Whether you know it or not, you have a toolbox for self-healing. These are the techniques, information, protocols and ideas, you use to solve everyday problems for yourself, family and children.
Some of your “tools” are simple home remedies: what to do for a sunburn, poison ivy, sore feet.
Some of them are interpersonal wisdom: how to treat a cranky child, how to break bad news to a friend, how to stage a surprise party.
The tools you use for self-healing, are more conceptual, things like curiosity, asking questions, honesty, and integrity. Awareness, goal setting, intention, choice, and love also come to mind.
It’s no credit to our K-12 schools that we arrive at adulthood with so few tools in our self-healing toolbox that we require professionals to do most of our healthcare. We can remedy that now. In the history of the Earth, there have never been so many healers, techniques, modalities for growth and opportunities to learn as there are right now. These articles introduce you to as many new tools as you wish to assimilate.
Your toolbox is unique because each person is unique. Each person heals uniquely. Every practitioner uses tools uniquely with their clients.
Whether you work on clients or only on yourself, you know how to work tools. The tool itself does relatively little; it’s passive; you are the active party. The tool waits for you to pick it up. You pick up the tool because it gives you leverage and access you wouldn’t otherwise have. You can only acactate a tool by using it and practicing with it.
A story: I have about 20 dental tools at home because once I had a great success keeping myself out of emergency dental care with a handmade dental tool. Now I have professional dental tools. However since I don’t know how to use funny shaped surgical knives, they sit in my hardware toolbox rusting away. A real dentist would be using such tools every day and getting more and more skilled with them because she wishes to solve problems these tools are designed to solve.
What kinds of problems do you wish to solve today? What kinds of tools will do that work? Look thru this “toolbox.” This series of articles. You may find what you need. If you get stuck, give me a call (310) 287-2813.
If you know of more or better tools, please share them!
If you wish to post your own tools here, contact Bruce.
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