A critique of "healing"

Personally, I generally try to avoid the term “healing”.

Of course it is generally positive and often refers to people healing the separation with the world and with each other as well as the deep disconnect from nature which the current political and socioeconomic systems brought them.

But in my thinking, there are two ends of the spectrum: avoidance of pain on the one hand, and genuine pleasure and well-being on the other.

For me, “healing” just refers to avoidance of pain, to acknowledging that something is sick and broken, but the only motivation is to stop this from being sick and broken, instead of thinking out of the box and imagining how that thing can get better altogether.

It’s the difference between scarcity and abundance mindset.

As mentioned, healing is clearly very valuable and relevant for many people. But all healing needs a “beyond healing”, where the healthy body and healthy mind is just one of the checkpoints in the wonderful journey of life.