How Healing Has Helped My Writing
I have been focused on my healing journey for the last six years, and writing has been part of that journey.
Writing and healing have been integral to how I have uncovered, gotten to know, understood, accepted, and come to love myself. Writing has benefited my healing and healing has benefited my writing.
The best way to illustrate this is by telling you about the Aura-Soma session I had recently. Aura-Soma provides a collection of products made out of crystals, essential oils, plants, colors, and other substances. The company only uses organic and biodynamic ingredients, and the purpose of their products is to balance the energetic system.
Joanne Magdaleno is the healer I have been working with for the last few months, although most of the work we’ve done together involves obsidians, which is a separate topic. I did an Aura-Soma reading with her when we first started working together almost a year ago, and I completed a second Aura-Soma reading a couple of months ago.
As part of that reading, Joanne asked me to select four bottles within the Equilibrium Aura-Soma family. Each of these bottles has two colors, one on top and another at the bottom, as depicted in the image above. I selected the four above bottles, and Joanne conducted a reading and took the above photograph.
The first time I had an Aura-Soma reading with her, I didn’t pay as much attention because, at the time, I didn’t know what I was getting into. Two months ago, having already felt the benefits of the products, I took copious notes.
I will not take you through the whole reading, and only explain the first bottle I selected to make my point. The top color in the Equilibrium bottle represents the conscious and the bottom color represents the unconscious. The first bottle I chose had yellow on top and red on the bottom. Mixing them shows what you’re trying to manifest or bring to life. Mixing these colors results in orange.
Yellow represents joy. It’s linked to the third chakra and represents an opportunity to awaken through joy. I’m conscious of this; I am aware of the light and joy I bring to the people close to me. Red represents grounded energy. It’s linked to the first chakra, and it’s what I carry in my unconscious. Survival comes from red, as well as fear.
Together, they represent having an opportunity to manifest joy and let go of fear to open to opportunities that will help me grow. Mixing them raises the question: How do I use the red energies to bring to life yellow energies? Orange, then, the wisdom gained from mixing red and yellow, is the potential to create, the potential to bring a project to life. It’s linked to the second chakra.
The reading Joanne conducted felt to me like a true depiction of my most recent healing experiences. I have had some type of illness for the past several years. Nothing has been serious but illness is constant, and being ill made me realize I have been selling myself short by being afraid to show who I truly am. This fear, now that I’m conscious of it, is pushing me to fulfill a higher purpose.
I’m using my struggle to change the way I see myself. To heal, I am using my fear as a strength. I am drawing from my fear (red) and embracing my sense of self (yellow), which create a sense of stability (red) to manifest and bring about change or bring something to life (orange).
If you’ve been watching my updates recently, you’ll notice I updated my logo and my author identity, and that was part of a process of embracing different aspects of who I am.
Oddly, it also felt like a reflection of the journey some of my protagonists have gone through in my novels. It was interesting to have a personal reflection and a reflection on my writing, although I wasn’t conscious of this synchronicity until the recent session with Joanne. I must have unconsciously been uncovering within my characters the deeper learning of the experiences I was having. In my novels, my protagonists are on a journey of self-discovery where they learn to embrace who they are, confront their fears, and create the life they want for themselves.
We all have the same opportunities. Not only can healing help us embrace aspects of ourselves we have kept subdued, but we can all awaken through feeling joy. Joy inspires creativity, happiness, spontaneity, and seeing the positive. Having compassion toward ourselves and facing our fears helps us to feel grounded, and that stability enables us be who we truly are. Ultimately, it leads us to feel at peace with ourselves.
I am continuing on my healing journey and cannot wait to see what else I uncover.