A reflection on our natural healing capacity
Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of decluttering and organising.
I thought it would mainly be about deciding what I no longer need.
What can go? What is simply taking up space?
But something unexpected started happening.
I kept finding things I had forgotten about.
Something useful. Something I used to enjoy. Something I picked up and thought:
“Oh! I love this. I’d forgotten I had it.”
And instead of letting it go, I brought it back into my life.
It made me realise that decluttering isn’t only about letting go.
Sometimes it is about rediscovering.
And I started wondering whether we can be a little like that too.
Maybe some parts of ourselves haven’t disappeared.
Maybe we just haven’t reached for them for a while.
What Have I Forgotten?
Recently, I’ve been making time for things that interest me.
Creative dates. Galleries. Exploring somewhere new. Music. Going to see Jacob Collier on my own. 🎶
I also went to a Yamuna Body Rolling workshop and enjoyed discovering another way of connecting with and caring for my body.
None of these things is particularly dramatic.
And I’m not doing them because I’m trying to create a “new me”.
I’m simply following my curiosity.
Perhaps I’m rediscovering things that were already there.
Then an experience with a client made me think about this more deeply.
When the Timing Feels Right
A client recently came to see me for Reiki.
We had met briefly some time before, quite by chance, in a café.
She later told me that somehow I had stayed in her mind.
She didn’t contact me immediately.
Then, when the timing felt right for her, she reached out.
I find this fascinating.
Why do certain people, places or experiences stay with us?
From my spiritual perspective, I sometimes think of this as resonance or frequency.
Perhaps something about our meeting resonated with something in her.
Someone else might call it intuition or synchronicity.
Or perhaps we simply begin to notice certain possibilities when we are ready for them.
I’m happy to leave some mystery around it. 😊
What feels important is that the choice was hers.
I Didn’t Create Her Turning Point
After her Reiki session, she continued reflecting and exploring for herself.
Later, she shared that she felt she had reached something of a turning point.
She didn’t want to remain stuck in anger. She wanted to begin looking towards her future.
And I realised:
My job wasn’t to fix her.
I didn’t make her ready.
I didn’t give her the desire to move forward.
Something was already happening within her.
She became ready. She reached out. She received support. And she continued her own process.
Perhaps I simply supported her at a moment when she was ready.
And this brought me back to something I’ve been thinking about recently:
our healing capacity.
What If Healing Capacity Is Already Part of Us?
For me, healing capacity isn’t a special power that somebody gives us.
And it doesn’t mean we can cure every illness or difficulty ourselves. There are times when we need medical, psychological, therapeutic or other professional care.
I mean something much more natural.
Our capacity to participate in our own wellbeing.
To respond. To adapt. To learn. To make choices. To ask for help. To receive care. To change direction when we need to.
Maybe we don’t need to manufacture this capacity.
Maybe it is already part of us.
Sometimes we can access it easily.
At other times, life is difficult and we may need another person to help us access what is available to us.
Receiving support doesn’t make the process any less ours.
My Job Isn’t to Fix You
This is becoming increasingly important in how I see my work.
My role isn’t to fix you.
I can offer a treatment, listen, share what I know, teach a practice or support you while you explore what is happening.
But your process remains yours.
Sometimes you may simply need to receive.
At other times, you might want something you can practise for yourself. This is one reason I love teaching Reiki — it can become a resource you return to in your everyday life.
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And sometimes you may feel ready to look more closely at something emotional you have been carrying and would like some support while you do that.
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You don’t necessarily need to know exactly what you need before you begin.
Back to My Cupboard…
Perhaps that is why my decluttering has stayed with me.
I started by looking for things to remove.
Instead, I also discovered things I wanted to use again.
And perhaps we can occasionally ask ourselves the same thing.
Not always:
“What do I need to fix?”
But:
What is already here?
What have I forgotten?
What am I ready for now?
Perhaps the people, practices and experiences we meet along the way don’t give us our healing capacity.
Maybe sometimes they simply help us recognise what was already there.
With love,
Naomi x