Healing is not becoming the best version of ourselves. Healing is letting the worst version of ourselves be loved.
Suffering cannot be healed through self-hate. Only through compassionate acceptance can suffering be healed. If we accept, if we open ourselves, life will transform us. If we resist, if we try to run away, pain and suffering are reinforced, and we deepen the conditioning that causes
Cheri Huber • There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
In summary, healing is a transformation of view rather than a cure. It involves recognizing your intrinsic wholeness and, simultaneously, your interconnectedness with everything else.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
What if healing yourself is not fixing an attitude, not changing an opinion, not altering an aesthetic, but shifting a presence, an awareness, an energy?
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“Healing is a daily event. You can’t “go somewhere” to be healed; you must go inward to be healed. This means a daily commitment to doing the work.”
Dr. Nicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Jennifer Baez added
Inner healing is the act of letting go of past conditioning, creating a new, empowering belief system for ourselves, and embracing the unknowns of the future with the confidence that we’re strong and capable – no matter what comes our way.
Vex King • Healing Is the New High
We are responsible for our own healing. We have to choose to take care of ourselves.