What Does the Healing Revolution Look Like?

Imagine a world filled with people who are loving and kind, free from fear, shame, and anger, and living their best lives.

Imagine a world filled with people who care about each other and the planet, and who realize that we are all connected.

Imagine a world where our leaders and systems actually function and work for us, the people, rather than corporations and rich donors.

Imagine a world where businesses are profitable producing foods and products that are good for us, not filled with ingredients that are harming us.

Imagine a world where the focus is more on community and less on the individual and the ego, where people come together to help and support each other.

Imagine a world where people are healthy and vibrant, living longer lives with much fewer chronic illnesses.

Imagine a world where the use of antibiotics and prescription drugs is greatly reduced because our health and immune systems are strong.

Imagine a world where the things that are good for us are actually cheaper than the things that are dangerous for us, where clean and organic foods are cheaper than the now-subsidized fake foods.

Imagine a world where instead of simply managing symptoms and/or self-medicating, that we can heal past trauma and live a life free of artificial medications and dangerous drugs.

Imagine a world where most of our foods come mainly from regenerative and sustainable small farms and ranches, rather than industrial farms and feedlots that fill our meats and produce with pesticides, antibiotics, and other toxic chemicals.

Imagine a world where we all wake up excited for what the day holds rather than waking with feelings of dread, fear, disappointment, loneliness, agitation, and stress.

Your thoughts… Keep dreaming, right? What have you been smoking, Dr. Randall?

But what if we could make all these things happen for everyone? It’s certainly not going to happen overnight, and perhaps not even in our lifetime, but why not start the process of moving everyone in the world toward healing?

Healing Revolution

The Healing Revolution is a movement powered by individual healing journeys, and the more people who become healed, the stronger and larger the revolution becomes!

Don’t you want to be part of the change… the change for true healing, for understanding and sharing love, for removing the negativity that sometimes seems so thick, for reversing challenging physical and mental health conditions?

Tools for True Healing

Healing does not come from a prescription pill bottle nor a bottle of booze/wine/beer. Healing does not come from stuffing ourselves with cheap comfort foods nor does it come from porn, shopping, or gambling.

Healing has to come from within ourselves, and that healing can only be released through a variety of holistic – or as I call them, wholeistic – techniques… techniques that will eventually help us become WHOLE again as a person.

1. Psychedelics. Perhaps the greatest advancement in healing in modern times, though indigenous and native cultures have been using psychedelic plants and fungi for thousands of years. While you may be vaguely aware of psychedelics (and especially LSD) from the War on Drugs and the incredible amount of lies and propaganda, I can assure you these substances are indeed medicines for TRUE healing.

As I discussed in detail in my book, Triumph Over Trauma, these psychedelic medicines are being labeled a “breakthrough” medicine, even though they have been around for centuries. In fact, psychedelics were being researched and touted as miracle drugs back in the 1960s – when many therapists used psychedelics as a tool in therapy.

2. Spirituality: Prayer/Meditation/Mindfulness. Without question, “we are spiritual beings – having a human experience,” per the powerful words from the French philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Deep in our hearts, we know there is something more to us, to the world, to the universe than just our physical bodies. (And if you ever have a psychedelic experience, you’ll understand this concept even more.)

Spirituality and its related practices can be quite a positive force for healing, especially at a time when so many of us feel disconnected from the people and world around us. More than 3,000 studies indicate that religion and spirituality have a potentially beneficial effect on health, and health is a vital part of healing.

3. Somatic/Body. There are two key elements within this healing element – specific body movements to help promote healing and the daily exercise that is important to maintaining good health and to stimulate healing.

The term somatic comes from the Greek word soma, which means “body.”

Many experts theorize that trauma affects our whole body, not just our mind. Thus, this area of healing operates on the concept that what happens to you in your life is stored not only in your mind, but also in your body – and so you need to clear the trauma from your whole system.

4. Nature. Without question, spending time in nature is healing. In fact, the Japanese have a term for relaxing in nature – shinrin-yoku – which means “forest bathing.” It involves opening the senses to the woody aroma of the trees and other plants, the green scenery, and the soothing sounds of streams and waterfalls... because all of these elements play a part in promoting better health and healing.

Simply being in nature induces a state of physiologic relaxation, a true stress-reducer.

Furthermore, a large body of scientific evidence shows that spending time in nature is responsible for many measurable beneficial changes in the body. One of the reasons for these changes are chemicals produced by trees and plants, called phytoncides.

5. Breathwork. There’s transformative power in performing various breathing exercises, including the ability to alter your consciousness for healing. People often perform breathwork to improve mental, physical, and spiritual well-being.

Many people find the idea of breathwork as odd since breathing is one of those automatic functions (along with our heartbeat and digestion). Breathing is handled by a subconscious part of the brain called the medulla, which automatically controls our breathing as well as our heart rate and blood pressure.

At its core, breathwork is about taking control of our breathing, and is designed to bring a focus to our breathing, helping to calm our stress levels, lower blood pressure, and bring balance to our bodies.

6. Nutrition. Whether you believe your body is a temple or simply that we only have one body so we should treat it as best as we can, the result should be the same: a focus on eating healthy, nutrient-dense foods.

Instead, the diets for many of us involve too many meals consisting of low-quality fast foods or ultra-processed foods from the local grocery store or Walmart.

Many of us are literally eating ourselves to death… it’s so bad, we even have an acronym for it, SAD: Standard American Diet, which consists of ultra-processed foods, added sugars and salts, artificial flavors and colorings, refined/bleached grains, as well as toxic fats and oils. About 50 percent of the calories in SAD come from simple carbohydrates!

Final Thoughts on the Healing Revolution

Are you ready to join the Healing Revolution?

All that is required is taking that first step on a healing journey – and that first step is just admitting that your life is not going the way you expected or hoped and that you need to make changes. That’s all that is needed to start your journey.

Once you have made that first step toward healing, the next is simply starting your immersion into wholeistic healing methods, choosing the ones that most resonate with you. My advice is to plan on using multiple – if not all – of these methods to truly and completely heal. Rarely does one modality lead to total healing.

As you move into healing, the other two elements you’ll want to work on is building a loving and supportive community to help you on the journey and developing your integration techniques. Your community does not need to be huge; in fact, it should be just a small circle of people who truly care about you and want to see you healed. In terms of integration, there are so many methods, though my preferred method is journaling.

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Please… you have been invited to HEAL!

Dr. Randall Hansen is an advocate, educator, mentor, ethicist, and thought-leader... helping the world heal from past trauma. He is founder and CEO of?EmpoweringSites.com, a network of empowering and transformative Websites, including?EmpoweringAdvice.com.

He is the author of the groundbreaking?Triumph Over Trauma: Psychedelic Medicines are Helping People Heal Their Trauma, Change Their Lives, and Grow Their Spirituality?and the well-received?HEAL! Wholeistic Practices to Help Clear Your Trauma, Heal Yourself, and Live Your Best Life.

Dr. Hansen's focus and advocacy center around true healing ... healing that results in being able to live an authentic life filled with peace, joy, love. Learn more by visiting his personal Website,?RandallSHansen.com. You can also check out?Dr. Randall Hansen on LinkedIn.

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