Imagine picking an apple from a tree. In the moment you touch that apple with your hand you are connecting to a whole network that runs between the apple and the root system deep in the ground beneath you. All you are focusing on is the apple, but beyond your awareness there may be 50 years of history of storms and floods and droughts that go right back to when the tree was just a seedling planted in the ground. Such is the nature of our feelings when it comes to emotional healing.

We easily accept that physical healing is an automatic process. How many times have we scratched ourselves in the garden, or watched our children graze knees and elbows when they fall off their bikes, and just taken for granted that, after a bit of a cleanup and some antiseptic cream, it will just get better. Similarly, if you break your leg, the doctor does not heal the leg. He lines up the bones and applies a splint or plaster cast to immobilize it, but the regrowth of bone and tissue happens internally and automatically. It is a subconscious process. When it comes to emotional healing we tend to put on a different pair of glasses, even though, in essence, the healing of a broken emotion is no different to a broken leg. It is internal and automatic. It is the job of the subconscious mind. The body and the mind are integrated and the subconscious mind makes no distinction between the two zones of being.

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