What does the word ‘healing’ mean to you?

One “traditional” definition states that to heal means:

“to make sound or whole

especially in bodily condition.”

(www.merriam-webster/medical/heal)  

Other such resources include words such as restoring, returning integrity to tissue, and curing.  Implied in all descriptions and definitions is that healing is a process.  A journey is involved.  Imbalance is present and the bodymind, in its wisdom, seeks a rebalancing of systems.

LCM’s Editor, Anya, recently asked me to describe the body’s process of healing from physical injury.  My mind flew through the multidimensional process of healing and quickly returned to this rather straightforward and linear explanation.  First the injury occurs and the body may register pain in that area.  The body then recruits some of its