The Healing Code – Installment II

My crude understanding of the Healing Code technique, having not finished the book, is the following:

1. Rate the issue bothering you on a scale from 0-10, with 10 being most painful.

2. Identify and feelings or unhealthy beliefs identified with the issue.

3. Think back to the earliest time you can remember having a similar feeling experience, even if the circumstances were different, without really digging.

4. Rate the memory, 0-10.Use the strongest or earliest memory and work on it first.  Their supposition: “Often when you heal the earlier or strongest memory, all other memories “attached” to that core memory heal at the same time.”[1]

5. Say the specific prayer for healing that the authors provide.

6. Do the “The Healing Code” actions while repeating a “Truth Focus Statement” for a minimum of six minutes three times a day minimally.

Please suspend whatever comes up for you regarding the notion of prayer and accept this technique as an experimental possibility rather than an affirmation or challenge to the “truth” you hold about disease, health, and wellness, prayer, your concepts of the divine or any other deeply held beliefs.  I am not advocating this technique as “truth”.  I am exploring it’s efficacy on this most intriguing path I find myself on.  Thank you.

So on Friday morning I followed the directions and the memory of spelling bees came up for me.  I remember almost always being the first one out at the weekly spelling bees we were subjected to in grades one through six.  I remember the humiliation I felt and the conclusion I came to again and again – that somehow I was a deeply flawed inadequate human being and EVERYONE ELSE had a skill somehow more valuable than my absence of skill. I felt awful, week after week after week as the same think happened.  I studied yet more often than not the word would appear to me phonetically when I recalled it in my mind.  I didn’t think I was inadequate, I experienced it weekly.  No one wanted me on their spelling team.  Those who are old enough, remember how the room was divided in two, each to it’s own side?

Spelling phonetically was not appreciated.  Being able to regurgitate the socially consensual answer was appreciated, applauded, and rewarded.  This is not a complaint.  I see the value of consensus spelling.  What I have recalled is not a problem but a circumstance where the conclusion I came to as a child has in some ways remained with me deeply embedded yet  forgotten, while  running like a stealth virus in a computer program, underneath my conscious awareness.

Don’t get me wrong.  I have been “successful” and remarkably creative professionally, emotionally, intrapersonally and interpersonally yet there is this haunting awareness of being somehow different and inadequate which arises when my overall energy supply is depleted.  It  not only undermines my confidence in me, it undermines my confidence in the interconnected and interdependent reality of which we are all a part.

How is this?  Because if I am a part and reflection of the whole and I am inadequate and flawed, then the whole is as well.  It’s subtle, it’s deeply embedded, and it’s an inaccurate conclusion made in the mind of a young child carried deeply within for fifty plus years.

So what effect do these early conclusions exert on me, on us, since something similar can be found in one way or another in every human being’s experience?  How might a nagging self judgment and criticism be connected with my joint pain, with whatever pain you expereince?

To be continued….