Business of Healing
- Abhijeet Chauhan
- Dec 4, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
Commercialization in Healing: Trusting Your Path, Not the Noise
When you step onto the path of energy healing, you may find yourself drawn to a specific modality. This is not by accident—it’s guided by divine intention. Your sanskaras, karmic imprints, or life’s circumstances may lead you to the exact tools or teachings you need to begin your journey.
But as you progress, you might notice something unsettling: a growing complexity in what should feel simple. A journey that starts as intuitive and transformative can become entangled in unnecessary layers—levels, certifications, rigid practices—that seem designed to keep you dependent rather than free.
This isn’t to dismiss education or structured learning. These are valuable when they align with your personal growth. But when systems focus more on adding levels, creating exclusivity, or spoon-feeding techniques instead of encouraging self-exploration, they risk trapping healers in cycles of dependency, guilt, or confusion.
Overcomplication as a Tool of Commercialization
Many healing systems present themselves as comprehensive paths, but the reality is that they sometimes divide simple truths into multiple levels, creating the illusion of greater depth. This can lead to:
• Dependency on the System: Instead of trusting their own intuition, healers become reliant on external teachings or practices to feel “enough.”
• Overemphasis on Structure: Systems that over-explain or spoon-feed techniques may discourage healers from sitting with themselves and exploring their own energy.
• Avoidance of Inner Work: When systems focus too heavily on structured meditation or external practices, individuals may miss the crucial step of releasing suppressed emotions and facing their inner energy as it rises.
For example, anger, guilt, or grief often emerge as old energy clears. Without proper guidance to process these feelings, people may mistake this release as a failure or personal flaw, deepening cycles of shame or guilt rather than freeing themselves.
The True Path: Simplicity and Self-Reliance
Healing, at its core, is simple. It’s about sitting with yourself, connecting with the divine, and allowing energy to flow through you. Tools and techniques can support this process, but they should never replace your intuition or inner knowing.
Ask yourself: Am I learning because I feel aligned, or because I feel pressured? Does this system encourage my independence, or does it foster dependence?
Remember, the most profound transformations happen when you release the need for external validation and trust your inner journey.
Breaking Free from Overcomplication
To reclaim your path as a healer, you must:
1. Embrace Simplicity:
Healing does not require endless levels or techniques. Often, what you need most is already within you. Focus on the basics—presence, trust, and connection to the divine.
2. Sit with Yourself:
As energy rises, old emotions and blockages will surface. Instead of avoiding them or suppressing them, allow yourself to sit with the discomfort. Healing is not about feeling good all the time—it’s about releasing what no longer serves you.
3. Discern Between Growth and Marketing:
Growth feels expansive, peaceful, and aligned. Marketing often plays on fear—fear of missing out, fear of inadequacy, fear of falling behind. Trust the difference.
4. Trust the Divine Flow:
Your healing journey is guided by the divine, not by the system you follow. Tools and techniques can support your growth, but they are not the source of your power.
Releasing Fear and Guilt
Many systems create a cycle of guilt, leaving healers feeling they are not doing enough or not progressing quickly enough. This guilt often stems from the commercialization of healing—systems that present healing as something you must “earn” rather than something you already carry within.
But healing isn’t about perfect techniques or rigid systems. It’s about trusting your intuition, releasing fear, and embracing the flow of energy within you. The divine is already working through you—your role is to allow it, not to complicate it.
Trust Yourself
Your path as a healer is uniquely yours. If you feel called to learn deeply within a system, honor that calling. But if you feel doubt or resistance, pause. Reflect on whether the path you’re following feels expansive or constricting.
Ask yourself:
• Am I seeking this out of alignment, or out of fear?
• Does this journey bring me closer to trust, or farther from it?
Healing doesn’t come from overcomplication or guilt—it comes from simplicity, trust, and alignment. Let go of what feels heavy. Trust yourself. Sit with your energy. And know that the divine is already guiding you.
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