As you may have read elsewhere on this site, I spent 7 years as a full-time healing facilitator before taking about the same amount of time away from the path of service.
When I read Oriah's words, I recognized that The Call I had heard so many years before was sounding again, for me to step back into service in a more outward way.
Sometimes, the trigger for knowing you are to serve as a healing facilitator comes from the words of another. Perhaps, that is why you have found this page. It could be that my words and my experience, can be a beacon to your path now, as Oriah's words were to my own path.
....Called to Heal - Called to Service
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Healing Facilitation response: Spirit will reveal whether you are to be a healer or not. One way to know is to ask before going to sleep for dreams that will help you understand your soul mission. Whether you remember the dreams or not, and whether you understand any dreams that you do remember or not, your soul will begin guiding you and revealing your path.
Another way to tell if healing is to be your vocation is to simply open yourself to be of service in that way. Consciously volunteer. If healing is a path of service you are to follow, then people will begin seeking you out and asking for your help, once you let the universe know that you are wiling to be of service in this way.
The reality for most healers is that it becomes what you must do.
Quite simply, the impulse will not leave you.
You are approached repeatedly, by those who need your help. And you, somehow, know what to do.
You instinctively know how to allow healing energies to flow through you, in service to others.
If you think you are called to be a healer then you probably are being called into service, though the path of service may not be what you initially think it will be. An idea about what you think healing means may have to shift. I know it did in my own case. I started out reading cards. Though the messages were helpful to my friends and then later, to others I had never met til they sat down at my table, it was not ultimately my primary gift. Also, I had to release a tremendous amount of expectation of result. I wanted so for people to be better that, when that didn't happen, I suffered with them and for them rather than accepting that each person has the right to set the pace of their own healing.
Any vision you may have of the way you are to provide your gift may also need to shift. Some healing facilitators find they have a gift for counseling or singing and the healing power of the voice becomes their instrument. Others may find they can write and transmit energy in writing that moves people, such as Oriah's book moved me. Still others find their hands heating up and conducting energy in that way for healing.
The very fact that you have asked the question "Should I be a Healer?" points toward the answer. I support your decision to explore your healing gifts.
Something in your soul is reaching out for answers about your life purpose and the question that has come shines light on a direction you can go, to find answers to the larger question of your life mission and how healing might be a part of that mission.
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Free Email Class on Healing: I used to offer a free course on healing, coupled with energetic attunements within the information itself, through autoresponders. My service went on the blink so I discontinued that service but if you would like to receive the emails, I can send them manually. I will warn you that I'm very apt to forget to send one each day so please don't hesitate to remind me. If you want the Healing Journey Eclass information on working as a healer, just email me: askme at askahealer . com
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