one’s responsibility to those you can really help because they and their difficulties fall within your area of interest and expertise. But also…
5. Developing close collegiate networks to provide for the specialist needs of clients, for one’s own support, and holistic education and discussion.

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY

6. Becoming a model of a person whose life works amid change
7. Understanding and developing the healing power of your personal resonance. That is, becoming a “crystal healer”.
8. Increasing one’s self love and whole-self balance in order to build a strong solid foundation for the power and value of the modality you have a passion for and expertise in.
9. Using your personal strengths to expand your inner power rather than trying to shore up your limitations through more mental understanding, harder work, struggle and self-punishing self-denial.

One of the processes for achieving points 6 to 9 is soul integration work, which is the central focus of Reach Potential work and its associated Spiritual Metamorphosis courses.